Greenscreen to the Rescue!

Sometimes in video production, everything goes smoothly and most of it goes according to plan. And at other times, despite everyone’s best efforts, you end up months in with your key locations suddenly unusable, no time to find new ones and you have to get creative. This is a story about one of the latter kinds of projects.

We were working for a learning agency, producing the video content for a major interactive video course.  The course dealt with the balance between safety and environmental protection for railway maintenance crews. To tell the story, which included trees on railway lines, badger setts and bat roosts, it was clearly going to be tricky to find suitable locations.

After weeks of searching for ideal spots, we identified some prime candidates and went for our recce. And bingo – after a little tweaking of the scenarios, we found some sites that would work. All was well.