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1. MaleconMorning

by Christian Letruria

3 years ago

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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ivan vania 3 years ago

great!!!
Gianluca Pipitone 3 years 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 3 years ago

grande!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nick Keating 3 years 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 3 years ago

thanks Nick!
Simone Raso 3 years ago

Grandissimo!!
... ed è solo l'inizio!
:)
Christian Letruria 3 years ago

grande te fratello per l'esperienza indimenticabile! te ne sarò grato in eterno! a presto!
Frederic Vercammen 3 years ago

Great stuff!
Brian Van Peski 3 years ago

mmm. love those shots! I've added this to the doc channel!
Christian Letruria 3 years ago

thx Brian is a pleasure, i love your channel.
Tom Dowser 3 years ago

Yes, very nice. I've added this to Beyond Nature as well.
Christian Letruria 3 years ago

Thx Tom for the add. is a pleasure!
Jason Drakeford 3 years ago

I absolutely love the color in this piece... very nice work!
Youtube is Better 3 years ago

nice work.
valerio angelini 3 years ago

bello, bello, bello

ma quella è la bicicletta che mi hanno fregato il mese scorso!
Christian Letruria 3 years ago

ahahaha povero cristo per ricettarla ne ha fatta di strada! bella Vale'!
Gabriel Soares 3 years ago

Very nice!! Added to the EX1 footage channel.
Christian Letruria 3 years ago

my pleasure Gabriel. thx so much.
Liam Underwood 3 years 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 3 years ago

hi Liam, no the vignetting is magic bullet color correction...no adapter. Thanks mate fore compliments.
Blair Cook 3 years ago

Amazing and I freaking love Sigur Ros!
Mark Kammel 3 years ago

this is just some of the best footage ive seen with video cameras... ever. this looks so beautiful.
Christian Letruria 3 years ago

thanks Mark, when feeling are shared i m very glad. you r welcome.
chris leppla 3 years ago

that really made me smile. great video.
Martin Goguen 3 years ago

Wow wow wow! amaaazing video! I find it crazy how you got that on tape!
Santi Trujillo 3 years ago

Wow, what a wonderful moment, this video move me. Nice shots.
Brandon Vaidean 3 years ago

brilliant.
great job. and might i say excellent song choice.
Elaine Bailey 3 years 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 3 years ago

Thx Elaine, i m happy you like and you r in same mood.
Wouter Oude Wesselink 3 years ago

great video
Matthew Carrozo 3 years ago

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

christian, u've made my night and my weekend!
Christian Letruria 3 years ago

thx matt Is my pleasure!
Eldar Bayburin 3 years ago

very beautiful! nice colours!
MizzMeister 3 years 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 3 years ago

good comment, you explaine perfctly my prospective to this work. Is amazing having this response. thx Mizz
anteater 3 years ago

Impressive!
And good music you picked up.
Ron Clark 3 years ago

Exceptional. As that bird first lands after it's first extended flight, I wonder what it thought of itself.
Ryan Kline 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years ago

What program do you use to do this?
Christian Letruria 3 years ago

With EX1 we can create a personale picture profile.
Greg Voevodsky / WavesDVD.com 3 years 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 3 years ago

thx for your style impression, is a cine like correction, i like 80s but prefere other sound for nature.
TrepTower 3 years 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 3 years ago

Is the Cyclo the man leran to fly ;-)
Alfio Chieffallo 3 years ago

Such a beautiful film. Congratulations. Thank you so much for sharing with all of us. Alfio from Toronto Canada
Christian Letruria 3 years ago

Alfio is my pleasure your comment. enjoy.
Amenon 3 years ago

Stupendo.

Pou' essere che era un rituale di corteggiamento o duello tra maschi quello che hai ripreso?
Christian Letruria 3 years 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 3 years ago

beautiful :)
kaspars 3 years ago

if I had an award to give - I definitely would! this was great. and thumbs up for puting Sigur Ros on this!
TKTODD 3 years ago

Very cool. Good job!!
jeff 3 years 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 3 years ago

Very, very nice!
TomKreft 3 years ago

Further proof that Sigur Ros can turn anything into something epic. Even birds.
Wolfgang Gaebler aka gogo6969 3 years ago

Estupendo!
Nicholas Fiorentini 3 years ago

very beautiful!
Brandon Powers: Photographer 3 years ago

beautiful footage. nice edit.
Adam Sobotka 3 years ago

great work
Gianluca Belvisi 3 years ago

What a fucking beautiful world we live in
Christian Letruria 3 years ago

yes sir is this ;-)
Trak 3 years ago

Incredible, thx for sharing
Lucas Kakuda 3 years ago

Amazing man.
Robby Massey 3 years ago

the color and quality is great.
Richard Huntington 3 years ago

Nice video! Choice of music is spot on! Thanks for sharing!
kruzer 3 years ago

that was cool !
love the ending of one of the bird actually made a flight.
cameron getty 3 years ago

That was absolutely insane. I almost cried! No really, that was fabulous. Great, great, great job.
Christian Letruria 3 years ago

thx Cameron, is nice give emotion with works
Matthew Robertson 3 years 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 3 years ago

So nice and The good opening.
What's the music tiltle,I watched another one use this music too.
RedUmbrellaStudios 3 years ago

Great film, very powerful. Love the music selection as well :)
Keith Loutit 3 years ago

very moving. i couldn't helped be moved by the moment, and the presentation. thank you.
Miro Kantarsky 3 years ago

Superb video!
Christian Letruria 3 years ago

thx Miro!
roberto conti 3 years ago

Mi hai fatto piangere!!!! Non si fanno questi spettacolari video senza avvisare le persone sensibili!!!
Grazie.
Christian Letruria 3 years 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 3 years ago

Nice work!

Always loved that song.

Did you use Magic bullet looks?
Christian Letruria 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years ago

I understand, that makes sense. I guess I didnt see that originally.
André Chocron 3 years 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 3 years ago

i think that will be better if keep ur camera still
Mark Espina 3 years ago

Nice. Uplifting.
deafcat 3 years ago

You have beautiful vision
Stealth Donkey 3 years ago

great video!
Tobias Gommer 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years ago

Merci a toi Alexander, je suis très heureux e on dois remercie surtout le deux oiseaux, acteur parfait non payes ;-)
Nowawes 3 years ago

Best bird video ever! Ohh dude this is soooo beautiful! CONGRATULATIONS! Greetings from Germany!
Christian Letruria 3 years ago

Thanks and greatings from Italy dear!
Kaushik 3 years ago

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

Thanks,
Kaushik
dm 3 years ago

Amazing - thanks for sharing.
Kharitonova Irene 3 years ago

Its`great!
Thank you very much! =)
Esther Kim 3 years ago

Amazing. It is quite moving~
Ammonite 3 years ago

Really beautiful. It's amazing to watch the bird trying different techniques to get off the ground. And when he finally does it seems so elegant even his flared landing. Isn't instinct fantastic also your instinct to produce this great moving piece of video.
Christian Letruria 3 years ago

Great compliments, nice to meet you Ammonite, the scene i shot was very impressive, i m happy to share it. all the best!
Contz 3 years ago

Complimenti Christian! Davvero complimenti
Christian Letruria 3 years ago

Grazie Contz!
AIR Videos 3 years ago

coooooool