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Short film shot by Christian Letruria in South Africa (2008) with EX1sony 720p edit in FCP - Music by Sigur Ros - Hoppypolla (takk 2005)

Blue Crane is the national bird of South Africa.
It began a sudden population decline
from around 1980 and is now classified as vulnerable.

thx to southafrica.net/ who made possible this work

cru-a.com/ nice magazine with an article about this work.

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Giul Viera & Fabia Oliveira 1 year ago

Wow!
Very very nice :)

I think I already hear this music on TV ... some call the Discovery Channel. Planet Green? Good choice! What is music?
Christian Letruria 1 year ago

thanks guys the band is Sigur Ros...enjoy is amazing band from Iceland! ciao!
Max Lampin 1 year ago

The song is called Hoppipolla from the album: Takk Wonderful music.

Oh now I've seen, it's also in the video info. lol
ivan vania 1 year ago

great!!!
Gianluca Pipitone 1 year ago

Great video! I experience the feeling of the bird learning to fly directly through the screen. I wanna learn to fly too :-)
Christian Letruria 1 year ago

grande!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nick Keating 1 year ago

What a great video, nice work Christian. There's something about this video that I can't put into words, its a moving piece, thanks for sharing.
Christian Letruria 1 year ago

thanks Nick!
Simone Raso 1 year ago

Grandissimo!!
... ed è solo l'inizio!
:)
Christian Letruria 1 year ago

grande te fratello per l'esperienza indimenticabile! te ne sarò grato in eterno! a presto!
Frederic Vercammen 1 year ago

Great stuff!
Brian Van Peski 1 year ago

mmm. love those shots! I've added this to the doc channel!
Christian Letruria 1 year ago

thx Brian is a pleasure, i love your channel.
Tom Dowser 1 year ago

Yes, very nice. I've added this to Beyond Nature as well.
Christian Letruria 1 year ago

Thx Tom for the add. is a pleasure!
Jason Drakeford 1 year ago

I absolutely love the color in this piece... very nice work!
Youtube is Better 1 year ago

nice work.
valerio angelini 1 year ago

bello, bello, bello

ma quella è la bicicletta che mi hanno fregato il mese scorso!
Christian Letruria 1 year ago

ahahaha povero cristo per ricettarla ne ha fatta di strada! bella Vale'!
Gabriel Soares 1 year ago

Very nice!! Added to the EX1 footage channel.
Christian Letruria 1 year ago

my pleasure Gabriel. thx so much.
Liam Underwood 1 year ago

did you use an adapter for this or just add in some vignetting in? looks good mate. you were able to display this beautiful bird so raw and interesting.
Christian Letruria 1 year ago

hi Liam, no the vignetting is magic bullet color correction...no adapter. Thanks mate fore compliments.
Blair Cook 1 year ago

Amazing and I freaking love Sigur Ros!
Mark Kammel 1 year ago

this is just some of the best footage ive seen with video cameras... ever. this looks so beautiful.
Christian Letruria 1 year ago

thanks Mark, when feeling are shared i m very glad. you r welcome.
chris leppla 1 year ago

that really made me smile. great video.
Martin Goguen 1 year ago

Wow wow wow! amaaazing video! I find it crazy how you got that on tape!
Santi Trujillo 1 year ago

Wow, what a wonderful moment, this video move me. Nice shots.
Brandon Vaidean 1 year ago

brilliant.
great job. and might i say excellent song choice.
Elaine Bailey 1 year ago

Totally Awesome Christian! I want to share this with all my friends - what a wonderful moment you captured - you make it look easy! Thank you

PS: Sigur Ros is one of my favs - Gobbledigook is also fun - did you see their video on their site!! :-)
Christian Letruria 1 year ago

Thx Elaine, i m happy you like and you r in same mood.
Wouter Oude Wesselink 1 year ago

great video
matthew carrozo 1 year ago

this is the most beautiful thing i've seen in ages!

christian, u've made my night and my weekend!
Christian Letruria 1 year ago

thx matt Is my pleasure!
Eldar Bayburin 1 year ago

very beautiful! nice colours!
MizzMeister 1 year ago

Wow! I agree with everyone... Amazing. I also really loved how you gave it a story rather than just straight nature footage (which would have still been fantastic), but it adds a whole new layer to the film. We get to experience this stunning and inspirational event through the man riding his bike.
Christian Letruria 1 year ago

good comment, you explaine perfctly my prospective to this work. Is amazing having this response. thx Mizz
voo 1 year ago

Impressive!
And good music you picked up.
Ron Clark 1 year ago

Exceptional. As that bird first lands after it's first extended flight, I wonder what it thought of itself.
Ryan Kline 1 year ago

This is insanely beautiful. Did you use a 35 mm adapter? What did you color correct with. I am amazed and inspired as a filmmaker.
Christian Letruria 1 year ago

Thx Ryan, i use a mod picture profile than i yuo looks for the c.c. I like to create fiction with nature scene.
Mark Huffman 1 year ago

What program do you use to do this?
Christian Letruria 1 year ago

With EX1 we can create a personale picture profile.
Greg Voevodsky 1 year ago

Awesome. I'd love to see it without the bike rider and less MTV over-color yellow corrected look. The Story is great. Song could be more exciting as learning to fly is an RUSH and exciting as the birds could be seen feeling it - rather than some slow pop song... try some Van Halen - Leaning to Fly - I'd love to cut it clean, fast - saturated - 80s style.
Christian Letruria 1 year ago

thx for your style impression, is a cine like correction, i like 80s but prefere other sound for nature.
TrepTower 1 year ago

I'm a fan of this.

But I hate to be devil's advocate about this. But may be that was more of a territorial issue between those two birds, there was a lot of posturing.

I mean the protagonist bird seemed to be a rather competent flyer, and it's plumage seemed rather well developed so probably not so young.

But I'm no Avian Biologist, so awesome short.
Christian Letruria 1 year ago

Is the Cyclo the man leran to fly ;-)
Alfio Chieffallo 1 year ago

Such a beautiful film. Congratulations. Thank you so much for sharing with all of us. Alfio from Toronto Canada
Christian Letruria 1 year ago

Alfio is my pleasure your comment. enjoy.
Amenon 1 year ago

Stupendo.

Pou' essere che era un rituale di corteggiamento o duello tra maschi quello che hai ripreso?
Christian Letruria 1 year ago

Lo era, il maschio è il giocherellone, lei un po' scostante...lui nella parte centrale insiste perchè lei salti in sincro con lui se vedi si nota. Cmq, ho iniziato a riprenderli fermi poi come se fossero una coppia un po' esibizionista hanno fatto tutta quella meraviglia, bel colpo di culo ;-) grazie cmq.
zeffii stanton 1 year ago

beautiful :)
kaspars 1 year ago

if I had an award to give - I definitely would! this was great. and thumbs up for puting Sigur Ros on this!
TKTODD 1 year ago

Very cool. Good job!!
jeff 1 year ago

Well no wonder those birds are going extinct. They live out in a plain when they should live where there are trees so they can learn to fly the right way.
Bogdan Kramliczek 1 year ago

Very, very nice!
TomKreft 1 year ago

Further proof that Sigur Ros can turn anything into something epic. Even birds.
Wolfgang Gaebler 1 year ago

Estupendo!
Nicholas 1 year ago

very beautiful!
Brandon Powers 1 year ago

beautiful footage. nice edit.
Adam Sobotka 1 year ago

great work
Gianluca Belvisi 1 year ago

What a fucking beautiful world we live in
Christian Letruria 1 year ago

yes sir is this ;-)
Trak 1 year ago

Incredible, thx for sharing
Lucas Kakuda 1 year ago

Amazing man.
robby massey 1 year ago

the color and quality is great.
Richard Huntington 1 year ago

Nice video! Choice of music is spot on! Thanks for sharing!
kruzer 1 year ago

that was cool !
love the ending of one of the bird actually made a flight.
cameron getty 1 year ago

That was absolutely insane. I almost cried! No really, that was fabulous. Great, great, great job.
Christian Letruria 1 year ago

thx Cameron, is nice give emotion with works
Matthew Robertson 1 year ago

Amazing, but the only thing I would say is the first few shots you didn't have a vignette, but the rest you did, I just like it better when people are consistent with that. Great, great job though!
Dylan Yang 1 year ago

So nice and The good opening.
What's the music tiltle,I watched another one use this music too.
RedUmbrellaStudios 1 year ago

Great film, very powerful. Love the music selection as well :)
Ray Martinez 1 year ago

wow!
Keith Loutit 1 year ago

very moving. i couldn't helped be moved by the moment, and the presentation. thank you.
Miro Kantarsky 1 year ago

Superb video!
Christian Letruria 1 year ago

thx Miro!
roberto conti 1 year ago

Mi hai fatto piangere!!!! Non si fanno questi spettacolari video senza avvisare le persone sensibili!!!
Grazie.
Christian Letruria 1 year ago

Grazie Roberto, felice di averti emozionato, anche se ovviamente gran parte del lavoro è degli attori inconsapevoli ;-) I cranes sono da oscar!
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

Nice work!

Always loved that song.

Did you use Magic bullet looks?
Christian Letruria 1 year ago

yes mate i use looks of M.B. thx alot for compliments, i see also your work are very nice, compliments to dear.
Matt 1 year ago

i wish there were some shots that "matched the explosiveness of the music", rather than just long random shots of the birds doing the same thing over and over.

unfortunately... MY opinion is the music makes this video good , not necessarily the shots themselves.
Christian Letruria 1 year ago

thx for your opinion Matt, when i edit i make a dicision, the birds actions have an inside story not easy to see ( a subtext), anyone can see what he want, i see this and i use a "long sequence shot ", because this scene, is unique. But its my opinion...all the best.
Matt 1 year ago

I understand, that makes sense. I guess I didnt see that originally.
André Chocron 1 year ago

This is really beutiful, I love the images! However I feel the Sigur Ros song makes it seem like a commercial; the music and the images are too harmonic together in a way.. There's no friction. I would go for something rougher. That being said: Nice!
eric 1 year ago

i think that will be better if keep ur camera still
Mark Espina 1 year ago

Nice. Uplifting.
deafcat 1 year ago

You have beautiful vision
Stealth Donkey 1 year ago

great video!
Tobias Gommer 1 year ago

Brilliant! The way he's coming back for the other bird, almost like saying: "Come on! Try harder!".

Look over your typography again, you can do better I think.
Alexander Rossignol 1 year ago

Oh mon dieu, un des plus beaux courts métrages que j'ai jamais vu... C'est tout simplement magnifique.

Merci.

Oh my god, one of the best short movie i've ever seen. It's simply beautiful.

Thanks...
Christian Letruria 1 year ago

Merci a toi Alexander, je suis très heureux e on dois remercie surtout le deux oiseaux, acteur parfait non payes ;-)
Nowawes 1 year ago

Best bird video ever! Ohh dude this is soooo beautiful! CONGRATULATIONS! Greetings from Germany!
Christian Letruria 1 year ago

Thanks and greatings from Italy dear!
Kaushik 1 year ago

Great! Like it very much, are this real colour? I want to download this clip if you can allow.

Thanks,
Kaushik
DavidZorro 1 year ago

Amazing - thanks for sharing.
mausejka 1 year ago

Its`great!
Thank you very much! =)
Esther Kim 1 year ago

Amazing. It is quite moving~
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Christian Letruria 1 year ago

Many thanks Luis,
i m pleased for this dear. Gracias por el link un fuerte abrazo de Italia.
Asta luego, asta siempre.