How to Use green screen in a Sentence

green screen

noun
  • How much of it was real and not done in a studio in front of a green screen?
    Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 June 2023
  • But any time the show is out in the world, the actors might as well be standing in front of a green screen.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Even the moments shot on green screen, of which there were many, were filmed outdoors.
    Jack Dunn, Variety, 6 May 2024
  • The creative team doesn't photograph her or her friends in front of a green screen.
    Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Originally, the plan was to use a green screen to give Darby a CGI tail.
    Devan Coggan, EW.com, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Dressed in a Shrek disguise, Devine shot his driving scenes on green screen in a studio.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 9 July 2023
  • Crash, surrounded by film lights and a green screen, kept his cool as usual.
    Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The show was filmed on a soundstage in Montreal, with Nye in front of a green screen for much of production.
    Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2023
  • Kenneth was very keen for the sets to feel like a full environment that wasn’t half-built with green screens.
    Emily Zemler, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Almost all the ones that look like actual videos were done right here in our living room with a green screen.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The project was filmed in Imax on Arri cameras and lenses with no green screen, no sets and no cinema lights.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 Mar. 2023
  • For a movie that hardly requires any special effects, so much of it feels like it might as well have been filmed in front of a green screen.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 8 Mar. 2024
  • For the live-action shoot on The Peasants, around half the action was done on soundstages with big set pieces and the other half went before a green screen.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Max is the platform that helps create the maps meteorologists point to in front of a green screen.
    Emilia David, The Verge, 11 Apr. 2024
  • It could be used by movie studios, which wouldn’t need to film on Alcatraz but could instead use the 3-D data with a green screen.
    Heather Knight, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Rather than rely on visual effects and a green screen, Leitch worked with O’Hara to create the in-camera stunt sequences.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 9 Apr. 2024
  • To emote alone in front of a green screen is perhaps the archetypal scenario of a movie star playing at being one in our time.
    Hazlitt, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Productions often elect to shoot scenes in warehouses full of green screens.
    Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Behind those walls were green screens that were ultimately filled in with images of the camp’s looming towers.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Stallone also said today’s Hollywood tentpole movies shot in front of green screens aren’t his style.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Related The movie was largely shot in five days, with Drew and a small coterie of mostly unknown actors performing in front of a green screen.
    Abraham Josephine Riesman, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Driver, to his credit, can strike those types of poses in front of green screens in his sleep, but not even his broadest of broad shoulders can hold something this slapdash up.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Over a month and a half, Paino’s team set up green screen panels around the enclosure, with the keepers and trainers ensuring the giraffes were comfortable.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The show’s makers also used crowd sprites, in which actors were filmed individually on green screens and then arranged to appear as part of the crowd.
    Marc Tracy, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Well, my preference is always to shoot on location and to have as little green screen as possible.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The majority of the production was reportedly shot on a green screen.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Kardashian Barker also shared a video of herself in front of a green screen as a director called out directions.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 4 May 2024
  • Though the scene was shot underwater, Cruise was surrounded by green screens so much of the environment around him could be added in post-production.
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 7 July 2023
  • The technique requires the subjects to be bathed in red and blue LED lights, creating the color magenta, while standing in front of a traditional green screen.
    Julia Malleck, Quartz, 11 July 2023
  • The film in fact begins with the Palme d’Or winning actress playing a scene in a digital studio, pretending to escape a monster in front of a giant green screen.
    Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2023

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