This exercise was based on American film maker Bruce Connor's work. Bruce Connor was known for making film montages using found footage, and in this exercise we used Final Cut Pro to make our own interpretation of a song he used for one of his montages, America is Waiting by Brian Eno and David Byrne (of American new wave band Talking Heads). We used footage from a film called Panorama Ephemera made by Rick Prelinger.
For some reason, when I uploaded this onto Vimeo the uploaded video contained a lot of footage I never intended to be in it and also cut the music short. The actual quicktime video before I uploaded it didn't have these problems, so I have no idea what could have caused it, but here it is:
Untitled from Esther Ridings on Vimeo.
This exercise was useful but a bit frustrating at times, as there were a lot of problems with FCP that had to be dealt with that also might have been the cause for the issues showing up once I uploaded it. That said, those problems themselves provided knowledge of troubleshooting that might be useful in the future. I was glad for the practice, as I've never used FCP or done any film editing of any sort before, having always focused more on the photography and journalism aspect of media. I've found it interesting to learn though and I'm sure I'll be using more of it in the future.
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