yearbook 2010/11 - The European Film College

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fi n a lCu t 2011||a Ja P a n e s e f i l m a P P r e n t i C e in eur o P e
Another is when I was making a ”breakdown sheet” with two more students in PM
class. We were discussing about what we needed as props, according to the script. It was
a story in a high school and many students appeared, so I said ”we need many school
uniforms, don’t we?” I didn’t know that in Denmark they don’t wear uniforms at school!
I think this is a very Japanese way of thinking. If you see Japanese Manga (comics and
animations), many of the stories are in high school and they wear uniforms, like Sailor
Moon. It’s a very common thing.
What do you think is a major difference between Japanese and western film?
Actually I don’t know. . .but I feel that Japanese films tend to have more
happy-endings, compared to European films.
In what way have you changed as a filmmaker during your stay at the EFC? What have you
learned?
I didn’t imagine that editing was such a fun work! And I learned that if you really
want to put your own strong and firm image into film and make it a masterpiece,
you have thousands of things that you can’t miss, and it may be too much stress on
you. But if you want it to be interesting and exciting work, you can enjoy filmmaking
with relying on crew possibilities and ”chemical reaction”. And for some reason,
most masterpieces were made through such a process. This is what I got through EFC.