Using a Reflecmedia backdrop

Rich Harrington: One other type of keying technology that we often use at my facility is Reflecmedia,…and it sometimes goes by other brand names, but essentially, it's a disk like this, and…it's a bunch of LEDs, and what it does is it's going to hit that backdrop.…So Abba, what's behind us?…Abba Shapiro: Well, it looks like it's just a plain gray backdrop, but it's not a gray backdrop.…Actually, it's a special backdrop that works exclusively with this type of lighting system.…Rich: So I'm shinning that back there, and you kind of see that it's picking up the blue.…You'll probably wonder, well, how the heck does that work?…The thing is this goes around the camera, typically used with the video camera and what…it does is because it's perfectly inline with the lens, it just hits that and bounces back.…

These are low level LEDs and what they do is that's basically a fiber optic curtain.…It's a bunch of crushed glass beads woven in together.…You can get this pop-ups or curtains. The fabric is one of the most expensive parts.…