Assignment 8: Green Screen Exercise

Wingardium leviosa! A short green screen exercise. Like my oh-so-realistic feather??

WELL, what to say about this... First I used a couple garbage mattes to get rid of the exposed walls around the stage. I used Keylight 1.2 in After Effects to key out the green, soften up the edges, color correct, and a bunch of other things. I tried really hard to get those dang edges to clean up, but it just wasn't going to work. You can see a nasty gray line all along my right side - especially on my pants - and my face was super shiny that day (I guess it was hot...?) and was thus spilling green all over the place. It took me forever to make sure my face wouldn't disappear whenever I turn it. Ah, well. It was my first time. I added a light in After Effects to try and brighten my right side up a bit to match the background a little better. It wasn't till after I uploaded it that I realized that the shadows don't match between the footage and the background. :P And of course YouTube decided to cut off my disappearing act at the end. I really just need to take the time and upload everything on Vimeo!

Enjoy!

~Becca