Research: Green Screen Practise

Using footage of a student lip syncing to Adele's Rolling in the Deep, I practised editing and chroma keying using Premiere Pro. Firstly, I imported both the original music video and the footage of Ellie lip syncing into Premiere Pro.

I then placed both the original music video and the soundtrack onto my timeline, and the green screen footage on the layer above. This meant that when I removed the green background, Ellie would be placed over the original music video.






I then used the Eight Point Garbage Matte to crop most of the green screen footage. This helped reduce the amount of different shades of green in the video, meaning that there will be less imperfections in the finished clip. However, I had to be careful that I did not crop out any of Ellie's movements, as it would make parts of her disappear.




I then used the Ultra Key feature to remove the green screen background. The pipette tool allowed me to select the green background, and Premiere Pro then removed any similar colours it could identify. This meant that Ellie now appeared to be in the original music video.








Because the green screen was creased when filming the lip syncing, there appears to be slight mistakes in the edited version. However, if I decide to use green screening in my music video, then I will make sure that the green screen isn't creased and is carefully ironed.