A favorite assignment among all of the ones I give at SC State is the "Where I Want To Be" project. It involves using chromakey (or chroma key), a technology technique also commonly called green screen. The effect is seen all the time on television weather reports.
Here are my two latest "green screen" photography creations, using Adobe Premiere Pro for the process that is pretty easy to achieve if you follow these steps. It can also be done with video clips.
This a photo I took a few years ago on the Caribbean island of Aruba.
I chose it, one, because it has space on the lower right side to insert an image of yours truly.
And, two, I really want to go back to Aruba someday! It's so beautiful there!
I always look forward to seeing what the students in my Electronic (Digital) Media Productions II class come up with in the project I assign them dealing with chromakey or green screen technology.
The idea is to blend two images, one of themselves photographed with a green background (in our TV studio, which has green walls for this very purpose) and then an image they find with the theme of "Where I Want To Be." This can be anything and everything, from dream jobs and vacations to celebrity encounters and other life magic moments.
This is a "Five Questions" segment my students are doing in my Advanced Television and Production and Editing class here at South Carolina State University.
The purpose of this assignment is to build skills and experience with shooting, editing and producing. The students also get to host and be a guest. So there are really three different aspects for them to experience.
There is a second part to this "Five Questions" assignment. That is to insert a background image (photo or video) into the interview. This is why it is shot in our TV studio against the green wall. Chromakey is now possible- the layering or compositing of different visual elements.
I used this "Five Questions" jpeg (first created on PowerPoint) to be seen behind Jordan and Jaylaan.
I really like the job done in this "Five Questions" by Kiiyah Stokes- Jones (producer/videographer/editor), Lynn McGrier (host) and Alexis Rabb (guest). Substantive topics and nicely put together by the talented Kiiyah!
I also want to highlight the job Alexis did with producing her video, with Kiiyah as host and Lynn as the guest. Lynn's audio was low but in editing Alexis was able to boost her level. I also like the writing and use of embedded links by Alexis.
My "Advanced Television Production and Editing" students are shooting and editing a little assignment I call "Five Questions." In teams, the students take turns interviewing, being interviewed and shooting the brief Q&A segments.
