Green Screen Technology - What is it?



Everyone has heard of a green screen, but how do you use it effectively in your classroom to enhance digital creations, change the setting in stop motion animation and enhance the background during digital presentations?
Green screens are used in the movies to make it look like the actors are driving across the desert, and it's used on TV to make it look like your local news announcer is standing in front of an animated weather map. It is easy and fun to use green screens in your classroom media creations. Green Screen by Do Ink is one of the easiest ways to get started.
Download Do Ink App from the app store onto your iPad. Do Ink (DK Pictures, Inc.): $3.99 (Creativity Bundle with Green Screen and Animate $8.49) (Do Ink Animate is an animation and drawing app).
Green Screens are a great way to have your students explore digital storytelling and media creation. 
Now that you understand the basics of the Green Screen App by Do Ink it is time to move on to the next step, learning some of the other great features it has to offer. Follow the link below to the Do Ink site for some more pointers on making awesome green screen videos. If you want you can save this guide as a pdf file on your computer (File- Export as a PDF) or print it to have a hard copy.
You are ready to take your Green Screen skills even further. Try using Green Screens in iMovie.

How can I use Green Screens  in my creative media makerspace? 

 These guides are part of the open source community and creative commons. They are free to download for classroom use! 
Creative Green Screen Ideas
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Green Screen Flow Chart
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Green Screen Student Challenges!

Here are a few student challenges to help you get started using green screen technologies
10 Video Project Every Teacher Should Try
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Fuglefun ways to use Green Screen!
by Dryden Art

Take this link to their weebly page:

Planning Movie Trailers with
PDF's and Green Screens

Culture Street-Teacher Lesson Plans-Green Screen Workshop

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Press the button below to access a step by step lesson plan on using the green screen in your classroom.
Text and video examples are provided.

Green Screen Resources

Basic Fabric Green Screen

​To get started it is cheapest and easiest to buy a basic muslin fabric green screen. Please not that the product here is only the fabric and the stand is not included. 

  • 1.8 x 2.8M/ 5.9 x9.2ft Background, perfect for television, video production and digital photography.
  • Rod pocket on each top edge allows to be draped or hung
  • Finished along all edges to prevent tears
  • If necessory, please iron the back surface with steam iron but not dry iron
  • A steamer works well too!
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Green Screen Paint

If you have a spare wall in your classroom or school that you can paint green (preferably with a wooden deck) painted green on  the floor as well (but not essential) you can create your own green screen. 
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There is no need to buy expensive green screen paint from an art shoppe rather the above green paint from home depot works exactly the same way
It is called Gamma Sector Green and is part of the Disney Collection. 

For a green screen, you need a low sheen paint. You'll want either a flat or flat enamel. Flat enamel has a slightly higher sheen then flat but it can be cleaned easier. If you are having kids stand on a platform with dirty cleats then the flat enamel makes more sense.

Advanced Kit

  •  1 pcs each black, white and green 6'x9' Heavy duty high key muslin backdrop
  •  1 set 7'x10' backdrop stands kit with carrying case
  •  2 pcs 7 foot fully adjustable Light stands
  • 2 pcs 33" black/silver umbrella & 2 pcs 33" translucent umbrellas
  • 2*200W(EQV)=400W 5500K Professional fluorescent Light bulbs & 2 pcs single light sockets​
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Available on amazon.ca or online as a pdf : The Green Screen Handbook

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