# Conan Premiere

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conan-premiere/560000>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 9, 2010, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conan-premiere/560000 "2010-11-09T04:13:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conan-premiere/560000/41 "2010-11-13T23:11:53Z")

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> [@The\_Shroud](#):
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> It’s blue enough that graphics can be keyed in, as long as they keep the shot locked down and carefully mask anything they don’t want keyed out.
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> For instance, on Thursday, the cruise ship in the background only passed behind Andy, steering clear of Conan and his blue shirt; the only thing they had to actually chroma-key was Andy’s head, and maybe some pieces of the foreground set.
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> [Here’s my quick and dirty example](http://imgur.com/gj0rA.jpg). The area I colored green is chroma-keyed; the purple area is completely superimposed over the picture (to avoid garbage in the more detailed left side of the background), and the rest of the picture is left untouched.
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> Of course, the very next bit (a parody of local news) required a simple chroma key, so they brought out a _green_ screen, and Andy’s green shirt, which was useful for the ship bit, appeared transparent.

Okay, so you’re saying that the regular landscape is there, and then they just blue-screen the rest of the stuff in? Pretty clever.

> [@dzero](#):
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> I couldn’t decide if that was intentional. I thought the same thing had happened at the beginning of the boat bit but I could have been hallucinating.

If it was intentional on Andy’s part, I really don’t think Conan was expecting it.

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**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conan-premiere/560000/42 "2010-11-13T23:15:39Z")

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Yeah, the beard suits Conan. I’m surprised how much it suits him.

Not a bad debut. Not familiar with either of his guests (I know who Jon Hamm IS, but I’ve never actually watched Mad Men, and the girl is a new one on me entirely), but both of them were pretty entertaining, anyway, so that’s a good sign.

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