Using a mask to create an image that's distortable

Essentially I'm trying to create a mask that captures the image it encircles and allows me to distort the image.  For example, if I have a picture of a person and draw a circle mask around the person's head, when I distort the mask it distorts (e.g. stretch/skew/bend) the person's head and not just the shape of the mask.  I'm trying to create my own version of this video but using Motion instead of AfterEffects and Mocha. 
https://vimeo.com/38940289 
If you watch the tutorial it's the AfterEffects "precompose" function that I'm trying to mimic.  And I don't think creating a new Group in motion is the ticket because I can only distort the image by adjusting the edge of the canvas vs. the edge of the mask. 
video's tutorial vimeo.com/benboutwell/frametutorial
Thanks for any and all help!  It's been a couple of frustrating days... 

You don't need a mask if you're doing rectangular shapes.
Clone your original source (type- K).
Crop your source to the rectangle you need around your subject (click and drag on the numbers to go past the slider imposed limits). Use the rectangle shape you'll be using in the animation as your guide for dimensions. [If you're using a shape rectangle, turn off the fill, use an outline width that will be easy to match points with and place it over the clone layer.]
Type A to turn on "Animation" (recording). [it's easier to start at the first frame of the animation, but it really doesn't matter: you can go back and forth in time and even overwrite settings for any frame if you need to tweak anything.]
Select the clone layer;  right click on the clone and select Distort from the popup (or select it from the Tool menu). You'll be animating Four Corner. With the Animation recording on, you can use whatever else is at your disposal as well (position, rotation, scale and shear.) If there's not a lot of change in the frame orientation, you can click and drag inside the Distort (Four Corner) to reposition all four corners at once.
Go frame by frame to set the corner points. Or, if there is actaully a frame in your video, you might try setting up motion trackers [Behaviors menu > Motion Tracking > Analyze Motion. Then for each of the Four Corner parameters, right click and select a Track parameter behavior. In the Behaviors tab, for the Track parameter behavior, drag the Analyze Motion Behavior for the matching point onto the source well.]
http://documentation.apple.com/en/motion/usermanual/index.html#chapter=19%26sect ion=6%26tasks=true

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