Blog: Search for 3 short looped videos or gif animations that express a quality of time: cyclic, slow, timeless, frantic, rhythmic. With each loop that you post, discuss briefly how editing manipulates time for the effect. (Tik Tok, Instagram and other social media you can post into WordPress using the embed code, if not the link itself)
@filip.ino Just wait till I smash it on him #loop #perfectloop
This Loop is the most narrativized of the 3 but it is simple in its execution. Composing of 2 cuts between the characters exchanging the guitar but noticeably, they are both facing the same direction. While it’s not hard to figure out what is being conveyed in the passing of the guitar it makes it feel a little off even if the loop is fine.
@tannerlippold I may have just broke the internet with this one #fyp #foryou #loop #loops #perfectloop #looping #homemade
This loop holds the same angle for the duration of the video with footage composited over to give the effect of the doppelganger. The door’s position at the end is what makes the loop seamless. The editing of a loop like this is harder as the precision needs to be in place due to no easy cut to hide the inconsistencies.
@joezvonar THE CLEANEST LOOP YOU WILL EVER SEE! #fyp #perfectloop #editing #vfx #viral
This loop is fairly similar to the last one, but with flashier editing. It is far easier to hide the cuts in this one as there isn’t any single element that is fiddled with that remains on screen. Every “person” at some point leaves the screen leaving all the errors to the editor in case shadows overlap. The spacing in the camera seems good enough however that the shadows never became an issue. While this one has “better” editing due to its effects, I feel that it was less interesting due to it being over complicated and not having that precision the above loop did.