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Make your own Chroma Key Wall
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Russ - Posted on Thursday, April 3rd 2008
Instead of buying expensive buckets of chroma key paint you can have a hardware store mix up a bucket by giving them the correct PANTONE code for the color you want. Just give them PANTONE 2735 for a blue screen or PANTONE 354 for a green screen. You could also find similar colored fabric from Wal Mart and use that instead of actual setups.
And remember to light your wall separately from your subject, and light it well!
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I was trying this for a project in our church last year.. didn’t really work well, because of the lightings
You really need to grab those 500W ones or at least proper lightings..
We’re actually doing this on Saturday for a video with our Youth Group. We’ve got a wall of fabric up and have many lights. I’ve never done this before but I’ve practiced with footage and read a lot about it. We’ve got plenty of lights (especially for the actual green screen).
It’s looking like it’s going to come out pretty awesome. I shot some test footage on Tuesday with the fabric wrinkled and not lit at all and it turned out alright. We’re going to have it lit awesome and all smoothed out.
I really wish my wife would let me make my own green screen in the house. I would totally do it. Thanks for the tip.
If you can’t paint a wall just get the fabric. That way you can always put it away when you’re done using it.
We just filmed a scene today with our makeshift wall and it worked out awesome. I’ll try to post a few frames from the footage that we have. We only had a few stage lights and some halogens but it worked out great!
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