Greenscreen

Film and television technicians use a greenscreen as a background for colour-based image processing. Chroma keying requires a green box with a background in the key colour green. The green screen can be made of various materials, but is often made of fabric. At allbuyone, you can buy greenscreen made of stage molton. The cotton fabric has many properties that are important for high-quality photo and film shoots. The background fabric is matt, light-absorbing and wrinkle-free thanks to its heavy quality.

The green screen is used in photo studios as well as in film and television. Photos are taken or film scenes are shot in front of a green background in a so-called green box (green background and green floor). In post-processing, the motif can be cut out (isolated) using a cut-out mask that defines the visible areas. Once the subject has been cut out, the desired background is combined with the recorded foreground. This step is known among experts as "cutting out". The green background is thus replaced by another image, such as a weather map, landscapes or an action scene.

Advantages of chroma keying

A green box helps to save costs, as the entire team does not have to travel to the location; instead, the scene is shot in the studio and the background is added later on a PC. For safety reasons, particularly dangerous or complex stunt and action scenes are also shot in front of a greenscreen.

Which green for greenscreen? Is there a greenscreen colour code?

The green used for chroma keying is a special green, a bright neon green with reflective additives that reflects light particularly well and requires less illumination. Possible RAL green tones are RAL 6018 or RAL 6020.

Important: There is no single greenscreen colour code. The lighting is much moreimportant .

Crucial: the right lighting

The decisive factor in chroma keying is the lighting. The green of the greenscreen must be evenly illuminated; this is the only way to ensure fast chroma keying and successful cropping. Diffusers help to ensure even illumination of the background.

Also crucial: the shade of green must be precisely matched to the camera used. The correct shade of green can be determined using a waveform monitor and spot measurement.

There is no general answer to the question of whether greenscreen, bluescreen or blackscreen is better. The key colour used depends on the object to be photographed.

Greenscreen produces a brighter colour impression than blue and allows – especially important when photographing people – the wearing of blue clothing in all shades of blue (jeans, etc.). Another aspect in favour of a green screen is the pixel properties of many cameras: here, a pixel consists of one red, one blue and two green pixels. In a video, there is therefore twice as much image information available for green.

Blue screen blue, on the other hand, is often used for portrait photography, as blue does not occur in human skin tones.

You can order greenscreen fabric made from stage molton in our shop. Stage molton is a 100% cotton fabric with a weight of 300 g/m². The heavy molton fabric is opaque, matt and non-reflective. The fabric also absorbs light and is perfect for an evenly lit background. Molton from allbuyone is also flame-resistant, complies with classification C-s1, d0 according to DIN EN 13501-1 and is B1-certified according to DIN 4102.

[icon type="icon--info" size="large" color="green"]Fabric backgrounds made of stage molton offer the possibility of professional recordings. Photo molton is light-absorbing, it does not reflect flash lights, and transitions at the floor can be draped softly.

The molton greenscreen is available in various designs:

• Greenscreen assembled with tunnel seam in 4 sizes
• Greenscreen fabric by the metre
• Greenscreen as a roll (30 m x 300 cm)
• Custom-made greenscreen with the molton configurator

Green background fabric in standard sizes

You can order the background fabric in 4 standard sizes for your film and photo studio. The fabric has a tunnel seam (, diameter approx. 5 cm) at the top edge and the sides and bottom edges are hemmed.

• 3 x 6 m (3-metre side tunnelled)
• 6 x 3 m (6-metre side tunneled)
• 6 x 4 m (6-metre side with tunnel)
• 6 x 5 m (6-metre side tunneled)

Greenscreen sold by the metre or in rolls

You can also order the background fabric as a whole roll with a length of 30 running metres and a width of 300 cm or by the metre cut to size from 5 running metres.

Greenscreen customised to your specifications in the Molton Configurator

With our molton configurator, you can configure your individual greenscreen fabric, precisely tailored to your desired dimensions. You can choose from various finishes, such as hemstitching, Velcro/fleece tape or eyelets.

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Attaching greenscreen – tips

Depending on the finish, there are various options for mounting the green screen to the background system:

The greenscreen with tunnel seam is ideal for hanging with rods or pipes.

For unfinished greenscreen (sold by the metre or in rolls), we recommend Holdon clips or adhesive tape. The fabric can also be attached to a background system with staples.

Where can you buy greenscreen?

You can buy greenscreen fabric at low prices from allbuyone – your expert for event supplies. In our shop, you will find greenscreen fabric and bluescreen as well as molton in other colours at low prices and other accessories for stage and events. We would be happy to advise you personally in Munich on +49 89-122 89 06 22.