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Insider tips on shooting green screen

Justin Hunt, our long suffering director of photography for our HitFilm footage has years of experience of green screen to share with you here.

Justin Hunt, the director of photography for our Guerrilla Diary sections, has been shooting green screens for years. In this video he shares some of his tips with us.

To Justin, it’s essential that the back screen is lit separately from the foreground. Sometimes that’s not as easy as it sounds.

Preparation for shooting a green screen is always important, it’s really not worth rushing because you’ll pay for it later with more time in front of your computer screen, tweaking at pixels, and cursing whoever shot your footage!

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