{"id":19513,"date":"2015-01-09T16:18:40","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T07:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/?p=19513"},"modified":"2015-01-16T18:46:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T09:46:40","slug":"director-kore-eda-teaches-filmmaking-to-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/news\/19513","title":{"rendered":"Director Kore-eda teaches filmmaking to children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Nov 22-24, renowned film director\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Hirokazu Kore-eda,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Waseda University alumnus and professor, \u00a0led a three-day workshop for children. Thirty elementary school students learned about filmmaking through a project of reporting, filming and editing a report about the Waseda neighborhood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/01\/film-workshop-koreeda-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\" wp-image-19521\" alt=\"film workshop - koreeda 02\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/01\/film-workshop-koreeda-02.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/01\/film-workshop-koreeda-02.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/01\/film-workshop-koreeda-02-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/01\/film-workshop-koreeda-02-610x457.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/01\/film-workshop-koreeda-02-720x540.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a> Kore-eda explains the task<a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/01\/film-workshop-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\" wp-image-19516\" alt=\"film workshop - 03\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/01\/film-workshop-03.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/01\/film-workshop-03.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/01\/film-workshop-03-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/01\/film-workshop-03-610x457.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/01\/film-workshop-03-720x540.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a> Children filming around Waseda<\/p>\n<p>Kore-eda (class of 1987) is known around the world for his resume of over 25 works in film and television, including &#8220;Like Father, Like Son,&#8221; winner of the 2013 Jury Prize at Cannes. As a professor since April 2014, he participates in management of Waseda&#8217;s Motion Pictures Arts &amp; Sciences minor course as well as teaching multiple classes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"film workshop - 04\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/01\/film-workshop-04.jpg\" \/> Making movie posters<\/p>\n<p>The Director presented the assignment, &#8220;to make a film about something you don\u2019t understand.&#8221; He charged the children to, &#8220;Go out in the neighborhood and look for something you don\u2019t understand.&#8221; The children quickly warmed up to the task, sparking questions such as &#8220;How far away can we go?&#8221; and, &#8220;What if our batteries run out?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After two days of filming and editing in small groups, the event culminated in a presentation and screening of all the works in the historic Okuma Auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>The Children&#8217;s Movie Workshop @ Waseda Enpaku 2014 was co-hosted by Waseda University&#8217;s Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum (<abbr>Enpaku<\/abbr>), Japan&#8217;s leading theater museum since 1928.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Nov 22-24, renowned film director\u00a0Hirokazu Kore-eda,\u00a0Waseda University alumnus and professor, \u00a0led a thre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,117],"tags":[177],"class_list":["post-19513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-topic","tag-outreach-en","lang-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}