Tuesday, 8 November 2016

Green Screen in Music Video

The use of green screen in music video provides countless opportunities for effects that wouldn't be available without. This is why I have chosen to incorporate green screen into my own music video, shrinking the lead singer, including the kaleidoscope, changing backgrounds, and probably many other effects that I will use once I begin constructing the music video and editing later. 

In order to use green screen, I must first record my music video as normal, but instead of using the background that I wish to be in the final video, I will record sequences against a green screen so that I can add more interesting backgrounds during the editing process. Before recording, I'll also want to have a good idea of how the final video is going to look, so that I can make the necessary movements during the recording process. Then, once all the footage has been taken, I will begin editing in order to add in any of the necessary special effects and cut out the background so that only the artists, props and any other mise-en-scene is left within the frame of the video sequence. Then the final stage is to add any backgrounds that I like, whether this is a background that I have previously recorded, effects that can be found on the editing software, or third party effects that can be purchased online and added to the editing software. 

The video that I have included below comes from a Youtube channel called flomotion.eu, and demonstrates effectively how green screen can be used within a music video scenario to manipulate size and scale, which is obviously relevant to my music video, as I am planning to do something very similar. The editing process that has been used in this video is known as keying, which is  essentially an editing tool that is available on video editing software, which removes the green background from an image/video. Though, the youtube video below is particularly impressive is that there is movement of the camera, which means that they would have also had to go through the process of motion tracking which does make the process of using green screen much more difficult than if you had a still camera.

The image below is also another influence for my music video and comes from the video for 'Coffee and TV' by Blur. It is a character known as 'Milky' who is essentially a person in a costume who has been shrunk, probably using some green screen, and is the main feature of that video. 





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