I am exploring ways to communicate contextual information within a video sequence without too much fuss and so far my experimentation has led me here: mTracker 3D and Keyper (I’m not going to do a product review - if you want more information go here for Keyper and here for mTracker).
Firstly mTracker3D - there are a bunch of YouTube videos which do this but I wanted to see it for myself… and it’s so impressive. The main hassle here is that tracking the shot can take a few minutes (something which you don’t see in those YT reviews and which can feel a bit tiring at first, so prepare for it by doing some ironing or something).
Second - after watching Mark Spencer’s review (and in particular this bit) I started playing with the idea of using Keyper to create a space between the talking head and the background. This is the result.
I then played with it further - isolating the fore/backgrounds by reducing saturation and/or enhancing the colour of the info label.
Yes there are a lot of rough edges here, but the point is that it opens up the potential - especially when trying to tell the story of a location.