Hammer Lighting and Grip

A customer asked me yesterday, "How do you wash this green screen?" He had just rented our 20' x 30' Chromakey green screen and hung it in a studio downtown Indianapolis.

This question made me laugh because it just so happened that we had washed it 3 times in the past week. It originally had some footprints on it and hadn't been washed in a while. So we took all of the strings off of the edges of it and called our friends at Classic Cleaners. They pick it up, wash it in one of their super-sized washers, and deliver it back to us in a plastic tote so it doesn't dry out. Then we retie all the strings on it, build a 20' x 30' frame in the shop, and carefully hang the green screen without letting it hit the floor! We hang it on a frame while it's still wet to keep the fabric from shrinking.

After doing this once, we noticed a mysterious stain right in the middle of it. So, after repeating these steps not 1, but 2 more times, we finally got the green screen spotless and ready for its next job.

This time-consuming process might explain why we like to keep it as clean as possible! Dirty grip boots are prohibited!