green screen

[green skreen]

noun

Movies, Television.

1. 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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of green screen¹

First recorded in 1980–85

Example Sentences

No CGI or green screen was used, with the "infected" actors sometimes spending hours in the make-up chair.

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He hung up a green screen and, after determining that he didn’t yet have the broadcasting chops to rant on command, started writing scripts.

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And Curry got enough off of a Draymond Green screen to make another three, this time with no one on him to tie the game with six seconds left before Reaves won it for the Lakers on a driving layup.

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Rather, it’s a green screen set up in the Los Angeles home of Drew Talbert and his wife, Andrea Kelley.

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Cuarón recalls threatening to shoot a scene inside a vehicle using a green screen if Lubezki couldn’t figure out a way to do it without cuts.

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