Lighting diagram for a green screen
Two jobs that must not touch: light the screen evenly, then light the subject like the plate you are keying into. The screen gets a pair of wide soft sources at matching distance and level, and the meter walks the surface until it reads flat. The subject stands as far off the screen as the room allows, so the spill dies and the rim can do its work: nothing sells a key like a clean edge. The rim's colour comes from the destination plate, and that decision belongs in prep, on this drawing, not in the grade.
- Presenterat 4.0, 3.3 m3m off the screen
- A camat 4.0, 5.2 m
- Screen Lat 1.9, 1.2 m110°5600K50%Even wash, meter it
- Screen Rat 6.1, 1.2 m110°5600K50%Match Screen L
- Keyat 2.4, 4.3 m50°5600KMatch the plate's key side
- Rimat 5.6, 2.3 m30°5600K70%The edge that sells the key
- Screen L · Even wash, meter it
- Screen R · Match Screen L
- Key · Match the plate's key side
- Rim · The edge that sells the key
- Softbox · from the lighting plans
- Chroma green, 4m · Green screen
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In a production, this plan sits next to the shots it lights, and the packing list above lands on the gear list for the day.