ABSTRACT
Professional compositors who spend their days in dark rooms trying to create new realities out of unrelated background plates and color screen shots have many horror stories. No matter how clear they have been with the other people involved in the production, it is almost always the case that one or more shots has violated a basic rule of production for color keying, either in lighting or design, in costuming, or simply in poor execution. The director, producer, and director of photography —indeed all the production staff—must understand that color-based compositing is a nasty tightrope of compromises that must be respected in every shot. The chapter explains the difficulties and challenges of greenscreen compositing and made very clear that there could be no green or green tones in any of the costumes of the characters involved in the greenscreen shots.
