This post was written by Jay Kidd and originally appeared on the Frame.io blog on September 23rd, 2024.It’s even rarer for that person to be a news intern with no political connections. But that’s exactly what happened to Shiori Itō, the subject and director of MTV’s new documentary, Black Box Diaries, due for release in October.For five years, the young Japanese journalist documented her quest for justice after she was drugged and raped by Noriyuki Yamaguchi, a prominent TV journalist and friend of Shinzô Abe, the then-prime minister of Japan. Although Itō had a mountain of evidence on her side, the police claimed that her case against Yamaguchi was a dud. According to them, Itō’s assault existed within a “black box,” rendering it untouchable to prosecution and invisible to the world at large.Amazingly, Itō kept up the fight. She began carefully archiving every moment of her struggle against Yamaguchi, assembling a patchwork of audio clips, surveillance videos, vlogs, and covert recordings about her assault. The result is Black Box Diaries, a documentary that examines Itō’s real-life court cases and confronts Japan’s shockingly draconian laws and social attitudes.For this installment of Made in Frame, we sat down with the editor of Black Box Diaries, Ema Ryan Yamazaki. Yamazaki chose Premiere Pro and Frame.io to help her sift through five years’ worth of Itō’s collected footage to craft this powerhouse of a documentary. We’ll look at why she chose those platforms and how Yamazaki had to grow as an editor to bring...
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