
Adrienne Learns to Fly.
2 years ago
Story about a young man talking about his childhood friend who wants to fly.
(NOTE: I've noticed that everything I've shot in the last month has been pretty incoherent and arbitrary so I decided to REMIX my footage into something more cohesive that I wrote. Also, I've been anxious to edit something since I can't shoot anything. This was also an experiment in working with Vimeo friends that live far away.)
(NOTE: I've noticed that everything I've shot in the last month has been pretty incoherent and arbitrary so I decided to REMIX my footage into something more cohesive that I wrote. Also, I've been anxious to edit something since I can't shoot anything. This was also an experiment in working with Vimeo friends that live far away.)
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And those credits?
hee hee
Jackie.
JACKIE
JACKIE!!!
one of my favourite things is combining written word with visuals and like this is an amazing example of that.
the voice, that was an amazing voice. the shots, amazing shots. and the words were so lovely. killer credits.
i have a video i'm working on at the moment with some words i wrote where one of the people flies away. so this is very inspirational. and just looking at how beautiful this was makes me retreat into self-consciousness because i have no where near those kind of skills or equipment to do ideas justice.
oh well! this was simply phenomenal, and a real credit to everyone who took part.
ps. how did your paper go, karen?
Remi's voice is beautiful.
He's a beautiful soul/person.
Charlie has golden eyes.
They are fantastic friends. I love them.
(I am not normally proud of anything I do..but the credits, I'm really proud of. I liked them a lot as well. They are sitting on my desk.) I had to gaff tape the paper to the grass because it was so windy.
I think flying is a beautiful thing. no no no don't retreat. I know for a fact that you will create something of great beauty.
You have the skills.
Equipment comes along with a good idea. Charlie's camera is far superior to my camera, and you can tell. But if you have a good eye, that doesn't matter as much. You can do it! :-)
It was fun to wrangle up these boys and give them direction from thousands of miles away. haha
The paper..
turned in.
not quite happy with it..
but it's done.
haha I think you saw my timelapse of my screen capture...so unproductive. I was working on this while I should've been working on the paper. Hahha
You're fantastic vincentgrey :-) (what is your real name?)
but what you wrote is beautiful so it goes to show.
i read your comment below because i'm one of -those- people. i have bad insomnia too! except lately it's reversed on me so i am sleeping so much that i have no idea where all my time is going. so expect to suddenly, in the middle of dinner, have a crushing need to sleep for a whole month after years of staying up and never sleeping and reading and watching and .. avoiding calls and text messages from some boy. oh god. brb.
oh god. i'm back. i could just delete the above but hey, i like when something happens midway through a comment and the writer narrates. no matter what it is. 'brb someone just broke in and is threatening me with a toothpick' etc. oh and i have to thank you for your lovely reassurance. not that i was being all 'omg plz reassure me' but there's nothing quite like an amateur like me hearing something like that from someone who obviously knows what they're talking about.
this comment is too long / personal / unfiltered / unedited.
almost forgot: my name is ena. that's eh-na, not ee-na. or whatever. whichever you want. i don't mind. as long as it's not 'eena-peena macareena' or i will cut to a flashback and cry.
pleased to meet you. and hey, you're pretty stellar yourself.
(kind of not a lie)
I have a feeling I will switch again once i'm done with grad school. Oh well. I think my main goal is to find something that I am happy with.
Still searching.
Yeah I don't sleep too much and during the day I've become more and more tired and have required naps lately. It's sick I don't want it. Uh oh...avoiding calls and texts from a boy....
I think its hilarious that you said BRB in a comment. Because I am reading it continuous. I think it's awesome.
I hope that no one threatened you with a toothpick.. I would've strangled them with dental floss.
long arbitrary comments are best...well I think that I may leave some of the most lengthy comments on vimeo videos. Most of the time they stray from the initial video that the comment space is allocated for.
Ena. First Ena I've ever met. What is its origin?
flashback w/voice over.
Fade out.
ena: so what do you want to be? currently? cinematographer? and i'm curious, because i want to absorb as much of this as possible: what are you studying at grad school exactly? and what degree did you graduate from? there are so many options these days! i find myself interrogating everyone that passes my way who is at a similar place to where i would like to be. what are you planning after grad school? too many questions? sorry!!
your comments are so great. i think you should get an award or something.
ena is irish i think, but it is also greek, it means 'one'. i'm the one, the chosen one, hoorah. uh no.
but really it's less exciting than that, my grandmother named me after some b-grade slavic actress.
[zoom out on room. fade out. black screen. keys tapping. keys stop. music swells.]
I have a strong disdain for Final Draft since I've been using it so much lately.
What do I want to be? Currently? I have no idea. I wish I knew. I think it's not so much what I want to be as what I can do to make myself happy. I'm still searching for what that might be. That's not to say I am unhappy, I'm just quite unsure with what I want to do with my life, but I guess that's normal for a single 20something in grad school. Currently, I am pursuing an MFA in Motion Pictures + Television with an emphasis in Cinematography. I graduated last May (07) from college with a double major in Psychology (BA) and Film Studies (Theory, not production) with a minor in Media Studies. hahha it's okay your questions are fine. I realize there's not exactly much about me on the profile part of my Vimeo, just a bunch of links. It's always nice when people want to get to know you better. What about you?
I should get an award in not doing school work because I get distracted easily.
You are the chosen one. :-)
haha still a cool name for a cool person!
hope youa re well
which is why i'm trying to gather information from people who have made -smart- life choices.
as for what i want to be, i don't know, i think i just want to be as creative as possible in every avenue of life, which means also having a job that caters to that. i want to be miranda july, essentially. the whole artist / (screen)writer / director package. i know. rip-off. not miranda july per se, but there's no word for that kind of person. maybe 'artist' but not in the strict sense. god, i sound so excruciatingly pretentious. i am this close to the backspace key.
and i can't summon up the power to do this film analysis on blue velvet at the moment. arrghhhhhhh. what is -wrong- with me.
ok ok ok . work.
ps. i have become worse and worse at disguising my neuroticism from people! i though i might address that now instead of you being like 'oh my god, does this girl have any idea what she sounds like?'. yes! yes i do! it's a curse! runs in the family!
hope you've had an amazing day, karen abad PhD.
Also the thing you must know bout me....
I have the worst case of insomnia ever.
I catch up on sleep every once in a while but I am awake...A LOT....and I think my activity feed is proof of that.
Who the heck is "liking" videos at freaking 4 in the morning.
me
loser.
hahaha
For some reason being awake just gives me an excuse to do other things like type on my typewriter or play my synths...but there's so much stuff i need to be doing but put off because i have some weird wicked ADD....for example, writing you back. and some others.
that will happen soon enough.
cross our fingers.
Thanks Martin!
very interesting cooperation, I wish we can see more like it between our community members.
I think that's one thing I love about Vimeo, is that the community is so strong that cross country/continent collaborations are possible because we have the care and consideration to invest in people that we have grown to become good friends with.
Have a great day Moayad! Thanks for taking the time out to watch this.
:-) Have a beautiful day!
That's amazing, really really quite special.
There was a film festival that I wanted to enter a film into....however..I realized that I hadn't shot anything with a story in the last 2 months. So I decided to go through all these "exercises" and try to make a story out of all of them. After painstakingly watching my videos for hours...I realized that all of them have a certain "flight" element to them. I jotted down notes and got ideas of what footage I wanted to use...however there were major gaps and holes.
Since my cameras have been broken, i couldn't shoot anything new (except for the credits sequence that I shot borrowing a friend's camera for a day). I asked Charlie if he could help me and i gave him some concepts and ideas to shoot different things and later on directed him to what I wanted him to shoot.
After that, there was something else missing....and that was some over arching thing to tie it all together. that's where the story/voice over came in. I normally don't like voice overs. But I felt like this was something that could help my footage.
Here's the story:
A little girl and a boy have been friends all their life. The girl was never allowed to leave her house, her parents made her stay in the backyard to play. So the boy would come over everyday after school and they'd just play in the backyard. Her desire to fly was basically the desire to be free from the restraints of her over protective parents...and a way to entertain herself and her best friend by means of whimsical dreams.
That's basically it..there's more but that's the just of it. Anyways then I asked Remyyy to help me and we backed and forth with his audio and i gave him direction and catered the dialogue i wrote to match him more.
The sad part was that I missed the deadline, and wasn't able to turn anything in. Because i didn't even edit it in time...I was so busy with other things. I almost didn't want to finish it anymore but I figured I should. So I did. There are several ways this can be improved, but for now, this is what it is because I'm entirely way too busy to put anymore thought into it.
Hahha wow that was long and drawn out.
But yeah...hee hee.
Take care dwyzak!
seeing collaborations like this is exactly why i love the vimeo community.
Have a beautiful rest of the week!
Take care!!
I would argue that it's just rems and chuck.
They are incredible. one day i'll inch my way up there. hee hee.
How've you been? I hope you're staying out of trouble young man.
Take it easy!
Mitch, you're the best.
Remember that one film we saw at the Compass Film Fest? This makes me think of that, only more beautifully shot.
he's a peach gem.
I don't really remember what film you are talking about.
The abortion one?
ahahah jk
the one with the kids and the toy pistols?
that one was chauncy.
I'll have to check that out, I've never heard of it.
I really enjoyed seeing the "old" shots
(bubbles, swinging, etc.)
used in a new way.
cutes.
you
FLY FLY away
it's sooo beautiful!!!!!!!! thanks!!!! :D :D
secretly true.
hahah
i wish i could fly.
(i obviously have no better word for it now, being in awe and all. great job, all of you!)
Wow.
The titles are really special. And that idea with birds on the paper - brilliant :)
And the voice is great as well.
Thank you Karen!!! Keep up more shiny things coming :)
Moons.
Dear Moons,
Thank you for your kind words. I made little silly drawings, I wish I could've taken more time for them. But alas I didn't.
Rem's voice is so wonderful. So innocent. haha.
Thanks so much moons...you too i like your shiny video gold nuggets...i want more. hee hee
-dino karen.
I have just seen it again and... It gets even better! :)
Thank you once again for sharing this.
Moons
hehe you cute!! :D
I love seeing the community get together like this!
hahaha
You make me dream ...
and now, Karen on paragliding french blog :)
ricoufly.net/ricou/lavoilemolle/blog/index.php/post/2008/04/04/Adrienne-Learns-to-Fly
(side note: lol I'm surprised you found that photograph of me...)
I hope you have a beautiful day of flight!! <3
I want to go paragliding --> Go, go ... Fly is so easy! You live in CA, contacts Irene (one of the my
friends), she is an advanced paragliding instructor at Santa Barbara (CA) Fly Above All school
flyaboveall.com/irene.htm
Haha I would imagine paragliding to be someone expensive. Santa Barbara is pretty far away from me but this summer maybe if I have time and money I'll check that out.
You live my dreams of flight.
:-) Thanks so much Ricou!
I hope you the most beautiful of days.
You're the best rems <3
Tell me more I want to blog about it... now I'll read the comments.
What would you like to know...I will tell all. hee hee
-toodles
But at any rate, it is quite a compliment and I thank you sincerely.
Take care :-)
-Karen
well done though!
matthias had better up his game when i use his voice!
haha just kidding.
Whatever you're amazing I'm sure you can whoop some crazy amazing stuff up.
People with accents are hot.
hee hee
Either that or i hate my voice so much I can't stand to use it anymore.
Must have other people do it.
Many beautiful people with beautiful voices.
p.s. hot avatar. what are you listening to?
especially french men.
im reluctant to use my own voice or "star" in anything i do. got too much invested in "third person visual narrative" ?
dont mind doing it for other peoples stuff tho! *wink wink*
i was listening to "in rainbows" by radiohead. (listened to it on way to interview that got me the job ;) )
talking
talking
x
He's very talented. :-)
I hope i can live up 2 the type of work quality you deliver!
:-) have a nice day!!!
colour correction.
hahahah :-)
Oh man that's awesome, I look forward to seeing your videos. do let me know when you put some up.
Take care! Have a great week...it's 2AM and I am just about done replying to comments so maybe It's nap time. :-)
x
:-)
Even from far away lands!
Hope you are well!
really.
Take care!!