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Hello and welcome to another episode of Indy Mogul Extra, where we take you inside the technology of Independent Film Making.
My name is Steve Nelson and,
Now, a lot of people know a Blue Screen can work wonders with the Independent Film Making.
But simply hanging a blue screen from your ceiling is not enough to bring your viewer to your desire location.
We use a large blue screen for our back draft, or you can use a big piece of cardboard with one solid color painted on it.
Or, you can just use the clean sheets that you never really put on your bed.
Or if mom and dad are cool with it, you can paint an entire wall blue.
Any solid color will work, but blue and green are the most preferred because they are not in our skin tone and let us use some kind of lizard freak and if that is what you are, you really should not be making movies anyway right?
Now after your blue screen is set up, it is time to let the light shine in.
You best bet is to invest in a few 100 or 50 watt clamp lights.
They are only about $8.00 and they are available at any local hardware store too.
But if you do not have time to run to the store, then the collection of lamps from every room in your house should do the trick.
Make sure to not only light your actor, but also the blue screen to eliminate any shadows because shadows are bad, like bald cancer.
Now once you have all your footage shot, bring it into your editing program.
For doing this kind of level of effects, we would really recommend Final Cut Pro from Mac and Adobe Premiere for Windows.
But, if you have an editing program that could just do multiple layers of video that might end up working out for you.
On the bottom layer, normally referred to as V1 or Video 1, you should drop in the still image or the video you wish to be your background. And then the V2 layer, dropping your blue screen footage that you just shot.
After editing your footage to the desire location for your ins and outs, it is time to get rid of the blue screen.
In Final Cut, it is effects, video, filters, and the key.
In Adobe, it is effects transparency and then chroma.
And now, it is just a matter of messing around with all the values to eliminate the blue from it, but not cutting off any parts to your actor.
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And there you have it, the kind of special effects magic that can get you laid. Or at least, the nage check.
Thanks of watching Indy Mogul Extra, make sure to tune in next week for some more awesome behind the scene’s,
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