xCricket11x Video of her dance covers (Where's Your Head at?)

 I remember making this video last year like it was yesterday I know I worked the total of  about 3 days on this video. I think I was most impressed with Danielle when I saw her Miss A cover where she does the splits at the end. I really miss her making new videos. She is awesome and I understand she is getting in the medical field and I can see why, she moves so angelic. I knew she had to be my next tribute victim and I think she was a fine choice.

 The song is a blend of three songs and it was done differently then what I would do now when mixing songs. I just cross faded them with Windows Movie Maker. The cross fading music worked and I loved it and others loved it as well. The video is over 6 minutes long and it was at one time of the most engaged videos I have ever done. This means people set through the entire 6 minutes. Mission accomplished I had made an entertaining video.

 The editing software I used was Studio Pinnacle for the Special effects and it is first time I used Adobe Photoshop for frames to create the lightning effect. I did the effects first with studio pinnacle like the reverse effects and waves and different effects. Then I edited them with windows Movie which has traditionally has become the way I do a video.
 There are actually video effects that I did but I did not add to the video. There was a wave effects and different flare effects. I love Hair Flinging shots so I enjoyed the Hair flinging reverse shot effects they look really cool and Danielle is so attrcactive as well with those combinations they have made a good video. l really want to make an entertaining video I feel the people who watch my videos deserve that and I really feel I owe them you cannot please both the J-pop fans and K-pop fans it is hard to do I cannot say which I loved better but I love them both. It is your love of that music which helps me get views and  subscribers.
 It was easy to decide on the big finish on this video which is something I try for on most of my videos. The video starts with getting your attention and ends with you wanting more of Danielle. It is a video that is hard to top of the ones that I have done. The video does not have the Toru Bumper but I can assure you I edited it which is why I chose to have the Bumper.
 I feel I have been invited in the community and now since I have worked with other dancers I feel like I am part of the community and I feel like one of the dancers I get the same haters and lovers. Thanks for all the views. This video has no dislikes. I wonder why?

Epyanna Dream a Dream.

Eppyanna has to be one of the most talented people on youtube. I would love to see Eppyanna discovered by some big entertainment compay. She is obviously musically gifted. I wished I would have downloaded more videos to edit. I plan to go back and maybe redo some tributes and I think she is on my list, I would love to redo her tribute video. Since I grew up with DDR it was kind of natural to pick this song it is a great song . I used to love doing the DDR game and stepping to that song. This video was edited with Windows Movie maker. I do not think any Video I did would ever do Epyanna any justice.

Bad Girls But Good Girls Dance Covers Mix

 This video was released on Nov 7, 2010. The dance itself is very sexual, There is the bum rubbing and of course getting on the floor like a naughty school girl move. I think the real reasoning behind this video was my feelings about split screen videos on how one screen would not follow the dancer.

 I decided I wanted to make a video were one screen would follow the dancer and thus this video was made. I used the Window Splitting effect from Studio Pinnacle here. If you watch the video you will see how the window splitting does follow the dancers moves and hopefully it brings you the viewer into the dance I will use this effect more later in my Blue Bon Bon tribute video so you might want to check that out as well.
 In the description I seem more guy like and I really have no bad criticism for what was said the dance is little bit more mature so it is probably a little more mature then your average J-pop song. Korean pop is more adult then J-pop but I do not disrespect any of the dancers because they all are good. There is Bekah, Eppyanna, and Danielle all good dancer sand a few that I do not remember oh yeah Johanna is there as well great dancers and a great dance. There is great Hair flinging fun here.

2 NE1 Dance Covers

I really did not have any featured dancer here but I always liked the dance cover that Bekah did of 2NE1 Fire so I thought it would be neat to mix some dancers and create this neat little dance I just  added a few effects .  I figured since my Danjo and My Love and Joy were a big hits so why not do a K-pop song. I think doing mixes of different dancers doing a certain song will be a main stay for the Toru Takanuru channel this is still before the bumper so it is different from some of the videos. Of course this is not one of my favorites but it was good practice that I needed to learn on making an entertaining video. This was edited with windows Movie Maker.

Julia I love Rock N Roll!

Julia Rock N Roll
 I remember it was a dreary day when I made this I wanted to know if I could mix the track without vocals with Julia to give it a good sound. I think I was more concerned about the sound then the visual. I had to do some tricks to match the lip syncing which was changed because of the mixing. I wanted to do one close up on a feature that think is beautiful on Julia and that was her lips. I know now my mixing skills are a little bit better but I got to live a little bit of my dream which was to mix a song for Julia Bernard well maybe one of these days I will get to actually sit behind a Mixing board with Julia in a Sound booth maybe one of these day will see. This video was edited with Studio Pinnacle and the Music was mixed with Pro tools and I was a new user.

Julia (Aralka1234) Boom Test Video ジュリアブーム！A commentary

This is my first attempt to comment on videos as they reach a year anniversary. The title is called Julia (AraIka1234) Boom Test Video. First the Title is much different then most of the videos I have done. Test why would test be in it well its because P.O.D. Boom was not supposed to be the song that I was going to use. The idea was to have a mix of songs like maybe two or three to make one song. I only put P.O.D.'s song to see if I coud edit her footage then replace it with another song. This is before my Chroma Key days so you really do not see much outstanding effects in this video the song however fits well. I know many know Julia as the sweet young lady we know of today but at the time there was controversy regarding her I think many of us avoided her because she did seem to frighten us and we did not understand if she was challenging other dancers at the time or if that what was how people thought of her that way. Let me explain when I first started to do this I never really heard of the word collaboration many people would do split screens and say this is one dancer vs another dancer you do not see that now you see a lot of collaborations. I was probably one of the first who saw this as a bad thing. The dancers had enough criticsm, it was the last thing they really needed was someone putting them up against each other like cage fighters about to square off in Thunder Dome. You see of all the Versus videos Julia Bernard had the most there was Julia Vs Becky and Julia vs Kozue and it was not good. Then it got worse Julia became a member of the short lived project called  Cute Ribbons Project this was after about six members had committed to Cruel Angels Project. Cute Ribbon had almost all my favorite dancers in there. Someone had posted on a blog "We are cuter and We are better dancers then the Cruel Angels" Regardless of all the Drama, Julia was cute and a good singer and really fascinated me of her passion about learning about other cultures.

It did not take me long to start watching her videos and her honesty and passion helped me become a true supporter of her. I felt that under all that softness there was a tough person who was not going to give up on her dreams. The song I picked "Boom" I think it was meant to be. The song worked in my video. She proved to me to be the that person with the "Bring It ON" attitude because I am willing to to go up against anything type person .

The most seen effect in my video is the 3-d ripple effect and this was done with Windows Movie Maker.

It's Getting more popular then you think.

SNL Skit from last night

I was sitting in bed when the skit first appeared on air. I knew there was this awful feeling that they were making fun of people I know. I am talking about the J-pop college mock show that aired last night on NBC of course. SNL really has not produced anything funny in a long time so I was not concerned about that. The thing that bothered me the most was the young lady did however have a Beckii Cruel like persona as though whoever wrote the skit had a familiarity with the J-pop dancing growing fans. After having a good night sleep I realised this was the same show who mocked white kids for acting like black kids . In those days you would here the term Wigger which is a just about as scary as Weeaboo or however you spell it because I doubt you will be able to find both words in a dictionary. I think if you really want to insult me actually use a real word.
 I really can relate to a younger generation wanting to find music that they can relate to I mean popular music especially Hip-hop has become dull dry and boring it really has over stayed its welcome. I myself cannot Identify it. if it is truly the music of the streets? Then keep  it on the streets how many times do I have to hear the recycled version of 80's music with cuss words laced over it. I see young ladies who want to be cute and why not? Why should they have to conform to something they do not like. I grew up in the country and I hated country music every note sounded whiny in my ear, I listened to Rock and then Hip-Hop but after while you want to broaden your spectrum a little bit. Is there anything wrong with that? Why should I be stuck listening to certain type of music if I was born in a certain country, why should I be stuck listening to certain kind of music? Elvis was Hated for singing "Negro" Music.Some rappers still get poked fun at for Rapping because they are white and some are laughing now to the bank My question is whats wrong with blending cultures together in a for the sake of art trust me the Japanese are not going to shoot you if you blend country music and J-pop together there is nothing wrong with that many people keep on forgetting on how much Walt Disney has inspired the world of Japanese Anime or how are Industrial Metal is an Inspiration for J-rock.
 On a positive note you have to say that to be mentioned on Saturday Night Live is a good thing to be able to be noticed shows you how well the movement has grown. It probably won't be long til you see groups like Danceroid on the television in America just you wait and see.
                                Toru!