 What is green screen? Why would you want to use it? We've all seen the weather person give a report with the giant map behind. How is that done? Well the weather person is standing in front of a giant green screen. At LPM we have installed a 12 foot wide by 12 foot long green screen. It's green paint on canvas. When you do a shoot in front of a green screen you're able to emulate not only the weatherman effect but you can place any scene behind. Whether it's video or a graphic or a photograph you can easily insert anything into that green area and have your talent look natural in front. Right here we have the controller. As you see there are two rocker switches up and down. One is for the paper backdrop and the other is for the green screen. Now you want to be careful when you roll the green screen down all the way to the floor that you don't let it bend and wrinkle. You can easily just pick it up from the middle and lay it back on the floor so it's nice and smooth and you get a nice little cove. When you roll it up though you want to make sure that you don't roll it up too high otherwise it could possibly get stuck. It's very important that the green screen is evenly lit. The way you can ensure that it's evenly lit is by using a waveform monitor. On the waveform monitor what you really want to see is a straight line that represents the full width of the green screen. The two lights that are used to throw even light across the green screen are the Godox 200s. We set those at 5600k and that emulates daylight. Everything on the set, all the lights should be set to 5600k as well as the camera. Now you want to have your talent at least four or five feet in front of the green screen. It's advisable to use the big soft boxes, the large ellen chrome soft boxes and what they do is they cast a soft light onto the talent so you will not get harsh shadows. It's probably going to take a little bit of experimentation to find the right level to set the lights at but I would start at about 60%. Do not ever step on the canvas green screen and most importantly talent should not be wearing light green or green of any type that matches the green screen. Here's why you don't want your talent to wear a green shirt.