Planning for Music Video: Green Screen

I noticed that although we have decided against using the Green Screen, we did not mention our reasons why we came to this decision. I think it is important to mention our reasons against using the Green Screen, because it influenced a vast amount of our planning.

Without the correct lighting, green screen technology can leave boarders around the footage or blurred/coloured effects. For example, the image above has a grey boarder around the man who has been superimposed onto the island background. There is also a undesirable blurred effect around the man, which makes it look unprofessional. Therefore, when we talked about using the green screen, we took into account that there could be a risk in the quality of the end product. When we finally analysed the types of locations we would look into using, we found there would be no need for the green screen.

Another issue that could go wrong is that the green screen may not pick up some parts of the artist, as seen in the example above. This is especially common if the artist is wearing green or black clothing. This means, that if we were to use the green screen it would restrict the clothing we would be able to use on the green screen. Therefore, we decided that not using the green screen would allow us more range of clothings that we could use. Movement could also be problem, as the college green screen is not very long. Therefore, as this is our artist's first time featuring in a music video, we would want him to feel comfortable to move around and not restricted to certain boundaries. This might make the acting quite static and unnatural.

Generally we did not find any justifiable reason that meant that the green screen would be an integral piece of technology in making our music video. We were also aware that using the green screen could take away from our genuine and natural urban theme that we decided on as soon as we listened to the song.