This is the Loop I and Qinn Carrick made in class, and edited together in class.

I was having fun, and decided to edit another infinite loop with the footage I gathered from the continuity loop, and thought I would share.

My movements were a bit slow, so it’s slightly longer than 10 seconds.

When first starting my dialogue with ChatGPT I realized how important wording my prompts was. My first ask was involved saying how I was gonna use AI to create video but ChatGPT read that as “give me ideas that would make videos about AI.”

I ended up using the prompt “give me some ideas for some short film projects/ story ideas” which definitely helped get more on the right track with creative endeavors. ChatGPT gave me 10 ideas. The 3 I liked most were “Fading Memories,” “The Last Passenger,” and “Echoes of the Past.” I decided to expand upon “Fading Memories” as it seemed a route that would work well with AI being almost a dreamlike state where what is generated is allowed to be a bit odd because it may not be remembered correctly.

I expanded on this idea with the prompt “Hey I like that “Fading Memories” idea! I want to do a 30-60 second short film montage with me having dialogue over assortment of hazy memories. what types of shots should I consider for this project?” to which it gave many ideas that I liked with having a mixture of shorts both of the past memories being hazy and close up dramatic slow shots to create a similarity and contrast of sad feelings between both shot types.

Thus I have landed on the idea to make a dramatic 30-60 second short film of happy memories slowly fading as they have happened so long ago. I will most likely make it about a love relationship that has been lost to time and being separated has made the emotion of the memories feel bittersweet. I want to have myself do the dialogue, record myself as the character in the non memories section and then use AI for all of the hazy dream sections.

To compare what I am envisioning to other works of film and quality type, the lighting of the shots of the man alone with be very dark and the AI memories will be black and white to show a positive yet slightly forgetfulness. The set for the alone man will be places like sitting on the bed, looking in the mirror, and other dramatic dark locations with the lights off meanwhile the shots of AI will be more outside and open with sunlight or good indoor lighting.

The AI creations will be similar to the montage we see at the beginning of Up (except not cartoon looking and using black and white instead) I see why they have the color in Up as Carl’s memory is fine and stable, but for my effect I need things to not have all of the details like a part of you is trying to keep it and the other wants to throw it away.

(But black and white with hazy effects)

Another point to draw from is the film “A Man Called Otto” which I believe shows both how I want to shot the in real life shots similar to Otto in his home being dramatized with different close ups and establishing shots, but also how the hazy memories are done in the montage style(except black and white instead of yellow) The yellow of these shots show pure untainted happiness about those memories meanwhile I believe the black and white effect will help show the sadness that has been added to the memories.

(But black and white)

(Darker lighting but similar vibes of this)

-Rylan Eisenhauer

Here are my loop videos for the Loops Assignment. each one repeats 3 times

Continuity Loop (7 secs)x3:

Infinite Loop (8.6 secs)x3:

Montage Loop (6.3 secs)x3: (No Sound)

-Rylan Eisenhauer

This film uses many shots of nature, such as leaves, rain, trees, and a body of water. It also has shots of a chimney with smoke. These shots are split by shots of a woman reading a letter and being very sad. These shots of the woman are the only linear part of the film, meaning there are actions and direct cause and effect between scenes rather than a static shot of water. That being said, the “nonsensical” shots of nature give us an insight into what the woman is experiencing and feeling. Through tone the audience can infer that she is feeling very sad and hopeless. Both the shot of the woman and the shots of nature are needed for communicating this, as without the woman the audience would not have anything to tie these shots to narratively, and without the nature scenes the audience would not have a reference for what she is feeling, which is suicidal. The film reinforces this idea of using symbolic footage to represent feeling, which is more difficult to communicate than say text, by using the sun to represent her shift in perspective and mood. I would say this approach to montage is successful, as it is a creative way to communicate complex character motivation through film, and shows us visually through symbolism what she is feeling. The use of montage aids to this clear communication, as it ties the woman and the nature scenes together.

For this assignment I tried to use intellectual montage and tonal montage. The concept is someone setting the table, with different perspectives of dishes. I wanted to play with different ways dishes could be shot compositionally, thus I took a more abstract direction with this project. This morphed into someone setting a formal table setting for two, only to be alone at the end with only one glass representing a desire for connection and community that is lacking in this character’s life.