Hotaka M.

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As a filmmaker, he is of the hybrid generation, having studied both today's digital cinema, which began with the release of the Canon 5DMKII in the late 2000s, and earlier film cinema. At least in the hierarchy of individual filmmakers, which is different from the studio scale, the digital cinema generation is characterized by major changes and technological innovations in cinematography, lighting, editing, sound, and mise-en-scène, and they are the generation that has glimpsed, experienced, and learned from these changes. It goes without saying that digital technology has made it possible for a small number of people to produce images with lighter equipment, higher specifications, and lower production costs, and he himself has adapted his skills to these production styles. For example, in the area of cinematography, he has experienced the flexibility of adjusting the "look" of color and contrast with the advancement of digital technology, higher resolution, slow motion, time lapse, and the diversification of camerawork with the evolution of supporting equipment such as gimbals, drones, and action cameras. In the digitalization of editing, he has been familiar with non-linear editing from the initial stages of acquiring the technology, and has mastered the technique of telling a unified meaning through a montage of short, consecutive shots, as seen in The Kikuichi Story trilogy. Unlike the film era, when much of the work of recording and processing was left to specialists, the digitization of sound has made it possible for filmmakers to perform all the processes themselves, except for composing music. The recent prosperity of royalty-free sound source sites has made it possible to create new background music and sound effects through mixing. In mise-en-scène, various visual effects can now be applied, and things can be added that were not there originally, and things can be removed that were there previously. He has experience and knowledge in all of these areas, and the comprehensive filmmaking skills he has developed over a career spanning more than a decade are reflected throughout his body of work today.

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