work in progress update:::
AUGUST: composing and editing, frantically, endlessly! 67 hours of film matierial takes it's toll...
JULY: baking in the oven that is my studio, loaded all the countless hours of raw material into fourthousand gigabyte of hard drive space and happily editing + composing at the same time!
JUNE: film shoot in Tokyo. In ALL of Tokyo as a matter of fact. And completely Guerrilla-style film shooting as well, there's not a single street in this town that will allow free style film crews...
MAY: getting ready to go: Film shoot in Tokyo will be 26 May through 15 June.
Multi-monitor test setup on May 17. Let's see what works and what doesn't...
APRIL: Test film shoot in Amsterdam. How do you shoot film for one hundred screens instead of just one?! We will find out next month in the test setup of a dozen monitors.
:: Tokyo production unit is setting up a video-casting. In the UK Adrian is working overtime on fine-tuning dialogues for the Japanese actors. Back in the NL writing notes and very many emails...
MARCH 2010: testing technical decor setup and taking CRT monitors apart.
JAN / FEB '10: surrounded by about 400 pictures from nocturnal Tokyo on my studio walls, composing and scripting.
DEC '09: processing hundreds of photo's, audio recordings and short film clips. Rendering the found locations into a digital map and exploring the productional possibilities.
NOV '09: location scouting in Tokyo: five consecutive nights (from 9 PM to 7 AM) of wandering the streets and capturing the city at different times of night. Plus making the first sound recordings on location.