Blue Screen Recording

What is Blue Screen Recording?

I'm sure all of you cats are savvy to the term ‘Blue Screen’, but for those of you who are new to earth, Blue screen is a film technique in which an object or person is filmed in front of a blue background so that the background can be replaced by removing the blue and adding in a different background. The blue background makes a clean surface to shoot against and easy to remove.

In the sound effects world, I prefer to record sounds as clean as possible, so that they can be placed anywhere in the sound field without the sonic characteristics of the environment that they were recorded in. With a clean sound, your options are endless. But, with a colored sound (background noise, room sound, etc.), the sound will not always fit in the scene or sound that you are working on.

So, I propose the use of the term "Blue Screen Recording" to describe the process of isolating sounds that are being recorded. Any thoughts out there???