DVD Menu:  Make Person On Background Movie Walk In Front Of Drop Zone?

This is the same idea as the iDVD theme - Fish.
In that, there is a photo frame at the bottom of a fish tank.
The inside of the frame is a drop zone.
A fish on the background/theme movie swims in front of the photo frame containing the movie you have dropped onto the drop zone.
It looks completely realistic and there is no translucency in the fish.
How is it done?

Just to make it clear, I can do the drop zones etc. it is just that I can't make something on the background movie pass in front of the drop zone.
When I tried it in DVDSP I had partial success by fiddling with the order of the layers but the "fish" was always translucent with the movie in the drop zone showing through it slightly.
I am sure it can be done in Motion?

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