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

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

green screen technology

compare blue screen

Examples of green screen in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web There were lots of green screens and gray screens and tennis balls on sticks and wind machines. —

Lynette Rice, Deadline, 14 July 2024 The camp has used an actual production studio in the last couple of years so that campers have access to green screens, many different types of cameras, and a menagerie of props and costumes. —

Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 13 June 2024 The building features a green screen studio, a full XR production and development studio, and a volumetric capture studio that creates full three- dimensional renderings for faculty and student initiatives. —

Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024 This is probably going to be a lot of green screen. —

Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2024 See all Example Sentences for green screen

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