Oh Man. You are a magic. The excitement and serenity while watching your art is pure love.

@@edwin4779 i appreciate the kind words, seriously thank you for this.

shoutout to the jr stations for getting me around tokyo.. and at some moments getting me lost 😭

thank you so much :')

thank you so much Kayla, yes i had a blast

thank you Aki! really awesome channel, btw. Excited to share the second part of this trip really soon

thank you Celina!!

thank you so much for your kind comment bro. And yes, we grow and evolve, I still will try to fit those transitions in when i can, but only when it makes sense. I am trying my best to become a student to the craft when it comes to things that are just as important in filmmaking: color, lighting, storytelling and pacing which i still have lots to learn from!

thank you bro 🙏🏾

Thank you so much Peter, I actually had just as much fun filming and editing it too.. It pushed me out of my comfort zone to film moments not just visuals which i would have otherwise never filmed. I definitely would love to revisit a similar format in the future :)

@@JRAlli That is great to hear. Filming is half the project so definitely have to make it fun! The style fit well with the Japanese aesthetic as well

ahhh i hope you had a great time regardless. Thank you so much for checking the video out. Excited to see your Mt.Fuji adventure you just dropped

yessir!!

really excited for more videos to drop this summer. thank you so much for the kind words :)

@@JRAlli man you're my inspiration from the beginning of my youtube career, specially The "New York city- don't blink" its kind of my taste and im still trying to make something epic like that.

thank you bro!! and im game, I was meaning on coming this summer to feel the atmosphere in Europe with the Euros, but maybe I'll aim for this fall. 🙏🏾 hope all is well

thank you so much

@@JRAlli please come to India JR

I found the original track weeks before i visited and the music video was really beautifully. I just had to incorporate a version of the iconic song in this somehow, glad you liked it :D

i appreciate the support, even still checking out my work after all the years, you are a real one. Honestly, i think intuition kicks in now, trusting the feeling in the edit. Sometimes 5:24 moments happen, where you see a way to connect a change in scenes, then the hard part is finessing the edit so it works. People tend to even overlook hard cuts, i've been learning to let a shot run alittle longer sometimes depending on how much emphasis i need to build tension

i hope you get to visit on day bro, it's a very different atmosphere thats quiet hard to explain. thanks for your comment

thank you! I started using Da Vinci a few months now, i usually edit everything in AE and now Im grading the project in Da Vinci, its been game changer.

@@JRAlli Awesome dude!! Davinci is amazing, I use cineprint 16 for most of my work

bob marley was really popular in Japan aswell!! i wasnt able to visit the giant record store in Shibuya but i will do it on my next visit :D

@@JRAlli oh I see..I think so because I've never been there hahah😁

i probably walked the crossing atleast 50 times that night hahaha, theres always so much going on

🤣🤣 im hopping in the booth as we speak

i just googled him, i honestly had no idea he played for Kashima, he helped them reach top Japan leagues through promotions and theres even a statue of him outside their stadium. Legendary status

this is a great question, I would love to dedicate a whole video to do, especially because I've minimized/down sized my gear and even the amount of things i bring on trips.

@@JRAlli thank you because I'm travelling in a week and I really don't want to bring more than I need but man its so tempting :'( thank you for sharing your joy with us! I'd just like to know what is essential, and what do you no longer bring because like do you need a gimbal etc. but then I love how it looks for that one shot but then I'm stuck carrying it XD

@@LouisLuzuka it depends on how you want to shoot your video. If you want your shots to be more movement than its definitely necessary, its really hard to capture gimbal style shots handheld even with camera stabilization. For example i didnt bring a gimbal on this trip because i knew i wanted to capture more compositions and use static shots which would match the chill vibes that japan has. i brought an action camera with a long monopod however so i could capture establishing shots if i need to and because of that i didnt need to bring the gimbal because of the amazing stabilization of the camera. Those are the shots that you can see during the shibuya segment high angled above the crossing. hope that helps and i hope you have an amazing trip!

crazy when you think about it right? you get hit with the realization that this is just a glimpse into someone elses everyday life. Also FC Tokyo slogan is "you never walk alone" which is taken from Liverpool, I like to see it as more of paying homage maybe.. idk. regardless thank you for watching!

it was a jvc everio (video camera) and the 4:3 footage was shot on a sony cybershot.

yeah i bought the same camera i had growing up, a jvc camcorder and i also used a digicam (sony cybershot). If you follow throughout the video you'll clearly see the mix between this footage and my dslr. I didnt get a new camera, i got an old one. Growing up, idk about other people but me and my family would bring these cameras on trips to document life, I wanted to bring that back to this video. I could have easily just used all my dslr footage.. but then my video will be like the other 1000 videos on youtube that you can find if you search "japan cinematic video". travelling is suppose to be fun, so thats my vision for this video. If you don't like it, no problem i totally understand, its not for everyone.

@@JRAlli oh no I still like it. Its just context that I didn't understand at first. And you are right to stand out in different ways. Glad you are trying new angles of perspective. Thanks for the insight.👍🏼📽️

If you like that style of video it’s already up on my channel, you can rewatch it. If I’ve made that video already why would I continue to make it again and again and again and again. The second part of this trip will feature purely visuals but outside of Tokyo, Japan is really serene and features temples and shrines. Everything has context. Why would I make a fast paced edit for a destination that doesn’t reflect that? If you want that style of editing you can just open up tik tok and doom scroll for a few hours, it’ll achieve the same thing. I can’t wait to look back on this video in a few years and relive the time I had in Japan, because its likely I’ll never be able to visit there again for a long time. I can’t please everyone, and I’ll never try and do that again going forward. To me this video is like a home video and I’m proud of it. I respect your opinion and it’s fine if you don’t like the videos, no one’s forcing you too. Thanks for the comment anyways

@@JRAlli I meant no disrespect, apologize if I’ve offended u. You are my inspiration and I learn a lot from u… was jus not feeling this edit that’s all.

it was so magical, i always thought it was just a touristy thing to do, then i realized that Japanese people really love to go to the parks too. I had a local park by my acoomadation which was just outside the city and the weekend was such a great atmosphere, people were bbqing and playing sports, im really happy i got to witness it aswell. Thank you so much for your comment :D