5th Grade Green Screen Graffiti Introductions
Today was the first day of school at Trevvett Elementary, and the 5th grade classes wanted to start right off with a green screen project! The teachers were looking for a new, creative way for their students to introduce themselves. They thought a graffiti wall with each student’s name and photo would be cool. So we used PosterGen Grafitti Creator to make the wall and added their photos with a green screen app on the iPads called DoInk. First, the students designed their graffiti wall on PosterGen. This free resource allows you to edit all the parts of the graffiti–the font, the outline, the fill color, the glow, and more! Once the students had created their graffiti name on the virtual brick wall, we took a screenshot and saved it to Google Drive. Then we opened the DoInk app on our iPad, stood in front of a green screen, and uploaded the image to replace the background. Our green screen was simply a sheet of green bulletin board paper. Since some students were wearing green (which wouldn’t work on a green screen), we also had a sheet of orange paper as an alternative. The DoInk app can replace any color background, not just green. When we took the photo in DoInk, it looked like they were standing in front of their graffiti wall. You can see a few students samples here.