Reverse Green Screen

Reverse Green Screen

Location: TV Studio, City College Norwich

Equipment: Blue Paint, Dust Sheet, Camera, Tripod, Green Screen

Subject: Charlotte Johnston

This is the result of my reverse green screen test shoot.

To create this, I had to have a subject, with a lot of skin revealed, so that you could see the texture of the skin. Then, on bare skin, I rubbed blue paint into my subject's skin. This blue paint would be the keyed area, when it came to editing. I decided to test this idea on just a small part of the body, which is why the video above only shows the subject's arm.

I refer to this technique as 'reverse green screening' because, conventionally, you would edit out the green, or blue, in the shot, to make that transparent, however, in this case, the only area which is seen, is the area covered in the chroma-key paint.

When I do my final shoot for the reverse green screen, I would do things a little different. First of all, I would change the background from black, to white. This is because I would rather there be a huge contrast between the focal point and the background, instead of the two being very similar colours. Also, I would change the camera angle, I would include extreme close-ups and panning shots, instead of a static close-up/mid-shot.