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9th October 2024
Look Back In Manga
Title of film: Amazon Manga: Stories Are My Sanctuary
Director: Mackenzie Sheppard (rep'd by ProdCo)
Production Company: AOI Pro
Sparked by the riddle: “How do you make manga in film without creating anime?”, Mackenzie Sheppard’s intricately crafted spot for Amazon sees manga readers absorbed into magical, monochrome comic-book worlds.

If watching the film set off another question in your brain – i.e. ‘How the hell did he do that?’  – then you’re in luck; the making-of video above offers an inside-the-scenes glimpse into the painstaking process – from developing the stories with real manga artists, to testing in AR how a 2.5D shooting approach would look, printing out and meticulously cutting over 1000 manga frames, and finally filming them with motion control cameras over 4 days.

 

INFO:

Mackenzie Sheppard website

@mackshepp

@wktokyo

@prodcofficial

@aoipro

REP: ProdCo

Credits

Director: Mackenzie Sheppard

Client: Amazon 

Agency: Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo

Project Name:  Stories Are My Sanctuary

 

Director: Mackenzie Sheppard rep’d by ProdCo

Editor: Ahato

Script Co-writer: Kai Sandy

Director of Photography: Oliver Millar

Production Company: AOI Pro

Director Rep: ProdCo

AOI Pro EP: Keisuke Mizusako (水迫恵介)

Producer: Masahiro Oyamada (小山田将大), Wataru Ode (大出航)

Production Manager: Yurika Yamada (山田百合佳), Lu Zhao (チョウ・ル), Atsuko Taketa (武田温子)

1st AD: Hideaki Jimbo (神保英昭)

Production Designer: Masami Tanaka (田中真紗美)

Casting Director: Mai Ikeda (池田舞), Yurika Kagami (各務裕梨佳)

 

Agency: Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo 

Creative Director: Max Pilwat (マックス・ピルワット)

Copywriter: Marina Danjo (檀上真里奈), Andrew Miller (アンドリュー・ミラー)

Designer: Akane Yasuda (安田茜)

Head of Brand Management: Jordan Cappadocia (ジョーダン・カパドーシャ)

Brand Executive: Ryu Kaida (海田隆)

PR Director: Kazuki Kyogoku (京極一樹)

Translator: Takuro Kobayashi (小林拓郎)

Head of Production: Michelle Brough (ミシェル・ブロウ)

Chief Creative Officer: Vivian Yong (ヴィヴィアン・ヨン), Erwin Federizo (アーウィン・フェデリゾ)

President: Yosuke Suzuki (鈴木洋介)

 

Client: Amazon

 

Gaffer: Jun Tanaka (田中洵)

1st AC: Anthony Rilocapro (アンソニー・リロカプロ)

2nd AC: Usman Kawazoe (川添ウスマン)

Key Grip: Akira Kanno (神野明)

Location Manager: Daishoku Zen (全大植)

Stylist: Iori Yamaki (八巻伊織)

Hair & Makeup: Phoebe Lin (フィービー・リン)

DIT: Seiji Kogami (小髪清志)

Sound Operator: Koya Hattori (服部航也)

Stop Motion Supervisor: Matthew Amonson (マシュー・アモンソン)

Motion Control Operator: Alex Bartholo (アレックス・バルソロ)@Alex_bartholo__dop

 

Edit: Ahato

Editor: Sho Date (伊達翔)

Assistant Editors: Shane Lester (シェーン・レスター), Ryo Kubota (久保田亮)

 

VFX: The Mill @mill_shanghai

VFX: Slavko Gavric (スラヴコ・ガヴリック)

VFX Producer: Jamie Loudon (ジェイミー・ラウデン)

Online Editor: Yusaku Yasuda (安田雄策), Amanda Amalfi (Nomad Tokyo) (アマンダ・アマルフィ)

 

Music/Sound: SIREN

Music/SFX: Seiji Champollion (セイジ・チャンポリオン), 

Music Composer: Chris White (クリス・ホワイト)

Music Producer: Sian Rogers (シアン・ロジャーズ)

 

Sound: Factory Studios

Sound Designer: Mark Hills (マーク・ヒルズ)

Sound Mixer: Daniel Lovell (ダニエル・ラヴェル)

Audio Producer: Olivia Endersby (オリビア・エンダーズビー)

 

Color: Rare Medium

Color Producer: Evan Bauer (エヴァン・バウアー)

Colorist: Stephanie Park (ステファニー・パーク)

 

Director Rep: ProdCo

ProdCo Founders/EPs: Ian Pons Jewell, Zico Judge