Syndicate - A quick greenscreen project.

[Björn Benckert]

http://wordpress.syndicate.se/citygross-5000-products/

It's not the prettiest on earth but we had fun making it. Love the details in the background packages. 3D mapped footage is really the way to go for such a thing i would have taken mad time to get the CG lights etc to look like the snaps used for the background texutres.
We did this last week and all I can say is epic 5k 3:1 and all I can say is that it keys like nothing else... and yes I have alexa studio raw included in that comparison.

Even though it was a rather short schedule for the film and we did not have much to go by at the shooting day so with that in mind I think we manage to get trough pretty well for just having a guy and a green screen.

A good tip for green screen work: Flod the back screen with green filtered lights. It makes a huge difference. Here we had some of the lamps hitting the wall filtered and it makes the wall... at least twice as green, and separates the colors in the histogram a more than you think from just looking at the scene.

 

[Jake Bastian]

This is really neat Bjorn. Are you using PFTrack for your 3D mapping?

 

[Björn Benckert]

The 3D guys here drive syntheyes.

 

[Aaron Haberfield]

Hi Bjorn

Quick question about the Epic settings what shutter speed did you use?

Cheers

 

[Björn Benckert]

Hi Bjorn

Quick question about the Epic settings what shutter speed did you use?

Cheers

we used 180deg. I think it would have been better of with 90deg since there are some fast hand movements and such where I in retrospect rather would add motion blur in post instead of "loosing the fingers" in camera especially since the camera moves are so slow it would not have suffered much from having a bit more strobing / tighter shutter.

 

[Aaron Haberfield]

Thanks Bjorn, I am currently researching shutter speed for green screen at the moment.

BTW the end result is great.

 

[Björn Benckert]

Thanks Bjorn, I am currently researching shutter speed for green screen at the moment.

BTW the end result is great.

I would say, do not do more than 90 deg. if you have enough light. There is good enough post motion blur that can be added if needed and I hate those poor edge results on to much motion in camera when using greenscreen... kind of like the drumsticks for that fast drummer on those poor old music videos we used to make, then high shutter is key :=)