Existence in the green screen studio can be quite exciting… if you’re not one of the cameramen, that is. It could be so dull and boring to keep arranging and organizing the lighting effects as well as all the other equipment that is in the studio. On the other hand, for you and I who simply see the completed film, life inside the studio (especially one that boasts of the best quality green screens) is incredibly exciting. One wonders how it is possible to catch on film a person being chased by a ferocious tiger or something even worse.

 

 

There are pictures in newspapers and publications of football players during a game. Sometimes, a picture comes out having a particular player whose facial expression is shot vividly while doing his play. It is quite possible that this photograph was in fact caught in the confines of a green screen studio and not on the playing field. An image of the football game in progress is superimposed on the green screen which can serve as the background in the studio. The football player is requested to stand in front of the screen, a look of ecstasy on his face, to replicate that moment where he did that brilliant pass in the course of an essential league match versus a rival team.

Needless to say, not all photos are orchestrated on a green screen studio. There are plenty of photographers who endanger their life and limb to record the live action on film. These are the folks who belong to an entirely different breed. Their own love for the art of photography takes them to places that they haven’t been to before. It also gets them involved with conditions that could sometimes even cost them their life. For example, top rated photographers don’t earn prizes based on photos which are shot in a green screen studio. Rather, they win prizes based on images taken out in the real world without the special effects which are ideally and easily created employing a green screen studio.

Likewise, there are lots of photo specialists who feel that it is very important shoot wild animals in their natural habitat, endangering their own lives in the process. A classic example of this is the unfortunate story of Steve Irwin, who was fatally attacked by a stingray while out filming in the underwater. There’s no possibility of this type of thing taking place in the green screen studio; unless of course, an individual is attempting to make a film on Irwin, where the final moments of the ‘croc hunter’, as Steve Irwin was more popularly referred to, has to be reenacted.

To be able to do that, the actor will be asked to try and do all the actions and facial expressions that Irwin would have done in his final moments, but this time from the background of a green screen studio. Once this is achieved, the superimposing of the underwater battle between the stingray and the perishing Irwin will be executed via film editing. Compositing strategies using the most recent software program are readily available for the film business nowadays.

 

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