Movie Macguyver Tech

So, with some green fabric, I made a homemade greenscreen.

Seriously. That's all it is. Green fabric.

Some of the shadowing is a little weird on this. It isn't the greenscreen or the program-it's the mask! The shiny parts of the mask reflected too much of the green, so I had to scale back the matte a little bit.

I did this with Sony Vegas. If you have After Effects, there's a plug in called keylight that does a much better job of this, and wouldn't have had the mask problems because it has bounce suppression on it. It's the difference in "youtube quality greenscreen" to "professional quality greenscreen" so it might be for you.

Other tips-

USE LOTS OF LIGHTS. If you're not sweating, you're not doing it right. You have to light the fuck out of the greenscreen to make sure it doesn't have any shadows on it.

If you light yourself, shoot a light at your back, and can throw a red gel on the light. This was done without a light kit. Had I used one, the reflection problem probably wouldn't have existed, and I wouldn't have had as many chunky shadows. It'll give you a better outline and a better sense of depth perception if you do this.