Originally, when Kira and myself we manifesting the video for 'Lights', we wanted to express our ideas in the form of a massive production with green-screens, perfect lighting and gorgeous bokeh style lights behind us. When reality hit and we realised that we could film a smaller scale version of what was in our minds with budget in mind, we started thinking about using green-screens cleverly to produce something close to our vision.
We set out to the studio and set everything up; lighting, the backdrop etc and positioned our model (George) in frame and started to film a short amount of test footage. It looked brilliant on camera and we were sure that green-screening the background for our video was the way forward- that was, until the edit. The green-screen it's-self didn't register very well on the camera and upon uploading the footage looked more like a 'lime-screen' with uneven lighting.
After applying the chroma key, there was a large amount of green pixelated fuzz around George. Adding other effects such as an additional chroma key and a colour smoother, the results improved drastically but we realised that the subject looked far too detached from the background and although realism wasn't the goal, the overall result looked very fake.
Since, we have decided that green-screens, although a glamourous idea, are not to be used during our pop-promo and we're going to shoot using tactful depth of focus in order to create the gorgeous out of focus lights effect whilst keeping the subject (the band) in crystal clear focus. Hopefully, this will result in a much more put together, realistic effect that has a very warm, intimate effect for viewers.
Above, you can see the before-edit and after-edit of the green-screen material. I think our second idea, though involving more work, will work and look a lot better which, overall, is the important thing.
Post by: Ben Halliday
Video by: Ben Halliday
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