In today's session we had a quick briefing of how to understand the basics of chroma keying on After Effects. I have used Adobe After Effects in the past while at college and found it a long process to eventually get the hang of, therefore when it came to this session I found it familiar but I was still unsure about the steps you have to take that leads to keying the green screen.
First of all we had some problems with filling all the green screen as we didn't have one consistent colour of green because of problems with how we lit it. This was a difficult task during filming because we had to make sure the board that had the green felt thrown over it fit the whole cut out window. For it to do this the board had to be right up close to the set, which created a difficulty with how we could light it. We had to from the side behind the right board which created a shadow over the left of the of the green felt and therefore created a darker green. I think that is the reason why this session was so important, we are able to have a look at all our footage and see where our problem areas were, so that in the future I now know what to take into consideration to make the work in the edit a lot simpler.
This is roughly how we want the final edit to look like with the leaves frantically flowing in the background, along with a wooded area shot we are yet to shoot. This is to let the audience further understand that he is in a hut in the middle of the woods.