Back To Basics - Green Screen Test

So today was really just about, remembering how it's all done. 

And hell I had no memory of anything from last year so I'm glad I've actually done that.
I only ever set up a green screen with a whole group of people, that was during an induction last year and I didn't need it anytime afterwards, so it's probably good that I've done that now.

With a help of my friend we put up a green screen and did a little shoot of her just so I can later on bring it into After effects and play around, again just to remember how to do it all.
Overall it took us around an hour and a half to set up the greenscreen, lights, and the camera, that statistic will come in useful further down the line when it'll come to planning the shoot for my practical response. That time included the setbacks we come across during this task so in the end it'd be a lot less than that.
During setting up we had the pleasure of getting all of the lights that were broken.
So that taught me to always check those before yo get down anywhere, we were lucky we were setting this up with Matt who could just pop to the next room and get us another set of lights but if we were on location etc etc that could have been a disaster D:
Apart from that everything went smoothly and it's not as bad as I thought it'll be.
^^

Star Wars - Making of

Dennis Muren, VFX Supervisor

"The combination of the two keeps you on your toes, is this fake or is this real?"

"There's less computer graphics than people might think, we did real explosions with real ships."

Rick McCallum producer of episodes 1-3

"The engines took 12 weeks to build."

George Lucas:

"Filming the Star Wars, every time you do one it's like a new adventure... There is no guarantee that you'll be able to pull it off at all... I get to do a lot of things now that I couldn't do before which is going to be exciting in terms of writing and creating things I couldn't create before. I was always at the limit of what was possible in terms of storytelling. Things have advanced so far in the last 20 years in terms of the ability to portrait things on the screen that were literally impossible before. And then very difficult in terms of cost, but even if you take that out everything just couldn't be done regardless of how much it cost" 

Then he talked about not being able to do much with Yoda, he was always to be shot from the waist up, couldn't move more than four steps etc etc. 

"It's a great asset to have a lot of the creatures that couldn't move before being able to move."

Hudgen Christensen - Anakin

"It's really hard because you take your attention off of the dialogue and sometimes off what you're doing and just trying to remember, right I've got so many markers and I wave my hand here and that moves there and that's really supposed to be a she and he's supposed to be something else and that's an alien. You've got so many more variables to play with. That's distracting. You sometimes lose your place."

Ewan McGregor

"It's really hard work, it's difficult to make that believable, I don't know if I have."

"It's difficult but they say it works, and it makes it worth while when you see a finished product."

Natalie Portman

"It's like being a little kid in a cartoon box, and thinking it's a spaceship."

Christopher Lee

"It's magic of course."