Filming iPhone Screen

[Todd Terry]

Making sure I understand correctly…

You want an iPhone, screen displaying green for key insertion later, but you also want to be able to touch the screen? Is that right?

If so, that should be pretty easy. I’ve not done it with an iPhone, but I’ve done it with a number of Android phones and several iPads. If no one has to touch them we’ve simply displayed a green screen.

But, in instances when they DID need to be touched… the devices we used weren’t even on. We attached an exact-sized piece of chroma-green paper to the screens.

That’s what did with all the tablets and phones in these two spots.

https://fantasticplastic.com/portfolio/news088.html
https://fantasticplastic.com/portfolio/news078.html

Actually displaying a green screen DOES have some advantages, especially for interiors because they are obviously basically “self lighting.” For exteriors though, adding a paper (or otherwise) green screen is much easier… you don’t have illumination issues since screens aren’t really that bright, and there are no reflections to contend with.

There seemed to be a period of time where we were having to do this with iPads fairly frequently… I found on eBay those non-functioning store-display iPads for about $15 each… I intended to buy a couple and just actually paint the screens green, but never got around to it. I’ve never looked, but you can probably buy non-functioning iPhones cheaply as well.

T2

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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com

[Rick Wise]

More beautiful work, Todd!

Rick Wise
Cinematographer
MFA/BFA Lighting and Camera Instructor Academy of Art University
San Francisco Bay Area
https://www.RickWiseDP.com

[Todd Terry]

Thanks Rick… that’s old stuff that I had almost forgotten about. Digging it up though did spark a new interest in getting a couple of dummy iPads and painting them. No doubt the need will come up again…

T2

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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com

[Rick Amundson]

This looks like a really interesting solution that might work for you. trackfinger.com

Best of luck!

Rick Amundson
Producer/Director/DP
Screenscape Studios
Bravo Romeo Entertainment
http://www.screenscapestudios.com
http://www.bravoromeo.com
http://www.indeliblemovie.com

[Emre Tufekcioglu]

Great job Todd,

One more tool you can use when tracking items on Ipads/Iphones is this:

https://www.trackfinger.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6p2I6qfnIs#t=77

Hope this helps,

PS:Hah, Rick beat me to it 🙂

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[Todd Terry]

Hadn’t heard of Trackfinger before the couple of mentions in this thread… it does look pretty cool. Cheap, too.

T2

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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com