Green Screen and Hollywood
Hollywood has been using green screen technology for years to make movies and television shows. Here are a few examples. Note: Not all images are classroom-appropriate for all ages.
Green Screen with Play-Doh and Green Paint
Green Play-Doh and a creative imagination work well together in green screen projects!
- This tweet shows playing with green play-doh, iMotion HD App, iMovie & Googly Eyes.
- Another example here.
- Check out this tweet to see how to use Play-Doh as a traveling green screen.
- Here's an example of a little Phantom fun with Play-Doh and iMovie.
- Pumpkin carving at a whole new level with Play-Doh and iMovie.
- A Look Into Wales using green Play-Doh and iMovie
- The Orphan Train book trailer by Jessie Erickson
- This Google Drive folder from @lfreegeography has several excellent examples.
- You can even use a Granny Smith apple!
Dryden Elementary Art Website
Mrs. Fuglestad, the art teacher at Dryden, has an incredible website that includes tons of ideas for using green screen. Yes, it is an elementary site, but students of all ages would enjoy many of her lessons. She shares the downloads for the lessons, step-by-step directions, and student examples. View her STEAM Art Lessons and iPad Ideas for green screen activities.
Follow Mrs. Fuglestad for great ideas! @TriciaFuglestad
Examples:
- The Snow Globe Effect is a fun way to teach transparency, animation, and layering with green screen. The downloadable file makes this project easy to complete!
- Directions, downloadable files, and examples can be found here.
- Moving Postcards use a Harry Potter-styled effect to create a moving postcard. Check out the post here.
- Veggie Tales use the Do Ink Animation app to add eyes and mouths on objects and then make them talk.
- Custom Holograms
Pinterest Boards
If you need ideas, Pinterest just might be the place for you! You can do a search on Pinterest, however, the folks at Doink have already created boards that are curated by topic.
- Librarians and Reading
- Higher Ed
- Science
- History
- Geography
- Art
- Math
- Foreign Language
- Green Screen Tips & Ideas
- Green Screen in Storytelling
- Makerspace & DoInk
- School Fund Raising Ideas
- Background Videos and Photos
- Martin Luther King Day and Black History Month
- Green Screen Gear
- Background Videos
- Bulletin Board Ideas
- Broadcast Examples
- Kindness Campaigns
- Remote & Hybrid Learning Ideas
- Augmented & Virtual Reality
- Preschool
- STEM and STEAM
- Creative Uses of Green Screen Props
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Flying an AirplaneFlying a cardboard airplane | Put Your Face on Anything! Cut out an oval from green cardstock and use it when you are filming. Now you can place your head on an astronaut's body, become an animal, etc. Let your imagination run wild! | Riding a Camel MT @Whitwood2WEDG: What are we doing? Riding a camel through the Egyptian desert of course! @DoInkTweets pic.twitter.com/RLSnLDFrTe #doink |
Put Your Face on Anything!
Riding a Camel
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Pizza Box Green ScreenUse the green stir sticks from Starbucks or green straws for your props. The box also works as a great storage box for your small green screen props. | Pocket Green Screen Use a mint tin box as your green screen. | Diorama/Fairy Garden for Background Use a student-created diorama or fairy garden as the background image. |
Pizza Box Green Screen
Use the green stir sticks from Starbucks or green straws for your props.
The box also works as a great storage box for your small green screen props. Pocket Green Screen
Diorama/Fairy Garden for Background
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Historical WitnessDoInk Tweets @DoInkTweets Jul 12 MT @almeridoremi: Green screen idea: historical witness. "As a Loyalist, I was shook by Boston Tea Party" #merit17 | Taking a Field Trip to the Blood Stream | Taking a Field Trip to the Blood Stream |
Historical Witness
DoInk Tweets @DoInkTweets Jul 12
MT @almeridoremi: Green screen idea: historical witness. "As a Loyalist, I was shook by Boston Tea Party" #merit17
Taking a Field Trip to the Blood Stream
Taking a Field Trip to the Blood Stream
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QR Codes for Library Books @smalchow: 3rd graders @PCSD_HC used @DoInkTweets to do book recommendations. We posted to @Seesaw, printed QR codes and are displaying QRs in the library for peers. #WantToReadAGoodBook #RaiderStrong #doink #greenscreen | Change the Ultra Key Settings If your character has the same color of clothes as your background, change the Ultra Key (green screen) options. Check out this tweet from @PJigles for directions. | Recreating Civil War Photographs@ed_schreiber: 8th graders in Mr. Curcurio’s class using the green screen and @DoInkTweets to recreate civil war photographs. @fdlschools #doink #greenscreen |
QR Codes for Library Books
Change the Ultra Key Settings
Recreating Civil War Photographs
@ed_schreiber: 8th graders in Mr. Curcurio’s class using the green screen and @DoInkTweets to recreate civil war photographs. @fdlschools #doink #greenscreen
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Make Yourself into an Ordered Pair (Graphing)5 Quick Projects That Make Use of Green Screen From Education Rickshaw | Signing the Weather ReportUsed the Green Screen to deliver a signed weather report! @DoInkTweets I created Weather & Family BSL Task Cards using iPhone weather screenshots and QR Codes that link to tutorial videos! | Pizza Box Creations |
Make Yourself into an Ordered Pair (Graphing)
5 Quick Projects That Make Use of Green Screen From Education Rickshaw
Signing the Weather Report
Used the Green Screen to deliver a signed weather report! @DoInkTweets I created Weather & Family BSL Task Cards using iPhone weather screenshots and QR Codes that link to tutorial videos!
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Convert Older Tripods @jdgreen475: Perfect Recycling! Older unused tripods bought for VHS cameras, now repurposed with a $7.99 Amazon I-Pad Tripod Mount. Finally better recording by 2nd Graders. No bouncy people in videos. | "Carried Away" Learning About Butterflies @bhopteacher: Learning about butterflies in first grade! | A green screen moveable curtain@Tabayoyon25 |
Convert Older Tripods
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Have an old roll-up map? | Book Review Click here to watch the video. | Green Screen with Green Paint Take a video of students painting with green paint and use a green screen app to make it look like they were painting a picture! See it in action here. |
Green Screen with Green Paint
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Life is Like a Box of Chocolates What a fun project for Valentine's Day from @jessmsherman! | Pete the Cat | Green Cubes from Dollar Tree We love Dollar Tree! This post from goodwinnovate on Instagram shows how she uses the cubes for portable green screens. |
Green Cubes from Dollar Tree
goodwinnovate on Instagram shows how she uses the cubes for portable green screens.
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DIY Green Screen Sunglasses Students wrote and shared about their Happy Place in this tweet. | Green or Blue Food Coloring Watch the fireworks in this video! | Green Screen Ghosts |
Shopping Tips
- Disposable Green Plastic Tablecloths - Don't pay more than $1.00 for them! Available at many different stores in the party section.
- Green Screen Backdrop - The bigger the better! Amazon
- Green Fabric by the Yard - Walmart seems to have the best price
- Green Leggings - Cut in half to cover your arms to use with puppets - Walmart in the ladies department
- Green Straws - Starbucks
- Green Garden Gloves - Dollar Tree, Walmart, etc.
- Maskimals - available at Walmart for $19.98
Remove the Background from an Image or Video
Unscreen.com - This site can be used to easily remove the background from short videos and convert them to a .gif. Add these .gifs to your Slides, google docs, etc. to engage your students!
Tutorial: bit.ly/tutorialunscreenFree & Easy Green Screen Editing – How to Make Transparent Backgrounds by Larissa ARadj
Cue Prompter
How to Find Free Images and Stock Videos for Classroom Projects
]You and your students can always use pictures and videos from your camera or device, but you might not always be able to find what you need. The following are resources for images that can be used by you and your students. Always check the license agreement when using these in projects.
- Pixabay - royalty-free images and videos
- Pexels - royalty-free images and videos
- Unsplash - royalty-free images
Pics 4 Learning - Pics4Learning is a user-supported image library that is safe and free for education.
14 Fantastically Free Sources For Stock Video Footage [Updated 2019] - Great list of FREE footage backgrounds
Photos for Class - Photos for Class allows users to search for creative commons photos for school with automatic citation.
- Videvo - free video footage; make sure to check the license and usage info for each
- Free Disney Zoom Backgrounds & Wallpapers - Yes, all of those amazing Zoom backgrounds you have been using will work in Green Screen!
- Disney Channel Video Backgrounds
- Pixar Zoom Backgrounds
- Star Wars Zoom Backgrounds
- 100 Amazing Zoom Backgrounds to Take You From Your Favorite TV Show to Disney World! from Parade Magazine
Reverse Image Search:
Not sure where an image came from? Try a Reverse Image Search. Upload an image and the search engine will find the original image source.
Tips for Searching:
- Search for green screen background
- Search for Zoom background
- If you are finding backgrounds on Google or social media sites, be aware of the copyright restrictions.
Green Screen in iMovie
- Insert a background photo/video.
- Insert a green/blue photo/video ... > Green/Blue Screen.
- Adjust Strength and Crop.
Tutorials:
- How to Use Green Screen in iMovie for iPad and iPhone / iOS
- Green Screen Direction Cards for Keynote and iMovie
- Step-by-Step Directions
- Tony Vincent (@tonyvincent) shares a green screen infographic
- Resizing and Positioning Green Screen Video In iMovie
- Using white as the background color
- How to create an iPad X-ray machine
- Green Screen Dot Day Dots on iMovie
WeVideo
Tutorials:
TouchCast Studio
Tutorials:
Green Screen App by DoInk - $4.99
Download the IOS App for Green Screen by DoInk here.
Follow Doink on Twitter: @DoInkTweets
Follow the Doink co-founder on Twitter: Karen Miller @Kdmiller4
Tutorials:
- Doink Tutorials
- One Page Doink Reference Sheets
- Doink Tutorial
- Do Ink Green Screen App Quick Start Guide
- 2019 Doink Update
- How to Use the Crop Tool in the 2019 Update
- Using the Masking Tool to create a Living Museum
- Instructions for doing Book Recommendations in the Library
- Green Screening with DoInk!
- How To Do Green Screen Photography on an iPad at School
- “Overlays” – Making the most of the DoInk Green Screen app
- Green Screen Instructions-Using DoInk App
- Using DoInk and Green Screen in iMovie
- Black and White Photos and Videos with DoInk
- How to Export Transparent Videos in Green Screen by Do Ink
- How to Crop Images, Videos, and Live Camera
- How to Change Position, Size, and Orientation of Image
- How to Use the Mask Tool to Create a Moving Newspaper
- How to Combine, Trim and Save to the Camera Roll Two Videos
- How To Use All 3 layers in the Green Screen by DoInk app on the iPad
- DoInk Blog
- Green Screen App Smash
- Why and How to Green Screen in Class
- Take Your iPad from Consumption to Creation with DoInk!
The Prop Library:
One of the new features in the 2019 update is the Prop Library. When you open it up, you will find many objects that you can add to your video and animate. Pair your Green Screen video with a creative writing assignment.
