| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣藝術大學 === 廣播電視學系碩士班廣播電視組 === 104 === This documentary 『Japanese Seeking for Performing Work – Taniguchi Yasuharu& I』 is to film the director, a Japanese girl named Tateda Maki who met another Japanese called Taniguchi Yasuharu, seeking for their direction of life together.
She filmed the process of how they met, taking part in film competition, producing song and filming music video, and how they turned against each other till Taniguchi Yasuharu left Taiwan.
Taniguchi Yasuharu was actually trying to become a singer in Korea before he came to Taiwan searching for a way of life. However he was determined to leave Taiwan after staying for a year in Taiwan. To keep his evidence of living in Taiwan, he planned to cooperate with song composer in Taiwan to produce a song and film its music video.
This documentary’s main focus is based on the production of the song and shooting of music video, also depicting the past, present and future life of Taniguchi Yasuharu, and the process of how the director and Taniguchi Yasuhau got closer and separate from each other depicting by the vision of the director.
The documentary is about 30 minutes in length. The main language used is
mainly in Japanese with Chinese subtitles. The documentary is shot with the director’s narration by reviewing the past in order to let the audience seemed to listen what is in her heart.
The theme song of the documentary 「Letter」 is produced by Taniguchi Yasuharu. The background music used in the production of film competition is used to review the scene of past in the documentary.
There were some problems faced in the production of this documentary, such as shortage of production cost and manpower. Besides that, Taniguchi Yasuharu and the director had dispute and break off, leading changes to their original plan. Nevertheless the documentary is completed at the end.
Through directing this documentary film herself, the director had learned a lot about the establishment of interpersonal relationships, adjusting mood changes and etc. She hopes that audience can approach to foreigners who striving abroad by watching this documentary and ponder their relationships with others.
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