STAFF BLOG
Category: Creative Journal
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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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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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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…
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11JUL2019
Promo Video
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Just finished up with our promotional video for the Japan Association for Refugees. It was a pleasure to work with them and hopefully the delivery of the video lines up just in time with the fundraising period for the Tokyo Marathon. There were definitely some difficulties, but overall we were able to come up with…
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09JUL2019
Action Cam Underground
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We went back to Tamagawa Daishi for another half-day of shooting. This time though we strapped GoPros to ourselves before entering the tunnel. Maybe it’s a bit silly, but we figured why not. We’re not making an “action” video, so most likely we’ll not be using the footage. Still, it’s fun to have lying around…
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02JUL2019
Portrait: Eishi Hamaguchi
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Finally, uploaded a project that we worked on nearly a year ago. It’s a portrait of Eishi Hamaguchi, a young illustrator based out of Setagaya. His earliest published works are collections of illustrations that he did during elementary and middle school, showing a propensity towards production from a young age. Some of the characteristics of…
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27JUN2019
PV Ideas
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I’ve been toying with two ideas for the space venture promotional video. I think that doing a straight-forward mission statement video will lack impact and the CG heavy promotional content I’ve seen strikes me as a bit cheesy. At first, I thought instead that it’d be more fun to piece together something that references science…