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Newguest Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

Vignettes/live footage

Hi

"The idea was to record these songs as little vignettes to break up the live footage in various places along the tour"

--- I'm not sure but to me "vignettes" associate with some sketches of something, fragments. But I'm not sure about "break up"? Maybe it means "diversify"? As for life footage I know it's recording something live.

What is the easier way to say the same, as I'm not sure I fully understand the above sentence???
  

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Newguest Hi "The idea was to record these songs as little vignettes to break up the live footage in various places along the tour" --- I'm not sure but to me "vignettes" associate with some sketches of something, fragments. But I'm not sure about "break up"? Maybe it means "diversify"?

  • Newguest Hi "The idea was to record these songs as little vignettes to break up the live footage in various places along the tour" --- I'm not sure but to me "vignettes" associate with some sketches of something, fragments.
  • But I'm not sure about "break up"?
  • Maybe it means "diversify"?
  • As for life footage I know it's recording something live.
  • What is the easier way to say the same, as I'm not sure I fully understand the above sentence???
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NewguestHi

"The idea was to record these songs as little vignettes to break up the live footage in various places along the tour"

--- I'm not sure but to me "vignettes" associate with some sketches of something, fragments. But I'm not sure about "break up"? Maybe it means "diversify"? As for life footage I know it's recording something live.

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I agree with your understanding of "vignettes." I suppose one could make a collage of vignettes only.

It seems like they intend to make a video of the whole tour, but don't want the format to be repetitious or boring. So rather than just "what we did yesterday, today, tomorrow, the next day, they want to "break up the monotony" (a common expression) of the CD by injecting these vignett
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Hi guys!

So, in other words he says: We wanted to record some short episodes which might be funny and then put them into a movie from the tour.
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Basically, I'd agree with that, but I don't think the operative term is "funny." I understand where F. is coming from, but I think he's referring to a different meaning of "break up."

I believe his useage describes what you see on a comedy show like SNL, where person A causes person B to lose his composure and laugh uncontrollably: "Man, he was just breakin' up!" In the old days we mig
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I think I get it. Thank you Emotion: smile
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The continuity of the show is broken up by too many commercials.

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