Tokyo Digital Postcard

This project was a hassle for me because I had a hard time finding a person
that was willing to be interviewed. It took me until the last minute to actually
have people comply to the interview.

It was a few days before the deadline for this assignment and I finally got the
interview that I was looking for. Right in front of Koganei station there was a man
selling tofu out of a cart. I thought it would be an interesting subject to interview
so I decided to ask a few questions about the job and what is like working as a
tofu salesman.

After I interviewed the first man he introduced me to another tofu salesman
who's dream was to become a comedian someday in Japan.

Process

Because I took the "Tokyo Stories" course last semester I was given the assignment to create a "process" video. Throwing around a bunch of ideas and coming to the realization that I wasn't talented in anything I turned to origami. No, origami is not very interesting, but it was the only thing I could do on camera that I could think of that was a sort of "process".

I edited the video so it's not 10minutes of me folding paper, to a quick 1 minute video with diegetic background sound. To emphasize the speed of the process I chose to use the famous "Flight of the Bumblebee" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

Crane from Kenta Shibasaki on Vimeo.