STAFF BLOG
Author: T. S.
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06SEP2019
Tamagawa Daishi Video Finalized
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We uploaded the finished version of the mini-doc/sketch of Tamagawa Daishi that we’ve been working on. It was an amazing experience to be able to film inside the tunnel, to see the goma ritual, and to listen to the abbot speak. The three of us took a photo after the shoot to save as a…
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03SEP2019
Cold Emails
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How successful are cold emails? I imagine the success rate of cold emailing depends on the content of the emails, but just generally how often do people actually secure a contract from a cold email? I’ve read in several articles that cold emailing is dead, although I bet it’s different for small and large businesses.…
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21AUG2019
Mukbang
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I’ve been curious about mukbang recently. It’s an online phenomenon originating in Korea where a host eats an obscene amount of food for a live audience, although it’s also on YouTube now in the form of edited videos. The hosts will often consume several days worth of calories in one sitting. Initially, I became interested…
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19AUG2019
Productivity
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A while back when I was during research on how to put together a press release, I came across the name Ivy Lee. A turn of the century public relations specialist and distant relative to William Burroughs, he apparently wrote the very first press release. Not the most exciting story in the world, but if…
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05AUG2019
Yureiga
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I’ve been on the lookout for any interesting news about Buddhist temples in the Tokyo area since we’ve started talking in the office about putting together a video series on idiosyncratic temples around town. I read a Japan Times article about Zensho-an, a Rinzai Zen temple in Yanaka that caught my attention recently. Every August,…
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26JUL2019
Japan Association for Refugees
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We’ve finalized the promotional video for the Japan Association for Refugees and it’s now ready for online distribution! It was such a pleasure working with their team and filming at the offices. Hearing the subject (it sounds impersonal but for safety reasons he must remain anonymous) tell his story, describe the situation in the Democratic…
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23JUL2019
Coffee Beans
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Just a bit of a morning update. We’re a small office so we share responsibility for uploading photos on the company Instagram. If there were a hundred of us maybe we’d have an intern to take care of our social media, but that is not the case. I don’t use the platform personally, but I’m…
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20JUL2019
Gorath
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While digging through some archived files and I came across a poster I designed to promote the video we made for Eishi Hamaguchi. Originally, the plan was to post it on a few social media platforms. We had a notion to start a personal project called “Crowded Tokyo” that got sidelined by client projects. The…
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17JUL2019
Tunnel Thoughts
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I’m reviewing footage from the Tamagawa Daishi shoot now and chewing on some of the soundbites from the interview. The abbot was a bit on the long-winded side, which is amazing when you’re listening to a story in person, but not so much for succinct editing. So, I thought I’d jot down a couple of…
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12JUL2019
Subtitles
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I’m realizing that something I need to do some research on is the standards for subtitling English in Japanese. I’m thinking about this right now because of a project that we just finished up that involved three languages: the first interviewee spoke in French, the second interviewee spoke in Japanese, and we needed to produce…