View Full Version : Sooo i'm back again...
deepbluevibes
11-01-2006, 01:04 AM
and yes i was an ass for just leaving without any explanation.
Sooo, as payback, in october 2007, i'm going to tokyo again, hopefully for three weeks.
During this time i'm going to film a ton of inner tokyo and such for my own means, but I want to know how many of you want to see certain places or things etc. in Japan that aren't widely seen.
I.e. a certain arcade, or just arcades in general (although many of them don't like cameras), certain hidden parts of harajuku, etc. i can't think of many examples but yeah, just list stuff here and come october, i'll try to get as many as possible.
Snuffleupagus
11-01-2006, 03:28 PM
you're the porn and tea asshat, right?
I'd love to see an arcade, preferably something absurdly large, and if those things are hard to get to then any panorama footage of a well assorted games store, or electronics store.
That would be awesome...
andrewt
11-01-2006, 09:38 PM
restaurant tour on video =)
some places simply can't be shot that well - ie the asakusa(i think? or was it akasuka? damn!) ninja restaurant etc, but the best food of tokyo would be cool.
and perhaps for bonus footage - the search for said places
PopCulturePooka
11-01-2006, 11:10 PM
Are you going to use us for pointless and stupid questions again?
Druid
11-01-2006, 11:35 PM
By all accounts, most likely.
PopCulturePooka
11-01-2006, 11:58 PM
Lets use this thread to predict what stupid questions he will ask us this time instead of researching for himself.
Maybe
When I got to Japan, will I be able to wear black shoes anywhere?
Are there places in Japan where I can get change? (oh wait, he really did ask this one last year).
six-eight-ten
11-02-2006, 02:21 AM
I asked those questions because hey, research on the internet is pretty much 100% wrong, so i figured
So you figured you'd ask some questions here, on the internet, to do some research on the....
Never mind.
jindojim
11-02-2006, 05:52 AM
October 2007 is a long ways away...
Just outta curiousity, what exactly do you plan to film anyway?
Danistar
11-02-2006, 08:50 AM
but i guess all people like to do now is troll and flame.
No, most people on this forum don't take everything so seriously, and get pissed about a comment regarding research on the internet. You seem to be the one who's trying to start trouble for no reason.
six-eight-ten
11-02-2006, 09:31 AM
What Danistar just said, seconded.
Though a few of these other posts are flaming and condescending, deepbluevibes is over-reacting a little.
MeneerDijk
11-02-2006, 09:42 AM
Stop the flaming and the trolling people. If you don't like his threads, don't read them or ruin them for others.
Crowley
11-02-2006, 11:12 AM
compared to people on here who i THOUGHT were generally intelligent and welcoming to people who wanted to learn more about the culture...
Which forum were you reading, boyo?!
oh alright then.
Actually, your offer sounds really fun, I couldn't care less if you're an arsehole :) It's the videos of general life-in-japan that are the most interesting, I think :)
DoM of the South
11-02-2006, 05:00 PM
I would like to see a film of a thomson's gazelle dry humping a giant brazillian otter whilst eating a moss burger, (sticky rice cakes, teriyaki sauce) whilst Hard Gay throws hyperdermic needles at the gazelles's rump in Asakusa on the bridge by the asahi building. Make it happen, God Speed.
PopCulturePooka
11-03-2006, 12:35 AM
Stop the flaming and the trolling people. If you don't like his threads, don't read them or ruin them for others.
No. Sorry, but no.
MeneerDijk
11-03-2006, 12:58 AM
IF you have a problem with deepbluevibes, ignore him. if he is breaking forum rules, warn a mod. don't go flame and derail, you are setting a bad example and i wont stand for it.
PopCulturePooka
11-03-2006, 01:03 AM
Christopher Reeve won't stand for it neither!
Nor will Stephen Hawkings I wager!
SumoSamurai
11-03-2006, 01:09 AM
Well, I actually want to see the daily life of an average teenager in Japan, which is probably pretty hard for you to film...right?
SumoSamurai, seconded.
I'm not so sure Love and Pop properly paints the picture...
PopCulturePooka
11-03-2006, 08:01 AM
Wanna improve your image here then DBV?
Post pictures and video from your last trip. You promised to do taht last time after harrasing us with your pointless stupid questions, then exactly as many predicted you disappeared.
deepbluevibes
11-03-2006, 06:14 PM
Wanna improve your image here then DBV?
Post pictures and video from your last trip. You promised to do taht last time after harrasing us with your pointless stupid questions, then exactly as many predicted you disappeared.
and finally he posts something that's not just random bashing.
the reason i didn't post any of that last time was because for one thing, almost immediately after i got back, both the hard drive i had the pictures on + my camera itself broke.
due to this, the only place i had the media backed up on was my friend's hard drive, and it took weeks for him to finally remember to bring his external HD over for me to use, but i had to burn it to dvd because i had no external HD myself yet (the file size of everything combined was bigger than the free space i had on my laptop).
by the time i finally got them back on my new external HD, i had forgotton about putting them up here.
so do you guys just want me to put them all up on photobucket organized by day or some other service or?
the movies are in quicktime format and i can convert them to mp4, but the quality goes down some and for some reason, trying to convert them to anything else through adobe premiere completely destroys the audio.
i also made a music video of a lot of the clips, you can see it on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVlnyj5RK7k
but a much higher quality version is at http://deepbluevibe.phpwebhosting.com/onelife.avi , you should probably look at that one before anything.
the music's words don't go with the clips because it's in japanese, but the beat of the music/rhythm is what i matched the clips up to; it's probably my most simplistic music video ever, but i wanted it that way.
I think you overdid the whitewashing. Otherwise it was pretty well made.
Also, the second clip loaded, I got the music and a black screen throughout.
deepbluevibes
11-03-2006, 08:00 PM
I think you overdid the whitewashing. Otherwise it was pretty well made.
Also, the second clip loaded, I got the music and a black screen throughout.
you need codecs
go to http://deepbluevibe.phpwebhosting.com/index.html and go to the thing where it says "if you have trouble.." or something like that
whitewashing..? i was trying to show some of the clips to show how things were the same, but different compared to america
japanat
11-06-2006, 05:39 AM
Well, I actually want to see the daily life of an average teenager in Japan, which is probably pretty hard for you to film...right?
School, club, juku, homework, bed. What's to film?
Show people the electronics geeks in Akihabara, the touts in Harajuku, the Shinjuku Yamamba, and the trains that run on time, where they apologize for being 2 min late... And the surprising amount of greenery in the Tokyo area, considering how large a city it is.
Whitewashing - the vfx that makes the screen go white
you synchronized this effect with the cymbals of the music a couple of times too many IMHO, even at times where the video stayed the same both before and after the actual transition vfx...
PopCulturePooka
11-06-2006, 06:29 AM
Oh yeah, record the talent scouts at Shibuya station as much as you can. Zoom in on their faces too.
And then film the Iranian drug dealers on Center-gai. More facial close ups please.
Then walk down a dark, lonely alley.
deepbluevibes
11-06-2006, 04:12 PM
Whitewashing - the vfx that makes the screen go white
you synchronized this effect with the cymbals of the music a couple of times too many IMHO, even at times where the video stayed the same both before and after the actual transition vfx...
OHHHH haha, i thought you meant, i "whitewashed" japan, i.e. made it seem too american or something.
i don't know any points where the video stayed the same after the transition? if there was, it was an error on my part; i never intended that.
School, club, juku, homework, bed. What's to film?
Show people the electronics geeks in Akihabara, the touts in Harajuku, the Shinjuku Yamamba, and the trains that run on time, where they apologize for being 2 min late... And the surprising amount of greenery in the Tokyo area, considering how large a city it is.
ok, sounds good.
Comazon
11-06-2006, 07:10 PM
i don't know any points where the video stayed the same after the transition? if there was, it was an error on my part; i never intended that.
A good example is at 3:23-3:26, riding up the escalator.
And I heard that song before.....bugs me that I can't think of where though. :P
deepbluevibes
11-06-2006, 07:17 PM
A good example is at 3:23-3:26, riding up the escalator.
And I heard that song before.....bugs me that I can't think of where though. :P
That was on purpose though, didn't you notice the clips that dominated the foreground that were timed to the bass beat?
Comazon
11-06-2006, 11:02 PM
i don't know any points where the video stayed the same after the transition? if there was, it was an error on my part; i never intended that.
So the time I picked was not a transition effect with the video staying in the same place?
All I did was pick a particular spot where it occured. No more, no less.
I assumed it was on purpose, as the odds of the screen whitewashing perfectly to the music just by random were slim. However, I am confused why you said that you "never intended that", and then there it is on purpose...
In any case, I personally find it tacky to time transition effects to music with no scene change whatsoever.
deepbluevibes
11-07-2006, 09:44 AM
So the time I picked was not a transition effect with the video staying in the same place?
All I did was pick a particular spot where it occured. No more, no less.
I assumed it was on purpose, as the odds of the screen whitewashing perfectly to the music just by random were slim. However, I am confused why you said that you "never intended that", and then there it is on purpose...
In any case, I personally find it tacky to time transition effects to music with no scene change whatsoever.
I assume you don't do film editing yourself; no offense.
The white effect there, as was in the rest of the music video, not intended to be a transition scene, at least not 100%.
The increase in brightness was meant to go with the increase in the intensity of music, how it amped up and then suddenly quieted back down; thus having everything go bright (increase in energy) and then back down to normal.
When you said I would do this without having a change in scene, I thought you meant, just straight brightening of the scene and then back to the original scene with no change whatsoever.
With the scene you mentioned, there *is* a change; there is an overlay of the freeway over the original elevator shot, and this is to signify the leaving of tokyo, as the song was ending, which is why I ended with an internal airplane shot, etc.
Comazon
11-07-2006, 06:40 PM
I assume you don't do film editing yourself; no offense.
You're half right. I focus on a different aspect of video editing, mostly involving encoding, filters, and things of that nature. The applications I use are things like VirtualDub and AVISynth.
You mentioned earlier how you couldn't convert the video into any other format using adobe premiere without ruining the audio. Converting files is a good example of the things I try to specialize in (not by using adobe premiere though).
The white effect there, as was in the rest of the music video, not intended to be a transition scene, at least not 100%.
It was used through the video as transition effect quite heavily (especially right at the beginning), and thus I took it as such.
When you said I would do this without having a change in scene, I thought you meant, just straight brightening of the scene and then back to the original scene with no change whatsoever.
I'm not sure how a change in scene could be interpreted as a change in music. Both dictionary.com and I correlate the word "scene" with the word "place."
With the scene you mentioned, there *is* a change; there is an overlay of the freeway over the original elevator shot, and this is to signify the leaving of tokyo, as the song was ending, which is why I ended with an internal airplane shot, etc.
Okay, just to make sure we're on the same page, an overlay is something that is laid over or covers something else, right? I'm asking because I just don't see it, despite running through it frame-by-frame.
You whitewashed into the escalator scene from a freeway, and you ended the escalator scene with a fade out to being inside a moving vehicle. However, I at no time see an overlay during the times I gave (3:23-3:26) of any sort, unless you count just whitewashing as an overlay. If I'm missing it for some odd reason, please give me the exact frame number(s) when the overlay occurs.
In any case, this discussion has moved onto something different entirely. It would probably be best to continue this further via PM if you wish. Unless you really want the last word, in that case feel free to post and then I'll PM you afterwards if need be.
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