On our Big Trip around the world, we've been taking some "recordings!"  As a very generous gift, my grandparents gave me a full greenscreen and lighting set!  After transforming our living room into a studio, I made a few recordings of ourselves and then got to work on After Effects!  Overall, it was easier than I expected--after the work on the Ninjacopter, I didn't have to figure much out. There were a few differences between this Mattework and my first successful greenscreen-ish project .  For this one, you again go to the menu on the far right and choose the "keying" drop-down menu.  This time, I dragged & dropped "color range" onto my video and used the eyedropper tool to select several different shades of green from the background. The trouble, however, was the same one I'd run across with the Ninjacopter last post: some areas, in this case parts of our hair or heads, would disappear if I got too exact--apparently we were standin...

Here it is!  Using the same technique used in Star Wars* (although a bit shakier and with less axes) I've done an actual green screening/mattework using my brother's birthday present! It looks a bit cheesy, but I'd say a lot of the trouble is that the lighting was a bit wrong.  As well, an iPhone, despite recording at Super HD (aka 2.1 Megapixels=not actually that high), isn't quite at the professional level of video cameras.  Either way, the problem was that if I'd try to take away certain shades of green, parts of Oob's Ninjacopter would also disappear.  *Star Wars: instead of moving toy ships on Popsicle sticks like everyone else, Lucasfilm had the cameras moving while the detailed ships stayed still in front of a blue screen.