[Music]
[Music]
when I meet people for the first time
and you know you have the small talk
with them and they ask me where am i
from I normally say I’m from
Transylvania and they say excuse me what
I say Transylvania and they say
Transylvania that’s not a real place
well the older generation normally
reacts like that’s the place from Bram
Stoker’s novel the younger generation
says that that’s the place from the
movie Hotel Transylvania but then I tell
them that I can confirm Transylvania is
real it is actually the central region
Romania I’m not sure about the
bloodthirsty vampires but the place is
real and actually last year Transylvania
received a lot more attention because it
was ranked as the number one region to
visit in the entire world and that made
me think because I’m from this place but
yet I know nothing about it and also I
was thinking I never had the chance to
travel or explore Romania as a country
so that gave me an idea and the idea
started with a why why not to travel to
Romania and run across the most
spectacular parts of Transylvania why
not and why not to record the whole
adventure with a drone you know one of
those flying cameras and show the
beauties of the country from the heaven
so I got really excited and I got the
drone I flew to remain exactly a year
ago and I was ready to start some test
filming and on the first day of the
filming I set up the drone to follow me
and I have some decent shots but on the
second day as I’m operating the drone I
lost control of it and I crashed it
against a wall a cliff and it fell into
a mountain river and disappeared that
was the last time I’ve seen it it is
probably in the Black Sea by now
next day I wake up and I’m of course I’m
very upset it was a great financial loss
as well and that upset turned into anger
and somehow that anger turned into
motivation and I thought to myself I
want to punch back I want to make this
film happen no matter what so I flew
back to London I got a new drone and I
asked one of my friend to join the
project as a project manager we are a
month later we are back to Romania and
we also hired a drone pilot to make sure
we’re not going to lose the drawn again
so the team was set up and we were ready
to roll and now I’m going to show you a
short clip from the film so you can see
what we were up to
[Music]
this summer I set myself a challenge to
achieve my dream and run across
Transylvania
according to Lonely Planet Transylvania
is the number one region to visit now
this film is about my journey to explore
this land a land of beauty and mystery I
invite you to join me and see
Transylvania as never seen before and
this journey begins right here at
Dracula’s castle
[Music]
Oh
[Music]
so we spent around one month on this
project and on the very first day of the
production we arrived to this small
village very isolated middle of nowhere
and the idea was that I’m going to run
through the village and we’re going to
record it so we parked the production
car in the village next to a house and
we were ready to film and I start
running and as I’m running through the
village I see around 15-20 cows
approaching me and first I thought this
is amazing we’re going to have cows in
the film secondly I wasn’t sure how
those cows going to react when I’m
running against them but luckily we
managed to pass each other peacefully
actually one of the cows turned around
and looked at me I thought it’s not very
common thing to see someone running
through rural Transylvania and we’ve had
the shot so I am going back to meet the
crew and as I’m approaching our car I
hear a scream and that scream was coming
from the production manager inside of
the car and as I arrived to the car I
couldn’t believe what I saw one of the
cows squeezed herself into the gap
between the car and the house and she
got stuck she couldn’t go forward she
couldn’t go backwards she’s obviously
getting frustrated with her belly she’s
trying to push the car aside but the car
is not moving so in her first it was
really like a scene out of Jurassic Park
I can tell you and in her frustration
she knocks off the mirror of the car she
punches a hole inside of the car and we
were not prepared for what was coming
next I’m not even sure how to tell you
this politely but the car sorry the cow
released a huge amount of poo it was
like a blast and most of it went on our
car one of the villagers were running
seeing all this happening and shouting
at us like don’t you know you’re not
supposed to park a car like this you
either leave a small gap where you leave
a large gap so a cow’s can pass through
another villagers were
coming as well with the sellotape to
help us to stick back the mirror and
that was the very first day of the
project and the production and I was not
believing we’re going to survive the
next one month so we had another 910
incredible locations to run through and
I like to show you now which was the
place which was the most difficult to
run through but also which was the place
which was the most difficult to film so
please enjoy the next clip
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
so why I am standing here in front of
you and why I’m telling you these
stories well because I like to share
with you what I learned and what we
learned as a team during this one month
project well the number one lesson was
we learned how to park a car in rural
Transylvania it is very important it can
save lives in the future
probably the second lesson I understood
why Lonely Planet ranked Transylvania as
the number one region to visit in 2016
it is an incredible region and I also
managed to reconnect with the people and
the culture and the history of this
place is truly magical and the third
lesson I had it’s slightly more personal
and that takes us back when the drone
crashed and the next day I’m very upset
and then angry and somehow that turned
into motivation that negative event
somehow kick-started this project that
was the moment when I started to take it
very seriously this project that was the
moment when things started to move
forward very quickly so I learned that
negative events obstacles problems
during the project actually can
kick-start they can rock it fewer mine
and your project so today when I’m
looking into any new project to start
I’m looking forward to those problems
and issues to come I’m looking forward
and welcoming to the those cows to come
and see where they’re going to take my
story next thank you very much
[Applause]
[Music]
[Music]
when I meet people for the first time
and you know you have the small talk
with them and they ask me where am i
from I normally say I’m from
Transylvania and they say excuse me what
I say Transylvania and they say
Transylvania that’s not a real place
well the older generation normally
reacts like that’s the place from Bram
Stoker’s novel the younger generation
says that that’s the place from the
movie Hotel Transylvania but then I tell
them that I can confirm Transylvania is
real it is actually the central region
Romania I’m not sure about the
bloodthirsty vampires but the place is
real and actually last year Transylvania
received a lot more attention because it
was ranked as the number one region to
visit in the entire world and that made
me think because I’m from this place but
yet I know nothing about it and also I
was thinking I never had the chance to
travel or explore Romania as a country
so that gave me an idea and the idea
started with a why why not to travel to
Romania and run across the most
spectacular parts of Transylvania why
not and why not to record the whole
adventure with a drone you know one of
those flying cameras and show the
beauties of the country from the heaven
so I got really excited and I got the
drone I flew to remain exactly a year
ago and I was ready to start some test
filming and on the first day of the
filming I set up the drone to follow me
and I have some decent shots but on the
second day as I’m operating the drone I
lost control of it and I crashed it
against a wall a cliff and it fell into
a mountain river and disappeared that
was the last time I’ve seen it it is
probably in the Black Sea by now
next day I wake up and I’m of course I’m
very upset it was a great financial loss
as well and that upset turned into anger
and somehow that anger turned into
motivation and I thought to myself I
want to punch back I want to make this
film happen no matter what so I flew
back to London I got a new drone and I
asked one of my friend to join the
project as a project manager we are a
month later we are back to Romania and
we also hired a drone pilot to make sure
we’re not going to lose the drawn again
so the team was set up and we were ready
to roll and now I’m going to show you a
short clip from the film so you can see
what we were up to
[Music]
this summer I set myself a challenge to
achieve my dream and run across
Transylvania
according to Lonely Planet Transylvania
is the number one region to visit now
this film is about my journey to explore
this land a land of beauty and mystery I
invite you to join me and see
Transylvania as never seen before and
this journey begins right here at
Dracula’s castle
[Music]
Oh
[Music]
so we spent around one month on this
project and on the very first day of the
production we arrived to this small
village very isolated middle of nowhere
and the idea was that I’m going to run
through the village and we’re going to
record it so we parked the production
car in the village next to a house and
we were ready to film and I start
running and as I’m running through the
village I see around 15-20 cows
approaching me and first I thought this
is amazing we’re going to have cows in
the film secondly I wasn’t sure how
those cows going to react when I’m
running against them but luckily we
managed to pass each other peacefully
actually one of the cows turned around
and looked at me I thought it’s not very
common thing to see someone running
through rural Transylvania and we’ve had
the shot so I am going back to meet the
crew and as I’m approaching our car I
hear a scream and that scream was coming
from the production manager inside of
the car and as I arrived to the car I
couldn’t believe what I saw one of the
cows squeezed herself into the gap
between the car and the house and she
got stuck she couldn’t go forward she
couldn’t go backwards she’s obviously
getting frustrated with her belly she’s
trying to push the car aside but the car
is not moving so in her first it was
really like a scene out of Jurassic Park
I can tell you and in her frustration
she knocks off the mirror of the car she
punches a hole inside of the car and we
were not prepared for what was coming
next I’m not even sure how to tell you
this politely but the car sorry the cow
released a huge amount of poo it was
like a blast and most of it went on our
car one of the villagers were running
seeing all this happening and shouting
at us like don’t you know you’re not
supposed to park a car like this you
either leave a small gap where you leave
a large gap so a cow’s can pass through
another villagers were
coming as well with the sellotape to
help us to stick back the mirror and
that was the very first day of the
project and the production and I was not
believing we’re going to survive the
next one month so we had another 910
incredible locations to run through and
I like to show you now which was the
place which was the most difficult to
run through but also which was the place
which was the most difficult to film so
please enjoy the next clip
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
so why I am standing here in front of
you and why I’m telling you these
stories well because I like to share
with you what I learned and what we
learned as a team during this one month
project well the number one lesson was
we learned how to park a car in rural
Transylvania it is very important it can
save lives in the future
probably the second lesson I understood
why Lonely Planet ranked Transylvania as
the number one region to visit in 2016
it is an incredible region and I also
managed to reconnect with the people and
the culture and the history of this
place is truly magical and the third
lesson I had it’s slightly more personal
and that takes us back when the drone
crashed and the next day I’m very upset
and then angry and somehow that turned
into motivation that negative event
somehow kick-started this project that
was the moment when I started to take it
very seriously this project that was the
moment when things started to move
forward very quickly so I learned that
negative events obstacles problems
during the project actually can
kick-start they can rock it fewer mine
and your project so today when I’m
looking into any new project to start
I’m looking forward to those problems
and issues to come I’m looking forward
and welcoming to the those cows to come
and see where they’re going to take my
story next thank you very much
[Applause]
[Music]
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