Green Screen Services

Here is how this works in practice. We deliver green screen as a controlled, precisely lit service, supplying screens, the lighting to make them work, and the crews who keep a key clean. Our gaffers light the screen for even coverage and separate the subject lighting so a foreground composites convincingly, planning the set-up around what the visual-effects team needs in post.

Here is the short of it. Iceland gives green screen work a specific value: a production can shoot talent against a key on a Reykjavík stage and combine it with genuine Icelandic landscape plates — glaciers, lava fields, the aurora — captured on location, blending the controlled and the real. We run green screen at the RVK Studios tricky in Gufunes and as portable systems for location-adjacent set-ups. Our crews capture matching lighting reference, HDRI plates and tracking data so the composite holds. Cold-weather handling applies to any outdoor or location-adjacent rig. We staff from the skilled the capital crew base and bring in extra screens, lighting and VFX-oversight support from the UK and mainland Europe for larger shoots.

Here is the breakdown. Iceland is overwhelmingly a location-filming country. This is precisely what makes green screen here a complement rather than a substitute — shoots come for the real landscapes of a subarctic island on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and use chroma-key to extend, combine or safely stage what cannot be shot directly. Reykjavík, the world's northernmost capital, anchors the studio base, with the RVK Studios tricky founded by Baltasar Kormákur the main site.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. The country runs on close to 100 per cent renewable electricity from geothermal and hydroelectric power, English is near-universally spoken, and ATA carnets cover short-term gear import. Eligible spend on Icelandic crew, stage and gear can count toward the production reimbursement of 25 per cent, rising to 35 per cent for qualifying larger projects and TV series meeting spend and length criteria, administered by Film in the country. This we factor into how a green screen package is scoped.