Ipod Headphones

[Steve Roberts]

The headphones were rotoscoped. Animated by hand. 🙂

You should also dress the person in black (with a mask) to stack the deck in your favour.

[Derek Hader]

Rotoscoping all that… That sounds like A LOT of work..

I was imagining something like coating the iPod a bright colour like red or something. And essentially chroma key twice, once for the green screen, and once for the red.

I havn’t been able to think it thru all the way.. but shouldn’t something like that be possible, and easier than rotoscoping hundreds or thousands of frames of headphone wires bouncing around?

[Steve Roberts]

Those cords are pretty thin. Maybe if you replaced them with thicker, yet still flexible cord …

I’d make ’em white, because red cords would never be entirely red — they’d be red-brown, grayish red … I’d try white.

Anyway, try Googling or searching the COW on “ipod” and “headphones”. Much virtual ink has been spilled on this.

[Derek Hader]

Thanks for your help… I will investigate.

[David Bogie]

Haven’t tried this in many years but we had great success on a 16mm film shoot back in the olden days. We sprayed the elements we needed to pull for mattes with fluorescent clear paint. It was specially formulated to be invisible until blacklight hit it and then it popped. We used special glass ultraviolet light-pass filters over stadium spotlights, Super-Troupers.

You might be able to use a a retro-reflective tape to replace the headphone cords and a ring-light on your lens to pull a really hard image.

bogiesan

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