Today we're gonna make some stuff with this...
and with this.
Let's get Undone
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♪ Gerald Undone ♪
♪ He's crazy ♪
Hello, Legion! I'm Gerald Undone and today,
I'm gonna attempt to make a portable pop-up
green screen kind of thing.
Now, I've seen a lot of demos on YouTube
of how to make green screens that you, like,
staple to your wall or you use like a curtain hanger
or something like that.
But I haven't seen a lot of how you can make
a green screen on the cheap that you can just pop up
behind you without having to fuckin' recreate
your whole room.
So that's we're gonna try and do today,
and we're gonna do a little bit of a montage with it!
'Cause montages are sweet, right?
So what we're going to be using is--
I got this at a dollar store.
It is a plastic event tablecloth.
So you know those like, cheap plastic tablecloths
you throw on tables, and people put their like,
Dixie Cups and stuff on them?
Anyway, this one's 54 inches by 108 inches.
Which I'm hoping should be good enough
because my goal is just to try to make one kind of just...
...behind me in this area here, you know?
Uh... yeah. So we got that, and we got some PVC pipe
cut into a couple lengths.
Like six foots and four foots, and a couple joiners.
These guys. It's kind of like... you know?
Lego it together or whatever.
All right! Let's get green-screen montage-in'.
Normally, I put links in the description,
but I think most of the stuff is the stuff
you just find at your local Home Depot
or something like that.
So there's not really whole much to recommend.
This is a cheap project.
I think overall I spent under $20 on supplies.
But I think you could probably squeak out...
you know, maybe ten dollars or less
if you're really conservative.
All right, let's get to it!
Okay, so the first thing I'm going to do is,
I'm going to make like feet supports,
so that when we put the thing into it,
it'll be able to hold itself up.
So, I'm going to get a drill bit here.
[tools clanking]
Let's see... 1 inch.
I'm using a 3/4 inch PVC,
so I think a 1 inch bit should be good.
And this is so that we can put the PVC pipe
down into these for support.
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[drill whirring]
[low slo-motion voice] Oh yeah!
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Here we go.
[wood clattering]
Nice!
So now we've got our feet.
So you can like... yeah?
[wood clanking]
Oh, jeez!
[laughing]
Okay. Perfect. Now.
We'll take... these little angle pieces,
pop 'em on top, and...
Perfect.
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So quick update.
When I tried to unwrap this tablecloth
it gets really, really pale and really see-through.
So, I went to a different dollar store,
and I picked up three more darker ones.
These things are really cheap at this other dollar store.
They're like, I dunno, a dollar I guess.
So hopefully with these three and maybe with the other one,
we can get it thick enough that uh...
it'll be worthwhile.
Because you don't want it to be so thin,
because if you-- if you ever want to shine a light on it
to get your exposure right and it's translucent,
it's not gonna be green. So that's no good.
All right, let's get back to it!
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So the advantage of building a frame
like this is that you can use anything that you want.
You could put a blanket over it, a curtain,
some old bed sheet,
anything that's green you could hang over it
and you're always going to have the frame.
And you can even change the colour.
If you wanted to do like a white backdrop
for shooting product, or putting yourself against white.
Having the frame is always going to be handy.
I put it into wood like you saw,
but, you could also use like, weights.
You know, like weights have the hole in it
for putting them on the dumbbell or the barbell?
Well you could stick the PVC pipe inside the weight
and just attach it with a little bit of tape. Anyway.
Okay, so now I'm just gonna put a cross beam in.
[drill whirring]
[drill pulsing]
[plastic whooshing]
So there we go!
Green screen.
If I had one complaint to make,
it would just be that this material,
this plastic tablecloth material, is a bit static-y.
Like, uh, statically charged.
And I'm not in love with that.
So I'm going to see if there's some way to de-static-ify it.
But other than that, for the cost I'm pretty happy with it.
I mean look at the size of this thing.
You can make it as big as you wanted.
This was two--
I used two of those one dollar tablecloths
looped over itself about ten dollars in PVC pipe,
and I bought a 2x4 for three dollars.
And uh... I put a couple screws in.
You don't have two by fours, you don't have a drill,
all these other pieces connect.
And you can just tape it to something on the floor
to give it some stability.
Pretty happy with it.
Now let's set it up and see how it performs.
All right guys, here we go.
I'm finished and I am sitting in front of the green screen.
So now I can put things on it. Like this.
Or this. Or maybe even that. Yeah. I like that better.
Anyway that was my Saturday afternoon project.
I hope you'd like this video.
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Let me know in the comments what you think of this idea.
If you're gonna try it yourself, if you've got
some other projects you want me to tackle
or if you've ever done anything like this yourself,
or what you use for your own green screen, et cetera.
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Alright...I'm done
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