Every month on the second Tuesday Groovy hosts the San Diego Filmmakers group in our Burbank Sound Stage. It just so happened that the subject matter of last nights meeting had to do with properly lighting a green screen…
hmm.. coincidence or just wonderful planning on the part of an amazing Stage Manager?
Ok.. It is coincidence.
Local Director of Photography Michael Brueggemeyer took us through a lesson about green screening and the studio! We spent the entire day setting up for the event. For me it was a lesson in patience because we were running a line from an HD signal down to SD for the Anycast and then back up to component RGB for the monitors. With a little trial and error (mostly error) we managed to get it working though. 
Usually when San Diego Filmmakers comes in we set up chairs and the group sits right on the studio floor. But for Michael’s presentation he wanted to show exactly what it may look like on a working set. So instead we had people stand in the balcony and surrounding floor while Michael gave the demo. My favorite part was handing out the blue booties for the people who wanted to walk on the stage.
