Proposal

For this project we were asked to think of an idea for our green screen film which we are going to film in the studio in the college which is where the greens screens are kept. In my group there are 5 people; Callum, Dan, Beth, Victoria, and myself. In our groups we had to decide what theme we want our green screen film to be and we actually did two themes as Callum, Beth, and Victoria wanted to do an anime themed short film while me and Dan wanted to do a scary chase so we decided to film two films as Callum and Beth will bring in their manga books and pretend to read them while there will be anime scenes laying in the background which they will add when they edit their video.

 As for the other theme, we decided to have one of us pretending to run on in front of the green screen while there is a person in a mask chasing after them. Doing all this in front of a green screen, we will add different background to it such as a forest to build the creepy scene.

The props we will use will be: A green screen, camera, tripod, red head, a mask, manga, and a chair.

The short will have to last from 30-45 seconds. The story will be realistic as the chase could happen to anyone in real life and it will be linear because it will have a beginning, middle, and end in this specific order. 

Editing

While editing my greens screen short film using the software Adobe Premiere CC, I took some screen shots demonstrating how I edited the video and also what kind of tools and effects I used to perfect my short film which had to last 30-45 seconds.

Screenshots:

 First I went on to file>new>project which came up with this box. From here I started creating the new project which I named the Green Screen Film and made sure the capture format is on HDV.

When I created the Green Screen project I went to file>import which imported all the shots I needed to put together the film which is shown below.

When I imported my videos, I dragged each shot and placed it on the screen so I can edit each shot by cutting out the bits I do not want to use in the short film. 

Over here I went on effects>Keying>Ultra Key and selected the key colour and pressed the background of the shot to make it black. By doing this I can now add a background of any kind so it would look like he is in the area. 

After I made the background I added the same background to all of the scenes where Callum was running but I added a different background for Dan who was the killer in the video to show that he is in a different are than Callum.

To add a title in the video I went on to File>New>Title, which came up with a new tab and gave me a choice of different fonts, colours, and transitions for the text I want to insert.

When I finished adding the background on all of the shots I decided to add a title at the beginning of the video which faded in slowly with the title 'The Chase'. When I decided on the title I added a different font and white outlines on it to make it stand out and to match the theme of the video which is a horror. 

When I added my title I decided to add the credits to show which bit each person in my group worked on such as directing and actors. When I did this I added a transaction which makes the text start from the bottom and move up slowly until it disappears. 

To make my short film better I added music and sound effects as I found it on YouTube then imported it to the video. 

When I was done adding all the music and sound effects, I changed the volume on all of them so they would not be too loud or too quiet and then faded the music at the end so the volume on the music would slowly go down. 

When I was done editing my whole video, I exported it by going on File>Export>Media and the format was H.264

Here is where I was done exporting it so I saved it to the Green Screen file on my hard drive. Then I put the video on YouTube so everyone can see the work I have done. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzAfL6XSHOs

Overall I feel that my work went well as this was the first time I have ever used a green screen and I also used different editing techniques I have never used before.

Using a Green Screen

The whole class went up to the studio and then each group went up to the green screen and filmed our scenes in 20 minutes using all the props that is already there and also props we brought in ourselves so we can have a theme for our short film which we are going to create. The props we used were two big lights placed in the correct are to make sure there are no shadows, the green screen so we can add a different background to the video when editing, a video camera to film our shots, a tripod to hold the camera still, and the props me and my group brought ourselves which was a chair and manga books for the video Callum and Beth wanted to make. But For the video me and Dan wanted to make we only used a mask to indicate the killer. 

Over all everything went well as Callum and Dan were the actors while Victoria, Beth and I were the directors as we told them what they should do. Also Victoria and I handled the camera and the shots to make sure the whole shot is in the frame and that the top half is not cut out. 

Hopefully the editing goes well and that it turns out the way I want it to although we only used one item, which was the mask. To improve on filming, we should have planned our scenes sooner so we could quickly film them and then let the other group use the green screen as we ended up using it for an extra 10 minutes.