Walcyr Carrasco

Este mês eu acompanhei o autor de novelas Walcyr Carrasco fazer pesquisas para a sua próxima novela, que será exibida pela TV Globo. Eu trabalhei como guia, interprete e camera. Visitamos vários locais que poderiam servir como locação para as filmagens, assim, o autor poderia escrever o roteiro baseado em imagens vistas pessoalmente.

Walcyr Carrasco

Durante as pesquisas, eu aproveitei para documentar em vídeo as impressões que ele sentia sobre o Japão. Por seu uma pessoa espirituosa, Walcyr se apaixonou pelo país, principalmente em visitas nos locais antigos, com história milenar e longe do que representa o Japão moderno e tecnologico.

Helio Yoshida and Walcyr Carrasco in Kyoto

Helio Yoshida and Walcyr Carrasco

Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto/Japan - 1300 years history. The temple dates back to 798, and its present buildings were constructed in 1633.

Sakura - Regina Casé

Helio Yoshida and Ragina Casé

Glidetrack Camera Dolly

Sony HVR-A1U mounted on Glidetrack.

I just got my newest toy that came directly from Scotland. It is a Glidetrack Camera Dolly. For some time I wanted to buy some type of camera dolly, but the price or size of the equipment has never corresponded with what I was looking for. I even thought make a D.I.Y. Dolly , however, I dropped the idea after I found this model above. This is the model "SD" 1 meter long. It's enough to make a "dolly movement" up to 10 seconds.

I was very pleased with the quick delivery time. I made the purchase by the Internet on 7 December 2009 at 23:27 and on 11 December at 11:00 it was already in my house in Japan. I had not time yet to test, but as soon as possible I will post a video with images using this little dolly.

Package

Packed in bubble wrap

All the pieces

Slider 

Aluminium

Fedex tracking system

Kariya City Fireworks / 刈谷市花火

Japan Kariya-city Fireworks from Helio Yoshida on Vimeo.
I recorded and edit a video with images of the Kariya City fireworks festival, held in August 15 2009. I recorded this video with a Sony HVR-A1U 1/3" chip with 0.5 wide lens.

This year 7,000 fireworks was fired up along the banks of Aizuma River in 90 minutes. I shoot the video from Kariya General Athletic Park. Just few minutes from my apartment.

Shoot and edit by Helio Yoshida
Music credit: Séraphine by Xcyril

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World Cosplay Summit

TV Globo Roberto Kovalick reporter and Helio Yoshida as camera man, reports from Nagoya/Japan about The "World Cosplay Summit 2009".

The "World Cosplay Summit" was created to promote international exchange through the Japanese youth culture of manga and anime.
The free and dynamic nature of manga was instrumental in the birth of cosplay. Nowadays youth from around the world find this as a common language and a dynamic new form of global interaction. The World Cosplay Summit began in Osu, Nagoya and has grown to include 15 countries from around the world. If you count audience and participants at each preliminary event, the number of people involved is now in the 100s of thousands.
For youth who have discovered Japan through manga and experienced Japanese culture through the medium of the World Cosplay Summit, we endeavor to continue the development of this new form of international exchange.

What is the WCS?

The WCS is a cosplay event sponsored by TV Aichi. It stands for the World Cosplay Summit.

What is the World Cosplay Championship?

The World Cosplay championship begun in 2005 and is designed to determine a Grand Champion through stage performances by representative teams from each participating country. The championship is graded on the finish of the costume design and the teams performance on stage. Grand Champions from previous years are as follows:
2005: Italy
2006: Brazil
2007: France
2008: Brazil
2009: Japan