Shooting A Greenscreen Segment

Our living room handily doubles as our greenscreen stage. With Los Angeles' unseasonably warm February, occasionally pants are optional. Elements generated from this shoot will be composited with computer graphics. This shot is part of the "Trick Out Your Kitchen" segment.

Low-Budget Hollywood Secrets: Part One

To give our rental apartment kitchen a more custom, high-end look for the on camera cooking demos, artist Craig Edwards created a piece of art in photoshop that resembled off-white porcelain subway tiles with a small glass mosaic tile inlay. The art was created to fit the backsplash area of our kitchen, and set up to repeat in a tiling manner horizontally. We printed out eight identical 11"x17" sheets at Kinko's for a grand total of about $10 and stuck them on the wall with doublestick tape. Voila! Instant custom tile backsplash that looks indistinguishable from the real thing on camera, even in HD, and at a fraction of the time and cost of the real thing.