Green Screens vs LEDs
LED-based virtual production has become a bit of a buzzword in recent months, so it may be tempting to avoid green screens altogether – but in most cases, that’s a mistake.
Virtual Production Essentials
There are a host of considerations when shooting in VR production for the first time. While VR production offers lots of flexibilities and options, it’s best to consider these factors in advance of the day of the shoot. We will discuss such topics as the timeline, the green screen space plus many other considerations. Traditional hard sets typically have a beginning and end because they are a series of hard flats connected together. VR sets don’t need to be built out in the same way as traditional sets. They can be built out as complete environments with 4 or more walls, ceiling floor, separate rooms, outside spaces etc. For these reasons our clients have tremendous creative opportunities. Instead of moving cameras around for shots we move the set around the talent for those angles, backgrounds that make the most sense. These flexibilities now become considerations while preparing for the shoot.
Green Screen Production
What are the benefits of using Green Screen in Video Production? Green screen production offers a multitude of benefits for most productions. Let’s first talk about the cost and time savings of VR production verse the traditional way. The typical cost of building a set starts in the thousands of dollars for a basic hard set and can easily go into the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars depending on the scope and size of the set. The cost of a virtual set is usually a small percentage of the cost of a hard set. These virtual sets today are 3 dimensional photo realistic sets that render in real time.