Green screens in TV shows...

[Aragorn]

You can still tell in a lot of shows today that they're not actually out on the streets driving. Sitcoms don't even try to hide it, but a show like Moonlight didn't really do a good job of it either. I'm trying to remember the name of a show I just watched where the driving effects weren't 100% effective. Human Target maybe. Or Burn Notice.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Even Corner Gas uses greenscreen on occasion (usually in scenes set around Oscar and Emma's house). I didn't expect that, as that's one of the least effects-heavy shows I've seen.

Example: [yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5iddX2adQU[/yt]

 

[Snaploud]

It's just a matter of time until actors are required to wear green clothing and face-masks...

 

[Christopher]

It's just a matter of time until actors are required to wear green clothing and face-masks...

Some of them already do. That's how invisible-man effects are done these days, for example.

 

[Arrqh]

Here is a wikipedia article about faked photographs from the Israeli-Lebanon War a few years ago. Adnan Hajj altered photos and Reuters published them. It took some blogger in his pajamas to point it out. Reuters did not detect the "mistake" themselves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnan_Hajj_photographs_controversy

HUGE difference between Photoshopping a lowres photo and doing several minutes of production quality footage at 1080p.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Here is a wikipedia article about faked photographs from the Israeli-Lebanon War a few years ago. Adnan Hajj altered photos and Reuters published them. It took some blogger in his pajamas to point it out. Reuters did not detect the "mistake" themselves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnan_Hajj_photographs_controversy

HUGE difference between Photoshopping a lowres photo and doing several minutes of production quality footage at 1080p.

A lot of news is not from 1080p sources, hell I see them show clips from Youtube sometimes. If TV can do it on a weekly basis I don't know why it would be beyond them if they were so inclined. I know which "news" organization I would suspect first.

 

[Trekker4747]

None of that is really to surprising, but the end results all look good. Well, mostly. I recall some terrible green-screen mattes in Heroes during S2 and green-screen backgrounds still have a "quality" to them at times that makes them look unreal.

Still, overall, if it looks good I'm OK with it.

 

[Arrqh]

A lot of news is not from 1080p sources, hell I see them show clips from Youtube sometimes. If TV can do it on a weekly basis I don't know why it would be beyond them if they were so inclined. I know which "news" organization I would suspect first.

But... that's what the thread is about. Production quality CG and comping. Right?

And anyway, it's not on a weekly basis. Depending on the complexity and number of shots, episodes will take weeks to complete and several can be in production at a time.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

It's just a matter of time until actors are required to wear green clothing and face-masks...

Some of them already do. That's how invisible-man effects are done these days, for example.

And it was how Gary Sinise appeared legless in Forrest Gump. Although in his case it was blue leggings he wore.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Here is a wikipedia article about faked photographs from the Israeli-Lebanon War a few years ago. Adnan Hajj altered photos and Reuters published them. It took some blogger in his pajamas to point it out. Reuters did not detect the "mistake" themselves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnan_Hajj_photographs_controversy

How the fuck did *that* fool anybody?

 

[Mike Farley]

There was some really lousy greenscreen work on CSI Miami last night.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Here is a wikipedia article about faked photographs from the Israeli-Lebanon War a few years ago. Adnan Hajj altered photos and Reuters published them. It took some blogger in his pajamas to point it out. Reuters did not detect the "mistake" themselves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnan_Hajj_photographs_controversy

How the fuck did *that* fool anybody?

As a rule, people are gullible and not very bright?

 

[John Picard]

Here is a wikipedia article about faked photographs from the Israeli-Lebanon War a few years ago. Adnan Hajj altered photos and Reuters published them. It took some blogger in his pajamas to point it out. Reuters did not detect the "mistake" themselves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnan_Hajj_photographs_controversy

How the fuck did *that* fool anybody?

As a rule, people are gullible and not very bright?

The news media, in general, seems to have forgotten the practice of fact checking and ethics in reporting. A great example of which is the disgraced reporter Jayson Blair.

 

[Emher]

I pretty much know of all of these practices, and few surprised me. But the ones that did surprise me where the ones that looked so good I hadn't thought about it. John Adams I figured they'd done something similar in a few places, but I for some reason did not think about the halfway done buildings

 

[Amaris]

I didn't know any of that was green screened. I guess I've always thought in more of a hands on mindset and figured some of it was CGI, but 3/4 to the entire scene green screened? Wow! I'm impressed!