For the past few weeks in class, we have been studying the revolutionary Documentary-Film Makers and fathers of Montage Eisenstein, Vertov and Kuleshov.
For our first assessment we were given the task of creating our own peices of history by trying to emulate their efforts and making our own themed montages. After watching the epic film by vertov The Man With The Movie Camera in which vertov documents a whole day in a city I was inspired to create my own masterpeice with similar editing techniques.
Whilst learning how to use edit the software I learned how much effort goes into just a simple edit, it took me 4 hours to edit and compile roughly around thirteen photos and organise and arrange them in sucession. After my first effort was deemed too basic and lacked any imagination I remade my photomontage and chose a new theme.
My new photomontage is based on Africa as a continent. My video features parts of my hometown Accra in Ghana where I was born. I took most of these photos from a holiday, in which I returned back to my country of origin for the first time in thirteen years, some of the other pictures were from the internet.
Below is my remade montage.
Untitled from Edem King on Vimeo.
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Really impressed with this, Edem. I like how you managed to capture different cultural aspects of Bath, blending the old with the new. It was also a good idea to use the instrumental version of the song because you get the full impact of the music rather than being distracted by the lyrics. The transition from day to night was a great idea too and you can tell you put a lot of time and effort into it. Nice one!
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