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
