Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Interpretation for the Singaporean Media Shooting

(1) First day
[Date & Time] Tuesday, August 28, at 10:00~18:15
[Spots] the Square in front of Sakuragicho Station, Sail Training Ship NIPPON MARU, and YOKOHAMA HAKKEIJIMA SEA PARADISE
[Guests] 8 Singaporean Video Production Company persons
[Host] Tourism Division Industry Department COMMERCE, INDUSTRY, AND LABOR BUREAU of Kanagawa Prefectural Government
[Attendant] 1 KSGG member
[Language] English


"Zoom JAPAN" is one of the popular TV programs in Singapore.  It is on air as a travel show from the end of November, featuring Hokkaido, Tokyo, Yokohama, and Kyoto.  The first scene was like this: In front of Sakuragicho Station, two young female Singaporean reporters ask a Japanese passer-by in English how to get to Sail Training Ship NIPPON MARU.  The Japanese woman got confused.  After asking 4 or 5 people the same question, they finally got the answer and could get to the ship.  After lunch, they moved to YOKOHAMA HAKKEIJIMA SEA PARADISE on a bus arranged by the Kanagawa Prefectural Government.  They shot the shocking scene of "BLUE FALL," which is an amusement ride that falls vertically from 107 meters high with the max gravity of 4 G.


 (2) Second day
[Date & Time] Wednesday, August 29, at 8:50~17:30
[Spots] Red Brick Warehouse, Cupnoodles Museum, The Landmark Tower, Shinyokohama Raumen Museum, and Three Towers of Yokohama (Kanagawa Prefectural Government, Main Building, Port Opening Memorial Hall, and Yokohama Custom House)
[Attendants] 2 KSGG members
[Language] English


 After shooting at Red Brick Warehouse and Cupnoodles Museum, we had lunch at a restaurant in JICA Yokohama and then took time to shoot the panoramic 360-degree view from the observation deck on the 68th floor of the Landmark Tower.  After that, at Shinyokohama Raumen Museum, they shot the reproduced old downtown Yokohama in the good old days of the Showa era, especially spending much time shooting the scene where two reporters enjoyed browsing in an old-fashioned Japanese sweet shop.  On the way to the Three Towers of Yokohama, they shot the scene of two reporters found the way to King, Queen, and Jack by asking a passer-by in English.