green screen

[ green-skreen ]

/ ˈgrin ˌskrin /

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noun Movies, Television.

an electronic special-effects system, commonly used in television weather forecast segments, that isolates and removes a static plain green background from the live foreground shot so that the background can be filled or replaced with another image or video in a composite with the foreground.

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Origin of green screen

First recorded in 1980–85

Words nearby green screen

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How to use green screen in a sentence

It also includes some fun features like an automatic video shake-fixing tool and simple green screen effects, which let you swap backdrops.
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It offers cutting-edge background replacement, removal, and blurring that’s possible with any webcam and without the need for expensive green screens or complex lighting setups.
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To create a character, Hour One uses a high-resolution 4K camera to film a person talking and making different facial expressions in front of a green screen.
People are hiring out their faces to become deepfake-style marketing clones|Will Douglas Heaven|August 27, 2021|MIT Technology Review
Not only is it more natural and better looking than ordinary location or green screen techniques, it’s faster — they’re working through 30%-50% more script pages per day, which any producer will tell you is unbelievable.
ILM shows off the new Stagecraft LED wall used for season 2 of ‘The Mandalorian’|Devin Coldewey|April 1, 2021|TechCrunch

With its green screens, choreo, and ample pet content, TikTok has been one of the best distractions this year.
10 TikTok-inspired gifts to help your friends follow trends|Purbita Saha|December 8, 2020|Popular-Science
Or they shoot it somewhere else and green screen it, and fake it, and all that.
Viggo Mortensen Talks ‘The Two Faces of January,’ Blasts Fox News and Israel’s ‘State Terrorism’|Marlow Stern|September 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We did a real halo jump in the desert at sunrise, and also mixed in some green screen.
'Godzilla' Director Gareth Edwards Says Godzilla Is a 'God' Protecting Mankind Against Climate Change|Marlow Stern|May 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
So it's always good, if you're making a green screen heavy film, to talk to the actors before you cast them about that issue.
James Cameron on How to Find Flight MH370, Climate Change, Leonardo DiCaprio, and More|Marlow Stern|April 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
On acting in front of green screen: Well, different actors have a different tolerance for green screen work.
James Cameron on How to Find Flight MH370, Climate Change, Leonardo DiCaprio, and More|Marlow Stern|April 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Weather Forecast Gets Hot and Heavy Oh, the joys of green-screen technology!
11 More Epic Anchor Flubs (Video)|The Daily Beast Video|December 24, 2013|DAILY BEAST
She used gradually to lose the sense of the phrases, but pictures began to form themselves in front of her on the green screen.
George Sand, Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings|Rene Doumic
The green screen was burst asunder, and a man peered out at the meadow and the pool and the sloping side-hill.
Moon-Face and Other Stories|Jack London
His eyes could not pierce the green screen through which the stream rippled away, but to his ears came the voice of a man.
Moon-Face and Other Stories|Jack London
He crossed the stream below the pool and disappeared through the green screen.
Moon-Face and Other Stories|Jack London
The green screen slowly rose, covering the lower portion of the broad studio window where Heron, the gem-cutter, was at work.
A Thorny Path [Per Aspera], Complete|Georg Ebers