Setting up my Studio!

Okay, so it's hardly a studio, but we do have a big kitchen that would enable me to get some full body shots against a large flat wall I could cover in green. So after buying my own green material (cost £20 but it's something I know I will use again and again) and clearing out enough room, I set up what would be my own shooting screen...

When it was up, I noticed the material had a few creases, so I took steps to sort this out...

Who says housework is only for the women?!

I messed around with lighting and stuff in order to reduce shadows and glare, but by naked eye I can only guess. I needed to film something to see how well it worked, if at all. So I shot a little test footage of just me against it, pretending to walk which also helped me get a better idea of the space limitations, as I needed a two step motion in each direction for what I had in mind.

Putting this into After Effects, I had a quick play just to see how it looked...

The edges on the actual torso looked as good as I hoped, the main issues arising weren't the shadows as expected, but the actual lights I used to eliminate them! They were too bright and showing up as spots here!

Experiment worthwhile then, as I would have hate to have shot all my proper footage and been stuck with this little niggles. So when I film my actual stuff, I'll pay attention to this issues and address it accordingly.