Harlem Shake with Green Screen

So the Harlem Shake craze arrives and I felt like I had to make a video of it as well.
My son was pestering me to make one but it's just the two of us so I thought I better make something that stands out.
What better than if I'm in the air somehow - perhaps standing on the top of a swingset?

Green screen to the rescue.
I filmed three segments of video for this:

The two of us for the opening segment.

My son doing his Harlem Shake bit while on the swings.

Me in front of a green screen doing my harlem shake bit.

The swingset portion was filmed on a Sunday, but it was so windy that day (38mph gusts!) I couldn't get the green screen to stay up.  So the green screen part I filmed on the following Tuesday at approximately the same time of day so that the shadows would fall in roughly the same area as the first day of filming.

I think if I had to do this again I would drape the green screen over the wooden plank - it probably would have then been easier to blend the scenes together in Pinnacle.

What I used for green screen: the small one was included with the Pinnacle Software package bundle, and the larger one is a green flat sheet that came with a bedding set.  As it turns out the bed sheet is just the right shade of green for this.  And it was a really good deal from Walmart.

I only wish they still sold it - I'd buy a few more packages if that were the case.

Finished product.


Here's a link to the YouTube video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PGFa2ttASs