Hopefully you'll get some better ideas from some of the vidiots who lurk here. *cough*
kwotipka*cough*
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Sorry folks, have my head in a Flash project as well as a couple of other things. (Anyone here know Flash Video).
There are several online guides to green
screen work. There are different schools of thought from an asthetic
point of view and an equal number from a technical
point of view.
The first thing is that your bedroom is not a tv studio! Well, unless... Anyhow. You don't want a bunch of broken flour tubes all over the place. Now derekleffew has the right idea is that you can use 4' tubes on the cheap. If you go that route, get some 4'
clear bulb covers for them. When you break one, it will "help" to contain the mess. Again, you don't want this stuff all over your room! Maybe placing them vertical on either side is safer then top and bottom. Don't get greedy. Just because you have all of that space doesn't mean that you have to use it (or light it). Learn what a garbage matte is.
We use kino's or soft
tungsten lights to light keywalls. Basically, you want the color temps to match but you are lighting two different zones. Light from the key wall should never touch the subject and vice versa. The keywall light should be even and
flat and no more then a stop difference between your keywall and subject. Take a white card and hold it against the key wall. Adjust your
iris so that the overexposure zebra bars in your camera just come on. Take the card and place it under your
key light. Do the zebras come on? Do you have to adjust the
iris a lot to get to that
point? A light
meter here really helps.
I could ramble on for days but there are other online sources that give you pictures as well. If you have specific questions,
send them on. That's what we are here for.
kw
PS. Steam out any wrinkles you have in the fabric. These will haunt you in post.