Green Screen Video Techniques

These ideas and techniques are the skills and ideas of Jen Leban. Check out her website for more!


Replace the face!

You can use Google Draw or Google Slides to insert an image file, and then use the "curve" line tool to create an enclosed shape (filled in with green!) wherever you want to create a window for your face!



The "curve" line tool in Google Draw + Slides allows you to click around an object to create irregular enclosed shapes filled with color.


The video of you speaking goes UNDER the still image. Use the color keying option in the clip editor to remove the green and make it transparent. Now you can be RBG, too!

Hold Me Closer Tiny Leban

Any Green Covering Will Do!

In this clip, I have a hallway in the school painted green (thanks, PTA!) specifically for green screen projects. I used green fabric to cover the floor, so that I would be surrounded by green, and then when I keyed the green out, I had a full standing figure that appeared to "float" wherever I placed it. I also shrunk down the top clip in order to exaggerate the size difference.

OTHER GREEN OPTIONS:

  • Pop-up green screen (check Amazon)

  • Tablecloths (check the dollar store)

  • Painted panels, like foamcore, plywood, styrofoam, or cardboard

  • Green fabric by the yard from the fabric store

  • Green bedsheet