Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The filmmaking technique of shooting foreground action against an evenly-lit monochromatic background for the purpose of removing the background from the scene and replacing it with a difference image or scene.
- n. The visual effect resulting from this technique as well as the colored screen itself, especially blue.
- n. An error screen displayed by some operating systems, most notably Microsoft Windows, after encountering a critical system error which can cause the system to shut down, to prevent damage to system hardware.
- v. To experience a stop error and shut down to prevent damage to system hardware.
Examples
“Not all of this flash-bang-computer generated backdrops and sets that make the actors seem lifeless because they are infront of freaggin bluescreen.”
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“Watching some recent movies, it occurred to me that the use of "bluescreen" effects -- having characters play their scenes in front of a blank screen and then adding in the background digitally -- may prove to be to today's movies what rear projection was to movies from the '30s through the '60s: something that almost instantly dates a movie and makes it look kind of cheesy.”
“Robert's laptop has a "bluescreen" issue, which is not good.”
“I had a crash to bluescreen on my Win7 64-bit Lenovo Laptop a couple of minutes after starting this. helge”
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“Anyway, the bluescreen took me by complete surprise and I didn't catch any info.”
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“Put the disc in, installed, windows 7 booted up, logged in ..... crash ... bluescreen. wtf?”
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“Over the course of two months, Feiner shot them on a bluescreen studio in his basement and enhanced them with CGI effects for running, jumping or facial expressions.”
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“Here I've completely re-made the first few shots using the original bluescreen footage - took a few nights but the clip you are now watching is closer to how the film appeared in my head.”
“The initial plan was to use a friend's urban jungle as a location but unfortunately at quite short notice this wasn't possible so I came up with an utterly foolhardy alternative - shoot the whole thing on bluescreen and leave myself to post-produce everything Sky Captain style for the rest of the weekend, so it's been a race against the clock, particularly with the render time required for every scene.”
“The results were shockingly poor - looking back the decision to shoot everything on bluescreen & model all the locations in Blender within the 48 hours was a bit ambitious and should have rung a few alarm bells, and although the live shoot went smoothly post-production was completely rushed.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bluescreen’.
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Special Effects
Trick lighting, mirrors, and other ways to create illusions.
yellowscreen, sodium vapor process, bluescreen, optical effect, mechanical effect, Schüfftan process, optical printing, matte, chroma keying, traveling matte, greenscreen, glass shot and 16 more...
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gangerh Also known as chroma-key, is filming against a blue or green background so that the background can then be replaced by another image. May 13, 2008