Wednesday 10th November

Our demo today was on green screen and chroma key. I’d previously used green screens but only for photography so I was going in without too much knowledge. We each posed in front of the green screen and then used our video for editing. I hit some trouble here. In my video some of the floor behind the table I was sat on was not green. This meant it could be seen when the green was chroma keyed out. To get around this I tried my hand at masking. I had never used a mask before so it took me a little while to figure out. First I tested with using a with the crop tool. This worked but it was still a little rough. After I tried using a mask with the opacity tool. This worked a lot better and gave me a little less obvious cut. There is still a little bit of the background visible in the final video but It looks a lot better. I also got some green screen Simpson characters as that’s where I placed myself. Once I did that I added a start and end bit of  Homer Simpson, to add a little bit of a storyline. I also had to use green screen for this section as when homer opened the door there was green screen that I had to key out. Overall I really enjoyed today and would definitely like to use green screens more often going forward.