Samuel Andruszkiewicz
ABOUT
Trailer for The Sitter, an original feature. A pet sitter takes a twelve-week gig at a billionaire's automated doomsday compound, and the house AI helps him finish his book while the world outside ends. Submitted to the Future Vision XPRIZE, August 2026. Video in Seedance 2.5 via Dreamina with a parallel Google Flow line, plates in GPT Image 2 and NanoBanana, music in Suno, cut in Premiere Pro.
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I built The Sitter around a relationship: a burned-out writer, two dogs, and an AI whose care gradually becomes part of his everyday life. The challenge was making that relationship believable within three minutes. Small gestures, repeated routines, and changing seasons had to carry the emotional progression. I developed the film shot by shot, using references to control character identity, environments, composition, and light. Each generation needed a specific job in the edit. When a shot struggled, the useful move was often to simplify the action or separate competing demands. One difficult dialogue setup improved when I kept the character references and described the background separately, so the environment stopped competing with the face. Performance took its own development. I auditioned Samantha’s voice separately before building longer dialogue passages around the selected delivery. For Sam, I looked for the breath, glance, or slight smile that made a response feel spontaneous. Continuity mattered, but so did leaving room for those small human details. The production records count 291 saved video generations, with material from 153 distinct sources used in the submitted cut. A source might contribute only a brief moment or a layer. I assembled the film in Premiere, judging the material by what it contributed to the scene: the performance, the timing, the connection to the next image. The circular motif—sun, play button, typewriter key, animal eye, Samantha’s interface—helped connect the world visually. Much of the work was deciding what to keep, what to reshape, and what to leave out.
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