green screen

noun

plural green screens

: a photographic technique in which a subject is filmed in front of a green background so as to allow matte (see matte entry 3 sense 2) compositing of the film with other footage

Show curators are using green screen, augmented reality and visual effects to create an illusion of a near-real event.—

Ruhail Amin

also : the green background

The kids recorded themselves at home, shooting videos in front of a home-made green screen, which Mrs. Hopkins sent home for their families. —

Katie Morse

—often used before another noun

green screen technology

compare blue screen

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Far removed from Capitol Hill, Sunday’s edition of the show was filmed in front of a green screen, with viewers at home instead seeing a photorealistic version of Rockefeller Center behind the anchor desk. —

Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2024 In one photo, the family poses in front of a green screen showing Jurassic World, and in another, everyone except Callum hangs out on top of a Jeep Wrangler. —

Emma Aerin Becker, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024 Rodriguez takes the opposite approach, one also utilized in the Wachowskis’ 2008 Speed Racer adaptation: using green screen to create a world that can’t be replicated with practical effects, in this case a real-life city drawn by Frank Miller. —

Tres Dean, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2024 Why is that man carrying an enormous plastic hammer around, dressed in a breast plate on a green screen? —

Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 5 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for green screen