About the Work
On Thursday, July 22, TOHOKU HOUSE, an event housed at the Akiba Square (close to JR Akihabara Station in Tokyo), started showing the 180° panoramic movie The View from TOHOKU & NIIGATA, planned, directed and produced by WOW. We have previously announced other works that have taken Tohoku as the central theme, including BAKERU, POPPO, and The Shape of Prayer. The View from TOHOKU & NIIGATA presents the seasonal scenery and summer festivals of the Tohoku and Niigata regions on a giant, 180° panoramic screen that measures 4 meters high and 22 meters wide, with a circumference of around 34 meters.
The movie forms one of the main attractions of theTOHOKU HOUSE event and was filmed over the course of more than two years, taking in the changing seasons and events from more than 22 locations around Tohoku and Niigata. The View from TOHOKU & NIIGATA comprises linked footage from three 4K cinema cameras and a drone fitted with a specially developed camera able to capture the entire sky for an ultra-high-definition movie that surrounds and astounds the viewer. The piece was also designed to draw the viewer's perspective into the screen with the use of motion graphics in certain scenes for a real sense of immersion.
作品について
2021年7月22日～8月7日にかけてアキバ・スクエア（東京・JR秋葉原駅前）を会場に開催される「東北ハウス」のメインコンテンツ「The View from TOHOKU & NIIGATA」を企画・演出・制作。高さ約4m×幅約22m（円周では約34ｍ）の180度・巨大パノラマスクリーン（半円形）に東北の風景を映し出す。
22箇所を超える東北・新潟の四季や行事を2年以上かけて撮影・制作。独自に開発された全天球カメラを搭載した大型ドローンや、4Kシネマカメラ3台を連結させて撮影した実写映像は、超高精細にして圧倒的な迫力で鑑賞者を包み込む。モーショングラフィックスを使用したシーンでは、画面の奥へと視点を誘導することで没入感を得られるようにデザインした。
WOW
Direction : Daisuke Takahira
Creative Direction : Kaoru Kudo
Visual Design：Takuma Sasaki / Kaoru Kudo / Yusuke Mizuno / Shinya Kikuchi / Kenichi Tanaka / Yuki Saito / Rin Matsunaga / Yutaka Kadota
Producer : Takuya Inagaki
Music and Sound Design : Mitsu the beats / Nami Sato / Tomohiro Nagasaki (WOW)
Grape City inc. WINE studios
Director of Photography : Masao Osanai
Assistant Camera : Akihiro Sasaki / Katsuhisa Mori / Nobuyoshi Natori / Joel Froes / Takumi Kihara / Toshiyuki Koizumi
Offline Editor : Takashi Yamaguchi
MA : Motomu Hino
Production Manager : Takuro Sato / Rie Miura / Takeru Suzuki
COSMO SPACE Co., Ltd.
Technical Director / VR DIT : Yutaka Sasaki
VR Advisor : Toshiki Yura
Lab manager : Oichiro Kato
Imagica Entertainment Media Services, Inc.
Color Grading : Natsuko Kawahara
Online Editor : Yusuke Nakano
VR Artist : Yayoi Sasaki
FLIGHTS inc.
VR Drone Operator : Yuta Ishiyama
Sub Drone Operator : Takanori Murata
Drone assistant : Ikumi Sano
Account Director : Takayuki Kurihara
miraihi Co., Ltd.
VR Stitcher : Ryusuke Mitsui
VR assistant : Kondo Masato
ASK Corp.
VR Advisor：Shouhei Higuma
CG modeler : Yuya Fukada
Hardware / System Operator : Prism Co., Ltd.
Equipment Cooperation : Canon Marketing Japan Inc. / ASK Corporation 
Produce : Entertainment Bowl Co., Ltd.
Digest Movie Camera : RIGHTUP inc.