(3) The vinyl floor had already been used in many shots and was covered with dirty footprints that discolored the surface. (2) The table was too wide and stuck out, so we grabbed a different color of turquoise soundproofing foam to hide the table. In the background you can see: (1) three blue registration marks that we needed for angle matching, since the camera wasn’t perpendicular to the ground. We were in a room with 8-foot ceilings, so the camera was only about 6 feet above her on a jib arm. We couldn’t get the screen evenly lit because of the tight distances. So it was dumping tons of green light on her. To begin with, the background was only about two feet behind the actor. Even when we were shooting it, I thought it was probably a lost cause, because we violated every rule in the book for a clean greenscreen shot. A fan just below the table wildly blows her hair and costume as she flails her arms and screams. To shoot this scene, we supported the actor on a table over a green-painted vinyl floor. In this scene, the character, Rox Embo, is falling from a tall building to the street below.

In fact, I thought this shot was destined for thecutting room floor – until I used it to test Primatte Keyer 4. The film has dozens of greenscreen shots, but this is one of the most difficult shots to key. This is actor Kat Carney from a scene in Second Person, now in post-production. Primatte Keyer 4 is my new favorite tool.

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