Topic: Where To Buy BlueScreen Card?
Where Do I Buy BlueScreen Card?
Thanks.
-Capedkid
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Where Do I Buy BlueScreen Card?
Thanks.
-Capedkid
It depends what you're looking for.
A blue Oak Tag (from your local Craft Store) would work.
I use a green screen cloth.
Yeah I was thinking of using Green Screen but I'd prefer Blue; then I could use it for 'outside' effects.
I just use blue Posterboard. Blue notecards will do just fine if it's just a small area.
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Where do I buy that Mcoov?
Staples usually has some.
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I've actually found that the use of odd cromakey mattes works better for brickfilming. for my STAR entry I used a red matte because it pops out the nicest against the greys, greens, and black bricks that I was shooting. I don't like the use of coloured mattes for brickfilms though because who cares what colour you use you will always get that stupid reflection caused by heavy lighting and high contrast.
I have had great success using a white matte:
Now mind you this was prior to my use of a real editing software, I think these were grabbed from my canon video camera using Animator DV and then blue screen of life to edit.
back on topic, White seems to have worked for me in the past when I needed high light shots.
the reason people recommend green is because in the last 10 years the entire industry has been switching over, green doesn't reflect as much light onto live action and yet it still creates enough of a contrast for a nice sharp key job.
white paper can be acquired from the printer sitting next to your computer 
~Casey
You are looking for a pure blue RGB (0,0,255). As luck would have it Lego standard blue bricks are a very good match, so take one with you when you go looking for card. When you get to the local art shop you will have something good to compare the colours against. (Green bricks are also close to RGB(0,255,0). Remember you need card which has a matt finish if possible to avoid reflections.
More important than the actual colour is good even lighting on the backdrop and try to keep it a good distance away from the foreground objects.
I've not tried this, but how about placing a laptop behind the set and having a screensaver of pure blue, or even better, project the actual background image behind the scene! This may sound a little crazy, but Ray Harryhausen used to do a similar thing with cine cameras to get his mix of live action and stop motion puppets. I believe he called it "Dynamation".....So I shall now officially name this new process as "DynaLegoMation"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamation
Last edited by martinprice2004 (July 24, 2009 (07:35pm))
The only problem I see with using a laptop screen would be those little lines you get across the screen (try pointing your camera at the CPU screen and you'll see what I mean). THough with a laptop's LCD display, it might not be as noticable, but it's still a risk of looking uneven and probably would throw off your set lighting.
Try some colord printer paper / cardboard. Any office supply store carries it.
You can also go out and buy a blue/green table cloth (plastic or other material, doesn't really matter) and stretch it tight across some cardboard or hang in in your background.
Like the others have said, the key to greenscreening is good even lighting of the backdrop.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcIifK53 … re=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eya3gBuA … re=channel
^Two good quick video tutorials on Greenscreen stuff. Both from IndyMogul.
~WG
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