The Ipod commercial look

[ImAMachine]

This might me a stupid question but I have to film a commercail for school about the iPod and i'm just wondering how I can create the same look as the iPod commerical? Umm ... the only programs I have are iMove HD, and Adobe elements 3.0. I also have photoshop 7.0. Is this possible?

 

[Will Vincent]

Here's a photoshop tutorial: http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/jennifer/ipod.html


I found this on another site:

The trick to the ipod commercials is that the subjects are shot against a background that is easily removed so that all you need to do is drop the tonal range of the figure in the foreground. If you make proper selections, Photoshop perform the same effect with the 'levels' control. No plugin is needed.

 

[knightly]

We were gonna do a spoof of the ipod dancer thing, using a difference matte. In Final Cut (express will do this - Photoshop will do this frame by frame if you export from imovie as an image sequence). Using the diffference composite mode with an arbitrarily plain background clean plate, one should be able to make a difference mask that can be applied to either mask or isolate the forground element. This would work with poorly lit green screens as well so long as you have a clean plate of just the poorly lit screen (and few shadows hit it). Generally you would want a background that is in contrast to the subject you will be adding to the foreground, but you should be able to get something out of just about any background. For our project, we were going to use a plain white wall as a background to be masked out and replaced with a single color background. This would then blink back to regular color when the music stopped.

 

[ImAMachine]

We were gonna do a spoof of the ipod dancer thing, using a difference matte. In Final Cut (express will do this - Photoshop will do this frame by frame if you export from imovie as an image sequence). Using the diffference composite mode with an arbitrarily plain background clean plate, one should be able to make a difference mask that can be applied to either mask or isolate the forground element. This would work with poorly lit green screens as well so long as you have a clean plate of just the poorly lit screen (and few shadows hit it). Generally you would want a background that is in contrast to the subject you will be adding to the foreground, but you should be able to get something out of just about any background. For our project, we were going to use a plain white wall as a background to be masked out and replaced with a single color background. This would then blink back to regular color when the music stopped.

Is their a plug in that I can download? To do the effect cause im using the DVX100AP so it films at 24 frames a seond and changing each frame will take forever?

 

[knightly]

There is a bluescreening plugin for imovie:

http://www.stupendous-software.com/Stupendous/Tutorials/Tutorial 5/Tutorial_5.html

 

[ImAMachine]

When I download the demo I get a .sit file how do I put it onto iMovie?

 

[knightly]

http://www.stuffit.com/mac/expander/index.html will allow you to open the file. inside the folder that comes out, there should be instructions for the install.