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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.

Chroma green, 4mPresenter50mmA cam2.4 mScreen L2.4 mScreen R2.2 m · SBKey2.5 mRim1 m
  • Presenter· 3m off the screen4.0 m × 3.3 m
  • A cam4.0 m × 5.2 m
  • Screen L110°5600K50%· Even wash, meter it1.9 m × 1.2 m
  • Screen R110°5600K50%· Match Screen L6.1 m × 1.2 m
  • Key50°5600K· Match the plate's key side2.4 m × 4.3 m
  • Rim30°5600K70%· The edge that sells the key5.6 m × 2.3 m

The packing list this plan writes

  • Screen L · Even wash, meter itlighting
  • Screen R · Match Screen Llighting
  • Key · Match the plate's key sidelighting
  • Rim · The edge that sells the keylighting
  • Softbox · from the lighting plansgrip
  • Chroma green, 4m · Green screengrip