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This is information of TVF, Victor Company of Japan sponsored it from 1978 to 2009.
The Tokyo Video Festival (TVF) was started in 1978, about 30 years ago, by Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.
(JVC) which sought to develop a new image culture by means of video. Since then, JVC has held TVF annually as a "world festival of citizen's video." In TVF, using a video
usable tool, you can express your own ideas and opinions in video images, and exchange them with other people. That is what we are aiming at.
The first round of TVF was held with the desire to "share the pleasure in creating video works," and 257 titles were entered.In the previous year, 29 years after TVF's founding, the number of entries reached a record of 3,391 titles form 55 countries around the world. The accumulated total in those 29 years reached the 48,000 mark. Starting in the early stage of video culture, TVF has grown strongly in the past about 30 years to become the world's biggest video festival and has introduced a number of high-grade video works to the world, each produced in the personal style special to this media. It can be said that through these videos created by free thinking individuals, TVF has contributed greatly to the development of a rewarding life and society where more people are holding conversations with each other.
There are many video contests and competitions, in most of which contestants are judged on relative merits. By contrast, TVF, from the very beginning, has consistently upheld the concept that it is a festival of video communication where participants express themselves, talk with each other, and reach out to other people with their own videos.
There are many video contests and competitions, in most of which contestants are judged on relative merits. By contrast, TVF, from the very beginning, has consistently upheld the concept that it is a festival of video communication where participants express themselves, talk with each other, and reach out to other people with their own videos.
TVF was launched in 1978, when the first portable VHS video system (VHS video cassette recorder HR-4100 and color video camcorder GC-3350) were put on the market. The emergence of the video camera recorder (camcorder) realized the ultimate pleasure of video and encouraged the desire "to create one's own software." Thus, JVC started TVF as an important forum to make all this possible.
By becoming involved in creating video software, anyone can broaden his or her personal world. TVF maximizes the advantages of video. Immediate records and memories in every day life and personal history are streaming on the screen. This is the "exciting world" which everyone has potentially within himself, where his ideas are recreated in images and sound. With the development of camcorders, TVF was begun, and the response to it has supported the development of "shooting video" near at hand.
Early home video camcorders, which appeared about thirty years ago, were far larger, heavier, and expensive than those of today. With the advance of technology, home camcorders have become smaller, lighter, and economical. Today, we are moving into a new age when everyone can pick up a camcorder and try to depict original drama or scenes by himself.
General recognition of the importance of video images has been brought about mainly by the mass media. As typified by broadcasting and movies, mass media are created by limited professionals with expertise, thus the voles in mass media are divided between the shooter (creator) and the viewer. By contrast, home video (camcorder) is an extremely personal media, in which everyone can express his or her own thoughts, and thus it may be considered a revolutionary media which encourages mutual exchanges between the shooter and the audience. Video is a tool to extend one's own ideas and dreams. Dialogue with video promotes exchanges among people. With video, the dialogue between the creator and the viewer begins, thus "video communication," or new exchanges through images, comes alive. These communication links are increasingly expanding.
Moving into the 21st century, the times are steadily changing. One can transmit his own video messages and video images to the world via broadband internet network. Personal computers and cellular phones can be used to send them too. Moreover, the videophone and video conference are taking off. While communication style is changing and media diversifying with the times, video con
the basis of video communication. The camcorder now has become an important tool in daily life. Among personal video entries for TVF, videos which "can directly convey the creator's personality and viewpoint to outsiders" are increasing in number. Those people who hope to strengthen their zest for living through creating their own videos are certainly increasing in number.
