Existence in a green screen studio can be quite exciting… if you are not one of the cameramen, that is. It can be so dull and monotonous to keep fixing and organizing the lighting as well as the rest of the apparatus that is in the studio. However, for us who simply see the completed film, life inside the studio (especially one which boasts of the very best quality green screens) is very fascinating. One wonders how it is possible to capture on movie an individual being chased by a ferocious tiger or something a whole lot worse.

There are usually images in newspapers and magazines of football players in the course of a game. Sometimes, a picture comes out with a particular player whose facial expression is captured vividly while doing his play. It’s quite possible that this particular photograph was actually captured in the confines of the green screen studio and not on the football field. A picture of the football match in progress is superimposed over the green screen which can serve as the background in the studio. The football player is requested to stand in front of the screen, a look of ecstasy on his face, to duplicate that  instant when he made that brilliant pass in the course of an important league match versus a rival team.

Of course, not all images are done on the green screen studio. There are tons of photographers who risk their life and limb to record the live action on film. These are the folks who belong to an entirely different breed. Their love for the art of photography usually takes them to places that they have never gone to before. Additionally,it gets them involved with circumstances that may sometimes even cost them their life. For example, award winning photographers do not earn honours based on photos that are shot in a green screen studio. Instead, these people win prizes according to pictures taken out in the real world without the special effects which are conveniently and very easily developed employing a green screen studio.

In the same way, there are lots of photo pros who feel that it is important to get wild animals inside their natural environment, endangering their own lives in the process. A classic example of this is the unfortunate story of Steve Irwin, who ended up being fatally attacked by a stingray while away filming in the ocean. There isn’t any chance of this type of thing occurring inside a green screen studio; except if, somebody is attempting to make a film on Irwin, wherein the final moments of the ‘croc hunter’, as Steve Irwin was more popularly named, has to be reenacted.

To be able to do that, the actor will be asked to do all of the moves and facial expressions that Irwin would have done in his last moments, but this time around against the background of a green screen studio. Once this is achieved, the superimposing of the underwater battle between the stingray and the dying Irwin would be executed via film editing.  Compositing techniques using the most up-to-date computer software are available for the film business nowadays.