OT: Looking for Green Screen Room

mjroddy wrote on 7/20/2007, 8:43 AM

I live/work in Southern California's Inland Empire.
Where I work, I have a very nice green screen, but it's only good for "above the knee" shots.
My next project will need my talent to walk and even do some short running, where I will need to see his feet, so I need a room large enough to accomidate that.
My problem in this case is that it's for a personal project. No money involved. I'm willing to invest a small amount of my own money in this project, but I don't have much.
Does anybody know any ChromaKey rooms that can be rented for a super-low/no budget project?
I'm tempted to convert my garage, but it seems the cost of coating it in green would be about the same as a one-day studio rental.

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richard-courtney wrote on 7/20/2007, 10:00 AM

I am far from your home town. Do you have a community college
or university nearby? They may have a chromakey room.

p@mast3rs wrote on 7/20/2007, 10:43 AM

"I'm tempted to convert my garage, but it seems the cost of coating it in green would be about the same as a one-day studio rental."

True, however, consider if you will use it again in the future (probably will) and now it becomes an investment that pays for itself over and over again. Plus you dont have to reserve your garage r have limited time to shoot. If it were myself, Id paint the garage. Id paint my bedroom like that if the woman wouldnt mind...of course she does.

p@mast3rs wrote on 7/20/2007, 10:45 AM

oh yeah, you could also paint foam core and put them together instead of painting the garage. That way you now have mobile screens that are easy to transport and put on walls and floors.

vitalforce wrote on 7/20/2007, 11:31 AM

Wild guess, if you're near Burbank you could contact the school Video Symphony and ask if you could get a low rate to rent a green-screen room.

mjroddy wrote on 7/21/2007, 2:56 PM

Thanks very much.
I'm currently looking at large mattes from eBay. Maybe doing the ol' garage thing can work after all.

[r]Evolution wrote on 7/25/2007, 10:04 PM

Yeah... the IE Baby! I'm from OC. I did some work for The Outdoor Channel a few months back.
I was about to say Irvine Studios... but then I read where you said Low to No Budget.
I'm sure they would cut you a deal as they tend to like the Low Budget/ Non-Hollywood type of productions... but I'm not sure what a 'Deal' is to you.

They are at www.IrvineStudios.com

- I would definitely paint my garage GREEN if I could.

Steve Mann wrote on 7/26/2007, 8:11 PM

Just out of curiosity, what does a green room rent for?

rmack350 wrote on 7/27/2007, 11:28 AM

How far does the talent need to run?

You can buy seamless paper that will give you a green cove and then hang that. You could cut it and hang 2 side by side and maybe deal with the seam.

Stages would paint the floor/cove/wall green and give the crew booties to wear. Then for the next job they might repaint the stage white or black. Painting your garage green inplies that you'll be repainting it some day soon, so allow for two paint jobs.

Rob Mack