Category: loops
Week 6: Loop Videos
(For this Continuity Loop video, I don’t know why the shots are squared, it may have to do with how I tried using Premier settings to change the shot from Portrait to Landscape.)
Week 6: Loops
Hey everyone,
Here is my loop video, I included all three loops into one.
This was a tough project personally but a creatively expressive one nonetheless.
-Caleb
Week 5 Blog: Loop Videos Response Post
An example of a rhythmic loop. The sounds match the things in the video and starts over with the sound effect ramping up and pulling back. The editing of the video has the sound effect starting off at one pitch and ramping up. It then starts perfectly over and was a good use of the sound effect.
This is a gif loop video. This is a display of cyclic loop. The editing being so smooth in this instance makes the scene appear seamless. If this was played on repeat you can’t tell where it starts and stops.
This loop video I thought to be a ‘Timeless’ loop due to how it starts and stops. The editing effects make the door opening and closing into the person who opened it look really cool I thought.
-Quincy Harris
Infinite Loop
Cameron and Quincy
Class Project Loops
Cameron and Quincy
Loops
This has always been my favorite gif- Mac and Charlie make awkward eye contact across the restaurant. Through the use of cutting, this moment is extended indefinitely. It reads entirely differently from within the context of the show. The loop now portrays this eternal moment of shock.
This is an interesting example unique to animation- there are no cuts, so the manipulation of time is accomplished through the protraction of a single shot. Homer is continually thwarted in his Sisyphean attempts to eat a chip, but there are only really two animations that are repeating, even though it appears infinite.
https://youtube.com/shorts/wL948xguzfo?si=VQYk6X9ISJO8jV3C
This example utilizes cutting and dialogue in tandem to create the illusion of a loop. Peter’s dialogue doesn’t register as reactive until the first time it loops, but then you realize that Brian and Peter’s statements ping-pong off each other to create an infinite conversation.
Week 5 Post
Hello everyone,
Here are three looping videos that I found on YouTube for this week’s post.
This Minecraft loop incorporates sound alongside repeated visuals. The player/camera moves forward in an already visually perplexing environment as the screen is framed by different types of blocks each second or so. The sound of the loop is one that uses “Shepard’s Tone” to simulate an ever-decreasing sound. The editing of the sound and movement of the player/camera adds a rhythmic pattern to the loop. The video itself ends the loop by the player breaking a block which returns the loop back to the beginning. There is a slight moment where the editing from end to beginning seems just a hair off of perfection, but I believe this comes very close to nailing it.
This looping video contained some useful information regarding creating loops while being a loop itself. The difference here, however, is that this loop is cyclic. Rather than having repeated elements within a single loop, this video cycles its content once per loop and contains a lot of visual elements that could partially place it into a frantic category. The creator uses an audio cue at the end of the loop to cycle straight into the beginning and even includes a countdown to the loop restarting. They also edit the footage by cutting a single recording in half and then placing one half at the start and one at the end to simulate the video continuing after the loop begins.
In this video, we see the creator interact with themselves to create a loop. I find videos that duplicate the creator to be very interesting and clever video editing. They had to record both of these instances and then combine the footage by either layering or resizing the footage to match up. The audio is important as well, the space between responses seems reasonable and the loop transition is barely noticeable. Another cyclic example as the previous but with less elements and a more simplistic concept. The creator also made sure to follow with their eyes the location of their duplicate to add to the illusion.
Thanks for reading!
-Caleb
Montage/Discontinuity
Hi class,
Here is my video for this week’s project.
Not quite sure how I feel about this work but I took some inspiration from Requiem for a Dream.
Thanks for taking a look!
-Caleb
Week 1 Blog Post
Looping With Lola
Run Lola Run is one of the most fascinating films I’ve seen to date. From the cinematic imagery to camera positions, describing this film to someone who’s not seen it before may throw them for a loop. Describing the narrative momentum of Run Lola Run is the focus of this post however, so let’s dive into it.
How does this film manage to keep the attention of the audience? There’s certainly a lot going on even before the time loop aspect is introduced. There are a handful of factors that retain the film’s momentum, the first being attention to detail.
The first loop introduces most of the films characters that in sequential loops have their lives changed by Lola’s actions. We see this through the pictorial montage after Lola interacts with people. As the audience, it’s interesting to us to see how the lives of the characters change with each time loop. It may entice the audience to think how the next loop will affect these characters, maintaining their interest and giving the film more room to explore this narrative.
Not only do we see repeated characters through each time loop, but objects as well. Clocks are the “golden object” if you will, or the object controlling the flow of the film for the audience. The clock displays where Lola is in the narrative, especially in the following time loops. A clever plot device that helps push along the story while keeping the audience engaged with Lola’s journey.
Similar to the clock, locations in the film are repeated to clearly inform the audience that a time shift is taking place. These locations also help to pinpoint Lola’s location in the narrative, such as the train crossing over the bridge that Lola runs under.
Lastly, Run Lola Run maintains the narrative flow using incredible cinematography and a tight-nit story. There are a few questions left unanswered in the film such as why Lola has super-human screams, how the time loops are happening, and other similar vein of questions. These questions don’t need answering however as I believe the story would become too convoluted for the audience if they were.
To coincide with this point, the films’ identity in the form of cinematography has no real definition since the story has no real answers. The film diverts the audience’s attention with animation, various camera shots, and overall flow to allow the audience to focus on other aspects of the film and ignore the rising questions.
I will be recommending this film to everyone I know.
Take care,
-Caleb