BLUE SCREEN Definition & Meaning

blue screen

[ bloo skreen ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Movies, Television.

an electronic special-effects system that isolates and removes a static plain blue background from the live foreground shot so that the background can be filled or replaced with another image or video in a composite with the foreground.

blue screen

noun

a special effects film technique involving filming actors against a blue screen on which effects such as computerized graphics can be added later and integrated into a single sequence

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Origin of blue screen¹

First recorded in 1965–70

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“The reason that CG and digital VFX got maligned is that there was an overreliance and a kind of laziness that started to develop in the industry where it was like, ‘Just shoot everyone on a blue screen and figure it out later,’” Saxon says.

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To achieve the special effects of the solar eclipse, the house was reassembled on the largest blue screen sound stage in the world, constructed ad hoc at a hockey arena in Nova Scotia.

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Erivo extensively rehearsed the flying portion, which was shot using wires and against a blue screen.

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‘I’m not interested in standing in front of a blue screen with a digital design,’ says ‘Wicked’ production designer Nathan Crowley.

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“I’m not interested in standing in front of a blue screen with a digital design,” Crowley says, speaking over Zoom from London’s Pinewood Studios, where he is prepping “Avengers: Doomsday.”

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