As I have never used Green Screen before I was rather excited to start the process, I set up the velcro screen in a seminar room which had no natural light, enabling me to control the light and had a large another scope for the camera to film the whole body of my actors, Sarah & Adam. Using a traditional male/female dynamic I did not prep my actors as I wanted their actions of be spontaneous and unrehearsed. Directing the actors to move naturally in the space individually, adjusting their clothes as if in a bedroom, crossing their arms, moving back and forth. Interacting together Sarah & Adam embraced each other and detached from one another, I asked them to stand behind each other and look at the camera, their actions wavered from aggressive to humorous but at all time they acted rather disjointed. I wanted my actors to create basic movements enabling me to layer and editing their actions to create a narrative that will build in tension.
The joys of Green Screen allow you to alter your background, experiments into background ideas (colour, scale, simple, high colour, light, historical, none) I can have my actors on a blank white space or on top of a mountain range. This control works well within my works context, as I act as the role of the Master, I choose where the actors are placed, whether they interact with one another and also create my own narrative.
As part of my assessment I showed a short narrative projected into a Dollshouse( as shown), I wanted to test how the projection worked in the space. There were some issues with background as the space does not fit the Dollshouse room for scale (an issue I will address as I experiment further with my footage). Overall the experience of Green Screen has been a very positive one and I look forward to create a world of my own and act as a creator of my very own Dollshouse.
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