Just a brief test to gauge the feasability of using a LCD monitor as a background in my film.
It looks fair for a first attempt, but as has been pointed out to me, syncing the camera's shutter speed with the monitor's flicker rate and maintaing that for the duration of a shot would be very difficult. Evidence of this is in the above test, wherein the brightness of the background hills fluctuate.
That looks cool to me. It reminds me of RayH's old stuff. I don't think the flicker is that noticable and I would argue it makes a stationary image look like there is wind movement on the hills.Saying that if you want it to look perfect, perhaps using a blue screen. Wouldn't you need a giant monitor for some scenes doing that. Would it become fiddly later on?
ReplyDeleteUse green screen! You can then tweak the background and elements to suit at a a later stage. You just need a couple of reliable lights (no need to be professional ones though, although it helps). Do a green screen test and you'll be sold! Also a monitor is limiting as you have to make all your models smaller for a distant shot. Green screen only needs to be set up right once and you can easily replicate and swap out for sets and models.
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