A Tuscan Summer • Summer 24
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- Опубликовано: 16 июн 2024
- For Summer 24, we are taking you to Tuscany. This season’s short film accompanies folk singer and nature appreciator Sam Lee on a journey through green valleys and cypress avenues, between umbrella pines, meadows bursting with poppies and tiny hilltop towns. There we met many wonderful people - some of whom you’ll see in the film - and were serenaded by some exceptionally beautiful birds.
We filmed Sam on a journey of curiosity, singing the folk song of nature adoration, ‘Sweet Lemeney’, amid the distinctive landscape of the Arezzo region - foraging for impressions, sounds and objects. A hare bell, the song of a nightingale (Sam’s muse and collaborator), a sunset view. Though very much an English song, we found all of the bird voices it names in Arezzo - nightingales, turtle doves, sky larks as well as golden orioles and nightjars.
This film was shot on 16mm, on an Arri 416 📽️
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A Note on Sweet Lemeney
The traditional song ‘Sweet Lemeney’ is an aubade - a song for the morning - which contains clues to a lost midsummer tradition. ‘Lemeney’ has likely emerged from the Middle English ‘leman’, a word that means sweetheart or lover. Midsummer’s Day (that’s today!) was once called Leman’s Day, and lovers would serenade one another at dawn… This version uses the Copper Family of Sussex’s words and tune.
Credits
Starring
Sam Lee
Production
Pal Studios
Written & Directed by
Peter Franklyn Banks
Producers
Angus Dunsire
Sophia Seymour
Director of Photography
Sam Finney
Music
Avery Bright
Cellist
Emily Nelson
Colour Post Production
No8 London
Colourist
Tim Smith
Costume Designer
Hope Lawrie
Location Manager
Cinzia Puggioni
Assistant Producers
Catriona Bolt
Franci Donovan-Brady
1st AC
Billy Gadd
2nd AC
Riccardo Angei
Gaffer
Gabriele Mango
Audio Post Production
Sounds Good Audio
Sound Design
Martin Leitner
Sound Recordist
Giacomo Verrando
Polaris Driver
Massimiliano Bianchi
Driver
Marco Molinero
Song
‘Sweet Lemeney’
Performed By
Sam Lee
Conceived by
Emily Cameron
Additional Cast
Ciolfi Brando
Alessandra Colzi
Rosa Fontana
Severoni Francesco
Della Giovampaola Ettore
Ciolfi Lapo
Valeriya Lobusova
Francesco Morè
Greta Olivelli
Marco Petrucci
Giulia Scatena
Francesco Tiezzi
With thanks to
Elina Casetti
Don Domenico
Saverio Misesti
Igor Osservanti
Giacomo Petrucci
Mariella Spinelli
Stefano & Lorenzo Tognalini
City Council Montepulciano
City Council Montefollonico (Torrita di Siena)
City Council Cortona 
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Saw the short version ad on Insta, i was immediately drawn in with the little wholesome singing, the violins, the ambience of the landscape, the wind, the birds, the cinematography, the lighting, the setting. Felt like a story of a man who went on a vacation in rural Italy to escape the crowd of New York. I dig it. (I probably got a lot of details wrong but its the thought that counts)
Take out the word “wholesome”, mate
Same
This short is EVERYTHING you said. Gorgeous evocative transporting, but somehow melancholic. Spread this to everyone who needs this kind of essential beauty. So much art in so short a film.
Me too💙🙏
Please put this song on Spotify 🤌
Watch this space!
Please! It moved me, I would love to listen to this song for many years to come. ❤
@@FfernEDPand Apple music, please! 🥲😃 song is beautiful
Guess I’m not the only one that came for the song 😂
The lush 16mm cinematography marries so well with the feeling of the music. It is as if the spirit of Nick Drake's oeuvre had risen from a deep sleep. How refreshing!
We the people calmly yet sweetly demand spotify availability! Kisses
Coming soon!
@@FfernEDPyippie!
💙🙏
This genuinely moved me. Beautiful, mesmerizing, and embracing.
saw this on instagram ads - truly the most beautiful sound thank you
If this were an hour long, I’d watch the whole thing.
It’s like watching before night Falls or basquiat or cinema Paradiso. pieces of all those movies and many more give me the same feeling.
WHAT did I just watch?!!! Mesmerising, brilliant, captivating, sad but A happy 'sad' .... the voice, the feeling, the tone, the way this was filmed and edited, the emotions .... I can't even describe in words what just happened. Sam Lee .... THANK YOU! Ffern .... great add!
This is a once in a year kind of feeling, this man sings amazingly
They didn’t need to go this hard but they did. Damn.
Since yall are working at releasing this, please take note of what makes this work so effectively. Often I find when something like this releases and people request an official release, it feels as though what the people like about the original gets lost when put into the studio. The fact the Sam Lee sounds distant from the microphone is half of what makes this so beautiful, please keep the bird chirping sound effects and as many of those ambient sounds as possible. Those things are what give this its warmth, please take these notes to the studio! We greatly appreciate the efforts to release it on Spotify :) it’s a gorgeous song
Well said. I agree.
The music with the background video, is just a beautiful combination. I truly was surprised when I watched this and it was more than an ad.
This is one of my favorite pieces of media ever created. Captures the relief of making it to another summer solstice perfectly.
I came here from an Instagram video feigning to hear more
Me too💙
I feel like I should have paid money to watch this wow
Reallly need this beautiful song on Apple Music 😢
I hope that the artist will release this cover on his Spotify soon, I’m in love with the calm it instills in me
We'll be releasing it soon!
@@FfernEDPcan’t wait!! Thank you!
What a truly captivating voice. Mesmerizing.
Instant calm.
This might be the first time an ad has made me want to actively join a waiting list to purchase something I have not even tried. Solid marketing genuinely
Totally agree. Impressive stuff
This is the exact reason I joined their waitlist to buy. I’ve been immune to marketing for years, but this beautiful piece of art moved my heart. Whatever it is they are selling I will buy.
I would give anything for Sam Lee to release this on Spotify!
Coming soon!
@@FfernEDPthat made my day
💙🙏@@FfernEDP
So beautiful. Sam Lee's beautiful soothing voice,the beautiful Tuscan summer countryside,the music( love the cello).Thank You for sharing with us.💙🙏
This led me to listen to songdreaming on repeat! What an artist!
Music is straight 🔥🔥🔥🔥
1:04 this was what instantly caught my ear
Lyrics from
SWEET LEMENEY
As I was a walking one fine summer's morning
And the fields and the meadows they looked so green and gay,
And the birds they were singing, so pleasantly adorning,
So early in the morning at the break of day.
Oh hark, hark, how the nightingale is singing
The lark she is taking her flight all in the air.
On yonder green bower the turtle-doves are building
The sun is just a-glimmering. Arise my dear!.
Arise, oh, arise! and get your humble posies,
For they are the finest flowers that grow in yonder grove.
And I will pluck them all sweet lily, pink and roses,
All for Sweet Lemeney, the girl that I love.
Oh Lemeney, oh Lemeney, you are the fairest creature,
You are the fairest creature that ever my eyes did see.
And then she played it over all on the pipes of ivory,
So early in the morning, at the break of day.
Oh, how could my true love, how could she vanish from me?
Oh, how could she go and I never shall see her more.
But it was her cruel parents that looked so slightly on me,
All for the white robe that I once used to wear.
Put on spotify please!
Coming soon!
This song is beautiful
This needs to be on spotify PLEASE
Watch this space!
I need this song on spotify so so so bad
It's coming!
This ranks in the pantheon of greatest ads for me like: Volvo Open road and God made a Farmer for Ram.
This is hauntingly beautiful. I can’t stop watching
Same!!! Loop!
I saw this on instagram and had to look it up. Wonderfully relaxing
Anybody else here feel like they experience beauty on a higher level than others.
Can yall make a whole ass movie, please? 🥹🥹🥹🥹
I’m currently on the waiting list and I really hope I get it! I’ve never been more in love with a concept and I’m so sad I didn’t know about Ffern sooner
We hope to welcome you to the ledger soon!
this song is so good
Gorgeous film
Thank you so much!
This was beautiful. Visually and musically, everything, just wow.❤
I felt the warmth from the scene. Beautiful
love the song, the visuals, the vibes… will definitely be checking out the fragrances
I need this on Spotify or iTunes asap please!!!
Obsessed!!!
Beautiful ❤
I've just completed judging a poetry contest I hosted on this on Allpoetry. They loved this little short film and their work was exceptional! Just wanted you guys to know your art inspires!
Such a beautiful composition
I’m so glad I wasn’t the only person to rush over here from instagram for this damn song 😂😂 I mean all of this was 🤌🏼 chefs kiss. But I do videography and I neeeeed this song!!
This is beautiful, I would love to have this song on my Spotify playlist. I’ve put my name on the waitlist for Summer 24 a bit late it seems, but I look forward to future releases nonetheless 🍊
Saving this so I can listen to later
For this to work, Sam has to sing the whole song complete and not just a middle verse though. I mean it will be THE song of the Summer for me and there has been lots.
I'm thinking Dinner Party, Lankum and others, all new bands that I've heard this summer.
This accompaniment really reminds me of Sigur Ros.
It’s coming soon!
I thought I was hearing heaven turned out it was the credits.
cinematography🫱🏽🫲🏻singing
The ambience is just 🧚♂️✨. Please add the song to Apple Music 🥺
Please bring to Spotify
Coming soon!
I see PLENTY of comments abt it being on Spotify but will it be on Apple Music ??
Spotify please!
Coming soon!
Thank you instagram ads for finding its target audience
my girlfriend loves the smell of this summer batc!!!
And is this song in Sam' film about the Nightingales?
What camera was this shot on?
Hello! This film was shot on 16mm, on an Arri 416
A short behind-the-scenes documentary would be wonderful.
A hidden gem in a world of rocks
This sounds like something bilbo baggins or willy wonka would sing
What is the name of the song? ❤
It's a folk song called Sweet Lemeney, sung by Sam Lee!
That looks like late spring not summer- summer in Tuscany is far drier and more golden
because of the excessive rain this year it was way greener thru june and flowers took longer to bloom
Lyrics?
@FfernEDP will it be on Apple Music ?? I see a lot about just Spotify
I would love to see this song on spotify. I came here from the ad on IG and I can’t get enough of the sound. 🤍