Lighting with flourecents for green screen.

[Nick Centera]

Hey, at my school we are getting some new fluorescent banks for our green screen. We are using work lamp and not professional banks, I know it's not that good, but it is all we can get for our budget. I know that fluorescents give off a different color so I was wondering if there is a gel we can put on the banks to help with the color correction and give a better green color to the green screen. Thanks a lot.

[Patrick Lavalley]

Depending on the fixtures you may be able to buy the special chroma green tubes from Kino Flo. Other than that, I would imagine adding plus green might be the ticket?

[Nick Centera]

Can you put Kino Flo bulbs into a regular work light type bank?

[Chris Keth]

Can you put Kino Flo bulbs into a regular work light type bank?

 

Yup. They get put into practical overheads all the time.

[Patrick Lavalley]

From what I've seen, those green tubes do a really excellent job of lighting up a green screen.

[Matthew Parnell]

The supergreens are great, just be sure to cut spill onto the foreground off them.

[Chad Stockfleth]

The supergreens are cool, but not necessary. You can get perfectly fine keys using tungsten balanced kino's. Too, you can use them for other applications.