blue screen

noun

plural blue screens

1

: a photographic technique in which a subject is filmed in front of a blue background so as to allow matte (see matte entry 3 sense 2) compositing of the film with other footage

also : the blue background compare green screen

2

: blue screen of death

Many blue screens are caused by bad memory modules or corrupted disk drives.

—George Cox

Examples of blue screen in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

We were seated in front of a gigantic blue screen, where the landscape would be matted in later. — Kyle MacLachlan, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2026

Some more images show Kidman, Bullock, 62, King, 26, and Williams, 29, wearing flowing gowns while hooked onto wires, seemingly filming a scene that involves flying, in front of a blue screen. — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 9 Aug. 2026

Cormier filmed the sequence atop a surfboard rig in front of blue screen to emulate the Avatar skating across the water’s surface. — Entertainment Weekly, 3 June 2026

Fyfe Spera confessed to being a bit intimidated at first by the unique challenges of filming at that location, with no blue screen, despite living near the site and being familiar with the local waterways. — ArsTechnica, 13 May 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1965, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for blue screen

• agin
• alkene
• allene
• ameen
• amin
• arene
• athene
• baleen
• beeline
• benzene
• between
• bromine