Guru, I much appreciate the analysis. Alright so now I guess my next step is to head off to the fabric store with the flashlight to pick-out the fabric.
I imagine if I explore the other forums here I'll find much discussion re. the various software options available. If you don't mind another question considering the type of editing that I wish to do for this project is there a particularly good /simple program you recommend I try/use?
Thanks again, Lillienthal
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Originally Posted by The Guru  It looks like what they've done is the old "James Bond" opening credits travelling matte, updated for video.
In other words: You have a tranlucent screen illuminated from behind with a single hard source. Providing the dancer stays close to the screen you end up with a black silhouette and a white background.
You then tell your editing softaware to use white as the background, In this case you could chroma-key or Luma-key, both will give you the same result and enable you to replace the white with whatever you want.
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