et t'as bien raison !

I sux at ending, I need to work on that ...

ending is always hard.

yeah, i think that when you start a crazy story the end must e crazier but you need the money or the propoer set .

no problem, always a pleasure

not that creepy ... weird yes but I didn't think of the creepy part ...

Creepy in terms of panty sniffin'
XD
Overall though, a cool vid.

Actually one time I went in an adult store in Tokyo, and there was used panties on sale. That was creepy cuz it was real ...

wow wong kar wai so much greater that couldn't even have the slightest idea to compare my work to his, enven a tiny bit. At first the short was longest ( 4min more ) But I thought that it was too long to tell this simple story. So I removed all the extras sequences ( and there were a lot of it ) But I think the movie is better without ...

Pour les décors surtout, à paris c'est tellement moche de nuit. Tokyo est un endroit où tu peux filmer de nuit sans rajouter de projecteurs. et surtout l'eclairage est majoritairement aux néons donc moins orange qu'ailleurs. et vu qu'on avait prévu de venir de toute façon autant joindre l'utile à l'agréable, mais pour avoir fait un prérepérage dans paris, aucun décors ne s'y prétait vraiment ( et j'en ai fait des laveries .. )

et il faut rajouter que l'image perverse des "japonais" aide plus à la "crédibilité" même si ça ne reste qu'une fiction débile. dans un autre pays l'idée fonctionne moins bien à mon sens

here's her myspace :
myspace.com/sebumusique, actually she's a musician too. glad it make you laugh. when you'll get there you'll love it

Thanx a lot. I was really doubtful about this project when I went there, because I've never made a project alone, without any technician to help me when I had doubt. And it's cool to see that people like the movie.

no money no time = chaotic camera use and jump cut editing ^^

Oops ?

Oops for the surprise effect at the end...
Very well constructed story. A 'like' a lot.
Thnx for sharing.

thanx again then ^^.
Quite complicated to do, since when I arrived in Japan the story wasn't finished, I didn't have the comedian. I had nothing so I changed the story when things started to add

I think the locations did it all, especially the particular street light ( love the neons )

Yeah exactly. Makes me want to take the plane right away and just chill out there.

you should ... ( expensive though ... but once you're in you can stay there for cheap money )

Well who knows, one fine day..
I'm gonna stick with Amsterdam first though.

wow, there's great stuff to shoot in amsterdam, wanted to do a short over there ...

cool where exactly did you wanted to shoot?
I'm thinking about making a few shorts in London, Paris and Eastern Europe this summer. You life in Paris right?
Is it nice at night or somewhat boring?

It depends where you go ! Paris has so much different feeling at night, depending on what you want to shoot I can tell you where to go. For shooting in Amsterdam I had a friend who made a music video over there and the image was terrific

I'm not sure yet, but I will probably want wide areas where I can make action scenes (near water maybe) with on the background some cool city lights..
But first I'm making a video clip here in Amsterdam for a contest on filmmaking.net (you should do it too, paris-style!)
You actually got me thinking of the locations cos you told me my city has great stuff to shoot (I never even thought about it until then) thanks for that!

Maybe one day we'll run on each other in Amsterdam ^^

hope it will be a sunny day ^^
you never know in Amsterdam...

I'll try to watch the wheather forecast before coming .... but since it's not always acurate ^^

I never watch it, I trust my instincts and the morning sun :D

When I work with wheather insurance company for a shoot, I think the next time I'll talk to them I'll said that. trust me, I saw the sky this morning, it's gonna be a great day !

^^That's how we do it.

hope to shoot another one this year

Actually, the guy she finds is the producer of the short ^^

Maybe, it's not very far from Shinjuku, the subway station is Nakano, just in front of the subway there's a little mall ( the one in the short ) and not to far from this is the coin laundry

thanx

yup ! nice to see that people watch and take time to comment. thanx to everyone

yes, but for my scenario it wasn't appropriate ^^
you just ruined everything ^^

thaaaaaaaaannxx

I'm a girl -_-, and for the casting I asked everyone I knew in tokyo and lived in tokyo if they had friends who knew how to act. but I didn't put any dialogue in my script just in case I dind'nt had comedian.

Yes I think he was great. strangely he looks a lot like you, oh and you even have the same name, oh peculiar ........................ when do we shot the next one ? ^^

ありがとう !! Thanx ! merci ^^

Merci Manu ! ça fait plaisir, rdv au prochain donc ^^

Thanx for the compliment, making me wants to do more !

Thanx, did this all by myself and wad a little bit freaking out once in the set ... but with a good editing ( thanx edittorr !!! ) we manage to save my chaotic shoot ( lots of shot missing ^^ )

Moral of the story, buy used underwear in a real store ^^.
thanks for your comment Musubi

Is this TV documentary available somewhere ? and for the title actually it's stupid pun. It means underwear phonetically ( in french )

I didn't see the documentary, just read an article about the controversy. I just searched for it on youtube and came across this clip from a video game about stealing laundry:
youtube.com/watch?v=NGlq8tHzNMs
After some searching, I found the original article I read here:
search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fd20051023t1.html

Thanx for the links, gonna check this out right now ...

Japan light is amazing ! I didn't have to add any lights, everything was there, just three days to find each location and we were set.
Too bad for the stead, I hope I had one too ... ( way over budget ... )
thanx for the comment

You should really try building one of these: cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/steadycam/

You can't beat a steadycam made out of $14 of material. Even if you can't build any, the guy who came up with the idea will make one for you for $50.

wow, I'll ask a friend to make one for me ... thanx again for the link ...

thanx

Hey Nathan,
Thanx a lot for your comments I really apreciate it ( even the mixed feelings part ^^ ). Put some kind of pressure though for the next one ... It'll be better !

Cause of the street's light !!!! Paris doesn't have neon in the streets, that's a shame
and also because the main idea was to shoot over there ...

great location, except for all the chinese hookers in the street ...

Not enough rush actually ...

It's not too bad. The story is OK to a point where the girl chase the guy. The rest kinda takes away from your build up. You can't re-shoot it, but something like this would have been a better ending:

The girl gets into a situation where the guy has to return to help her out.
Then, he gives her the article and apology accepted. The girl thinks a bit and then hugs the guy and slips the article into his pocket.
They depart, slowly.
Guy discover the article.
Looks back and the girl is gone.
Then you'd have another option to have the guy running after her, searching... and not able to find her.
Cut to the laundromat.
He's there, but she's long gone.
He buys a coke and sit on the same spot she did before.
looking left and right on the street as looking for her return.
Fade out.

See?
That could reverse a story and shows some interest.
A prank and then maybe a continuing love story in your next shooting.

Once a project is finished, I have to listen to critics and hope the next one will be better, thanx for your comment and advice, the next one will be better !

Yeah, I should have worked more on my ending ...