An autumn in Japan
Spent my saturday editing video on Final Cut Pro using a wonderful piece of music by Takagi Masakatsu (Journal for People is the album’s title. It’s on i-tunes, give it a listen I highly recommend it!!). The footage I took all in the fall of 2004 while traveling around Japan: Tokyo, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Miyajima Island and more. What I ended up with is this. You’ll need a little patience as it’s a relatively large quicktime, but you’ll be rewarded with the ending which is my favorite part for some reason …
Just out of curiosity I put it on youtube as well.
December 4th, 2006 at 6:39 pm
ciao enrico…sono quello che ti aveva dato del “fottuto genio”..:-) molto bello il video…la parte finale con quei neri….grandioso!! sono stato in giappone un paio d’anni fa e sono stato folgorato da quel paese…bellissimo! una gran voglia di tornarci, anche grazie alle tue immagini…ciao!!
for non italian speakers: hi enrico, great job! i love japan too…
December 4th, 2006 at 10:31 pm
This is just beautiful, really. The ending is great, I think it captures the experience of traveling, trying to take in as much as possible, and ending up with an assortment of memories ranging from the mundane to the very exceptional, all equally beautiful. The music sets a nice tone. Really nice work.
December 5th, 2006 at 6:22 pm
E-kun,
Your movie was great, nostalgic but sad at the same time. I loved visiting Japan but often as a business traveler just like the movie “Lost in Translation” You see the beauty but it is by yourself so it is melancholy and alone. You get the same feeling when you see your movie. Beautiful but alone.
cK
December 6th, 2006 at 3:18 pm
StrongMotion- thanks man. Grazie mille! Mi fa piacere ti piaccia la fine del video … una volta all’anno Io sembro sempre finire in Giappone … e’ quasi ora …
Katie- Thank you, Katie. I appreciate hearing your reactions since it’s the first time I do something like this … so I am particularly happy to hear you loved it.
cK- You know that trip pretty well C, you’re the one afterall that helped me decide which towns to hit …
Glad you like it … and yes there’s a melancholy in this, you’re right …
It was also a “soul searching” trip for me, I was indeed alone … still the memories from it are great. I have many drawings from that trip too …
Anyway, thanks for your thoughts !
Enrico
December 10th, 2006 at 3:23 pm
Enrico–
Just noticed you’d put this up–it’s a really fun piece. I like the ending, too, but my favorites are actually the daytime food shots along with the surrounding (rope-pulling, children playing, red columns on the evening water) ones.
What did you use to shoot these, by the way? Some of the jittery shots make me think video-function on a digicam, but the quality is quite good compared to my old nikon. (12 fps, 480×360)
December 11th, 2006 at 12:20 pm
max- thanks, glad you liked it. I did indeed use a digital camera for these videos … the Sanyo Xacti … not the greatest quality … I think the resolution was a tad better than your nikon, if I remember correctly it’s 620×480 …
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