Bluescreen Techniques
Client: Nancy Rader

Nancy Rader, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology is using video for behavioral research and analysis. With the help of ITS, she used blue screen video techniques to perform testing with infants. Nancy’s project, “Learning What Words Mean: Talking Heads with Gestural Variation” is a video viewed by infants on a 42 inch plasma television screen. Nancy’s video simulates a young woman teaching a baby to associate words with objects, such as a toy. The blue screen background is then removed so that the woman’s head can be superimposed within each test—like a weatherman of the evening news. As the baby views the tests, a small camera tracked their eye movement. This project required special effects and a bit of trickery one could expect to see in Hollywood.

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