About Us
ELSTREE FILM SCHOOL is a film production training center based at Elstree Film Studios, Borehamwood, England, home to many famous TV and Film Productions including Big Brother, Dancing on Ice and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.

Elstree Film School run a variety of film production and scriptwriting courses, as well as film lighting training, movie making courses and TV production training.

Full time, part time and weekend courses are available and our trainers are highly experienced in the UK Film & TV industries. Please browse our courses on the right and we look forward to welcoming you at Elstree Film School.
Studio Tenants

We have some great companies on site with us at Elstree Film Studios...

  • Daffodil Accounting Ltd.
  • MGM Cars Ltd
  • Grade One
  • King Bee
  • Applause Store
  • Everything Audio
  • Blueboxx Creative Ltd
  • Media Powerhouse Ltd.
  • Gaby Kester Casting
  • Relaxa UK Ltd.
  • Aladins Cave
  • Combustion Interactive Communications Ltd.
  • Elstree Drape Hire
  • Sharper Solutions Ltd
  • Encore Table Dressers
  • Media Monkey's
  • Big City Reservations
  • ELP
  • Film Link Ltd.
  • Studio Medics
  • 2nd Sense
  • Brand Infusion
  • Castle Sourcing
  • Baker Coogan Productions Ltd
  • Bigger Pictures
  • Elstree Studio Productions
  • Magician Pictures Ltd
  • Patient Zero Productions
  • Wish Films
  • Lifecast Ltd
  • Liz & Chris Clark
  • Sapex Scripts / The Production Copier Co.
  • Widescreen Ltd
  • 21st Century New Media Ltd.
  • Production Networks Worldwide Ltd.

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


Following on from our Introduction to Green Screen training course, our second day Green Screen training course offers a practical, hands-on workshop where you will be setting up a variety of different green screens and studio lights and comparing the results for their effectiveness and professionalism. A variety of green screen materials are tested as well as a selection of different types of studio lights: from the very cheapest lamps available to the more expensive units often used in TV and film productions. Conducted in our own privately owned green screen studio facility located near to Elstree Film Studios in St Albans, you will learn via a series of practical exercises exactly how to best setup and manage a green screen studio and how to achieve the best results possible at minimal expense.

Also available in this series are our Introduction to Chromakey Green Screen Techniques 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 practical Chromakey Green Screen Setups

  • Space required for a Green Screen studio
  • Equipment required for a green screen studio
  • Power requirements
  • Lighting requirements
  • Health and safety

Practical setup of Green Screens

  • Setup and lighting of muslin green screen
  • Setup and lighting of vinyl green screen
  • Setup and lighting of collapsible green screen
  • Setup and lighting of paper green screen

Studio Lighting options available

  • Incandescent Vs Fluorescent lights
  • 2 point lighting setups
  • 3 point lighting setups
  • 4 point lighting setups
  • Light measurements

Lighting your Green Screen

  • How to light your green screen correctly
  • Avoiding shadows and light spill
  • How to achieve a smooth lighting effect
  • Cycloramas and how to light them
  • Correct light positioning tips
  • Barn doors and reflectors
  • Wattages and dimmable lights
  • Diffuse light and Softboxes
  • Gels and kicker lights
  • Light metering and IRE

Setting up to film your Green Screen footage

  • Setting up your camera
  • Tripods, heights and angles
  • Setting your white balance and exposure levels
  • Choosing the correct film settings
  • Distances from green screen to subject
  • Framing your subject effectively

Filming your subject

  • Suitable clothing for green screen filming
  • Avoiding shiny and reflective surfaces
  • Makeup
  • Hair
  • Interviewing a subject
  • Using an Autocue
  • Asking the right questions
  • Filming tips and techniques
  • Finishing up

Filming with bodysuits

  • The invisible man effect
  • Gloves, masks and full bodysuits
  • Using blue bodysuits and green screen together for double keys

Summary & Questions


5-15% discount if you book for more than one delegate!
Further discounts are available when booking multiple courses,
Please call our training secretary on 0844 844 2428.

Green Screen Training Courses
Date Days Total (Excl VAT)  
March 2012
29/3/12 1 250

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More Courses

In addition to the courses displayed here at The Elstree Film School, we also run two other websites offering their own specific courses. The courses listed below are our web design training courses which we run at 21st Century New Media Ltd operating out of Elstree Film Studios, Hertfordshire.

Web Site Design Courses / Web Development Courses
Web Site Programming Courses
Web Marketing Courses / Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Training Courses
Web Site Management Courses
Video Editing Courses
Graphic Design Courses / Print Courses


Our second dedicated training website is 21biz.co.uk, where we run a variety of marketing, business and Microsoft Office training courses, also operating out of Elstree Film Studios, Hertfordshire.

Business Training Courses
Marketing Training Courses

21BIZ also offer an extensive selection of Microsoft Office training courses, (far too many to list here) including courses for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher and Outlook.


21st Century New Media Ltd, Elstree Film Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire WD6 1JG.
Tel: 0844 844 2428     Email: enquiries@elstree-film-school.co.uk

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