When trying to transfer the green screen background onto the green screen filmed backgrounds we found that it didn’t work, especially on close ups. We found that the instruments were more shiny than expected and reflected the green of the screen and thus were replaced by the background. This proved to be a problem. We also found that things such as hair and fine details in the instruments were lost in the background that we had filmed.
To fix this we tried a mix of a lot of things. We tried multiple different backgrounds, but all replaced inappropriate things in the picture. However, we did find that digital pictures and drawings on white or black backgrounds made the image quality suffer less. Thus, we came up with a plan.
At the time of doing this we had already started thinking about our Digipaks and the poster for the magazine and therefore already had the idea for the drawing. Thus, we tried to put a copy of the drawing behind the band and it worked with the least damage, and also created a quirky background that played with the OK Go type themes. It also provided a change from the real locations as well as referenced the poster in a stronger link than simply the poster having references to the video.
By playing with colour balances we managed to make this idea work for ourselves and avoided (yet another) spanner, so to say.
