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Actually, it WAS on purpose

Submitted September 5, 2008 - 3:02 pm by James Haygood

Hey, All, and Al,

I had that same reaction, that they must have screwed up and not seen the camera angle that would make a nice solid green background.  Now this is my area of expertise, so here's the deal.  You can't see it too well in the photo above, but in the wide shots you'll notice that the area behind McCain (the lower center of the grassy area) is artificially out of focus - it's photoshopped.  They did that to the projected photo so that in the tight shot of McCain, the background would be a controlled, soft background, not a mottled grassy texture.  So they actually did this on purpose, but idiotically unaware of the big fat one lobbed over the "Green Screen Challenge" plate.

And of course later after the background changed, it became a nice solid BLUE background which works just as well (actually given McCain's skin color you'd get better separation with the blue, because when setting up a screen like this for compositing what you want is a clear distinction between what you want to keep and what you want to replace).

So yeah.  Stupid?  You bet.  But accidental?  Nope.

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