Making of Movies in Chroma background
Movies made with using Chroma background
Movies are the main source of entertainment, life wouldn’t be complete without some drama, action, comedy and romance. For as long as there have been movies, there have been special effects. Today, the magic of movies is largely regulated to computer generated special effects that use filming in front of a green screen to separate the actors from what visuals will be added in later. The making of movies in chroma background is very common nowadays. Usually green color background is used for chroma shot because image sensors in digital video cameras are most sensitive to green.
Some of the blockbuster movies shot in Chroma key background and vfx effects.
Chennai Express
Cast : Shahrukh Khan, Deepika Padukon
Genre: Romantic, comedy and action.
Chroma Shot: There are so many beautiful shots that are filmed using chroma in this movie. Before looking at the shots none of us could actually pin point the difference between the actual shots and chroma key background. the valleys, the railway station and even the scene where Shahrukh is running on the roof.
Sultan
Cast: Salman Khan, Anushka Sharma
Genre: Sports, Drama, action and romantic.
Chroma Shot: You’re probably going to be astonished to find out just how much was chroma-keyed was used in buildings, crowds and other pieces of window dressing. Mostly all the boxing ring shots are chroma shots, the crowd used in used in these shots is not actual.
3 Idiots
Movie: Aamir Khan, Kareena kapoor, Sharman Joshi, R. Madhavan
Genre: Drama, Romantic and Comedy
Chroma Shot: Its so surprising that even 3 Idiots had so many chroma shots. The terrace shots, the traffic shots, the crowd, day to night conversion.
Chak de India
Movie: Shahrukh Khan
Genre: Sports, Drama
Shot: The stadium scene was shot in croma key background. The crowd showed in the movie was all visual effects there was no person in reality on the stands.
Robot
Cast: Rajnikanth, Aishwarya Rai
Genre: Science fiction, Drama, Comedy
Chroma Shot: All the dual Rajnikanth sitting together scenes were chroma shots. The magic of vfx makes everything possible, as we can see there were many scenes in the movie which were not humanly possible to do.
Life of Pi
Cast: Irfan Khan, Suraj Sharma, Tabu
Genre: Adventure movie, Drama
Chroma Shot: The first scene of the movie was shot in a swimming pool instead of an ocean and even the tiger and zebra were a product of vfx. The whale was also a product of vfx illusion. The whole movie was vfx based, and most of the scenes were shot using chroma background and visual effects.
Housefull 3
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Ritesh Deshmukh, Abhishek Bachchan,
Genre: Comedy, Romantic, Action
Croma Shot: The alluring villa we saw in the movie is actually vfx effect and in reality the villa is old and dirty. The is not even as huge as shown in the movie, the ants, the crowd, even the ball with which Akshay Kumar played was just a visual effect, the green chroma background was used for countless shots.
Bahubali
Cast: Prabhas, Anushka Shetty, Rana Daggubati
Genre: War, Adventure, Epic, Fantasy, Drama
Chroma Shot: You would be just amazed to know the visual effects used in the movie, the beautiful waterfall, the mountains, even the astonishing view of the whole dynasty showed was all visual effects. The waterfall scenes were all shot with a green background or chroma key background.
Krrish 3
Cast: Hrithik Roshan, Vivek Oberoi, Priyanka Chopra, Kangana Ranuat
Genre: Romance, Action, Science Fiction, fantasy
Croma Shot: A lot of visual effects were used in this movie, the whole laboratory showed was a product of visual effects. The chroma key background was used in almost every super hero shot. Kangana changing herself into different people was also one of the visual effects used in this movie.