The phone screens in the video are meant to show our app and when they tap on them we zoom into the app and into the flashback.
We didn't consider how challenging this might be when the finger goes over the image on the screen to tap on it. It meant we'd need to use a tracking mask. With so little time and no previous knowledge of how to use masks and a number of failed attempts, we made the decision the cut the video before the finger passes over the screen. This way we could just quickly zoom into the screen with the app already open.
Because the actors holding the screens weren't perfectly still, but swaying, we had to track the image to the moving phone. We did this for most of the shots until we realised that it wasn't very well executed and so gave a tacky look. We then also decided to add a still frame of the actor holding the phone and very slowly zoom in so it didnt seem awkward and still.
If we had more time it would've been great to master the skill of tracking and masking to make a professional looking effect.
We are very happy with how the animated contact lense turned out. By carefully tracking it frame by frame and turning the transparency down slightly and turning up the mask feathering, we think it looked quite realistic.
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