We were assigned to take some test shots in-front of the green screen and take it to class for keying job. Since it was not possible to book the photography room at that time so I decided to go wild and make my own, cheap green screen!

Early in the morning I went to Jusco to search for materials. I thought I would need some kick-ass lighting equipments but I found out that it ain’t cheap. This is still not as ass-kicking enough, but the price is barely afordable at my current financial situation:

However I went for this little hand-held fluorecent lamp that costed me only RM40, which is quite okay.

At first I wanted to buy green cloth but the one I saw was RM60… *sigh* maybe next time, so eventually I bought some green papers and a roll of green tape at RM11 in total. Incredibly cheap.

I also bought a pair of gloves and some toy guns for later use:

“Illegal” stuff!! xD

C.Hau, Jz and I set up this little low-cost green screen in less than half an hour:

Here comes the actor! (me) XD

I wish I had better camera for this because I was using my cheap digital camera that can only support up to 640 x 480 resolution which is not sufficiant even for PAL DV1 format which is 720 x 576. Scalling up the video footage will make it look more awful but there wasn’t any better choice for us.

However, I believe that you don’t actually need high budget to get high quality…

…but if you do, you will get EXTREMELY good quality!! Damn. T.T

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