lucidium said:
Paint the wall all one solid color, doesnt have to be green, any solid color that isnt skintone or the color of clothing you will be wearing would work, then simply download one of the free chroma keying softwares or befriend someone with a better video editing program and a decent connection who can do the greenscreening for you. buy a couple cheap lamps and cheap umbrellas and some metalic bright silver car spray, open umbrella, spray the insides (dont ever close them if you do this though, the paint will flake off), mount the lamp in front of the inner side of the umbrella for a nice light diffuser for cheap. Failing that ebay for a compatible halo lamp for your camera, non-branded ones will do a decent job for usually fairly cheap. If you do go for chroma keying, record at the highest possible setting of your camera, even if you will be eventually reducing the resolution before uploading, higher res helps trmendously with preventing bad chroma keying, and any very minor issues you get regardless will be hidden pretty well, when reducing the resolution of the video. Personally what I do is use a solid colored cloth on a metal frame to prevent wrinkles/etc, though you can build one out of woof fairly easilly too, then put the diffusers behind that so the cloth lights up, greatly reduces the shadowing, best colors for this are blue, green and deep purple. |
I'm more likely to go with the covering of the wall using paper/index cards than just to paint ONE wall, haha...
And funny you mention the umbrellas, someone told me about "mobile" lighting being WHITE umbrellas in which they strapped widebeam flashlights to the pole of the umbrella, and it can still be closed up over the flashlight for easy storage and movement. However, at this point in time, I am not further upgrading the lighting from what it is now, which is JUST good enough to make the 1080p look like good 720p. Should my channel/show engines start firing up, I will start to get back into lighting. The next order of business in terms of production values is to find a poor man's way of decorating the wall behind me, but keep it interesting without it being distracting or costing me virtually anything (which is why I said using paper or index cards is more likely). However, without upgrading my editing software, it would be pointless to create a "green screen" right now. My decorations will most likely be physical and static for now!
If you must know, I actually built small wood frames already to create a "light screen", which is why the shadows on the wall behind me are drastically reduced from when I first started, and I use two project boards for close diffused lighting, which is LITERALLY one just sitting to the left and one sitting to the right of the frame. I've been pretty good with being cheap!
