"How are you preparing? Are you nervous?" Mizuna Hayato asked funnyly.
"No, no." Yuko Araki was obviously speechless.
"It's okay, it's just a MV anyway, it doesn't matter if you shoot it a few more times." Hayato Minakami said with relief.
"Yeah." Araki Yuko nodded, thinking of a certain scene written in the script, and couldn't help but blush.
According to Hayato Minato's understanding, "Incense and Fireworks" is a song about missing out on summer. The combination of the two is the campus love story that the Sakurazu crew is best at shooting.
Hayato Minakami is well-deserved for her good looks, and Yuko Araki is also currently recognized as the actress with the best looks in Stargaze. The MV of handsome men and beautiful women is beautiful no matter how you shoot it, and it also adds summer fireworks, yukata, kimonos, etc. to the lyrics. A classic scene, probably a tethered dog can produce a beautiful picture.
Therefore, they did not take risks in terms of plot and chose the most clichéd and classic story direction.
The male and female protagonists met, got to know each other, and had a crush on each other in high school. They filmed a scene of peeking at each other in the classroom, and then filmed a scene of delivering umbrellas in the rain after school. Then they met at a fireworks display. The heroine and the male protagonist were dressed up to attend. The Lord kissed for the first time under the blooming fireworks...
In order to match the sad atmosphere of this song, the male protagonist's perspective of memories is used. In the sweet campus love mentioned above, scenes of the male protagonist missing the female protagonist many years later are interspersed, and an atmosphere of reminiscence arises spontaneously. .
As for the ending, the director gave Mizuna Hayato two choices before filming. One was for the male protagonist to quietly look at the fireworks in the sky and recall the past, ending the song with a relieved smile; the other was the familiar open ending. , at the end of the BGM, a call from the female protagonist came from behind the male protagonist, and then the song ended.
There is nothing new or surprising in the two endings. They are just the difference between the BE direction and the HE direction.
Mizuna Hayato thought for a while, and suddenly came up with a good idea: "Let's shoot both endings."
"Then you choose which one to use based on the finished product?" the director asked curiously.
"No!" Hayato Minazin suddenly showed an unscrupulous smile: "shooting an extra section will be a benefit to the audience. Use both sections. When the time comes, we will make two versions of the single, one version is BE and the other version It’s HE, the best of both worlds, killing two birds with one stone!”
Minato Hayato thought he had come up with a good idea.
"What a great idea!" The director immediately agreed: "If the HE version is used as an Easter egg and only a few are released, fans will buy a few more copies in order to collect both versions, which can also increase sales!"
"I'm not..."
"You are such a genius! I will contact the lady right away!" The director ran away happily.
"That's not what I meant..." Minato Hayato stretched out his hand but couldn't hold back the director who was leaving.
He noticed that Yuko Araki next to him was looking at him with a strange look.
"I really didn't mean that..." Hayato Minazin explained dryly to Yuko Araki.
Araki Yuko's generation happens to be the generation where Morning Musume is very popular. As an idol fan, she will naturally buy some peripherals, so she is familiar with the sales methods of some peripherals in the market.
Hearing the idea that Minakami Hayato came up with, Araki Yuko couldn't help but put it into her own body. If this kind of precious "Easter Egg CD" appeared in Morning Musume's CD, then she...
It will definitely explode!
Thinking of this, Hayato Minato's handsome face suddenly became a bit "hateful". Is this run by unscrupulous profiteers who are the class enemies of idol fans?
"I, I know." Araki Yuko reluctantly agreed.
"You believe me!" Mizuno Hayato emphasized, "How could I possibly deceive my fans like this?"
Seeing Yuko Araki hesitate to speak, in order to prove his innocence, Hayato Minakami decided to call Nao Fujiwara immediately to clarify his decision.
"...Yes, we need to make two versions, but just make it public so that they can choose. Don't make it a hidden mode. I don't make such bad money."
"Right, you agree that my image is more important, right? You still want to persuade me? I have already said that this was not my idea, it was just a figment of your director's imagination!"
"What? Use it for AKB? Isn't it enough to have a general election... won't it be exposed that it was my idea? Okay, okay, then it's okay, use it, use it."
Minakami Hayato hung up the call with Fujiwara Nao and observed a few seconds of silence for future AKB fans.
Then he looked at Yuko Araki and was silent for a moment: "I heard that you like idols? Do you know AKB?"
"I think... I've heard of it." Yuko Araki thought for a moment, but actually she hadn't heard of it: "But I'm not familiar with it."
"Okay, very good." Mizuna Hayato nodded: "It's best not to be familiar with it."
Araki Yuko barely maintained a smile, her mind filled with doubts.
...
The MV shooting schedule is quite tight. Although the entire MV constitutes a story, it is only a short segment. If they were shot separately, they only arranged three days of shooting.
Hayato Minakami was used to filming one episode of TV series a week, but he thought it was just right.
The shooting of the first scene is the first scene that the male protagonist recalls. When he was in high school, he and the girl he liked stood in front of a promotional poster for a firework festival and agreed to have their first date that night.
In the entire MV, Araki Yuko looks like a high school student. At the age of 15, she is still young and can produce a lot of collagen without any need for modification. Her clothing was also simple, with a small yellow bag hanging diagonally across her body, a cool vest and short skirt, and a small butterfly hairpin hanging next to her cute ears.
On the other hand, Mizuna Hayato's condition is that he can span from teenager to middle age, but his makeup needs to be modified to prevent the difference from being too small and causing drama.
In his middle age, he wore suits and ties, with sharper eyebrows and makeup, while in high school, he was clean and tidy, wearing a white T-shirt, jeans, and a sports bag slung across his body.
Hayato Minato and Yuko Araki stood in front of the fireworks display poster. It was hot in the summer, and the ground seemed to be steaming with heat. The constant chirping of cicadas could be heard next to them.
The young man seemed to be sweating from the heat and his throat was parched. He looked ahead and did not dare to turn his head. He swallowed and said nervously: "Seven o'clock."
Hearing the boy's voice, the girl turned to look at the nervous boy.
"Next to the shrine's torii gate."
The boy only told the time and place, but the girl understood the boy's thoughts.
"Next to the torii gate of the shrine, seven o'clock."
We made an appointment.
