Part 2 - 16 At Zepp Tokyo
We were finally going to shoot at Zepp Tokyo.
The stage directors and staff in charge of music events were working from early in the morning, setting the moving lights etc. in accordance to the songs we were going to shoot.
Ta-bo, along with Ren-chan, the personality of the net radio station “Midnight Connection”, came from Hokkaido to support us.
I was able to get in touch with Chikurin, the representative of “Yume (Dream) Net” all in good time, and he was able to drop by at the site as well.
Because the movie team worked till late last night, we gathered at the location after noon. First, we shot the acting scenes which take place back stage. It was good for a scene where snow starts to fall, but unluckily, it was drizzling.
After completing the shooting in the rain we went inside. It continued to rain steadily after that.
I suppose we could call this lucky.
The main event of that day was to shoot the stage scene of the World Indies Festival (WIF) which was to become the climax of the story. Although I have experienced filming music scenes and scenes with singers in TV drams, the arrangements for films are quite different. With videos and hi-vision, we can shoot consecutively for as many hours as we want, as long as the cable is connected. However, for film, we can only shoot in accordance with the amount of film we attach to the camera.
This means that there is a limit to the amount of time we can shoot at one time. It would be ideal to be able to use ample film and cameras, but with more projects than usual being filmed this year, I heard that the majority of cameras were already out for rent. Plus, musical projects require an enormous amount of film.
This is one of the aspects in film making that probably differs among the countries. If we compared the amount of film that would be used in filming a certain project, the Koreans would use ten times the amount of film we would use in Japan. In the States, (excluding the Indies projects) it would be more than twenty times. I don’t know whether it’s because we dislike wasting things, or whether it’s because we’re just stingy, but we Japanese would naturally think, “if we have that much film, we would be able to shoot many more films!”
Perhaps we can say that this is a cultural difference.
Now, for this project, we asked an extra photographer to help us out, and shot the scene with a total of four cameras. As for the other bands that appear in the story, there are no worries as they would be performing their own songs.
But “YURI & the BLOODSTONES” is an imaginary band made up of actors – they needed a lot of work.
The original song created for this film was completed only a week ago. The score for the rehearsal of the drums and guitar was made three days later. Even the vocalist Marky did not have time to memorize the lyrics.
Needless to say, Kaneko-san on the drums, Takada-kun on the guitar, Futatsuki-kun and Kazu from Jancruise had little time for rehearsal.
We really wanted to have the song ready much earlier, but things were delayed due to the circumstances. However, all of them really worked hard to make it work.
The scene performed by them was really impressive. They had prepared well even when they were not given much time. The song, and the lyrics written by Marky were both great.
Rather than just have her sing the song, we wanted to have them start with a cappella.
Explaining my intentions, we rehearsed a few times, and went for the shooting.
A spotlight brought out Marky on the stage.
A quiet, sad voice with the slightest tremble echoed throughout the hall.
The moment we heard this voice… tears flowed naturally from many people in the audience.
The important part of the last scene of this movie was filmed successfully in this way.
(originally posted in Japanese on July 18, 2006)
The stage directors and staff in charge of music events were working from early in the morning, setting the moving lights etc. in accordance to the songs we were going to shoot.
Ta-bo, along with Ren-chan, the personality of the net radio station “Midnight Connection”, came from Hokkaido to support us.
I was able to get in touch with Chikurin, the representative of “Yume (Dream) Net” all in good time, and he was able to drop by at the site as well.
Because the movie team worked till late last night, we gathered at the location after noon. First, we shot the acting scenes which take place back stage. It was good for a scene where snow starts to fall, but unluckily, it was drizzling.
After completing the shooting in the rain we went inside. It continued to rain steadily after that.
I suppose we could call this lucky.
The main event of that day was to shoot the stage scene of the World Indies Festival (WIF) which was to become the climax of the story. Although I have experienced filming music scenes and scenes with singers in TV drams, the arrangements for films are quite different. With videos and hi-vision, we can shoot consecutively for as many hours as we want, as long as the cable is connected. However, for film, we can only shoot in accordance with the amount of film we attach to the camera.
This means that there is a limit to the amount of time we can shoot at one time. It would be ideal to be able to use ample film and cameras, but with more projects than usual being filmed this year, I heard that the majority of cameras were already out for rent. Plus, musical projects require an enormous amount of film.
This is one of the aspects in film making that probably differs among the countries. If we compared the amount of film that would be used in filming a certain project, the Koreans would use ten times the amount of film we would use in Japan. In the States, (excluding the Indies projects) it would be more than twenty times. I don’t know whether it’s because we dislike wasting things, or whether it’s because we’re just stingy, but we Japanese would naturally think, “if we have that much film, we would be able to shoot many more films!”
Perhaps we can say that this is a cultural difference.
Now, for this project, we asked an extra photographer to help us out, and shot the scene with a total of four cameras. As for the other bands that appear in the story, there are no worries as they would be performing their own songs.
But “YURI & the BLOODSTONES” is an imaginary band made up of actors – they needed a lot of work.
The original song created for this film was completed only a week ago. The score for the rehearsal of the drums and guitar was made three days later. Even the vocalist Marky did not have time to memorize the lyrics.
Needless to say, Kaneko-san on the drums, Takada-kun on the guitar, Futatsuki-kun and Kazu from Jancruise had little time for rehearsal.
We really wanted to have the song ready much earlier, but things were delayed due to the circumstances. However, all of them really worked hard to make it work.
The scene performed by them was really impressive. They had prepared well even when they were not given much time. The song, and the lyrics written by Marky were both great.
Rather than just have her sing the song, we wanted to have them start with a cappella.
Explaining my intentions, we rehearsed a few times, and went for the shooting.
A spotlight brought out Marky on the stage.
A quiet, sad voice with the slightest tremble echoed throughout the hall.
The moment we heard this voice… tears flowed naturally from many people in the audience.
The important part of the last scene of this movie was filmed successfully in this way.
(originally posted in Japanese on July 18, 2006)
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