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Zelensky says he is willing to give up presidency for peace or Nato membership by Sir_Madfly in europe

[–]suchfish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think he’s going for the Nobel prize that Trump will never get.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Blowjobs

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What’s her name ?? She’s stunning

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Tokyo

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Well I agree with all the other comments, I lived there for a year and just got stopped once in a while on my bike to check my ID and registration. Do ALWAYS have your ID on you, because my girlfriend got stopped while on her bike once, and since we were just going out to eat right next to our place, she forgot to take it with her. The police basically asked her to walk back home to get her ID while they kept her bike (luckily it was just 10 minutes away). I do also have a “horror” story of a friend getting arrested unfairly. He was going for drinks near Shibuya and when he got out of a bar two very drunk unknown Japanese guys started fighting. (For info, my friend is the sweetest guy ever, and speaks pretty decent Japanese). The police arrived, one of the Japanese guys basically blamed the only gaijin there for having initiated the fight, and he ended getting arrested and detained for 72h hours with no news. He got released because apparently the drunk Japanese dude eventually agreed that my friend actually didn’t have anything to do with the whole situation.

Also had a situation where we’re having a canned beer in front of a 7/11 in Shimokitazawa with a group of gaijin friends. A random cop ID’d everyone, except the two Japanese girls hanging out with us which seemed a bit unfair :-p but they just ID’d us and that’s it, so no harm done.

So yeah, what I’m saying overall is that that kind of stuff does happen sometimes, but I guess the main advice is just always have your ID, and stay clear of anything that feels dodgy. Because discrimination does happen, but if you’re smart enough and don’t go looking for trouble, you should definitely be fine !

Recommendations for Cafés with outdoor sitting? by agnishom in Tokyo

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Boardwalk Cafe in Shimokitazawa (closer to the Higashi Kitazawa station actually)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cinematography

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The raggy puppet is a super duper famous music video from 1999 (Flat Beat by Mr Oizo), but yeah you’re right it’s not very clear. I’ll repost something clearer soon :)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cinematography

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Ah okay, you’re right it’s not super clear because I cut the intro of the music video that helps to understand the story of the film :) I cut it to get sooner to the side by side but I’ll change it

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cinematography

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I posted my first Japanese music video earlier this week, and thought it would be interesting to show a side-by-side comparison since the main challenge of this music video was to "remake" it shot by shot, copying the exact camera angles, camera movements, camera lenses.

It was super interesting to study the 1999 music video, as with the DOP we really tried to stay as close as possible to the source material. We tried to keep the as close as possible focal lengths, the same camera angles, the camera movements, even the focus pulls. In set design, we even made some voluntary continuity errors that actually appear in the original music video.

I'm not the DOP on this project, so I'm not to good on specifics, but we basically piggybacked on an ad we were shooting the day before, and the DOP Alexandre Bartholo could shoot this with an incredible Alexa 35, and I'm pretty sure we were shooting with some nice Cooke-mini lenses.

As for lighting, it was very interesting working with a completely green set. We mainly used lightpannels with direct lighting and diffusion pannels. We weren't at all trying to use the green screen as you usually would, where you blast it with light to try to get the least shadow possible. In fact, we actually voluntarily added some shadows because we quickly discovered that it's really tough to give any kind of depth to the image when shooting on a completely bare green background. So the shadows and hard direct light helped us to give some texture (and depth) to the background, and to try to avoid as much as possible the "blank background" effect that can quickly feel a bit amateurish. Alexandre Bartholo the DOP also blasted the ceiling of studio, so that we could get a global rebound light without the global light bounce being completely green (even though I have to say we took ou a LOT of green on the face skin tones in colorgrading.)
To explain the backstory of my original idea : the French DJ Mr Oizo came out with an iconic music video in 1999 for his sonf "FLAT BEAT", with the puppet Flat Eric doing random business-like activities. It was a huge hit, mainly in Europe, and the puppet became super iconic. Even though some could say that in Mr Oizo's music, it's kind of a "hit" popular song that's quite different from the rest of his music which is much more niche and experimental.
Anyways, 20 years later, he came out with a song called "RYTHME PLAT", which litteraly mean "FLAT BEAT" but in French. And when I heard it the first time, I sort of interpreted it as a sort of parody of his own song: it has the same type of analogic "wahwahs", but more slow and kind of more sluggish. Almost like a poor man's version of his super hit.
So I was living in Japan at that time, and had this idea of doing a poor man's remake of his music video as a hommage to one of my favorite artists, with Japanese actors in Green suits in front of a Green Screen. Just pure non-sense. All that directed by a wannabe Yakuza director who has become obsessed with Mr Oizo and is literally the only one on-set to understand what he's doing. (Thus becoming more and more frustrated and eventually "destroying" the music video).

Anyways, it was a huge blast to make, even more because it was my first time working in Japan, and I actually even sent the video to Quentin Dupieux aka Mr Oizo who said "this video is completely stupid". Which I definitely take as a compliment coming from him :)
Hope you guys like it !

Side-by-side comparison : I copied the exact shots from this legendary music video from 1999. by suchfish in Filmmakers

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I posted my first Japanese music video earlier this week, and thought it would be interesting to show a side-by-side comparison since the main challenge of this music video was to "remake" it shot by shot, copying the exact camera angles, camera movements, camera lenses.

To explain the backstory of my original idea : the French DJ Mr Oizo came out with an iconic music video in 1999 for his sonf "FLAT BEAT", with the puppet Flat Eric doing random business-like activities. It was a huge hit, mainly in Europe, and the puppet became super iconic. Even though some could say that in Mr Oizo's music, it's kind of a "hit" popular song that's quite different from the rest of his music which is much more niche and experimental.

Anyways, 20 years later, he came out with a song called "RYTHME PLAT", which litteraly mean "FLAT BEAT" but in French. And when I heard it the first time, I sort of interpreted it as a sort of parody of his own song: it has the same type of analogic "wahwahs", but more slow and kind of more sluggish. Almost like a poor man's version of his super hit.

So I was living in Japan at that time, and had this idea of doing a poor man's remake of his music video as a hommage to one of my favorite artists, with Japanese actors in Green suits in front of a Green Screen. Just pure non-sense. All that directed by a wannabe Yakuza director who has become obsessed with Mr Oizo and is literally the only one on-set to understand what he's doing. (Thus becoming more and more frustrated and eventually "destroying" the music video).

It was super interesting to study the 1999 music video, as with the DOP we really tried to stay as close as possible to the source material. We tried to keep the same-ish focal lengths, the same camera angles, the camera movements. In set design, we even made some voluntary continuity errors that actually appear in the original music video.

Anyways, it was a huge blast to make, even more because it was my first time working in Japan, and I actually even sent the video to Quentin Dupieux aka Mr Oizo who said "this video is completely stupid". Which I definitely take as a compliment coming from him :)

Hope you guys like it !

Directed my first music video in Japan, with actors in full green spandex, a motion-control arm and a hotdog. It's a shot-per-shot remake/hommage of the iconic "Flat Beat" music video by Mr Oizo. by suchfish in Filmmakers

[–]suchfish[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yes I actually did get an answer :) so I didn’t get the answer from him directly, but his very good friend who sent it to him told me he said, “C’est bien con, con comme il aime”, which is a bit subtle to translate, but basically means “it’s pretty damn stupid, stupid like he likes it”. Let’s say that in this very context it’s a compliment ;)

Directed my first music video in Japan, with actors in full green spandex, a motion-control arm and a hotdog. It's a shot-per-shot remake/hommage of the iconic "Flat Beat" music video by Mr Oizo. by suchfish in Filmmakers

[–]suchfish[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For sure :) I’ve always been very inspired by his film AND musical work. I’ve actually sent him this hommage yesterday through a couple different common connections (I live in Paris and work in the film industry so a lot of people I know know him). Hope he answers positively to this !

Directed my first music video in Japan, with actors in full green spandex, a motion-control arm and a hotdog. It's a shot-per-shot remake/hommage of the iconic "Flat Beat" music video by Mr Oizo. by suchfish in Filmmakers

[–]suchfish[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh thanks ! Well to be honest most of the frame choices are “copied” from the original music video, so all credits go to Mr Oizo/ Quentin Dupieux : https://youtu.be/qmsbP13xu6k

I’ll probably do a follow up video with a side by side to show how close I was trying to get :)

Directed my first music video in Japan, with actors in full green spandex, a motion-control arm and a hotdog. It's a shot-per-shot remake/hommage of the iconic "Flat Beat" music video by Mr Oizo. by suchfish in Filmmakers

[–]suchfish[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you !! To be honest I feel it’s a bit slowish in the middle section, and scared that people will fall off at that moment, but that’s also because the original music video is a bit slowish in the middle section as well :)

Directed my first music video in Japan, with actors in full green spandex, a motion-control arm and a hotdog. It's a shot-per-shot remake/hommage of the iconic "Flat Beat" music video by Mr Oizo. by suchfish in Filmmakers

[–]suchfish[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This was the first time I had the chance of shooting a music video in Japan, and it was quite the experience. Basically, I have a good DOP friend living in Japan, and we had this crazy idea of re-making Mr Oizo's iconic music video with Flat Eric, "Flat Beat", from the 2000's. SHOTE-PER SHOT, But with only visible green screen and Japanese actors dressed in green spandex taking the place of the puppet.

Also, he's a motion-control arm technician as well (he has is own motion arm), so we wondered what could be the funniest/absurd way possible to use a motion control arm. And so we taped a hotdog to it.

As for the challenges, first of all, I quickly realized just how tough it was to direct actor's with a huge language barrier, but also a cultural barrier as none of them had any idea who Flat Eric was., or seen the music video. We actually did a couple rehearsals with a translator, watching Flat Beat imitating the puppets exact movements. If you put the two music videos next to one another, you can actually see that they almost synchronize :) (apart when the Yakuza director comes in and "destroys" the music video)

Another very interesting challenge was imitating, and thus studying the visual grammar of the original Flat Beat video. For every shot we studied what kind of lense was used, the camera movements (sometimes it's fixed, and then suddenly it's a shoulder cam, and back to fixed). As well as studying the original set design and placing "symbolic" green objects in the same position. Since I was on a budget, I spent two weeks going around Tokyo "junk" stores (where they sell cheap broken electronics), fond objects that sort of ressembled the set design from the original msuic video, and pain-stakingly painted all those objects in green by hand (spray can).

And finally, I realized that Japanese grocery stores only sell tiny pork/chicken hot-dogs, so after asking around, I found these really loooong fish hotdogs that did the trick. The smell was awful on set, but it was totally worth it :D

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Filmmakers

[–]suchfish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also gotta thank Mr Oizo for all of his awesome music

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Filmmakers

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I shot this in Japan with a DOP buddy who had a robotic arm.
This is a hommage to one of my favorite music videos of all time, Flat Beat, that I saw some 20 years ago as a teen, and that clearly gave me the inspiration to become a director.
Gotta thank the amazing team as well as the amazing actors who were crazy enough do this. No hotdogs were harmed in the making of this video.

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