Balanced Lifestyle Group - green screen shoot

Not to be put off by my last green screen effort; yesterday saw me do a traditional corporate talking head green screen shoot with the boss of the Balanced Lifestyle Group.

Tried two set ups the day before; one with my reflector green cover and the one I settled on was my green cloth and frame. Bit of a tight squeeze but using my 1000w tungsten light to light the green; the living room light and my small camera LED light to light the subject.

Using my learnings from last time; used my camera's waveform to get the green as bright as possible and the subject well lit but below the greens luminance by at least one stop. I probably went too over board with the greens brightness but I wanted to be sure.

After black balancing the camera; it needed a white balance to get back some normal colours due to the mix of light in the room. Didn't quite get that right as the green was more in the yellow than I would have liked but it was evenly lit.

The small camera light did a great job in lighting the subject - quite surprising from such a small light. No apparent grainy/mushyness footage that I have experienced before. Made sure the subject was as far out of the black zone on the waveform as I could go without effecting the balance between her and the green.

Final footage was clean and using Keylight in After Effects it pulled a key almost with just one click. No chattering edges. Followed a tutorial as not used After Effects before. Masked out as much green as possible before duplicating the layer. Pre-composed the top layer and turned off the bottom layer. Added Keylight to the pre-comp. Fine tuned the key. Switched off pre-comp and then added a Hue Saturation effect on the layer below. Using the green channel; desaturated the greens - moving the range to get all of it - in my case more yellow!

Then used the pre-comp as a track matte for the bottom layer and hey presto done. Colour corrected the bottom layer more to match the mainly white background she was going to be comp'd against. Then applied light wrap to this layer using the background layer.

Phew