From the course: Video Green Screen Workflows (2017)

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Lighting the backdrop

Lighting the backdrop

- So, we have our instruments placed, ready to light up the green screen. It's very important to recognize that you can think of shooting a green screen as very modular. The green screen itself wants to be its own world, lit independently of the subject. The model will take the same sort of lighting that you want to impart on any other set. But, you really need to think in terms of it being an independent set of light sources from our green screen. The rule of thumb is trying to create as even a light as possible across the green screen, to make it easier for the editor to actually work with it and key in whatever background you're looking for. So, we'll turn these on. So, there's our left side. You can see. There it is on our way form. Now, we're just going to head over to the other side and we'll see how that looks now. As you can see, we have a little bit of a hot spot on the left side. We'll need to back this light off slightly. The type of lights that we're using in this instance…

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