夫婦でYouTubeを撮影してみた②

Late last year, we decided to start a YouTube video project in an easygoing style.
We pulled out our old GoPro5, which had been sitting unused for years, and decided to run the course my husband had been waiting for the first time. Starting in Harajuku, we took the back roads, then Shibuya, Ebisu, Hiroo, Roppongi, Aoyama, back to Ebisu again, Hatagaya, and finally ending at a cafe in Shimokitazawa.
気負わないスタイルで、夫婦でYouTubeを始めてみようと決めた年末。
何年も使わずに放置していた古いGoPro５を引っぱり出してきて、初回は夫があたためていたコースを走ることにした。原宿を出発して裏道を通り、渋谷、恵比寿、広尾、六本木、青山、再び恵比寿に戻り、幡ヶ谷、最後は下北沢のカフェで終了。

My husband was basically in charge of filming. He fixed the old GoPro to the back of his BROMPTON. He decided to use the Sony RX0, which he normally use to take still photos on rides, for hand-held video this time. And we each had our own iPhones.
撮影は基本的に夫が担当。古いGoProは夫のBROMPTONの後ろに固定することにした。普段ライドのとき静止画を撮るのに使っていたソニーのRX０を、今回は手持ちで動画を撮るのに使ってみることに。あとは、それぞれが持っているiPhoneだ。

We started the shooting by unfolding my BROMPTON folding bicycle at Jingu-bashi bridge near Harajuku station. As I was still not quite used to it, it took me a while to assemble it awkwardly.
まずは原宿駅近く、神宮橋で折り畳み自転車 BROMPTONを広げるところから撮影スタート。まだイマイチ慣れない私は、ぎこちない感じで組み立てるのに時間がかかる。

Next, my husband aims at the scene of me crossing a wide intersection from a pedestrian bridge. Once I crossed the intersection to check the location, it took a lot of effort to get back across, and when I did, my image was hidden by a truck making a right turn.... At this point, my husband was quite irritated. No amount of time would be enough at the starting point.
次は、私が広い交差点を渡るシーンを、夫が歩道橋の上から狙う。一度渡って場所を確認したあと、戻るのにかなり手こずり、さあと渡ったら、右折したトラックで私の姿が隠れてしまったり…。この時点でかなり夫はイライラ。スタート地点でこれでは、いくら時間があっても足りない。

The route was an interesting one, with a few surprises thrown in here and there, as my husband had planned. As soon as we left Harajuku Station, we entered a back street, avoiding the main street, where we could see the Yoyogi Gymnasium from the back, and when we thought we were on a narrow street, we suddenly came to a familiar big intersection. The Yamanote Line, which is supposed to run through a big city, runs beside a slightly desolate street.
ルートは夫が練っただけあり、ちょっとした驚きが随所に組み込まれた、面白いコースだった。原宿駅を出てすぐに大通りを避けた裏通りに入り、代々木体育館が裏側から見えたり、細い道を通っていたかと思うと、突然見覚えのある大きな交差点に出たり…。大都会を走っているはずの山手線が、ちょっと寂れた道の横を走っていたり。

This was almost the first time we had ever shot a video together with the intention of showing it to others, and it didn't quite work out the way we wanted it to.
人に見せることを意識して２人で動画撮影するのはほぼ初めてで、なかなか思う通りにはいかない。

I was riding toward a city object and trying to capture a scene of me stopping my bike, but he didn't like where I was turning. He was shooting a scene where he wanted me to pass by, but because he was stopping, I would stop too. It was like the opposite of "we're on the same page," and my husband was getting frustrated all the time. He would say, "I don't want to do video, I don't want to do it anymore”.
街のオブジェに向かって走り、自転車をとめるシーンを撮影しようとしても、私が曲がる位置が気に入らない。通り過ぎて欲しいと思って撮影していたのに、夫が止まっているからと私も止まってしまう。「あ・うんの呼吸」の正反対のような感じで、夫はずっとイライラしていた。「動画なんかイヤだ、もうやりたくない」と言い出す始末。

“It's not going to work the first time！ You have no guts!" I wanted to say back angrily, but I held back. I really didn't want to get into a fight here and throw the shoot out. Even if my husband was losing his temper, I didn't let it get to me. My first priority was to complete the project.
「最初からうまくいくわけないじゃん、根性なし！」と逆ギレしたくなるのを、グッと飲み込む。こんなところでケンカをして、撮影を投げ出してたまるかというのが私の本音だった。夫がキレていてもスルー。とにかくこれを完遂させようということが最優先だった。

When the other party is angry, I want to be angry too, and I get frustrated.
But the sky was clear. As I pedaled up the hill near the Aoyama Cemetery, I felt refreshed and thought that I liked this feeling of trying to create something.
相手がキレていれば、こっちだってキレたくなるし、イライラもする。
けれど、空はすっきりと晴れている。青山霊園のあたりの坂でペダルをふみながら、何かをつくり出そうとするこの感じが好きだと、晴れやかな気持ちになった。

Finally, we stopped by a cafe in Shimokitazawa to take a break. The shooting ended here.
最後は下北沢のカフェに寄ってひと息。撮影はここで終了だ。

We had a dinner planned for that night, so the next day, we got all the videos we shot into my
Husband‘s computer, and the next step was to edit them.
Here again, my husband was disappointed when he checked the video he had taken. He found that the hand-held shots were blurry and almost unusable.
その日の夜は飲み会の予定が入っていたので、翌日、撮影した動画をすべてパソコンに取り込み、次は編集作業だ。
ここでまた、撮影した動画を確認した夫はがっかり。手持ちで撮影したものがブレブレで、ほとんど使い物にならないことがわかったからだ。

There were a few scenes that were shot well. For example, a scene where two BROMPTONs were parked on a small bridge overlooking the train tracks just after departing from Harajuku Station. The trains were coming and going, and a lady walking her dog passed by just in front of the scene, creating a nice atmosphere that could only be captured on video.
いくつかうまく撮れていたシーンもあった。たとえば原宿駅を出発してすぐ、線路を見下ろす小さな橋の上に２台のBROMPTONを止めたシーン。電車が行き交い、ちょうど手前に犬の散歩中のご婦人が通りかかり、動画ならではのいい雰囲気だった。

However, even if we edited the video as it was, it was unlikely that we would be able to produce a satisfactory video. My husband, who is a photographer by profession, did not want to show the video to the public unless he could make at least a 60-point video in his own way, if not an 80-point video.
とはいえ、このまま編集しても、とても納得のいく動画はできそうにない。曲がりなりにもカメラマンを職業にしている夫は、80点とは言わなくても、自分なりにせめて60点のものができなければ、人の目に晒したくないというのだった。

We ended up having to do it again at the beginning of the year, twice in fact, for additional filming. Early this year, we also bought a new GoPro, the GoPro12, which is much more powerful, with a much better image stabilization, and a wide-angle lens with much less distortion than the GoPro5, which had a fisheye lens that distorted the view a lot.
結局、年明けにもう一度、実際には二度、追加の撮影を行うことになった。年明け早々、新しいGoProも買い足した。GoPro12はかなり性能が上がっていて、手ぶれ補正の機能も段違いだし、GoPro5では魚眼レンズで景色が大きくゆがんでいたのが、広角レンズでありながらゆがみもかなり軽減されている。

The day we combined our schedules to take additional photos, unfortunately, it rained in the afternoon and was cloudy in the morning, so we took a few shots and left. For the rest of the video, my husband shot on the sunny day by himself.
二人の予定を合わせて追加撮影をした日は、あいにく午後から雨で朝から曇天。少しだけ撮影して退散し、残りは夫が一人、晴れた日に撮り逃した風景を撮影した。

This is the first version that we have managed to cobble together and complete in such a way. Many things have been said about making videos longer than 8 minutes in order to monetize them, but we ignored those things, at least for the time being. We completed the video in a little over 3 minutes, aiming for viewers to watch it without getting bored.
そんなこんなでなんとかツギハギして完成した第一弾。収益化を目指すには8分以上の長さにしたほうがいいとか、いろんなことは言われているけれど、そういったことは少なくとも当面は無視。飽きずに見てもらえることを目指して、3分ちょっとの動画が完成した。

There is no end to the number of things we would have liked to have done here or there, if we had to say what we regret. But I think the video looks like it could have been a lot of fun. Anyway, we decided to take the plunge and launched a YouTube channel.
ここをこうしたかったとか、ああしたほうがいいといった反省点を言い出したらキリがない。でも、なんだか楽しそうな動画に仕上がったのでは？とも思っている。とにかく踏み出してみよう、エイッとYouTubeチャンネルを立ち上げてみた。

If you are at all interested, we would be happy to take a look.
少しでも興味を持ってくださったら、ご覧いただけたら幸いです。

The starting scene was reshot many times. In the end, the footage was cut in the edit.
スタート場面を何度も撮り直し。結局このときの映像は編集でカットに。

A lady walking her dog happened to pass by and was in a good mood!
偶然通りかかった犬の散歩中のご婦人が、よい感じに！

Husband at a loss because the photo shoot didn't go as smoothly as he would have liked.
なかなか撮影が思うようにいかず、途方にくれる夫

Click here to see the completed video.
完成した動画はこちら

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