GREENSCREEN IN PROGRESS

 Well, greenscreening outside doesn't work. And neither does using the sun to light it. 


The problem is the wind - it's easy to forget once the fabric is up and ready to go it becomes like a sail; the wind won't stop messing with it. The footage I did manage to record features the screen billowing, however - for reasons best known to the camera - the camera turned itself off, missing the climatic moment when the win pushed the green over on top of me.


Furthermore the position of the clouds means that the brightness of the sun is constantly changing, so even if the wind dropped for long enough to get footage the sun's brightness causing  constant changing of shades within the screen would make the footage useless.


Later I will go out again; set up the greenscreen against a flat wall in the front of our house, at a time when the sun has cast a shadow over my house before dark falls. This will eliminate the changing light levels; and if the flat surface idea doesn't work, then I'll find a room somewhere in school which is big enough to greenscreen in. 

As it turned out the second attempt was a successful attempt - my ideas on how to eliminate wind and sun problems worked. 

Editing the question on Final Cut