Green Screen, Video Shoot and Final Cut

Today we used the green screen for the first time. It took a while to set up but was a great help to what we need to do within out music video. We filmed some classmates acting out a song in front of it. While doing this I learnt some things that are very important when it comes to the real thing:

1) Use multiple cameras at the same time. This will get different angles/size shots while only performing the song once.

2) We need a floor manager who will make sure that all three cameras are recording and that everyone is ready before anything starts.

3) The floor manager needs to count the start of the song in so that later on so all pieces of film can be cut in sync.

We also had a quick go on Final Cut Pro. This software is a lot more advanced and very helpful when making music videos. As we used a green screen we was able to cut the back ground out and put the image left over on to any background/other image. It was quite complicated but I have already used tools such as the "blade".