柏原柚葉(Kashihara Yuzuha）
柏原柚葉(Kashihara Yuzuha）
Profile
Filmmaker Yuzuha is a filmmaker from Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. After graduating from Mukogawa Women’s University, she joined DRAWING AND MANUAL. She primarily works on music videos and advertising films as a director, while also creating still photography. She studied under Kyotaro Hayashi and has continued to build her experience through hands-on production. She is drawn to noticing small moments in everyday life and translating them into more abstract forms of expression.
About the Video
For this film, I spoke with people from different generations, asking the same question. I asked them what they were like when they were 25, what it feelt like to be 25 or what kind of person they hoped to become when they reached 25. I made this film because I wanted to see how close or different my own feelings toward the age 25 were from other people’s experiences, impressions, and imaginations of that age.
Key Points / Highlights
For this project, I focused on keeping the shooting process loose and not setting a fixed final goal. Rather than trying to communicate one clear message, I wanted the film to become something where both I and the viewer could discover something along the way. The process was highly experimental. I spoke with as many people as I could, then edited the film while looking for both the similarities and differences in what they shared. I also had Maeda appear in the film and placed landscapes from Cambodia and Japan, places I had actually visited, behind the spoken words. In the edit, I wanted the images to give the words a slight sense of distance from reality, almost as if they were floating.
How I used the PowerShot V1
For this shoot, I kept the setup as light as possible. I only attached a wireless microphone for external audio recording to the camera, and everything was shot handheld. There were even days when I went out without a backpack, carrying only a crossbody bag, the camera, and the microphone. As someone who usually has to carry heavy gear, this made the whole process feel incredibly easy.
First Impression of the PowerShot V1
What stood out to me most was that the camera does not feel intimidating when you point it at someone. Even when I shot in a more casual or loose way, the footage still had a good feeling to it. In many cases, the images I captured while walking and spontaneously pointing the camera at something I encountered felt better than the ones I shot with a very fixed idea of what I wanted to capture. Although I did not use still photos in the final film, I also really liked how easy it was to switch over to photo mode.