SUMAHO-BUNE (SMARTPHONE BOAT) 176SEC

TitleSUMAHO-BUNE (SMARTPHONE BOAT) 176SEC
BrandSOFTBANK CORP.
Product / ServiceSOFTBANK CORP.
CategoryD01. Use of Film
EntrantGEEK PICTURES Tokyo, JAPAN
Idea Creation DENTSU INC. Tokyo, JAPAN
Idea Creation 2 DRILL Tokyo, JAPAN
Idea Creation 3 POLARNO Tokyo, JAPAN
Production GEEK PICTURES Tokyo, JAPAN

Credits

Name Company Position
Yoshimitsu Sawamoto DENTSU INC. Creative Director/Planner
Ryu Tamogami DENTSU INC. Planner
Shimpei Mizumoto DENTSU INC. Planner
Naohiro Tanimura GEEK PICTURES INC. Producer
Yosuke Sato GEEK PICTURES INC. Production Manager
Nobuhiro Tamashita Match Point inc. Director
Masahide Okubo ATTENTION inc. Offline Editor
Masashi Tabuchi tecnicaland inc. Online Editor

Write a short summary of what happens in the film

A first of its kind music video made up of existing karaoke background videos of karaoke brand Joysound (partly made of archive footage of the Softbank commercials featuring the Shirato family father trapped in a dog’s body). In addition, based on original insights from Softbank, it includes seventeen “common aspects of karaoke videos”, and a “How to Make a Karaoke Video” instructional element that will motivate anyone who watches into making their own karaoke video.

Cultural/Context information for the jury

The video is embedded with a lot of hidden know-how regarding karaoke videos. For example, so that background videos do not upstage the music and singing, it lays out the rules of, “purposefully removing originality and impact”, and, “avoiding backgrounds with fast movement”, so that they do not distract from the karaoke itself. Other key points are, “to not show smartphones or trending styles of makeup that may be attached to any particular era”, and, “to avoid shooting easily identifiable locations,” for the reason that the videos are often used for over a decade. Based on this know-how, the Softbank music video producers shut themselves in Joysound karaoke boxes and analyzed a wide range of videos. They devised 17 “common aspects of karaoke videos”, to match the song Sumaho-bune (Smartphone Boat).

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