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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Green Screen Use In TV Production

By Phil Guye

The advent of satellite television has seen the virtual explosion of television channels, broadcasters, production homes and content producers. This is because cable TV and direct to home platforms have indeed pushed the frontiers of TV broadcasting beyond all conceivable boundaries and onto a global scale. It is little wonder that television networks across the world use the use of a Green screen.

One of the common systems that are utilized in TV program production is that of using a Green screen in the background of the studio where a particular program is being shot. This is a part of the technique of chroma key which deals particularly with the removal of certain pictures in the background of the shot and superimposing this with some other image, which is better for the production. For example, one can use a screen that is green in color behind a broadcaster who is reading out the weather stories. When viewers watch the program, the green or blue screen as the case may be, is replaced with a weather map or scenes of certain towns or satellite images being shown instead.

A Green screen is particularly useful for chroma key uses, on account of the fact the ordinary human skin tone has very little components of green in it. This helps in superior quality of image superimposition as well as the replacing of background, without interfering much with the general view of the broadcaster who is standing in the foreground. If there had been any green tint or tone in human skin, parts of the body would became invisible when using the other colored screen, making the effect quite peculiar and extremely unbecoming and incongruous.

One of the main advantages of using a Green screen is that it is fairly easy to execute as well as being cost effective. If one were to employ a huge plasma or HDTV screen behind the broadcaster, the effect could be excellent, but the price tag would be far greater than using a green screen. In these days of recession, where cost management is the key, the dice is loaded in favor of using less expensive options.

One can easily make a Green screen that can be employed in television program production. For this, something as easy as a table cloth may be employed. This cloth has to be regularly painted, so that there are no smudges or uneven areas that would stand out when the show goes on air. One can also use a plain wall that is uniformly painted in green to form the colored background. One of the guidelines to remember when using such a screen is if the background image is one of trees or forests; green is a more acceptable color to use than blue for the background, while if the image is of the sea or the sky, green would not be so good. Using a green screen is therefore an efficient means of utilizing chroma key technique in TV program production, which is popular due to its simplicity and inexpensiveness. - 18762

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