I'm not sure if I understand what you mean, but I'll give you the ways to do what I think you might mean with a green screen.

For instance, you wanted to project a screen on a wall and the screen needs to be behind the character (who is on front of the screen), you need a layer behind the minifigure and in front of the screen. You have a couple of ways to go:

1. You film the stuff for the projector screen. You film the wall the minifig is standing in front of. You film your minifig in front of a green screen, chroma key it out so that only the minifig is there. You layer the clips in this order: Wall, Screen Content, Minifig. This is probably the worst way to do it.

2. You put a piece of green, blue, or red paper or something on a wall that has your minifigure standing on front of it. You chroma key the screen, place your screen content footage on a layer behind the main one, and it will be in the screen. This is the best way to go.

Obviously, I only explained how to chroma key, because I really don't understand the question. So if this doesn't help any, just reply and explain it again so I can figure out what you are talking about.

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Hey Rioforce and Jampot.

Firstly RioForce thank you for comment in regards to Chroma Keying I will deffs try to work with it and ask you some questions regarding it if you guys arn't able to help me with my question I will now try to explain it better.

Jampot btw what is Backdrops? I read your comment but don't understand whats it for?

Now onto the question, sorry you guys didn't understand so I'll try to make it clearer.

Now to help make this clearer I am going to provide an image to better help the situation.

Now if you look at the image, or concentrate at the background behind the clones. (The background being presented and placed in post).

Now instead of greenscreen. Would it possible to get a picture to use as a background in your brickfilm (Not just for a screen but the whole background of what the camera captures on screen), and instead of greenscreening/chroma keying to create a layer for just the background image and place it behind the minifig and make it look as if it's the actual background of where the minifig is. Whether it's a jungle or in space for that matter. Just as the picture above is displaying with the background.

If so how do I do the layers and how do I add them in? What should the new layer be in AE? Is it a solid?

Thanks guys,

Sincerely,
Divine.

I understand what you mean by backdrop giving me the definition helped out with that. It's just I've never heard of it or really ever had experience with it. I'll have to make use of it sometime.

It's something similiar to rotoscoping, but I'm not actually referring to masking the minifigs and removing all the background not one bit. That is too much effort and un-needed excessive amount of work. I'm just talking simply putting in a background image, and if its possible to create a new layer to place behind the minifig so the background isn't on the minifig that's it and if its possible how can I achieve this. I'm sorry I don't know if I can be any more precise on this topic. But any kind of advice or help is appreciated.

Also Rioforce,

Thank you for the greenscreen info, with the chroma keying once that's done what would I have to do after that would there be anything else? Also does the layer have to be a solid for a background or something else? Would love to know.

Sincerely,
Divine.

Hey BertL,

Thanks for commenting and giving some great feedback.

The only problem is, I don't know how to create the chroma key effect or put the essential layering.

How do you make the things you want transparent?

Are you able to make a brief stepping guide that I can work from? I'm familiar with where the things are just not doing them. If you can just provide some steps I'm sure I'll be fine with the rest.

Also is their a difference between blue green and green screen? What is it? Also is there such thing as red screen?

Sincerely,
Divine.

Hey BertL,

Thanks for getting back to me.

I normally use SV for video editing, and AE for anything else.

If I used gimp would I have to do this for every frame? Or is it really just the one frame and then extending it all out?

I think I understand perfectly what your saying in regards as to adding a background layer.

I really didn't know you could use any color that's great to keep in mind, I just wonder why people all the time use green screen for news editing and most professional filming. The evenly lit part, I did notice this the hard way, whats the best way to achieve lighting the whole green backdrop evenly? Especially at night. I use two lamps but still don't seem to get properly evened out.
So if the minifig was green hypothetically speaking, you could use a red background and it'd seem produce the same effect as green screening? That weird effect made me laugh

I actually just watched it for the first time your right pretty much throughout it is chroma keyed backgrounds. It was great!

Thanks for the great tips, BertL. Appreciate your time responding.

Sincerely,
Divine.