Yesterday was incredibly eventful. In the morning, I was able to film with my lead actress and we managed to get a lot done. However, as we progressed with the shoot, I realized that I was gonna have to scrap some of my original ideas.
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| Jania on our "orange screen" |
One of them being the green screen I wanted to use in order to create a completely black background. The effect was to further enhance the tone of the piece by creating a dark and almost horror-like atmosphere. I was originally going to use a blue sheet that my friend had her possession, but that whole exchange did not go through. So instead, I tried using a neon orange blanket that I had lying around my house. That's when I finally saw the mistake I had made because A. the blanket was way to small to make any sort of background with, B. I wasn't able to set it in a way that wouldn't make it wrinkle and look horrible, and C. I had not done enough research to know how difficult green screening actually is. A friend of mine who is in Cypress Bay's television production class was explaining to me just how strenuous the process of chroma keying. And that's even with the school's budget for actual professional equipment, incomparable to my raggedy orange throw blanket. He also explained to me that if I were to chroma key a scene, since I don't have the proper lighting, I would have to manually map out the green screen. This mean every single tiny frame would have to be chroma keyed by hand. As soon as those words hit my ears, I knew I had to throw my green screen fantasy into my personal garbage can of ideas. I have about less than eight days to finish this project and so, it would take too much for an effect that would not have my desired look.
While the green screen idea has crumbled to the floor, I've decided that I'm going to try to focus on creating the mood via camera shots rather than special effects since I am on a extremely limited budget.
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