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About Brittanie Flegle
Expertise
Can answer any question on how to make a movie, exporting a feature film for the web or DVD, stream video, find the best telecine company, market your video on the web, optimize your video compression settings, edit professional video, edit 16mm film on a Steinbeck machine, edit sound onto 16mm, create graphic images for 4:3 & 16:9 footage, stylize your video using filters & effects in After Effect/Final Cut Pro/iMovie/Windows Movie Maker, use a green screen, make a green screen, key out green screen, budget for a feature film, produce a short film, find film contests, manage a film crew, etc.

Experience
I have produced, shot, directed over 300 short instructional videos for MindBites.com and worked on several shorts in the Austin area. Recently, I worked on the post-production team of Terrance Mallick's latest feature length theatrical and Imax films, Tree of Life & Voyage of Time, respectively.

Organizations
SXSW Film panel committee volunteer, Austin Film Festival goer

Publications
UT Daily - http://www.dailytexanonline.com/life_arts/1.971087-1.971087 MindBites - http://blog.mindbites.com/category/video-production-and-publishing/

Education/Credentials
University of Texas at Austin Communications undergraduate, Bachelor of Radio-Television-Film, McCombs School of Business certificate, Austin Community College current student in the interactive media and motion graphics departments

Awards and Honors
McGuffin Film Festival finalist

Past/Present Clients
DadLabs Thinkwell UrbanFitnessTV MySmartHands VideoMathTutor UnderstandBlue

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Making Films & Videos - I have a question about using a green screen.

Expert: Brittanie Flegle - 10/22/2009

Question
I'm a graduate in film arts, but in one of my final classes, the professor told us how to film on a green screen (lighting it properly, etc.) but we ran out of time before he showed us how to actually put the two separate shots into one.

For example, I'm filming a short film really soon, and I have a scene where a guy is watching the news. The news anchor sketch will be fake. Pretty much I need the news anchor talking, and a picture of the person she is talking about floating in a box to her upper right (like they do on the real news). How would I accomplish this?
And thanks.

Answer
Hi Kyle,

This is easily done by simply adding another layer/video track of the image of the picture you want on top of the first video track. You can accomplish this using a quality non-linear editing program like Final Cut Pro or Premiere Pro. (They have Express versions for cheap.) If you're a student, you can get them at a discount, something like 80% off!

The only reason you would want to use a green screen is to take out the background behind your subject. But since this project only involves adding an additional video track to the scene, you wouldn't have to use a green screen.

Let me know if this helps! I'm excited to hear more about your final project.

Brittanie

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