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Posted on 16/12/10 7:01:19 PM |
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Deborah Morley
Makeover Magician Posts: 1319 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 330: Green screen
So who did you cut out from the original Steve?  |
Posted on 16/12/10 7:58:33 PM |
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laddition
femme fatale Posts: 585 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 330: Green screen
Here's mine! Avec une pensée à Lennon!   _________________ Mais je me connais, je lâcherais pas l'affaire.... Je vais piquer de grève comme on pique une colère... Plus têtue que tous les vieil homme et la mer... Pour que continue le combat ordinaire! |
Posted on 16/12/10 8:15:27 PM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 330: Green screen
Some interesting works! ..... mine, if I was reading a map, I think I took a wrong turn somewhere ... Steve's coat seemed to reminded of Klimt image, no connotations meant at all please ... I just like the coat...., but worse I only had a little time left to make it ... Great iconic painting from Klimt though it seems ... 
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Posted on 16/12/10 8:46:50 PM |
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Emil
KAFKAsFRIEND Posts: 413 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 330: Green screen
 _________________ I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. - Franz Kafka |
Posted on 16/12/10 9:37:07 PM |
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puffin31939
Montage Mariner Posts: 383 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 330: Green screen
Hedging my bets here as I am not sure now whether I should have gone to all the trouble of putting a background on the green screen! This is just a quick last-minute makeover so I am bound to have missed something vital! 
_________________ Man cannot change the direction of the wind but he can adjust the sails |
Posted on 16/12/10 11:30:53 PM |
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sutex
Specular Specialist Posts: 157 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 330: Green screen
[plus my one, hope its looks real   |
Posted on 17/12/10 00:33:01 AM |
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james
Surreal Spoofer Posts: 1194 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 330: Green screen
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s211/fungismith/greenscreen.gif |
Posted on 17/12/10 08:46:06 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 7052 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 330: Green screen
When TV studios use green screens, the background image is seen on the monitor - not on the green screen itself, of course. All the green is removed, leaving just the presenter. A number of you got a little confused about this and to save repeating this each time I'll use the acronym TISNAOTGS (The Image Should Not Appear On The Green Screen)... but no matter, the end results were all entertaining. I was very amused by brewell's cut-price royal wedding image, continuing the theme from a couple of weeks ago. A very apt use of the technology, Bruce! And beautifully put together. My only issue is with the man adjusting the lamp in the foreground: that lamp is actually standing on the ground next to the bishop... he'd need very long arms. A Sydney fantasy from tooquilos - and while TISNAOTGS, Oprah nowhere to be seen on the monitor. Wrong way round, perhaps? An entertaining animated - I particularly like the plane and globe sequence at the beginning! And, of course, the pink "Oprah" house. Good work from puffin31939, especially in removing the green tint - was it really that difficult? Of course, you would have saved yourself a lot of time by not painting the background over the screen itself, since TISNAOTGS... the cutout you performed here is far more fiddly than it needed to be! A great presenter, and I like the extra image in the camera monitor. And, of course, the second entry is far more accurate! A witty entry from GKB, with a painter daubing a virtual beach scene behind the presenter. The figures themselves are very well judged and immaculately slotted into the scene, but what I really like is the design of the cans of paint - and the fact that the whole beach appears in the paint tray in front. Clever stuff! I seem to be making a guest appearance in LonnieK's entry, in the guise of a muscle-bound woodsman - and with a haircut so severe it's almost a lobotomy. I like the focus on the presenter, though, and the dark figure in the foreground does throw the scene into perspective: congratulations, particularly, for being the first to light up the camera eyepiece. Nice detail! A very nicely composed scene from Vibeke (of course, TISNAOTGS). But it's so well done, working around all those fiddly wires, that it seems nit-picking to point it out... I liked Garfield72's weather presenter. OK, TISNAOTGS, but what's clever here is that the view from the camera isn't the same as the view we see looking directly at the scene, because the camera is offset to the side. However, as it's to the left, the woman should appear further to the right, not further to the left... just a detail. Very entertained by Nick Curtain's entry - so that's how they do cartoons! I knew there must be a cheat involved somewhere. Good work from micky47, with the presenter appearing neatly tucked behind the camera. Well, almost: the cables on the right of the camera disappear behind her leg, before reappearing beneath her foot. You don't need to cut the cables out, but if not then you do need to get rid of them entirely! And that camera does look rather switched off... perhaps a light or two? A well composed image from Gerard, with the band building appearing neatly on the monitor. You and your friend look rather too small on the monitor, though: you could go much bigger than that without obscuring the band name. Really clever work from Stefano Giacomuzzi, whose Santa - inadvertently dressed all in green - fails to appear on the monitor, leaving just a ghostly head, belt and white fur trim behind. A neat idea, very well achieved. My only query is: why is he climbing down a rope ladder so far from the chimney? A nice bit of fakery from Emvee, with the presenter at a storm scene clearly faking the whole thing up in the studio - and the fact that he's wearing shorts out of sight of the camera accentuates this in a subtle way. Of course, TISNAOTGS, but it's a good gag anyway. A dinosaur movie spectacular from Deborah Morley - and there's Deborah herself in her art direction mode, checking the effect on the monitor. A perfect pose here, with great shadows under the hands - very nicely achieved. So did you do much green screen in your TV work, Deborah? A great Beatles shot from laddition, with the Fab Four mugging for the camera - and I like the sepia tint overall. A crowd of screaming teenagers should be imposed on the laptop screen, perhaps? I've never really warmed to Gustav Klimt, and certainly never felt my coat looked like one of his paintings - but Jota120 has his own ideas, as always, and has rather oddly placed the painting in a library. Interesting choice of location, Trevor. Is there a hidden meaning? I loved Emil's entry, with a cheesy presenter appearing in front of one of the photos from last week's Christmas meet-up... the effect is that we're all looking at the presenter, perfectly positioned at the front of the group. Very clever work! Very well composed work from sutex, with a full editing program running on the laptop on which we can just see that the figure now appears in a vast auditorium. I like the new cameraman, and the cans of energy drink on the laptop: not so sure about the apple, though. Overall, a very well worked out piece. There's so much drama in james's entry that it seems rather rude of me to point out that TISNAOTGS... I like the extra details, such as the cameraman moving in and even the presenter walking into the shot. So much work, James! +++++++++ Very entertaining entries. If I'd entered this one myself, I think I'd have filled the background up with green objects - apples, dollars, leaves, parrots - which would then have disappeared in the view on the monitor. If only I had time to enter these Challenges! |
Posted on 17/12/10 08:59:34 AM |
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laddition
femme fatale Posts: 585 Reply |
Re: Challenge 330: Green screen
Thank you very much, Steve!  _________________ Mais je me connais, je lâcherais pas l'affaire.... Je vais piquer de grève comme on pique une colère... Plus têtue que tous les vieil homme et la mer... Pour que continue le combat ordinaire! |
Posted on 17/12/10 10:39:34 AM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply |
Re: Challenge 330: Green screen
Thanks again Steve, No hidden meaning this time. The resulting subject did go way off track, should have drawn the coat, but ran out of time this week to go back unfortunately. Sorry about that. |
Posted on 17/12/10 11:25:48 AM |
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Gerard
Digital Dutchman Posts: 145 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 330: Green screen
Thanks Steve, I see what you mean about my size, However, I am six foot seven and I wish I was a bit slimmer!! That why photoshop is superb weight watchers software!! Have a nice weekend! |
Posted on 17/12/10 11:29:14 AM |
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puffin31939
Montage Mariner Posts: 383 Reply |
Re: Challenge 330: Green screen
Thanks for the comments, Steve. I've learnt something - TISNAOTGS - as well as how to produce a fiddly background image and to think about overall tints beofre I embark on a project. All useful - and good fun too! By the way - the presenter's head is mine, but not the body. _________________ Man cannot change the direction of the wind but he can adjust the sails |
Posted on 17/12/10 10:30:45 PM |
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vibeke
Kreative Kiwi Posts: 2166 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 330: Green screen
Thanks Steve, If I had a quarter of your sense of detail, I might have got the instructions right. Would have made a much easier job, and no worries about everything having a green tinge. Hope to get time for Father Ted, but am of to Melbourne tomorrow,and haven't even started packing yet. Merry Christmas to everybody. _________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
Posted on 18/12/10 06:49:48 AM |
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Nick Curtain
Model Master Posts: 1768 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 330: Green screen
Thanks Steve Thought I'd take a slightly different approach. Nick |
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