8/13 Production Snapshot Diary

The “Jellyfish Eyes 2” blog has stopped completely at 8/12. I’m writing this now on 8/29. Kodamacchi of the Lighting Team just told me, “I really look forward to your blog posts, but there haven’t been any updates lately”, so I am now resuming, though it will be at a snail’s pace. In the middle here is Kodama-san, or “Kodamacchi”. He is measuring the air quality. Today we’re filming the climactic scene in Kisaratsu, Chiba. The weather today was a continuation of miracles! The lighting team. From the left: Occhi-san and Neet-san. Enjoy this very manly portrait of Nagano-san in Production. Discussing camera blocking with Nishimura-san. Doing a simulation of the camerawork from atop the crane. Nagano-san cutting an angle. A huge crane. A man’s workplace! Board! The scene number, cut number, and take number are written. Second Assistant Director Yuki Kishizuka-san, checking the camera movement. Art Department Third, Tatsuya Kuroiwa-san. In charge of Production is Yuji Saito-san or “Sai-chan”. The transporting of equipment is very tough on location. Moving to the right and left with each cut. Masatoshi Saito-san with the behind-the-scenes camera work. His nickname is Masa Saito. Filming Chief Mio Nakajima-san’s board. Production Chief Daisuke Muramatsu-san. Production Trainee Yusuke Okamoto-kun. President of special machinery company TRACK, Yasuhisa Shiomi-san has huge hands! And he works so hard. He is most passionate about educating his young staff. “Are you forgetting that you’re receiving money to work here?!” Hideyuki Yamamoto-san of Digital Frontier. Thinking up the logo etc. for the villain Azito. Nothing begins without Hie-pita! (Cooling pads) We must shoot one cut after another or we will “never make it”. Monitor check. Where I belong. And finally to the Nikkatsu set! Art Director Sasaki-san. He is feeling the rush to completion.