The Same Clothes as Yesterday

 

 

 We should change our clothes every day.

If a young worker comes to the workplace wearing the same clothes as yesterday, he/she might be a target of rumor. People might think he/she had an unexpected romantic night.

I am not writing a romantic story. This was an instruction from a TV director.

When my wife and I lived with my mother who had Alzheimer’s disease, Japanese state television visited us for coverage.

A group of TV crews recorded us from morning till night for two days.

On the first morning, as usual, I waked up my mother. We ate breakfast. We changed her clothes. We prepared to send her to a day service.

Then the director said the unusual instruction.

“Could you wear the same clothes again the next morning?”

I couldn’t understand what he was saying.

 Later on, I understood the meaning of his instructions. They recorded our life for two days because they wanted to shoot us better. On the first day, they captured how we moved in the morning and thought of how to shoot us and where they should set up the camera. That might be a trial. The actual shoot was on the second day. But they also wanted the first day’s shooting. They wanted to choose better images. They edited the two-day images to make them appear as one day. If we wore the same clothes, it made the editing easier.

 It was summer. I sweat a lot, even in the morning.

 It was not comfortable to wear the same clothes for two days.

 Because of our effort, we were aired in a nationwide program. A famous actress was the host of the program. She said some things about us.

 But our appearance was just five minutes.

Hey! They shot us for two days! Most of our actions were omitted.

 We watch TV idly every day. But most of our efforts were not aired. We should not forget about that.

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Picture by Kirino