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
  • There were lots of green screens and gray screens and tennis balls on sticks and wind machines.
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 14 July 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
  • That’s difficult and a bit scary, acting across a green screen to yourself.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 16 July 2024
  • 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
  • There’s no nicks or cuts from flying debris, just pretty faces pretending not to see the green screens all around them.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 18 July 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
  • Creators can only generate backgrounds, and add them to their videos through a green screen feature called Dream Screen.
    Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 18 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • The backgrounds range from an office to a green screen to a TV wall that can be digitally animated.
    Axios, 7 Aug. 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

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