Everything you have wanted to learn about GreenScreens, Lighting, Cameras
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Guest Host: Richard Cleveland – Naked Ape Productions
Ways to Green Screen:
- Gamma Sector Green Paint – Disney Spectrum Chart (permanent)
- Green Cloth (mobile solutions)
- Use Clamp Lights that point down on the Green Screen to create separation between the subject and the screen.
Lighting:
- Daylight balanced bulbs give more dispersed lights.
- Consider 3 point lighting
App for iPad
- Touchcast
- Select one of their templates
- Choose Camera/Effects and Green Screen
- Have the app recognize Green as Gray
- Determine what will show in the Grey/Green space.
- Use Green Screen for students to present ‘in front’ of their Slide Presentation using Green Screen
Uses in the Classroom
- Virtual Fieldtrips (put students on location)
- Have students narrate classroom activities
- Record classroom activity then has students reflect upon their activity experiences by narrating what happened in the class.
Links
- DEN Blog Post about Green Screening: http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/blog/2012/02/13/green-screening-for-dummies-kim-adair-and-mark-perlman/
- Example in French 1 using Green Screening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBTe_7T6SgI (thanks Catherine Ousselin)
- B&H Photo Link for Green Screening: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?Ntt=green+screen+kit&N=0&InitialSearch=yes&sts=ma&Top+Nav-Search=
- Jerry Blumengarten (Cybraryman) Green Screen Page: http://cybraryman.com/greenscreen.html
- Clips perfect for Green Screen: http://speedclip.net/
- Green Screen Tips for iPad: http://diaryofatechiechick.blogspot.com/2013/05/green-screen-effect-on-ipad.html
- CS2 offers green screen in post-production – Free Download here: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=cs2_downloads
- VeeScope Full – iPad Green Screen Shooting: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/veescope-live-full/id605757864?mt=8
- Green Screen Movie FX – https://itunes.apple.com/be/app/green-screen-movie-fx/id445285983?l=nl&mt=8&ls=1
Software Options:
- Camtasia
- iMovie
- WireCast
- Ustream
- Touchcast on iPad
Recorded August 11, 2013
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