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13. Hussein's Garden
7 months ago
The Gabaliya Bedouin live in the high mountains of the Sinai peninsular in Egypt. This region includes Mount Sinai where Moses spoke to God and St Catherine's Monastery, the oldest constantly inhabited Christian building on earth. The area has strong religious significance for Christians, Muslims and Jews.
Gabaliya means 'of the mountain' and legend has it that in these bedouin were sent by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian to protect St Catherine's monastery.
The high mountain area is a unique environment and the bedouin have adapted their lives to survive in this arid desert landscape. Hussein's garden is typical of the remote walled gardens established and tended by the bedouin for generations. This was filmed in March when the trees were covered in blossom. The harvest season starts in June with apricots.
We travelled with bedouinpaths.com. They organize trekking and trips into these remote and spectacular mountains.
Music: Aphex Twin "Stone in Focus" & Tarkan "Inci Tanem"
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Filmed with the Sony Ex1 and Letus Extreme.
Gabaliya means 'of the mountain' and legend has it that in these bedouin were sent by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian to protect St Catherine's monastery.
The high mountain area is a unique environment and the bedouin have adapted their lives to survive in this arid desert landscape. Hussein's garden is typical of the remote walled gardens established and tended by the bedouin for generations. This was filmed in March when the trees were covered in blossom. The harvest season starts in June with apricots.
We travelled with bedouinpaths.com. They organize trekking and trips into these remote and spectacular mountains.
Music: Aphex Twin "Stone in Focus" & Tarkan "Inci Tanem"
Please purchase from amazon.com
Filmed with the Sony Ex1 and Letus Extreme.
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The music makes the film into a magical journey with the sun and the moon ...
Thank you very much! Zofia:)
This footage is ... pure
Really nice work mate! I look forward to seeing more!
Codec H.264
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Key frame Every 300
Video Data Rate 700 kbits/ sec
Frame Reordering
Encoding; Multi Pass
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Great
The Time lapses are all filmed no photos or ?
Mostly EX1 but the stars were shot with a Nikon D200.
I'd love to go here as well, and perhaps meet Hussein.
The musical score is nothing short of spectacular and the night sky (with the stars/comets) is beyond superb.
Congratulations!
Plus mistakes are more obvious...
I might try and get an HD version up. I need to look into HD compression for vimeo. Any ideas on best settings.
Thanks.
How did you shoot that moon and he stars? Whats settings on your ex1?
The stars were shot with a Nikon D200 before the moon rise.
Since i work in the CGI sector , writing tutorial´s about rendering engine like "mental ray etc", i´d rather not comment on your film work, but to be truthfully i had no change to dislike it , thanks a lot :-)
but if this was shot on the ex1, why don't you put an HD version up?
Any suggestions for HD compression?
At 01:08 I like this images the guy is making ROTI (Its Indian word) we exactly make like this!
0:4:15 is also good image! Then 04:42 is good image and in last 04:55 is stunning!
Please upload more if you have some more footage, I wuold really appreciate if you can upload in HD mode.
Thanks,
Kaushik
Many thanks for your feedback. I'm stuck in a stinky noisy city myself right now, I need to plan another escape.
Let me look into uploading in HD. Looks like I will have to bow to the pressure.
Thanks for your reply, I will wait for that. And I invite you to see my latest video, if you have time here in link: vimeo.com/4547879
Kaushik
There's a strong yellow gradient filter at 00.01.56 which I'm not so keen on either. It is magical though and I would absolutely love to go there.
HD settings: try the same as you did except HD resolution. Even 'baby' HD at 1280 x 720 is good enough.
Audio: can go to 44.1 KHz (CD quality)
I hear you on the yellow grad - I should have toned it down. Maybe I'll make a couple of alterations before uploading in HD. Thanks for the tips.
Was wonder the whole time were you got a power supply from to charge batteries etc .
keep up the great work dude !
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Not sure what cables you need to hook it up , but probably the 12v adapter for the regular charger . Its not cheap , but a solution .
Ive just gone with the cheap solution and bought a bucket load of batteries off of ebay for my 5DmkII , not the best , but a cheap solution .
cheers
Nice photography to boot!
Thank you
Peter O'Toole, while working on the film Lawrence of Arabia, stood in the middle of the Sahara desert in the pitch black. He said he could see the stars across the horizon at a level below his feet.
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I was surprised to see hussein had grafted certain pear branches onto a successful quince tree. Gardening techniques that seem so western are surprising to see that in such a remote spot. I'm guessing it's a technique passed on from way back...
I can't help but think that it is a little wasted, could be used for a nice documentary as from what you wrote the whole place sounds a little magical and interesting. How about some dialogue to carry it?
Regardless of that, keep it up and get it up in HD
It is an interesting subject and I do plan to use the film as a taster tape to try and score a commission or funding. The impression I get from the UK is that there is very little funding for documentaries on subjects outside the Uk and commissioners seem to be focused on the hard news aspect of the Arab World (Iraq, Darfur etc).
I've been heartened by all the positive feedback on vimeo and will look at other options for expanding the film.
many thanks.
It's the Internet. Funny thing with it is that you've uploaded a film I would, probably, have zapped on TV. Now you've got me hooked. For me Internet is a sharing media versus the others who are consuming medias. That's one reflection.
The other, and maybe more esotheric(?) is that it's soo uplifting to see the people behind the "hard new" and that we're all just humans. We love and loves to be loved. We love the beautiful and this is what it is - beautiful. I certainly hope someone donates a great sack of money so you can do a longer version.
The feedback and constructive criticism from people like yourself really drive this kind of film. Knocked together primarily for vimeo. It's great to feel that there is an appreciative audience out there beyond the usual limitations of broadcast commissioners and funding.
Finding an audience is a massive motivation. Working out how we can get paid is surely a temporary blip...
Thank you for this...