Evaluation video (Preparation)

Becoming increasingly interested in the different ways in which I could present my evaluation. Be it in a normal word document, straight forward but a bit boring and doesn't show off my potential skills. Be it in a presentation, but then on what? Powerpoint?! I don't think so, deserve something more extravagant. Video presentation then, just showing me nothing else? Well that was my original idea, but then I decided to get a bit more ambitious. I thought, why not go one more step and try something I've never tried before? Green Screening! Always wanted to, never got round to it. Now seems as good as ever.
I looked around for a green screen to actually film on. I researched the various gradients of green that would be ideal. I found that it doesn't really matter as long as its a constant gradient throughout the shot without any variations as this can cause errors to occur. With this in mind, I trawled the internet in search of a suitable screen. Many youtube videos told me that normal felt from your local fabrics store would do the trick. However, this being Norfolk there are no fabric shops which would sell me the necessary amount for a reasonable price or quality. So I looked online and found a "professional" green screen which I could buy to use.

My Green screen. 1.8x2.8m 

Having settled on the screen, I then needed to find some suitable software which could carry out a green screen effect. I knew imovie would do it but when I tried it out it seemed to infantile to achieve it to the level of quality I wanted it. So I continued to look. I also knew Motion 5 would do it, but I knew very little about the software itself, so before buying it, I did some research into the programme. I found this rather handy video which explained a lot to me about the abilities of Motion:

Having been convinced by the video on Motions abilities to complete green screening, I went ahead and bought it.

Now all I needed to do I to decide how to present the video. I looked around at other film interviews and found this:

Looking at others similar to this, I found in all of them the front cover of the film or at the very least the title of the film would be shown up behind the people involved in the interview. I decided that this would be how I could use my green screen. I would use it to flash up perhaps parts of the film behind me but also maybe the cover of my film (pretending that it had been fully completed).