Western Pigs: Greenscreen

Today we filmed the opening credits and flashback scenes using the greenscreen.


It was bigger than I thought it would be and we learnt a lot today about greenscreen. You can use whatever colour you want for the screen as long as whatever you're filming doesn't contain that colour so that you can take it out in post production.


We learnt about lighting too in the room. Silver reflector gives daylight effect while golden reflector gives sunrise/sunset effect. We used silver as our scenes occur during the middle of the day. We learnt to angle the reflector correctly so that the shadows aren't too dark.


After we got the basics we began filming. Overall it was successful. We now have everything filmed and can fully go into editing now.

Gabe taught one of our group members how to work in AfterEffects, which is pretty useful because it flows into Premiere Pro. Before he was in charge of making the poster and editing, but before we left today we reordered our roles. Lee would take care of the greenscreen scenes in AfterEffects, Jared will do the editing of the normal footage, and I will do the poster and backdrops with Jenna's help. Hopefully everything will fall together into place before the 8th. We're aiming to have a final cut by Tuesday.



So far everything is going according to plan, which surprises me actually. I think it's because we planned a lot before jumping into the project. I found one of the most crucial parts of making a film to be the planning. You need to have a clear idea of what you're doing and plan out your shots to know what you're filming and what needs to be done in a frame of time. Or else you might spend a whole lot of time doing something that might never be used in the film when you could have been making progress on things that would be beneficial to the process of making the film.