When I cut together my abstract audio, I was really excited to work with the video footage me and Ed collected. We managed to get on the roof of building 8 (were we even allowed up there? Who knows…) and we got some really awesome footage of RMIT and its surrounds from an amazing and unique vantage point. The camera was incredible to work with because we could zoom in all the way up to a subject sleeping in the court yard a couple hundred metres away. I really LOVED editing it because as I started, I know it would have this eerie/voyeuristic feel to it. The fact we had recorded strangers without them knowing (again, were we allowed to do this? Doesn’t matter because we did) made for candid, but creepy footage. Each video ran with a theme, and that theme was basically high angle, roof t shots. I found that as I began editing the video together, whilst it did have an overriding theme of being on a rooftop with a lot of sky footage, the shots were still slightly unrelated. So give it some sort of body, I decided to use the slow zoom out shot of the guy sleeping in the court yard as a reference. All the other footage was edited around consistent cut aways to this shot of the guy. That way, while the shots seemed to not make sense, there would still be a reference point, and people could track the progress of the zooming out on the unaware, sleeping man. When I edited in other shots of people walking through the Old Melbourne Gaol gates, I made that footage black and white. For every shot in between the reference shots of the sleeping man, I tweaked with speed and whether the footage played forwards or backwards. All the shots were usable and I really liked that when I put them together, there was a very eerie, sniper like feel to the abstract film. I edited the audio after I edited the footage, and this was the part that I was least excited about. I feel like Ella and my audio wasn’t really the best to work with. The sounds did slightly vary, but they weren’t unique like our video footage. We had a great track of truck hydraulics which only featured during the reference shot of the sleeping man, and so in itself acted as a constant like the video. The other sounds were good, but not as great nor distinguishable as I would have liked. However, adding them to the visuals made the overall video very disorientated and confusing. But I really enjoyed working with the footage and trying to construct something out of various other pieces that felt like they didn’t (or couldn’t) belong together.