Elstree Film School - Green Screen Training Courses - Intro (1 day)

In our Introduction to Green Screen training course we offer a detailed overview of the green screen filming process: from the equipment required to setup your own greenscreen studio, through the techniques involved in lighting your greenscreen and your subject separately, to which software programs and plugins are available for you to 'key' your greenscreen footage with a view to achieving the best result.

Our one day introduction also includes: 2, 3, 4 and 5 point lighting principles for lighting your subject, the types of lighting available and what works best in what conditions, the different types of green screens available and how they compare with each other, how best to use consumer and prosumer DV and HD cameras to achieve suitably clean footage for green screen usage and many other unique tips, tricks and insider knowledge to ensure that you have at the conclusion of this course a comprehensive overview of how best to leverage the potential of a green screen studio setup in order to achieve high quality results on a minimal budget.

Also available in this series are our Practical Chromakey Green Screen Setups and our Chromakey Green Screen Plugins training courses.

You may also attend all three of our Green Screen training courses within one discounted package in our Complete Chromakey Green Screen Training Course.

Duration: 1 day.

Location: Elstree Film School, 21st Century New Media Ltd, Elstree Film Studios, Shenley Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, WD6 1JG. [Click here for a map]

Times: 10.00am to 4.30pm. For security reasons, further details are only provided upon booking.

Software Versions: All of our Adobe courses include lessons generic to both CS3 and CS4 versions of the Adobe suite: whichever version you use is covered in our courses. In addition, we also now preview the functionality of the new Adobe CS5 software. Our Apple training courses utilise the latest versions of Final Cut Studio HD (also known of as version 3 or FCS 2009).

Equipment: Our fully featured training room includes six top-of-the-range iMac computers configured to work in both Macintosh (OSX) and PC (Windows) modes, ensuring you the maximum familiarity with your chosen operating system.

Accommodation: Details of local accomodation can be found here.

Further assistance: Our FAQ help page contains the answers to many popular questions. Alternatively please call 0844 844 2428 to arrange to speak to our training manager.

COURSE CONTENT

An Introduction to Chromakey Green Screen techniques

• What you can do with green screen
• What you cannot do with green screen
• Green screen Vs Blue screen - what's the difference?
• Advantages to green screen filming
• Common difficulties when using green screen

Types of Chromakey Green screens

• Muslin
• Popup, collapsible and reversible backgrounds (green & blue screens)
• Chromakey Paper rolls
• Chromakey Vinyl
• Chromakey Paint
• Chromatte

Studio Lighting & Continuous Lighting

• Introduction to Lighting
• Temperature and Kelvin
• Different types of studio lighting
• Different types of bulbs and how they are used
• Flash Lighting / Continuous Lighting / Studio lighting
• What Wattages do you need?
• Diffusion, dispersal, reflection and bouncing of light techniques
• 2, 3, 4 and 5 point lighting setups - the best ways to light your subject
• Green screen lighting - how best to light your green screen
• Light measurement tools and techniques
• How and where to get good deals when purchasing studio lights

Digital Cameras

• DV, HDV / SD, HD - how camera formats compare when creating green screen footage
• Consumer and prosumer cameras - how they work in relation to green screen filming
• Film dimensions and how they relate to green screens
• Colour space, compression and sampling
• Storage media - the best ways to capture and store your video
• Importing your footage - managing cameras codecs such as AVCHD
• Uses of Firewire and USB for importing
• Progressive Vs Interlaced - what do the p's and i's mean?
• Choosing the correct exposures
• How to use white balance with your green screen
• Monitoring the results - software and hardware available
• Using an Autocue for your interviewee
• Principles and best practice when filming
• Asking the right questions in free-form interviews
• Ways to record sound and sound monitoring
• How to sync to pre-recorded music
• How to live-sync i.e. use a live performance as a music track

PCs and Macs

• Which are best for green screen work?
• Hardware requirements of both platforms
• Graphics cards Vs rendering time
• Hard disk types - which perform better?
• Importing your footage to Mac or PC
• Importing your footage
• Best practice for storing your video footage over long periods

Green Screen software

• Adobe Premiere Pro
• Adobe After Effects
• Apple Final Cut Pro
• Exporting to YouTube and Vimeo

Green Screen keying demonstration

• Green Screen demonstration using studio light tent
• Setup and filming
• Capturing to PC/Mac
• Chroma keying demonstration

Summary & Questions

Green Screen Intro Training Courses
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