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blue screen

[ bloo skreen ]

noun

Movies, Television.
  1. an electronic special-effects system that isolates and removes a static plain blue background from the live foreground shot so that the background can be filled or replaced with another image or video in a composite with the foreground.


blue screen

noun

  1. a special effects film technique involving filming actors against a blue screen on which effects such as computerized graphics can be added later and integrated into a single sequence
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of blue screen1

First recorded in 1965–70
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To achieve the special effects of the solar eclipse, the house was reassembled on the largest blue screen sound stage in the world, constructed ad hoc at a hockey arena in Nova Scotia.

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Erivo extensively rehearsed the flying portion, which was shot using wires and against a blue screen.

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‘I’m not interested in standing in front of a blue screen with a digital design,’ says ‘Wicked’ production designer Nathan Crowley.

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“I’m not interested in standing in front of a blue screen with a digital design,” Crowley says, speaking over Zoom from London’s Pinewood Studios, where he is prepping “Avengers: Doomsday.”

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Putin appeared in front of a large blue screen emblazoned with a map of the Russian Federation, complete with annexed parts of Ukraine.

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