Lighting and Setting up The Green Screen

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Transcript

Hi everyone, welcome to this video. In this video I'm going to teach you how to properly light a green screen. I've seen so many times people don't take their time in pre production to light their green screen properly, or to make it short, it's flat that it results in a poor quality videos. I've done it myself as well. And I don't want that to happen to you. It's a very easy fix, just follow the steps that I'm going to show you right now.

The first and most important thing that you need to do is wrinkles, you got to get rid of the wrinkles. So now I'm using a green screen wall which is very flat so I don't need to go through that process. However, if you're shooting in home, or if you're using a fabric green screen, first thing you make sure is the green screen fabric is stretched the green screen fabric that you buy from Amazon or eBay they usually come with assistant so make sure you stretch that fabric on the assistant and then the second thing You need to do is steam it, the fabric is very thick, so it's thicker than the normal fabric depending on what kind of a green screen you have. So make sure you team it two three times if you have to. But remember, wherever there is a wrinkle, it's a little darker area than the rest of it.

So you're gonna have a hard time in post production, keying out that green area, the darker green area, and then you have to compensate with the transparency and that might result in changing the colors in your clothing and face and hair. And people can tell actually, you shot on a green screen and you don't want that. So make sure the green screen is stretched and make sure you steam it to three times. So once you take care of that, the second thing you need to do is no shadows, shadows are crucial because those are dark areas behind you and you're going to have a very hard time King the green screen. So there's two things you need to do to get rid of those shadows. First thing is step away from your green screen.

Like I'm right now, at least 10 to 15 feet. If you have that space at home, if you don't have that much space do as much as possible in remember, even if your frame goes out of your green screen area, in post production, you can still crop but that's even that's more advanced. So in the beginning, just keep it simple. The second thing you need to follow in order to get rid of those shadows is lighting. So you need two extra lights or some boxes or maybe LED lights which we are using today. Those slides have to be very they cannot be spotlights.

You don't want on your green screen a very bright areas or very dark areas is the same thing. You're gonna have a hard time keeping it out. So all we need, it's lighted evenly. It has to be perfectly evenly so those slides the soap boxes or the LED lights. They're perfect for that. Because they have this softer look.

So you placed one on your left one on your right between you and the green screen. And they have to face the green screen just like those lights now, and in a minute, I'm going to show you before and after, so you can see what I mean. And then of course, you need two lights to light yourself or you need one light, the circle light that I use will now actually I'm using two LED lights and one circle light, you don't need to do that. All we need is two LED lights or one circle light, which you can use for yourself. So let me just show you before and after. And you can see what I mean.

I cannot show you the wrinkles, but I'm sure you know what that means. Because my wall is very flat. So let's see now how the video will look before we had those lights on. So we will just turn them off. I'm gonna turn this one off. And I'm going to let's say I'm here right now.

In front, maybe a feet away from the green screen. So you see this hard shadow right here, this will be a big problem, even on this side, even when you move your arms, look what happens. You want to have hard time keeping this out. So all we need to do is turn, I'm just going to turn one light on now. And you see with one light it's a little bit better, but still there shadows. Now, let me turn the second light on.

And I'm gonna stay right again, a feet away two feet, it's better but there's still shadows to see when I move my arms but it's much much better in you, what you need to do is you might have to move closer the light to the green screen. If you don't have space to step away from the green screen. Just remember those lights have to be between you and the green screen. So if you don't have to Bass at home in your feet away from the green screen, those lights have to be closer to the green screen, just maybe that much. And you just have to make sure it's lit evenly. I'm just gonna move them back a little bit, because I have space here.

Now I'm going to show you, if you have space in your home, you just move away. And you see now it's perfectly lit. And voila. You can put anything in the background, I sometimes use white, and people think I shot on a white background. So those are the steps that you need to follow. Now let's recap.

The first most important thing wrinkles, get rid of those wrinkles, teams teams team. The second thing is step away from the green screen and place your lights between you and the green screen. And then that will result in a perfectly lit green screen. And of course your videos will be high end They going to look professional. Now go out and make a killer video and I'll see you on the next video.

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