Studio booth configured to produce illusion that customer is photographed in different locale

A method to produce in an area of restricted size in a realistic manner while minimizing perspective distortion and subject distortion a recording of an individual that produces the illusion that the individual is located in a larger area, comprising the steps of

• (a) providing a studio booth including
• (i) an interior with a front wall, a rear wall, side walls extending between said front wall and rear wall, a floor, and a ceiling,
• (ii) an audio and video system to detect and generate audio-visual signals comprising a recording of at least one performance conducted in said booth, said system including a digital camera mounted at said front wall,
• (iii) a chroma key screen extending over at least a portion of said rear wall to produce background light that is, along with the performance conducted in the booth, detected by said digital camera,
• (iv) a transmitter to send said audio-visual signals to a selected location remote from said booth,
• (v) a computer system to generate backdrop signals representing a scenic backdrop and to integrate said audio-visual signals and said backdrop signals to produce a recorded performance,
• said booth having a footprint fitting within a rectangular area having a greatest side dimension of ten feet;
• (b) selecting a lens system for said digital camera with a horizontal field of view that minimizes subject distortion of an individual performing in said interior of said booth;
• (c) defining, to minimize subject distortion, a minimum distance that an individual stands away from said camera when said individual is in the interior of said booth to conduct a performance;
• (d) selecting a scenic backdrop
• (i) to minimize subject-background correlation distortion,
• (ii) depicting an area larger than said interior of said studio booth;
• (e) conducting a live performance in said booth by the individual in said interior and no closer to said camera than said minimum distance and generating with said computer system a recording of the performance comprising audio visual signals of said live performance integrated with backdrop signals of said selected scenic backdrop selected in step (d);
• and,
• (f) transmitting to said selected remote location with said transmitter said recording produced in step (b).