:: Earl Green - Freelance Television Writer / Producer ::

Election time means election coverage promos, and that means “make it look as stately and solid as the sign in front of a bank.” That’s actually a challenge I enjoy, trying to achieve something approaching a classy look like that. And it certainly was a challenge here: the spot was given to me as an already-written-and-shot piece that I needed to finish out, but the studio talent shoot was a static shot at the Fayetteville news desk. Since the background of that set happens to be blue, I decided to see just how good the Boris FX chromakey plug-in is. (Turns out it’s not bad - take a look! The only embarrassing artifact is that this had to be completed and aired on a timetable that didn’t allow for the kind of precision surgery that it would’ve taken to eliminate the news desk in the shot; as the only non-blue element in the scene, it’s just sort of incongruously floating in space.) No doubt a few more election coverage spots are lurking just around the corner…