green screen
noun
plural green screens
: a photographic technique in which a subject is filmed in front of a green background so as to allow matte (see matte entry 3 sense 2) compositing of the film with other footage
Show curators are using green screen, augmented reality and visual effects to create an illusion of a near-real event.—
Ruhail Amin
Ruhail Amin
also
: the green background
The kids recorded themselves at home, shooting videos in front of a home-made green screen, which Mrs. Hopkins sent home for their families. —Katie Morse
—often used before another noun Katie Morse green screen technology
compare blue screen
Examples of green screen in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
The most prominent application is as an alternative to a green screen.
—Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
Max is the platform that helps create the maps meteorologists point to in front of a green screen.
—Emilia David, The Verge, 11 Apr. 2024
Related The movie was largely shot in five days, with Drew and a small coterie of mostly unknown actors performing in front of a green screen.
—Abraham Josephine Riesman, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2024
Photographing the sequence was done practically over green screen for its realism.
—Daron James, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
The creative team doesn't photograph her or her friends in front of a green screen.
—Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2024
For a movie that hardly requires any special effects, so much of it feels like it might as well have been filmed in front of a green screen.
—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 8 Mar. 2024
Originally, the plan was to use a green screen to give Darby a CGI tail.
—Devan Coggan, EW.com, 6 Oct. 2023
It could be used by movie studios, which wouldn’t need to film on Alcatraz but could instead use the 3-D data with a green screen.
—Heather Knight, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
Max is the platform that helps create the maps meteorologists point to in front of a green screen.
—Emilia David, The Verge, 11 Apr. 2024
Related The movie was largely shot in five days, with Drew and a small coterie of mostly unknown actors performing in front of a green screen.
—Abraham Josephine Riesman, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2024
Photographing the sequence was done practically over green screen for its realism.
—Daron James, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
The creative team doesn't photograph her or her friends in front of a green screen.
—Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2024
For a movie that hardly requires any special effects, so much of it feels like it might as well have been filmed in front of a green screen.
—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 8 Mar. 2024
Originally, the plan was to use a green screen to give Darby a CGI tail.
—Devan Coggan, EW.com, 6 Oct. 2023
It could be used by movie studios, which wouldn’t need to film on Alcatraz but could instead use the 3-D data with a green screen.
—Heather Knight, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
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“Green screen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/green%20screen. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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