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Green Screen...It’s Magical!

Janet Corder

Green Screen...It’sMagical!Janet Corder

What Do You Know About Green Screen?

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Green Screen Information

How can you make your lessons more meaningful? How can your students use Green Screen to demonstrate their learning? Using Green Screen in the classroom is easy, economical, and appropriate for all grade levels and subject areas!

If your students are studying the Pyramids of Egypt, they can create a video report with the Pyramids in the background. What about a weather report from the banks of the Nile River or on top of Mt. Everest? The possibilities are endless, so let's get started!


Great Information:

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Green Screen and Hollywood

Hollywood has been using green screen technology for years to make movies and television shows. Here are a few examples. Note: Not all images are classroom-appropriate for all ages.

What Happens When You Wear Green

Below is an example of a woman wearing a green dress in a green screen project. Your students might be able to think of advertisements, movies or TV shows that use the same technique. (Photo by Farzana Cassim)
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  • Here's what happens when a Meteorologist wears green! Check out these videos here and here.

Green Screen Student & Teacher Examples

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Green Screen with Play-Doh and Green Paint

Green Play-Doh and a creative imagination work well together in green screen projects!

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Dryden Elementary Art Website

Mrs. Fuglestad, the art teacher at Dryden, has an incredible website that includes tons of ideas for using green screen. Yes, it is an elementary site, but students of all ages would enjoy many of her lessons. She shares the downloads for the lessons, step-by-step directions, and student examples. View her STEAM Art Lessons and iPad Ideas for green screen activities.

Follow Mrs. Fuglestad for great ideas! @TriciaFuglestad


Examples:

  • The Snow Globe Effect is a fun way to teach transparency, animation, and layering with green screen. The downloadable file makes this project easy to complete!
  • Directions, downloadable files, and examples can be found here.
  • Moving Postcards use a Harry Potter-styled effect to create a moving postcard. Check out the post here.
  • Veggie Tales use the Do Ink Animation app to add eyes and mouths on objects and then make them talk.
  • Custom Holograms

Ideas to try

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Flying an Airplane

Flying a cardboard airplane

www.pinterest.com/pin/81205599504175461/

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Put Your Face on Anything!

Cut out an oval from green cardstock and use it when you are filming. Now you can place your head on an astronaut's body, become an animal, etc. Let your imagination run wild!

twitter.com/mrsleban/status/862329361751576580

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Riding a Camel

MT @Whitwood2WEDG: What are we doing? Riding a camel through the Egyptian desert of course! @DoInkTweets pic.twitter.com/RLSnLDFrTe #doink
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Pizza Box Green Screen

Use the green stir sticks from Starbucks or green straws for your props.

The box also works as a great storage box for your small green screen props.

www.pinterest.com/pin/420875527660084718/

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Pocket Green Screen

Use a mint tin box as your green screen.

www.instructables.com/id/Pocket-Green-Screen/

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Diorama/Fairy Garden for Background

Use a student-created diorama or fairy garden as the background image.

twitter.com/Kdmiller4/status/861373859743899650

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QR Codes for Library Books

@smalchow: 3rd graders @PCSD_HC used @DoInkTweets to do book recommendations. We posted to @Seesaw, printed QR codes and are displaying QRs in the library for peers. #WantToReadAGoodBook #RaiderStrong #doink #greenscreen
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Change the Ultra Key Settings

If your character has the same color of clothes as your background, change the Ultra Key (green screen) options. Check out this tweet from @PJigles for directions.
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Recreating Civil War Photographs

@ed_schreiber: 8th graders in Mr. Curcurio’s class using the green screen and @DoInkTweets to recreate civil war photographs. @fdlschools #doink #greenscreen

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Make Yourself into an Ordered Pair (Graphing)

5 Quick Projects That Make Use of Green Screen From Education Rickshaw

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Signing the Weather Report

Used the Green Screen to deliver a signed weather report! @DoInkTweets I created Weather & Family BSL Task Cards using iPhone weather screenshots and QR Codes that link to tutorial videos!

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Pizza Box Creations

Getting creative with our green screen pizza box
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Convert Older Tripods

@jdgreen475: Perfect Recycling! Older unused tripods bought for VHS cameras, now repurposed with a $7.99 Amazon I-Pad Tripod Mount. Finally better recording by 2nd Graders. No bouncy people in videos.
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"Carried Away" Learning About Butterflies

@bhopteacher: Learning about butterflies in first grade!
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A green screen moveable curtain

Such an amazing idea!

@Tabayoyon25

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Have an old roll-up map?

Paint an old roll-up map green!
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Book Review

Click here to watch the video.
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Green Screen with Green Paint

Take a video of students painting with green paint and use a green screen app to make it look like they were painting a picture! See it in action here.
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Life is Like a Box of Chocolates

What a fun project for Valentine's Day from @jessmsherman!
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Pete the Cat

from @kkwick

https://twitter.com/DoInkTweets/status/1052243274713436160

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Green Cubes from Dollar Tree

We love Dollar Tree! This post from

goodwinnovate on Instagram shows how she uses the cubes for portable green screens.

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DIY Green Screen Sunglasses

Students wrote and shared about their Happy Place in this tweet.
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Green or Blue Food Coloring

Watch the fireworks in this video!
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Green Screen Ghosts

Check out these green screen ghosts from

Goodwinnovate- Anita Goodwin

@amsgoodwin

Ideas for Green Screen Backgrounds

  • Inexpensive bright green tablecloths from party or discount stores
  • Bright green fabric or bulletin board paper
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Shopping Tips

  • Disposable Green Plastic Tablecloths - Don't pay more than $1.00 for them! Available at many different stores in the party section.
  • Green Screen Backdrop - The bigger the better! Amazon
  • Green Fabric by the Yard - Walmart seems to have the best price
  • Green Leggings - Cut in half to cover your arms to use with puppets - Walmart in the ladies department
  • Green Straws - Starbucks
  • Green Garden Gloves - Dollar Tree, Walmart, etc.
  • Maskimals - available at Walmart for $19.98

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Remove the Background from an Image or Video

Do you need to remove the background on your latest selfie? Remove.bg does the trick! It currently only works with pictures that have people in them. Photo Scissors is another site that also removes the background from photos.


Unscreen.com - This site can be used to easily remove the background from short videos and convert them to a .gif. Add these .gifs to your Slides, google docs, etc. to engage your students!

Tutorial: bit.ly/tutorialunscreen


Free & Easy Green Screen Editing – How to Make Transparent Backgrounds by Larissa ARadj

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Cue Prompter

CuePrompter is a free online teleprompter. Write or cut and paste your script in the teleprompter window. You can change the font size, colors, and prompter window.

Green Screen on Chromebooks

WeVideo works well on Chromebooks. See the WeVideo information under Green Screen Software and Apps for tutorials.

Free Green Screen Solution for Chromebooks - This blog post by TCEA details a Kapwing, a tool that will work with Chromebooks.
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How to Find Free Images and Stock Videos for Classroom Projects

]You and your students can always use pictures and videos from your camera or device, but you might not always be able to find what you need. The following are resources for images that can be used by you and your students. Always check the license agreement when using these in projects.


Reverse Image Search:

Not sure where an image came from? Try a Reverse Image Search. Upload an image and the search engine will find the original image source.


Tips for Searching:

  • Search for green screen background
  • Search for Zoom background
  • If you are finding backgrounds on Google or social media sites, be aware of the copyright restrictions.

Green Screen Software and Apps

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Veescope Live

The free version of Veescope Live can be downloaded here.
Veescope Live Full is available for $2.99 here.

Tutorials:
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WeVideo

WeVideo has a green screen component and it will work on Chromebooks. The cost varies depending on the number of licenses that are needed. Click here to see the pricing structure for education. Click here for a WeVideo green screen tutorial.


Tutorials:

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TouchCast Studio

Create videos on your iPad using TouchCast with a built-in Green Screen, Teleprompter, Whiteboard, and vApp (Video Apps).


Tutorials:

Animation & Drawing by Do Ink

The Green Screen Animation & Drawing App allows students and teachers to create advanced animations. These can then be imported onto the top layer of the Do Ink Green Screen project. The drawing editor can be used to create vector artwork and frame-by-frame (flipbook) animations. The composition editor can be used to combine your artwork and props from the Do Ink prop library into more detailed scenes.


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Connect with Janet

Janet Corder
Email: janet.corder@gmail.com
Twitter: @corderj