Geothermal Iceland
October, 2011
During the Autumn of 2011 I composed the music for the short documentary Geothermal Iceland directed by Luis Patrón. I have been fan of Bjork for many years and this soundtrack was a tribute to her and to the knowledge of people of Iceland.
After the Rain, My first Music Video
October, 2011
First video of the Japanese band Aragehonji.
Shot on Canon 60D with 35mm Canon EF lenses and edited on Final Cut Pro X.
The location is Kinuta Park in Setagaya-Ku Tokyo near Umegaoka Station on the Odakyu Line.
Music by Aragehonji, composed by Masafumi Saitou.
Camera, Edition: David Jiménez.
First of October 2011.
The beauty of the People and Nature of Kanazawa
December, 2010
I think there are projects in your life that seal you forever. Book of Seasons – A year in Kanazawa is one of the most interesting and lovely documentaries I’ve ever worked in.
Each one of the stories inside this film touched my soul and I will be very proud to be part of this forever. Book of Season a years project that started at the beginning of 2010, going back to the location every season to complete the theme. After one year working on this movie we organized a film festival in the city of Kanazawa, Ishikawa prefecture, where I had the opportunity to meet some of the characters on the movie and personally thank them for their wonderful inspiration.
We made a DVD, a poster, a flyer and finally a book for this project, where I was in charge of the design, selecting carefully each one of the incredible images from the movie. Finally we selected a drawing from a Kimono with the four season theme, as the main image for the whole project.
For the music, the Director Kaori Brand and me though about using traditional japanese children songs, I contacted my brother Daniel Jiménez and his wife Shenny Lopez to help me on the soundtrack.
Daniel made a completely new arrangement of the song Haru ga kita, “The Spring was come” with Shenny singing in Japanese, followed by the song Yuki, “Snow” arranged by the two brothers on a king of electronic mood sung again by Shenny. The rest of the music was new compositions composed by me inspired on each one of the seasons.
The world seen from low and small places
November, 2010
How a microscopic Moss world sounds? During early spring of 2011 I composed the music for this lovely documentary that show us a face of nature many times we don’t see.
I worked in the color grading of this movie, one of my other jobs that I’m still refining everyday.
Dreaming with Indian Music
October, 2010
In September 2010 I had the opportunity to compose Indian-style music for the short documentary Nature’s bounty and inheriting wisdom.
I always loved Indian Music and that was an incredible opportunity to explore that sounds.
Film Festival at the Mexican Embassy
September, 2009
Ice Music from Hokkaido Japan
July, 2009
I composed the music for this documentary that later was played on many Movie Festivals around the world.
This video shows the old ID we used at the beginning of all the UNU Video-briefs. The animations on the movie are mine made on Adobe After Effects.
This ID music and the animation were developed later into something more simple and faster.
Making a successful environmental story on Youtube
April, 2009
In Spring 2009, I co-produced, co-directed the video Plastic to Oil Fantastic for United Nations University Ourworld 2.0 web magazine with Megumi Nishikura.
This video became one of the most successful videos in the history of United Nations with 2,629,259 views at the end of 2011 on the UNU Youtube Channel.
The video became viral when many people around the world downloaded it and uploaded everywhere on the Net, adding around 1 million views more.
I want to thank all the people working at Blest Japan for their incredible work, who is opening the eyes of the audience to the idea of recycling the treasure of plastic around us.
Once again, the music of this documentary was composed by your humble friend.
The Wisdom Years
August, 2008
This Documentary was the first music soundtrack I made. It was a big project produced by the United Nations University and The World Health Organization.
I worked on the music beside my brother Daniel Jiménez who finally composed the must recognizable themes on the soundtrack.
At the same time I was working on the design and animation for the Logo, the DVD, the Website and the Flyer of the movie.
The Wisdom Years Website.
Our World 2.0 Illustrations and Infographics
July, 2008
In 2008 United Nations University Media Studio started OurWorld 2.0 Web magazine. As part of this on-going project, I have been designing Illustrations and Info-graphics for some of the articles. This is a selection of some interesting examples.
Front banners and infographic for OurWorld 2.0 Web Magazine.
