SUPERHERO TEAM
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Category: Group
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Value: 20 Points
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Time: 4 weeks
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YOUR TASK
Create one photograph or movie poster of your own superhero team. Use green screen technology to photograph each superhero individually and then edit them together into a single image. By photographing them separately you will have greater control over the placement and sizing in the final image. Also, if you choose to, you will then be able to add specific effects (e.g. glowing, fire, electricity) to individual superheroes without altering the other characters around them. All photos of your superheroes must be original (taken by you) however you may use an image from the Internet for your background if you wish. If you choose to download a background image please make sure that you reference your source (write the weblink somewhere in your visual diary documentation for this task). |
DOCUMENTS 10med_planner.docx Download File 10med_superherodesign.docx Download File 10med_reflection.docx Download File |
How Does Green Screening Work?
Green screening uses a special effects process called Chromakey (sometimes known as Colour Keying). Chromakeying works by telling digital software (in this case, Photoshop) to single out one particular colour and make it transparent, allowing another background image to show through.
Chromakeying is used in film and television for lots of different things, from making Superman fly through the sky to adding the radar image behind a weather reporter. The actor or reporter is filmed in front of a green screen, which is then chromakeyed out and replaced with the sky or radar image.
Although chromakey is often casually called 'green screening' there is no need for the screen to actually be green! Blue screens are often used as well, but in theory it could be any colour at all. The reason why green and blue screens are used most is because chromakeying relies on the digital software being able to select a colour that is starkly contrasted to all the colours that we want to keep (the actor's skin tone, hair, clothing, etc.). The bright green/blue colour used for these screens is rarely found in clothing and provides a strong contrast to skin tone and hair colour, making it easier for the chromakey software to identify the correct areas for removal.
Green screening uses a special effects process called Chromakey (sometimes known as Colour Keying). Chromakeying works by telling digital software (in this case, Photoshop) to single out one particular colour and make it transparent, allowing another background image to show through.
Chromakeying is used in film and television for lots of different things, from making Superman fly through the sky to adding the radar image behind a weather reporter. The actor or reporter is filmed in front of a green screen, which is then chromakeyed out and replaced with the sky or radar image.
Although chromakey is often casually called 'green screening' there is no need for the screen to actually be green! Blue screens are often used as well, but in theory it could be any colour at all. The reason why green and blue screens are used most is because chromakeying relies on the digital software being able to select a colour that is starkly contrasted to all the colours that we want to keep (the actor's skin tone, hair, clothing, etc.). The bright green/blue colour used for these screens is rarely found in clothing and provides a strong contrast to skin tone and hair colour, making it easier for the chromakey software to identify the correct areas for removal.
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