Mo Kamal

I know I will be buying a fabric backdrop for it's portability around the room and to take outside if needed, but I'm still thinking that because I have the room and the time, and because I have someone willing to pay the expenses, it would be silly not to try and paint and make the curved cycs, especially since I know I will want to know how it is done for use in bigger projects in the future. I really appreciate your time and advice Michael, and for almost anyone with a room like the one I described, your advice would probably be spot on, but for me I wanna get into the diy spirit and play around with some paint :)

Also another thing that made me feel paint would be better than fabric, was that I thougt that if I had the actors walking on a painted floor it would be much easier to key than if they were walking on a sheet of fabric. Am I totally off there? Even though the room is small, I was hoping to have the option of shooting people walking (with their feet in the frame).

Keeping the space flexible does sound very appealing, I dunno why but for some reason I felt that having the wall painted would give me a more durable green screen than a flimsy fabric. like I said I have no experience with all this, so I'm not arguing with what your saying but out of curiosity, why do people paint walls when you have the obvious disadvantage of not being able to reposition?

Thats exactly what i was planning to do, I was planning to use the smaller wall (15 x 11) for the background, the reason I need the green screen is to use on small indy type projects, like short films, and general practice and experimentation, before I move on to a bigger permanent place a coule of years down the road, for that purpose I think the size would do just fine. Do you agree? The reason I want to use paint and cycs and all that instead of a backdrop, is that the experimentation and building process is a big part of my goal, and because someone else is paying so to some extent money and effort are not a problem. Those were my initial thoughts but ofcourse I'm not stuck on them, i'm here for advice.

floor to ceiling = 11.5 ft the widest wall = 42.6 ft the other wall = 15.7 ft I never said the room was in my house :), it used to be a storage room owned by relatives, and now they aren't using it.

Hello, I have a spare room that I decided to use for chroma keying, I searched around quite a bit, but all the info I could find is on lighting green screens or handling the footage in post. What I really need is a guide or even some pointers on the actual process of building the set. For example what brand of paint to use, what materials would work best for the cycs and for the floors. Should I setup a grid for lighting?, if so how should it be done? I realize those are a lot of questions and that most of the time the process needs tweaking and depends on the type of shoot, but still I am hoping there is a standard setup somewhere that pretty much would be versatile enough to handle most types of shoots. Thanks :)