What Charlie shot? I know...


And those credits?

hee hee


Jackie.

JACKIE

JACKIE!!!

Aww thank you so much bupla :-) fantastic avatar.

It was extremely difficult to write this for some reason. I always have trouble writing things which is why i don't want to be a screenwriter.


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?)

i would -kill- to be a screenwriter. it is / was totally my dream for about 3yrs. which is a long time for me because i swap career choices every two seconds.

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.

Wow I just now noticed this. I am not on vimeo as much as I used to because I"m working on my screenplay and my finals. I swap career choices every two years.

(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.

[setting. ena is hunched over her laptop, the tapping sound of fingers hitting mac keys echoes in the dark solemnity of her empty room, almost drowning out the soft lulls of an unrecognisable tune that plays in the background.]

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.]

Haha.

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

i know what you mean about the 'trying to find something that'll make me happy' thing. seems like most people eternal quest. when you graduated college was when i started! i've just started my second year at university, with a double major in film studies (theory also, not production, so frustrating! it's good, but practical is always better) and art history, also a BA. i feel really scattered at the moment, seeing as my friend had the foresight of doing a film production course which i am excruciatingly jealous of. but initially i wanted to go to art school, then i convinced myself i wanted an academic degree blah blah. anyway, now i'm reaping the consequences and i'm starting to think i won't be able to finish this degree because of said frustration and i'll have to live out of a cardboard box with lots of school fees and no prospects. though, considering it's a BA i could be living out of a cardboard box even if i graduate. i totally suck a life choices. like, can you imagine? what a thing to suck at! of all things! life choices! man! come on! give me a break!

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.

Hahahah...This was probably the final one for a bit. Just because I've run out of footage to edit. Haha. Also I've been shooting at the minimum two 16mm projects a week. Must allot some time to give my video cameras love so I can mend their broken hearts.

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!

I have been there.

I wish i could "like" your AVATAR at 4AM.

Aww I'm glad. I wish I could fly. I stare at birds all the time. Actually flight has always intrigued me for some time now.


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.

Aww thanks Bryan. I sort of thought that maybe it would be a boring cop-out since some people may have already seen my other videos, but it's actually quite a challenge to take video out of its original context and try to piece it together into something coherent.

:-) Have a beautiful day!

Well here let me explain what happened here. Since I started grad school, I've had less and less time to work on really thought out projects. (i.e. ones with preproduction planning, storyboarding, etc etc) In the last 2 months, I've been EXTREMELY busy with my classes so everything I've shot for the last month and a half or so has been just brief exercises so I can develop and practice skills in composition or other cinematographical and aesthetic elements of filmmaking. I do this in my spare time. I usually just go out and shoot whatever, which is what majority of the videos I've put up on vimeo have been. There hasn't been much thought put into them. Arbitrary shooting, intensive practice in color correction and just editing for fun.

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!

Ah nice one, ill watch again.

What film festival?

Just a little one at my school. But I didn't finish *or even start* in time. haha oh well. But i like watching this video its kinda whimsical.

Thanks doctor! I want to fly fly fly flutter fly away!

Aww thanks leslie. It was fun to make. I really love my vimeo friends. they are so special to me.

Have a beautiful rest of the week!

hahaha thanks Mr. Westrop!

Take care!!

Haha whatever mitch you're silly.

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!

im doing wonderful! and im happy because youve been posting more videos than usual lately!

Kind of ironic since I haven't really had anything to film lately since cameras went out of commission. But I think this was probably the last of it, for a bit...unless I start doing more time consuming stop motion!

Mitch, you're the best.

yeah more stop motion! i will if you will! i need motivation.

I threw up anal beads and a manatee..your turn.

i hope that mine can be even half as ridiculous as yours

what was funny was that i asked him if i could use his music and he said yes....and i told him i didnt know what the title of the song was and he said..whatever just make it up...hahhaah


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.

Aww thanks loads dawkeye. :-)

I'll have to check that out, I've never heard of it.

Aww thanks a lot friend. I'm glad you enjoyed seeing the old footage in a new context, i was scared it was going to be really boring. :-) Take care!

haha thanks a lot inernal-1! I caught up on some sleep yesterday thanks goodness. It was a fun process. I thank you for your time in watching this. Take care!

lovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelov eyou.

cutes.

you

FLY FLY away

Aww thanks Chipi ! It's a fun little whimsical story...

secretly true.

hahah

i wish i could fly.

Aww thanks Claudine. Yeah I'm lucky to have had a chance to make something with Charlie and Remi, they are really amazing to me.

Aww thanks Moons (can I call you that?) hee hee.

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.

Moons... He he... Nice. Thanks Karen :)

I have just seen it again and... It gets even better! :)
Thank you once again for sharing this.

Moons

hee hee thanks.

Thanks Beards. You're our community glue.

Why thank you kindly Mr. Lowe. I worked with beautiful people :-)

Thank you for taking the time to watch this Séamus. Have a great day.

haha no thank YOU for letting your dad talk you into it. I know he's a bully sometimes.

hahaha

Thank you for your kind words Mr. Kammel. Take care!

Aww Thanks Ricou! What a wonderful blog. I want to go paragliding!!!!!


(side note: lol I'm surprised you found that photograph of me...)


I hope you have a beautiful day of flight!! <3

I pretty much LOVE french people. So creative and beautiful.


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!

That is awfully kind of you to say and I am genuinely grateful for people like yourself.

I hope you the most beautiful of days.

Haha Rem's I think what saved it was your voice over. Haha. I'm glad you enjoyed it..thanks so much. I look forward to working with you some more in the future when our lives slow down.

You're the best rems <3

hahah I wish I used my flickr more. Yeah I plan on working with more vimeo friends in the future...maybe even you...hopefully. :-)

What would you like to know...I will tell all. hee hee

-toodles

Aww thanks a lot Tim. That is awfully generous of you to say. I love Gondry. I can't say he's exactly "inspiration" for when I do things because I feel like this is the kind of stuff that has been going on for many people for years, but he is the most well known. He is a genius in his own respect.

But at any rate, it is quite a compliment and I thank you sincerely.


Take care :-)


-Karen

TAKE THAT MATTHEW!

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?

hehe, yes they are.

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 ;) )

I want a video that is of a black screen and just you talking

talking
talking

It is music that my friend Corey Weaver composed. He used to (not sure if he still does) makes music under the name "S. American Agriculture"

He's very talented. :-)

I usually shoot with a Panasonic GS320 and a Panasonic DVX100a. :-) thanks J. Corte

I just both the Panasonic HDC SD5 pretty awesome..

I hope i can live up 2 the type of work quality you deliver!

:-) have a nice day!!!

two words.

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. :-)

I'm about to message you.

Aw thanks a lot Amenon! I am very fortunate to have worked with them they are beautiful people.

:-)

Even from far away lands!

Thanks sweetheart. :-)


Hope you are well!

Thank you so much Alexander, very kind of you to say :-) Take care!

Aw thanks a lot. I'm glad that you picked that up, I was trying to go for something really whimsical.


Take care!!

thanks man