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A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Lima, Peru by TravelPod blogger Fishtails04 titled “The Locals of Lima” Fishtails04′s travel blog entry: “I took several overnight buses when I lived in Ecuador all those years ago and I remember them well… broken seats, unpleasant smells, kung-foo videos playing, drivers watching the video instead of the road, and, very often, 3 passengers squeezed onto a seat for 2… so I wasn´t really looking forward to the 27 hour trip from Guayaquil to Lima! What a surprise I got… transport has changed in the past 15 years, it seems! A comfortable double decker coach with a single seat which reclined almost to horizontal, a footstool, veggie food, air-con, curtains on the windows, refreshments… the only thing that hadn´t changed was the dire films on show, but, with ear plugs, this was a minor detail! We left a hot, sticky Guayaquil at 11 am and drove for hours through the dull scenery of endless banana plantations. For some reason my mind kept conjuring up images of the evil 8 legged specimens lurking therein and in the end I had to close the curtains and watch the mildly less scary kung foo film. So it was a delight to wake up the following morning (Jackie Chan´s exclamations being the alarm call, as the next dvd began…) and draw back the fabric… mountains! A dry, brown, dusty, sandy landscape with mist drifting across the base of the black rocky mountains beyond… ahhh, desert… yes please! Occasionally the view to …
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I made this video in a Documentary Production class in Spring 2009; despite the fact that I was learning the ropes of Final Cut Express as I went along, I think the end result turned out very well. I did as much research as I could at the time, which was limited to John Lent’s book Animation in Asia and the Pacific, and a few scattered internet sources. I wrote the script over the course of a few days, then borrowed a microphone from the professor and asked a friend to record the voiceover for me–he did a fantastic job! The video is a mixture of DVD rips and footage downloaded from various video sites; the music and sound effects are from the films themselves. Even though I was quite happy with the way this project turned out, I didn’t get a chance to upload it until now, because for a long time I couldn’t figure out the correct way to export it from Final Cut Express. As I have shown this film to different people over the years, I have been alerted to several factual errors that I wasn’t aware of when I wrote the script; since I produced the whole film from start to finish in about five weeks, I didn’t have much time to fact-check myself. For example, I have been told that the year of the Japanese invasion of Shanghai is way off, as well as the year marking the start of the Anti-Rightist Campaign. In addition, I have incorrect release years listed for at least one of the films (The Plank Bridge was actually released in 1988, for instance). Nevertheless, I hope this …
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