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Crittias
02-18-2010, 10:49 AM
http://dvice.com/archives/2010/02/chromakey-world.php

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I knew that greenscreen was being used more in TV and film, but I had no idea how pervasive it had actually become! Amazing stuff!
johnperkins21
02-18-2010, 10:58 AM
I saw this a couple months ago, it's pretty crazy how much it's used, and how well. It's pretty much a necessary evil to help keep costs down. Location shoots can get very expensive.
DangerousDaze
02-18-2010, 11:00 AM
I clicked on that thinking "Amazing? Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it." But, wow! :)
Cactaur
02-18-2010, 11:02 AM
So disillusioned... Plus I'm surprised how big the sfx budget on something like Ugly Betty must be.
civil
02-18-2010, 11:03 AM
Wow. Simply wow.
aVaKus
02-18-2010, 11:18 AM
Wow, that Ugly Betty scene really blew me away.
DangerousDaze
02-18-2010, 11:37 AM
Pretty soon we won't be able to believe anything we see. Maybe even now.
Crittias
02-18-2010, 01:51 PM
Pretty soon we won't be able to believe anything we see. Maybe even now.Maybe all the green screens are fake, and inserted by computer technology...Wrap your noodle around that!
Hawkzombie
02-18-2010, 02:36 PM
The really good ones you don't notice, but shows like Bones (which I do love, btw) you can tell, and it's painfully obvious :p
MagGnome
02-21-2010, 08:53 AM
Ugly Betty uses green screens in pretty much every scene. I watched a making of feature on the show and it blew me away. Now when I watch the show I'm often wondering how much of it is real.
Karak
02-21-2010, 04:39 PM
How shit.
Even after watching it twice I was stunned at some of those.
bapenguin
02-21-2010, 07:23 PM
Wow, thanks for posting that. Pretty amazing.
Karak
02-21-2010, 07:38 PM
Hahaha. I showed my wife this.
Her comment. "That was dumb."
I asked her why.
Wife-"Because without the greenscreen the normal areas actually looked fine and in some cases better. It was like someone was bored."

And after watching it again I had to chuckle. I am sure they had their reasons but she was right on. In a couple of those your like...the fuck? Why did they do that hahahahaa.
muddi900
02-22-2010, 04:17 AM
eh...they do that because it costs gigantic amount of money to shoot on location than on a backlot.

I wasn't really that amazed. The reason certain shows look better on the same locations is because its not the same location.
cppcrusader
02-22-2010, 01:05 PM
I saw a rather jarringly bad chromakey example last night. It was on the latest episode of Leverage toward the end. Every time they cut to a wide shot of the gang standing on the deck of a cargo ship the actors stuck out like sore thumbs.
Karak
02-22-2010, 01:28 PM
eh...they do that because it costs gigantic amount of money to shoot on location than on a backlot.


Which would make sense but some of them were on location and not on backlots. Thus the laughing.
muddi900
02-24-2010, 04:04 AM
Which would make sense but some of them were on location and not on backlots. Thus the laughing.

No they aren't :confused:
Karak
02-24-2010, 08:04 AM
No they aren't :confused:

Different video then.
muddi900
02-24-2010, 10:35 AM
No, almost all of those shots are from backlots, and others are on a set. Closing down whole streets and then putting green screen on them is completely pointless.
Karak
02-24-2010, 12:16 PM
No, almost all of those shots are from backlots, and others are on a set. Closing down whole streets and then putting green screen on them is completely pointless.

whatever, sounds cool.
carnage11
02-24-2010, 12:29 PM
What's amazing is that CoG is nothing more than a green screen and all of us with the exception of you is computer generated. As a matter of fact look really closely at your computer monitor. Yep...it's fake too. Just a prop. You're actually just staring at the back of your eyelids which has a green screen implanted when you're born. Welcome to the Matrix.
muddi900
02-25-2010, 03:11 AM
Goddammit I took the blue pill!

Edit: or was it purple??
J Arcane
02-26-2010, 06:57 PM
The main reason why I've never been able to watch 300 all the way through is because of the green screen. It's just so damn bad, and so damn obvious, it puts me off. The whole movie came across looking like a higher res version of all those bad live-action cutscenes from video games in the 90s, like the Daedalus Encounter or Wing Commander IV.
Crittias
02-26-2010, 08:41 PM
The main reason why I've never been able to watch 300 all the way through is because of the green screen. It's just so damn bad, and so damn obvious, it puts me off. The whole movie came across looking like a higher res version of all those bad live-action cutscenes from video games in the 90s, like the Daedalus Encounter or Wing Commander IV.300 didn't bother me in the slightest. Much like Sin City, what you consider "damn bad" I consider a purposeful aesthetic. That said, I completely understand why you don't like it. But it worked for me.
J Arcane
02-26-2010, 09:01 PM
300 didn't bother me in the slightest. Much like Sin City, what you consider "damn bad" I consider a purposeful aesthetic. That said, I completely understand why you don't like it. But it worked for me.
See, Sin City didn't bother me in the slightest, nor even, did the Spirit, because it very much was obviously an aesthetic.

The only aesthetic choice that makes sense to me for 300 is that they were just deliberately trying to make it look as fake as possible.
DeathtollWRX
03-07-2010, 01:02 PM
OMG so I am late to the thread but wow that is amazing. Is anything real? Even the episodes of Monk were shot indoors! That's nuts.
muddi900
03-09-2010, 05:07 AM
See, Sin City didn't bother me in the slightest, nor even, did the Spirit, because it very much was obviously an aesthetic.

The only aesthetic choice that makes sense to me for 300 is that they were just deliberately trying to make it look as fake as possible.

They were trying to make it look like the comic. And they succeeded. Too bad the comic sucked nards.