It sounds simple enough: don’t wear green clothes on a green screen set.  And that’s absolutely true.  But there’s plenty more at play than simply keeping your Boston Celtics T-Shirt at home when you sit on a green screen set.

If you’re using a green screen for digital video production, you need to make it part of your planning for everything you set up on your virtual set.  Your clothes, your props, your logos and anything else that you want to put in front of the camera needs to be seen, and needs to be seen accurately.  Beyond that, any guests that you plan on bringing on set need to be prepped for this as well.  There’s a lot of thought that needs to go into clothing and props on a virtual set, and it should be far from an afterthought for someone launching a green screen studio.

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Designing an effective virtual set is perhaps the trickiest part of producing content on a green screen.  The more complicated you want a set to be, the more details there are on the design end, and the more potential problems you’ll encounter.

When you’re making a virtual set, you need to first clearly define what it is that you want to accomplish.  It’s very easy to get carried away and keep adding components to your set. Before you know it you’ve designed an entirely different atmosphere than you envisioned.  In many cases, it’s best to simply embrace the virtual world, and use it to your advantage.

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Lighting isn’t exactly the sexiest thing in TV studio, but it’s arguably the most important thing.  Without good lighting, all the best cameras, beautiful virtual sets and advanced green screen technology won’t save your videos from looking unprofessional.

So where do you start?  There’s an incredible range of equipment you can use to set up lighting equipment for a live video production, from a few hundred dollars to a few hundred thousand dollars.  Most people can make do on the lower end of that scale, as long as they’re doing it right.

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Once you’ve decided on using a green screen to produce your video, you’ll need to decide what to use as your background.  Should you simply paint the walls green?  Will a green sheet do the trick?  Should you buy specialty equipment for your digital video production?  Making the right choice is essential to making your video look professional, and keeping the look of your virtual set crisp and clean.

Every room and every set is different, but some of the advanced video technology can help raise the production level of your content tremendously.  One of the advanced chroma key products available is the Chromatte equipment from ReflecMedia.  This is what we use at The Pulse Network, and it works great for Chroma Key, especially in small spaces.  The chromatte is a gray surface that absorbs green light from a light ring on the cameras.  This helps reduce the impact of light bouncing off of a wall or a screen and creating a shadowing effect on people and objects in your set.

Want more?  This is Part Two of a Five Part Series on  how to use green screen in digital video production with Tyler Pyburn, Host at The Pulse Network, and @NickSaber, President of The Pulse Network.

Check out the rest of the series right here:  Part One, Part Three, and Part Four.