Japan Trip Video

🎧 Best experienced with headphones 🎧

It’s taken me a while to get this film finished. When I went to Japan 🇯🇵 I came home with a small number of clips which I planned to share a few weeks later. However this project turned into much more than that. I wanted to test my skills in creating a feeling of emotion and sound design that I haven’t explored before. It was nice to create something for nobody but myself, with no client feedback or pressure and share something I’m really happy with (although I will probably wish I changed a tonne of things after sharing it with you all). One of the biggest excuses in the book is to not have time, and obviously at the moment we are all given dubious amounts of time to now do things we wouldn’t ‘have time’ for. When I started Adjust, I used the phrase “It’s time to Adjust” as I was making a big transition in my life. Little did I know how relevant that phrase would be now. We are all having to stay indoors, work from home and occupy ourselves. So with this time presented I’ve now managed to finish off a video I’ve been chipping away at for over a year. I’m dedicating this video to my friend Chan ❤️ who took his own life 2 years ago next month, I always spoke to him about visiting Japan one day, and he introduced me to Bonobo and this song - so I had no other music in mind when creating it. 🎵

So our trip begins briefly in Nara, then onto Lake Ashi in Hakone, Tokyo, Kyoto and back to Tokyo to finish off an incredible trip. Japan is somewhere to have on your list if it isn’t already. Everything about it is special. The people, the food, the scenery, the culture, the buildings, the fashion, the animals and everything else that goes with it. I can’t wait to book a trip there again one day once all this is over 🇯🇵 Stay safe everyone, stick your 🎧 headphones in and zone out for a few minutes and enjoy!✌️

Music credit: Second Sun by Bonobo