Nippon Connection 2020 - Day 2

For this second day of the Nippon Connection 2020 Festival, the event we wanted to follow was a Lecture by Goro KOYAMA entitled: The Secret Of Sound In Cinema, dealing with the art of Foley, creating and recording the sound of many things you hear in movies, but also TV-series and video games. Not to be confused with the movie's soundtrack (watch the 2016 documentary Score: A Film Music Documentary for more on that one).

The lecture started to be very promising, but after 15 minutes it suffered from technical issues both on Vimeo and YouTube, so nobody could see the following. The team of Nippon Connection promised to release the lecture freely On Demand, and I will definitely watch it.
The streaming was then quickly replaced by the anticipated Q&A, and Goro Koyama nicely replied to questions from the audience like: "Why is it so difficult to make the sound of footsteps?", "How did you enter into this field", "what is your most challenging sound recently?", or "What are you current projects?". I thought too late of a good question: "Can you still enjoy watching movie without thinking at how every single sound was made?".
But the most exciting initiative of this lecture was that Goro Koyama proposed the "Nippon Foley Challenge": he posted a 2-minute silent movie for which anybody can try to make the sounds, and he will comment on the attempts. You can try to do it yourself, it is under this link:
https://youtu.be/3vDY8Kvnd4A

The movie of the day was Kinta and Ginji by Takuya Dairiki and Takashi Miura in the Section VISIONS. It is a very cheap and experimental movie, but with a concept. You can see some stills at the end of this article, and see in this video what we have to say about it, waiting for our full written review:

 

See you tomorrow!
Jo&Raf