ホモ・サピエンスの皆様こんにちは！ロボット・ゴー・ゴーです♬
2020年に東京で再びオリンピックが開催されるということでロボット界も大騒ぎなんですが、今日はここで今から半世紀以上前に東京で行われた最初のオリンピックのアメリカ・ユニバーサル・ニュースの貴重なアーカイブ・ニュース映像をご紹介したいと思います。
In Japan, a Noren is the cloth sheet that hangs at the front of any establishment that shows that they are open for business. A customer must usually lift the Noren to enter any shop.
If a “Noren is too low,” then it is said that it becomes difficult for new customers to enter because they cannot see the inside of the shop. So, a Noren that is “Too Low” is bad for business. People want to be able to see inside your shop to see the look and atmosphere and staff. If they cannot, many people will hesitate to enter.
But, when you stop to think about it, if a customer is already at your shop’s entrance to where they can just lift up the Noren to look in, then you already have them at your shop’s front door and that’s half the battle of just getting them inside and becoming a customer.
But how about people who are far away or standing at the station waiting for friends and looking for a suitable place to dine or shop? Well, that’s where a video on Youtube and then embedded into your webpage or Facebook page or other Social Media can help you to get new customers and to help them to find you and enter your shop! With Youtube video, people can see inside your shop, meet you and see what kind of a place you are running, and then they can feel comfortable entering for the very first time.
You know what the old saying is? “Familiarity breeds content.” If people know what the inside of your place looks like and who you and the staff are, it makes it MUCH easier for them to enter.
There’s an interesting bar and eating establishment near Fuchu station named Chain. The restaurant specializes in a friendly and warm atmosphere and various dishes featuring quality beef and other cuts of choice meat braised or pan fried. I tried several of the dishes and they were quite delicious.
Chain is run by a husband and wife team of Masamichi and Takeo Suzuki.
Chain doesn’t have their own webpage, but they decided to make a video for Youtube and place it on their Facebook page as well as on other social media sites. So we took the Robot55 team out to Chain and made the video for them and their customers as well as potential new customers.
Here is the video. I think with this, you can see what sort of place Chain is and the kind of people running it as well as get an idea about the food and drink menu.
With a video like this on your website or Facebook page or blog, new and first time customers can get a glimpse of what’s inside.
It makes it every easy for folks to lift the Noren at your shop and come on in. And that is good for your business!
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Izakaya? Chain
１８３－００４５ 東京都府中市美好町３－２－２－２０１号
3-2-2-201 Miyoshi-Cho, Fuchu City, Tokyo.
Hours: Mon – Sun:5:00 pm – 12:00 am
Tele: 042－207－2941
Map: http://yahoo.jp/fkvWZ9
お店やネットビジネスをされている方々にとってビデオを制作してYouTubeやFacebook、TwitterといったSNSを使って拡散するのは非常に効果的です。初めて行く場所や２軒目を探す時に食事する場所やカフェ、バーをネットで探した経験のある方も多くいらっしゃると思いますが、沢山良さそうで似たようなお店がリストアップされてしまったら、そこにビデオがあるかないかで初めて扉を開く勇気がもらえるかどうか、全然違いますよね。 Continue Reading…
“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” ― Isaac Asimov
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” ― Henry Ford
“I’m unpredictable, I never know where I’m going until I get there, I’m so random, I’m always growing, learning, changing, I’m never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me; is I will always do exactly what I want to do.” ― C. JoyBell C.
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Yesterday was a great day editing our Japanese Rock N Roll Ghost Story movie. It was fun.
I felt happy because of two important things:
1) We were creating our dream. I mean, it was me, us, we. We were creating our dreams by making the effort. There was nothing stopping us from making what we wanted to create and, therefore becoming who we are destined to be.
2) We were learning. We were all learning a new skill and how to become better at our craftsmanship. We learn by doing; by being; by making the effort. Isn’t this the way to live a fulfilled and happy life?
Today? I woke up happy and feeling good. It’s nice to be nearly sixty-years-old and wake up in the morning feeling good and thinking, “Gee! I learned something totally new yesterday.” No matter how old we get, we must continually keep learning and expanding ourselves and our universe.
There are quotes at the top of this page by the famous, but in my own Hollywwod, the quote might be:
“Life happens to people.”
Folks, keep learning! Live life to the fullest.
Yesterday, we had a day of editing and color correction on the Japanese Rock N Roll Ghost Story movie. It was the first time to have ever used Da Vinci software for color correction. I had never seen the software before. I now know why all the big Hollywood movies use it.
I mentioned before that we had finished the initial stages of video production and the trailer now looks set to be of “Hollywood” quality. I am expecting the trailer to be ready for your viewing within two weeks of this posting.
I look forward to more video editing, shooting, and post production in the next few days. I hope you do too.
We will keep you posted.
Mr. Pan, lead vocalist and guitar of the Neatbeats. Mr. Pan is starring in the film. (Photo by Osamu Arai)
To read more about: A Japanese Rock & Roll Ghost Story – click here: www.robot55.jp/rock-roll-ghost-story/
J-摩天楼がそびえ立つ新宿西口のド真ん中で戦後の闇市の姿を21世紀に伝える奇跡のエリア、しょんべん横丁思い出横丁で筆者が17年間も通っていて、東京で一番昔からの常連となっているお気に入りの呑み屋Gallery Bar Albatrossの紹介動画の撮影を先月28日に行ってきました！ Continue Reading…
Yes. Today is the big day! The day of the first edit session for that movie or video project you’ve been thinking about.
We are doing that too for our “Rock N Roll Ghost Story” movie today too.
Shooting session at Shibuya Milky Way Jan. 26, 2015. Bottom right, clockwise: Ken Nishikawa, Enrico Ciccu, Bogie, Dori, Danny (The 50回転ズ）Tatsuji Nobuhara (The Privates), Taro Furukawa (famous DeeJay), Tomomi Hiraiwa (actress) and Mike Rogers (playing dead guy).
The entire video production team got together two times in Tokyo. The first day was Jan. 23, in Komazawa in Setagaya-Ku in Tokyo; the second shoot was Jan. 26th in Tokyo’s famous Shibuya area.
The Robot55 team had everything together to make a perfect shoot; lighting, professional video team, director, professional actors and, of course, a screenplay.
The screenplay is a sort of “map.” We have to have a screenplay; don’t know where you are going to without a map, right?
I plan on posting some early edits here for your pleasure!
Stay tuned!