TIME IS MORE THAN JUST A NUMBER.

TitleTIME IS MORE THAN JUST A NUMBER.
BrandSEIKO HOLDINGS CORPORATION
Product / ServiceSPORTS TIMER
CategoryA05. Direction
EntrantDENTSU Tokyo, JAPAN
Entrant Company DENTSU Tokyo, JAPAN
Advertising Agency DENTSU Tokyo, JAPAN
Production Company TAIYO KIKAKU Tokyo, JAPAN

Credits

Name Position
Takashi Fukuda Creative Director
Takashi Fukuda Copywriter
Kazuhiro Yamamoto Art Director
Yasue Nakajima Agency Producer
Kazue Marushima/Naoki Tanaka Account Supervisor
Keiko Omori Advertiser's Supervisor
Oki Kobayashi Producer
Mastatsugu Nagasoe Director
Shoichiro Nagamachi Editor
Mr. Music Sound Studio
Mcray Corporation Post Production
Takashi Goda Lighting
Takashi Fukuda Planner
Taiyo Kikaku Co./Ltd. Special Effects/Computer Graphics
Osayoshi Katahira Cinematographer
Osayoshi Katahira Director Of Photography
Yoshinari Hama/Shunsuke Imoto ProductionManager

Brief Explanation

For every athletes, time is not just numbers but we can say time represents themselves. To express relationship between athletes and time, we came up with idea using filming technique - time slice. By using this technique, we managed to effectively and beautifully express the relationship. Except ticker-tapes, we used NO CG but shot everything for real using 35 Canon 5D MarkIII cameras.

Creative Execution

We shot 2 days at Ski slope (Giant Slalom), 1 days in Studio(Audience, 110m hurdle & referee), and 1.5 days at swimming pool(Butterfly). For each shoot, we needed 1.5 days for pre-light, angle adjustment, lighting&set construction. Because of limited budget, we used 35 Canon 5D mark III cameras and shot most of the shots in movie mode since our subjects are very speedy athletes and could not synchronize timing when still mode. (Timer scene was shot by still mode)