Sony - FUTURE PROOF : The Next Generation of Filmmakers
Miyako Evans, a Japanese woman with sandy hair pulled back in a bob, stands on a film set. She clutches a script and pen in her hands and gazes out of view. A film crew surrounds her. She waits, then claps her hands and excitedly shouts a single word in Japanese.
EVANS
“Cut!”
A man out of sight responds. Upbeat music plays. Two red semi-circles appear in front of a magenta background with white text between them.
ON SCREEN TEXT: The Next Generation
of Filmmaking
A slender Japanese man with center-parted dark hair interviews in front of a dark background. A magenta semi-circle with white text appears in front of him.
ON SCREEN TEXT: Yohei Kikuchi
Producer
Sony Pictures Entertainment
As he speaks in Japanese, yellow subtitles appear.
KIKUCHI
“I believe it’s a good thing for the Japanese film industry…”
A scribble of vibrant colors swirls in the view, then glides away in strands, leaving bold black English text with Japanese kanji beneath it in front of a white background.
ON SCREEN TEXT: DIVOC-12
KIKUCHI
“…that Sony Pictures is taking on this kind of project.”
A crew films a young man and woman sitting on a bench in the grass beside a lake, an overcast sky hanging above them.
KIKUCHI
“To produce films so that people can have a chance to see the works of young and upcoming directors.”
Kato, a man in a bucket hat and face mask, walks with a woman in a yellow sweater down a quiet street, gesturing as he speaks. Now Hiro, a director in a baseball cap with headphones around his neck, gazes out past a film camera. Evans and two members of her film crew study a camera’s view finder. Kikuchi interviews. Now Evans interviews in front of a dark background wearing a floral blouse. A magenta semi-circle with white text appears in front of her.
ON SCREEN TEXT: Miyako Evans
Film Director
The Front Cover
Director/Writer/Editor
As she speaks in Japanese, yellow subtitles appear.
EVANS
“I learned about composition and the technical aspects of filmmaking.”
Miyako and her crew film a young woman in a Japanese school uniform in an alleyway. A man in a blue track jacket carefully assembles two decadent sundaes in glass goblets. Evans interviews.
EVANS
“But the most important thing I learned was the importance of communicating my vision to others.”
On set, Evans happily speaks to someone out of sight. The view swivels over to a smiling man.
Kato, a Japanese man with wavy hair and glasses wearing a thick green button up, interviews. A magenta semi-circle with white text appears in front of him.
ON SCREEN TEXT: Takuto Kato
Film Director
Lost and Found
Director/Writer/Editor
As he speaks in Japanese, yellow subtitles appear.
KATO
“I am usually an assistant director, so this time I felt the responsibility of all the decisions a director has to make!”
On a city street he explains something in the script to the woman in the yellow sweater, now also wearing a heavy black coat.
KATO
“And I learned something new.”
He speaks to an actor leaning out the window of a house just above his head, then speaks with a man wearing a baseball cap and a metal necklace, then studies the view finder of a camera with his crew. He addresses a woman in a bedroom set.
KATO
“Can you look up a bit when you sit by the bed?”
Hiro peers through a film camera as a magenta semi-circle with white text appears in front of him. Subtitles appear as he speaks.
ON SCREEN TEXT: Kenichiro Hiro
Film Director
On My Way Home
Director/Writer/Editor
HIRO
“As a young aspiring filmmaker, it’s not often you get the opportunity…”
Hiro interviews.
HIRO
“…to make a film, with the backing of a company like Sony.”
Hiro and a man in a bucket hat aim a camera down a row of people seated in a subway car, then he leads the camera operator and a crew member down a narrow hallway. He interviews, then gestures to someone out of sight from beside a shelf stacked with plates in a dim storeroom.
HIRO
“So that was the most exciting.”
Two red semi-circles appear in front of a magenta background. The left side has bold English text with Japanese kanji beneath it, and the right has a Sony logo.
ON SCREEN TEXT: FUTURE PROOF SONY
With a single high-pitched note, a bold Sony logo appears amidst watery blue light.
ON SCREEN TEXT: SONY