Rotoscoping

 

I ran into some serious issues when rotoscoping the clip of Dylan's performance. I was unable to view the footage at full resolution in After Effects because by PC just wasn't powerful enough. It crashed three times, corrupting files each time, meaning I had to start from the beginning. 

The automatic rotoscoping tool in After Effects did a good enough job at detecting where the outline of Dylan's figure was, but as I could only run it at 1/5 resolution the final rendered output was a little jagged and pixelated. 

A big mistake we made when filming was having Dylan sitting in the background shots where the others were dancing, as when we overlaid the rotoscoped footage there we odd bits of Dylans head and arms peaking out from in the background. To address this I masked Dylan out of the background, the duplicated the layer a couple of times, added some Gaussian blur and repositioned them to fill in the Dylan shaped space. Then I set the duplicated layers' blend modes to Screen and put a clean plate behind it. The end result has a but of blurriness around Dylan's head.

If time permits I'll have another go at rotoscoping on Andrew's PC.