Apartment Scenes - Motion Tracking

For the apartment scenes of 2021, the picture frames need to be animated and alive, containing adverts and other information within the environment.

Whilst the basis of those are being made by the production team, I have taken the time to create the tracking paths for where the footage will go.

The original shoot used green paper in the frames to mark where the footage will be placed in post-production. By tracking the points on the green paper I've been able to create some good initial placeholder tracking paths, and have used a placeholder video to demonstrate where the footage will go, as well as how masks will interact if and when the footage becomes obscured from view.

You can see in the image above where the placeholder green has been used, and this gives you an idea for how active the scene will be once the frames are animated. Some of the tracking is slightly inaccurate, however it makes sense to rectify this when the final images come through from the production team, given the possible difference in source material display ratios.

I've uploaded the test footage with my placeholder footage in the place of the adverts that will be coming very soon! For this placeholder I've simply used the 'Making Of' video from the establishing shot, as it was the nearest .mov I could find. 

Up next is the rest of the scene, as well as the additional visual effects that need to be added to characters and so on.

I've organised a meeting with the production team to look through the footage to ensure that both parties are happy with the creative direction. Once that meeting's taken place and more footage comes through the first edit stages, then more animating can take place.