Category: GreenScreen
Green Screen comes to Game Shows
Posted by Bill in Green Screen, Green Screen Stage New York, GreenScreen Tuesday, 27 September 2011 03:58 No Comments
BBC GOES GREEN WITH NEW GAME SHOW
BBC's CLONED will utilized green screen technology
While the use of green screen stage in prime time television continues to grow, it looks like the game show genre is exploring green screen territory too! This week the BBC announced their commission a new game show pilot entitled “Cloned”.
The show will be utilizing both the green screen’s technology in conjunction with the CGI visual effects rarely seen outside of the movie industry. The team of four contestants are faced with a line up identical celebrities-they’re task is to discover which person in the line up of computer-generated clones is a real person…is anyone thinking about Blade Runner right now too?
Each player will be given a set of challenges and puzzles that they must completed in order to detect the minute differences between the clones and the living breathing celebrity in the studio.
Karl Warner, BBC’s executive editor for entertainment, was quoted saying:
“Cloned is an exciting new format which pushes the boundaries of production and game show mechanics.”
Here at American Movie Company, we had an opportunity to work with Mr. Hugh Jackman on a similar project not too long ago. Mr. Jackman filmed from our studios in New York City and the footage was to be used to create a hologram of Mr. Jackman interacting with presenters at a live event his schedule would not allow him to attend in person. That was a little less than a year ago, interesting how quickly these new uses of green screen grow so fast!
How successful will the game show be in their use of green screen? That will have to remain to be seen, as the BBC has not released a broadcast date yet. And as always, if you have any questions about how you might use green screen or CGI in your next project, don’t hesitate to give us a call at 212-219-1075!
Indie Music Video Green Screen – Penguins Having a Party
Posted by admin in Green Screen, GreenScreen Tuesday, 5 May 2009 02:55 No Comments
Now, as I mentioned before, green screen effects need not be expensive. That being said, it may seem time consuming to the layperson. And as usual, the laypeople have their facts wrong. Take Jonathan Mann, for example.
Diamonds of Metro Valley-indie green screen
Posted by admin in featured, Green Screen, GreenScreen Tuesday, 5 May 2009 02:49 No Comments
So, you hear green screen, and naturally you think of giant Hollywood monstrosities. That’s completely understandable.
The Spirit is a great example of tired, boring trash that uses expensive, gaudy green screen as a crutch to make up for what is at best a lackluster film. But what you may not know is that you don’t need a $40 million dollar budget to shoot a film entirely in green screen.
Take a look at The Diamonds of Metro Valley. This is a feature length film shot entirely on a shoestring budget, where the filmmakers utilized the green screen to facilitate their vision, not the other way ‘round.
Sin City Green Screen Magic
Posted by admin in Green Screen, GreenScreen Tuesday, 5 May 2009 02:44 No Comments
The movie ‘Sin City’ is famously shot almost entirely on a digital backlot, also known as green screen. The actors worked in front of a green screen and all but three sets and backgrounds were digitally added in post production. The three sets that were constructed by hand are:
* Kadie’s bar, where all of the major characters make an appearance at least once and also the only location in which all objects are in color.
* Shellie’s apartment. The front door and kitchen are real, while bathroom and corridors are artificial.
* The hospital corridor in the epilogue. Although the first shot of walking feet was done on green screen, the corridor in the next shot is real. The background becomes artificial again when the interior of the elevator is shown.
The film was also shot on a hi definition digital camera. Combining the green screen with the digital camera allowed the filmmakers to initially shoot the film in full color and then convert back to high quality black and white in post production. Colorization was also added in post on certain subjects in the film, such as blood, certain cars and characters eyes and hair.
Check out the trailer and a short video of before and after green screen work.
Green Screen Chroma Key Wolverine SFX
Posted by admin in featured, GreenScreen Tuesday, 19 August 2008 15:02 1 Comment
Green Screen Wolverine X-Men Beginnings - SFX
As many of you have heard, the new X Men movie, Wolverine beginnings was leaked over the web before it was finished. Lots of the green screen effects were still undone destroying that "willing suspension of disbelief" we all employ to really transport ourselves into the cinema world. To retain the fantasy we want to see the finished product as the creators (director, writer and visual effects team) meant us to see.