G+_George Kozi Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Just a thought: If every regular host that Skypes in would invest 20 bucks in a green curtain, and hand it behind them when they are doing the show, they could key in the TWIT logo behind them... or a Mondrian painting, or something else interesting... It would be a totally different, more grownup look... not that complicated, is it? Leo Laporte Lisa Kentzell Tom Merritt Sarah Lane etc etc etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Susan Trotter Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Don't you like watching for Sarah's cats? I love them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_George Kozi Posted September 28, 2013 Author Share Posted September 28, 2013 Lou Gagliardi Oh, I know that Tom Merritt has a real wall... but the rumor is that he isn't wearing pants when he's doing TWIT from home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_George Kozi Posted September 28, 2013 Author Share Posted September 28, 2013 yeah, the cats are nice, and would make a good addition to the social hour... but what I described in the head of the post would be something different. Not everything on TWIT has to have the same look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Tom Merritt Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Robert Warner HA! It's ACTUALLY just the fireplace in the downstairs room in my house. Not a built wall or a studio or a green screen. You can get a good look at it in the episode of KNow How shot there. http://twit.tv/show/know-how/46 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jerry Ham Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Lou Gagliardi Thanks for that. I try to watch TNT every day, but I obviously missed where Tom showed that is a real wall. I guess the lighting there always makes me think "green screen" - it just looks a little "off" to be real. It is good to know that it actually IS real. I also agree with Robert Warner that it is nice having the hosts in their natural habitat. Speaking as someone who has done work with $20 green screens - in many of their locations you would have to spend a pretty penny on lighting as well to get it to chroma key properly without dropping out parts of the hosts clothes and faces. The cheap stuff just looks cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Tom Merritt Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 It's a really interesting phenomenon that so many people look at my setup which is professionally lighted, and think it's a green screen and think LESS of it for that. Y'all aren't alone. Have we entered a world where our literacy in "professional" sets makes us classify them as less authentic. Would it be better if I had 'worse' lighting, that was still good enough to see me of course, but didn't look set up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Brian Gilbert (Ned Jaco Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 For some reason, Tom Merritt, you seem to have a green fringe. That's all I ever see that makes it look fake. Well, that and the camera seems to be set to make the back wall/fireplace look close and flat. Not that it bothers me. I only listen 96% of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Tom Merritt Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Brian Gilbert Weird. I don't notice a green fringe. There is a back light. Could that be what you're seeing? And yes the camera is set deep so we can zoom in and fill the background with the bricks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Brian Gilbert (Ned Jaco Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Tom Merritt - posted a photo here that highlights what I'm talking about. https://plus.google.com/115392047178808091534/posts/WoVCm9CEDMw - commenting should obviously continue here, though. The blacks of your jacket don't match the blacks of the background, your rim lighting makes you pop out (which is obviously the intended effect, but maybe it's too severe?), and the background seems to tend toward the green. I'm no professional, so my advice is worth about as much as those guys who tell pro ballplayers to, "Y'know..just swing or something. Try to hit the ball." That said, I think the biggest effect making the background look fake is that the white balance or something is "wrong" in the background making you look composited in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Tom Merritt Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Brian Gilbert The lighting is intentionally warm (and yellow, though I can see where you could see it as green). And the shading will be different on differnt computers of course. The front color is intentionally brighter and whiter so I don't fade into the background. This, to carry forward your analogy, is just me parroting what the lighting guy said. So sort of like "I throw that way cause the pitching coach said so" lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Brian Gilbert (Ned Jaco Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Tom Merritt Yeah, I don't mean to criticize the lighting - once I realized it was real, I got over it. These are just the things that made me think it was fake in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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