7 Responses

1. Michael Aulia

   03|Apr|2008 1

   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..

2. Russ

   03|Apr|2008 2

   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.

3. Drew

   04|Apr|2008 3

   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.

4. Russ

   04|Apr|2008 4

   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.

5. Russ

   06|Apr|2008 5

   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!

6. Paint Junkie

   04|Jul|2009 6

   This Pantone advice is not true. Pantone colors are for printing standards and do not translate into paint colors. (Just as RGB values for web pages don’t translate into paint either.) I have managed a large commercial paint store for years and am tired of people making this mistake. Just because it can be printed doesn’t mean it can be made in paint. This is especially true if you are just going to a local hardware store to get paint matched. Do you really think they understand paint?

7. Russ

   04|Jul|2009 7

   Though it really doesn’t matter getting it that close to the Pantone colors, here’s other info for getting paint mixed

   Green screen: PANTONE 354 =
   C: 95%
   M: 0%
   Y: 100%
   K: 0%

   or
   R: 0
   G: 174
   B: 66

   Blue Screen: PANTONE 2735 =
   C: 99%
   M: 100%
   Y: 6%
   K: 7%

   or
   R: 34
   G: 0
   B: 144

   If the place you get paint mixed doesn’t have the capability of using any of these codes then just print a swatch out of them on a CMYK color printer