Carnegie

Together with director, Christian Montalbano, I shot a really fun piece the other day for Carnegie Fabrics involving lots of green screen. Normal green screen is typically pretty easy to shoot. Light it evenly, create some space in between the screen and your subjects, maybe some backlight and you’re good to go. Most good editors can pull a key from total rubbish these days (not that they should have to!) But on this shoot we had many different surfaces covered in green including a computer monitor, paper printouts, even a cell phone screen. The challenge was two-fold: One, to get even light on all those surfaces simultaneously without having too much spill on the actress, and Two, making our camera movement as steady and repeatable as possible. Tracking moving green elements is fine to shoot, but no fun to edit, at least not for me.

This was a pretty barebones shoot, but the final video really came together nicely. I’ll post it here shortly. Looking forward to many more shoots with Christian and his team.