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Mondays are more like , Well Mondays

I can not understand why but on Mondays. I just can't seem to get the anything rolling. I still need to put up the footage from this past weekend and still need to look up green screen and how to properly use them.

You can't just put someone in front of a green screen

Have you ever really thought about this, you can't just put someone in front of a green screen. There are simple rules one must go by so he or she can get the best out of there screen.

1. Lighting. I don't care how you spin this you need the proper lighting. You can not just put a green curtain up with just normal lights and expect that everything will go fine. You need to light your subject properly to get the best results.
2. Shadows. Have you ever notice that in every TV show, on the face of the earth, they have the couch in the middle of the room. Why do you think that is? Well its simple, light casts shadows and if you had a couch to a wall you will see hard shadows on it. So the best answer is to move the couch and eliminate the shadows. Its the same concept for green screens. I have read that one needs to be at least 8 feet away from the screen to truly eliminate the shadow. But you might be in a room that is just too small to move around. So my advice would be to play with the lights until you can get the shot you need without the shadows. I was once doing a photo shoot with some models and the room we were in was extremely small. The green screen was on the wall and the lights were actually right on the models. The lights may have been about 2 to 6 feet apart.  While this made the room very hot and hard to move around, it was ideal for using the green screen. These pictures came out amazing by the way. (Don't hate the picture, it is from a still frame on my GL2. It was made to film not take pictures.) 

There are many more rules to this and I will post them as I read more about the editing part later. 

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