How To Build a Green Screen Chroma Key Set DIY

The lower lights in the picture above are two 250 watts (500w total) to light the green screen (one stand cost $24), the one in the upper right is the back light (kicker) and the one in the middle is my spot light – but the spot is not working well so I am going to build another softbox for this location.

I cut out sheet metal barn doors for the back light (kicker) and painted them with high heat grill paint.

Then I installed the barn doors on the 500 watt work light that cost around $14.

Here you can see my microphone and behind it is the other $24 work lights to light the other side of the green screen.

This is my home made softbox, two 500 watt work lights pointed at a window screen frame covered with parchment paper.

Front view of the softbox.

Floor plan. I still have to move some stuff around – I am not happy with it yet.

I am trying out Sony Vegas and was able to key out the green screen really well in my test, so now I need to figure out how to use the manual mode on my new Sony HDR-SR7 HD hard drive camera.

I like to thank Mark Apsolon for his great video instruction on how to do it cheap. And John Beale for his barn door example. Also Izzy for his video lighting tutorials as well. And Keith Hanshaw for his video on green screen as well.