Green Screening

Introduction to Green Screening with DoInk (3 minute video)

How to use all 3 layers in DoInk Green Screen App (1:50 minute video)

Using the prop library - New to 2019 version of DoInk (3 minute video)

Beginner DoInk tutorial - how to create a basic photo or video

Try This:

Watch the video below (or to get even more help, watch all of the videos on this page - they are short videos)

Create a similar project placing you on a beautiful sandy beach (or any other location of your choice)

Note: you will need to go to the web, search for a beach image (or any other location) and then save this image to camera roll before going to the app.


Some examples of project descriptions for Green Screen

Example 1

Students may create a product and write an advertisement to promote the sale of the product. They may choose to present reliable and relevant information or they may exaggerate the information. Upon completion they will present their advertisement to the class. The class in turn will use a checklist to evaluate the reliability and relevance of the advertisement and the product.

This project involves students working in groups, selecting an item or product or creating their own product to advertise. They will write a commercial, which will be acted out on the Green Screen. The green screen can also show their exaggerated backgrounds and can implement cartoons if they want. This can be played back to be presented to the class for others to evaluate the reliability and relevance of the advertisement and the product with a checklist.

This technology will act as a motivator for students to complete their writing and enhance their presentations.

The Green Screen can also be used for various presentations across the curriculum in all grades, appealing to 21st century learners.

Example 2

In grades 2/3 - storytelling

Students will write and present a piece of their own work. This is a 'stand and deliver' storytelling, with lots of movement, voice inflection, facial gestures. The students will use the green screen to make their final presentation which will be shared with the class. I have included some of the outcomes from Grade 2 & 3 that are met with this project, however it can be used across all the grades.

In Grade 4: Physical Features Project

Students will choose one of the physical environments and physical features and develop a presentation to explain this concept to other students. Students will incorporate the green screen into their presentation.

In Grade 5: Weather Reporting Project

The students in Grade 5 will use the green screen to represent their knowledge about weather in science by creating weather reports for specific areas of the province/country.

Example 3

We would love to bring video production into our school and have chosen a project with our Grade Six class and their teacher. Students will create video book trailers! Such a project will be cross-curricular and bring elements from English Language Arts, Art and Digital Citizenship together as students choose a novel for independent novel study and later promote as a good read for other students, specifically their proposed audience of other students. Through speaking, listening, reading, viewing, writing and representing, students will demonstrate learning as they critically select a novel to read and promote. They will identify and write about elements of a novel. Along the way, they will employ effective elements of a book trailer to produce scripts for their videos.

In addition to speaking, listening, reading, viewing, writing and representing, students will use elements and techniques of art to take and edit pictures, analyze their own and someone else’s creative efforts with images, and critically select art-related items viewed own the Internet for inclusion in their video production.

Following the choosing of a novel to read and promote and learning about effective elements of a book trailer, students will prepare storyboards and scripts for their presentations. Students will get hands-on experience with technology making a video themselves (peer-led) and presenting their prepared text. To accomplish this, a green screen with related accessories, video and audio equipment and Internet, video-editing software and applications will be needed as part of their video production. Students will have opportunities to develop technical skills with the equipment and later with related applications and/or software. Recording of the video will be followed by editing where students will select images (their own or from the Internet, with permission) to be inserted in place of the green screen in their videos. Accessing applications such as iMovie and DoInk for Green Screens on iPad will allow for these editing details.