After all, entertainment is necessary for tired hearts."Divoc-12", which turns Corona upside down, an interview with "Yumemi half life" that cannot be read

A new colon virus that greatly changed our lives.Stay home and activity self -restraint ...While knowing what you need, why don't you feel like "make me sloppy"?What I want in such a case is a "medicine that works for the heart".

The omnibus film "Divoc-12", in which 12 directors are divided into teams and created a work along the three themes of "awareness of growth", "feel" and "shared", is a movie like such a drug.This name, which reads COVID-19 COVID from the opposite and divoc, seems to have the meaning of "I want to turn Corona upside down."

One of the works of "DIVOC-12", "Yumemi's Half Life", will be an interview between Shinichiro Ueda, who used a virtual production, and Hika Matsumoto, who played Yumemi in front of the huge screen.

"Yumemi's half life"

In front of Kakeru, a boy Kaker, who looks at the closing news in the movie theater lobby, a movie theater staff Yumemi appears."I'm listening. There are junior high school students who want to be a movie director," she talks to Kakeru and talks about her half -life that she was a turbulent.

──"Yumemi's half life"は、ソニーPCLの技術であるバーチャルプロダクションを使用した国内初映画だそうですね。なんでも、巨大モニターに映し出された風景が、カメラと連動してピントが変化し、連動して動くものだとか（取材記事）。この大掛かりなバーチャルプロダクションを使った理由をお聞かせください。

Director Shinichiro Ueda (Director Ueda): When the shooting was postponed once, Sony introduced the technology called virtual production.At that time, I thought it was interesting.

"Yumemi's half life"にはさまざまなロケ地が登場します。それを短期間で撮影する方法を模索していました。面白いだけでなく、この技術を使えばそこがクリアできるだろうな、と考えました。

I also thought that trying to challenge the latest technology now is meaningful for this movie.

──The director has always incorporated new ideas and technologies into film creation.I have made a completely remote movie "Don't Stop Camera! Remote Operation!"

今回、"Yumemi's half life"でバーチャルプロダクションで撮ったり演じたりするのは、一般的な撮影と違いますか。

Director Ueda: The essential part has not changed.However, since it was not an actual location site, it was necessary to devise a production and play so that it looks like a location site.The ingenuity was hard and fun.In the studio, the wind did not touch, so I woke up with a fan.Lighting light with lighting.

However, I was conscious of saying, "What is it for the actors, isn't it difficult to do it?"The actors change their own.There is something that is reflected in the background, so it is easier to do than a green back, but there is no scenery in places other than the screen.It is different from the usual site.

Hika Matsumoto (Matsumoto): There was nothing different from the usual play.What you do is the same.There is a partner and played with that person.

If it is a slightly more moist work, you can leave yourself in nature and its scenery, and you may be helped by the landscape.Regarding this work, I did not feel the pain.

I think lighting was harder than us.Since the back landscape and the light in the foreground are different, I thought it would be completely different from usual.

──Is this work only for virtual production and does not use VFX at all?

Director Ueda: I used a little.I make it under rules that do not use CG as much as possible, but the smoke, sparks, and nunchaksiver in the shooting scene are VFX.

─ This time, the special situation of Corona evil and the setting of multiple locations in a short period of time, so the virtual production is being used. What is the reason for using it in the future?

Ueda: First of all, there is an advantage that the weather is not influenced by the weather.

In addition, a 14 and 15 -year -old boy appears in this work, but by law, children can only appear (work) until 8:00 pm.With virtual production, you can take night scenes from daytime.I wonder if I can calm down and shoot well.

Because there is no movement, you can prevent the time loss of moving and setting.It is also possible to shoot in a place that is absolutely impossible.This time, there is a motorcycle running scene, but I am driving in noheres.This is not possible on site, but a virtual production is possible.I think there is something that can be done because it is a virtual production.

──"Yumemi's half life"は閉館間際の映画館から登場し、映画の楽しさや魅力が語られています。なんだか、上田監督の映画への思いや、コロナ禍で危機的状態に陥った映画館への憂いが込められた作品だと感じました。監督はどのような気持ちを込めて本作を作ったのでしょうか。

Director Ueda: I made it because I thought it would be nice to lead to the action of the viewer.I'm glad if the viewer can make a movie, write a script, try an actor, or if this story can be touched a little in the reality of someone.

Matsumoto: Rather than how you want to feel from here, do you want to feel it to you?However, I think it would be nice if it was a catalyst for the person who saw it.

I felt that there was a record of the corona's evil that left for posterity, but how about?I thought it was interesting as a story, but also captured the atmosphere of the world today.

Ueda: No, I didn't have that intention, and I wanted people who live now to enjoy.10 years later, I don't intend to leave Corona's evil, or to the future people, what was painful in this era, it was hard, and so on.was.Rather, he sends a message saying, "You can enjoy things" or "I can make things" for voices that are difficult or painful on the Internet.

──完全リモートで製作した『カメラを止めるな！リモート大作戦』やバーチャルプロダクションの"Yumemi's half life"、コロナ禍における映画作りという点で、気持ち的に変化したことはありましたか。

Director Ueda: "Don't stop the camera!When I took the Remote Operation ", it was the first emergency declaration.I thought that I wouldn't make something in the second and third times, but at this time I was using a ZOOM screen or creating a remote movie.After all I wanted to shoot on site.

─ Ueda says, "I've been helped by a movie" and "The movie is a medicine for the heart", but for you, are there any movies that have been supported by overcoming this corona?

Matsumoto: I like horror, so it's a horror movie.

I realized again that the movie was one of the great entertainment.Among them, I was helped by a horror genre that I could see in a head -like way without thinking.What remains in the impression is "Mid Summer".I pay attention to the play and acting on my job, but I like the work that comes beyond that.

Director Ueda: I'm a wife who is a film director, not me, but when she watches a Japanese movie, she looks only at Marvel because she looks at the director's perspective.She says she can empty her head and enjoy the movie as a movie fan.Is it the same as Hoka -chan's remarks now?

The work that supported me for Corona's evil is the "Evangelion" series.Actually, I had never seen Eva.That's why I enjoyed all of the TV series, the old theatrical version, the new theatrical version, and the "Shin Evangelion Theatrical Version", including the YouTube project.If it wasn't Corona, I wouldn't have been able to take that much time, and when I was watching, I forgot that it was Corona.

Director Ueda describes the movie as a "drug that saves people," but the "Divoc-12", which makes you feel a lot of feelings, such as fine, squeaky, thinking, laughing, and important things.It seems to be a treatment that approaches our hearts that have lost their energy due to the corona.Surely, even now that your heart is weak, you should be able to feel different even after the crona who has overcome various things.

"Divoc-12" is a national road show from October 1 (Fri).

"Divoc-12"

An unexpected entertainment that can be spun with 12 short stories by 12 film directors.A project that produces an omnibus movie with Sony Pictures Entertainment Co., Ltd., which is influenced by new colon virus infections, creators, production staff, and actors.

Director: Michito Fujii, Shinichiro Ueda, Yukiko Mishima / Shiki Shiki, Kokawa Hayashida, Fukuda Miyuki, Nakamoto Shinko, Shinpei Yamazaki, Eimi Saito, Kenichiro Hiro, Evans Minuyuko, Takuto Kato.

Starring: Ryusei Yokohama / Hika Matsumoto, Yuta Koseki / Junko Fuji, Fujiwara / Shizukawa Ishibashi / Shohei Ono, Yosuke Kubotsuka / Niko Ando, Ochan / Kiyoshi Vegetable Name, Fumiya Takahashi / Aya Makita, Morimi Nakamura./ Yuri Nakamura, Mansaku Takata / Masaru Kasamatsu / Sara Ogawa, Mayu Yokota / Atsuko Maeda

"Divoc-12"公式サイト：https://www.Divoc-12.JP/

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