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Old 9th November 2008, 06:29 AM
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Well I'm 24 at the moment.... It happened when I was 19, and it's STILL one of the best moments of my entire life.

(And the "Winter Gift" is christmasy re-release packaging of the ULTRA BEST releases, they're SOOO CUTE. ^__^ I want them so I can put them next to my red version of The Ballads ~Love & B'z~ on my shelf!!!)

ANYWAY here's a re-post of how the "IT'S SHOWTIME!!" shoot went...

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We all got to the location at like 7 or 8 PM, and they shot a few scenes with just the extras starting at about 10 (yeah, we just socialized up till then ) while the band were shooting the indoor shots inside the Orpheum... They brought out the truck, with the motorcycles, no band yet, and they told us to run to the front of the truck, cuz that was where they were gonna be and they were gonna cut in the footage later - but to get certain angles of the crowd, the band had to not be there. So we lightly jogged to the front of the stage, and we did our thing all half-assed XD Whenever we're lightly jogging in the video, that's when the band wasn't there. XD

So then finally at like 1 AM, the band came out. We ran that time! XD They did more shots of us running to the front of the truck-stage, and we were MUCH more excited this time. But understandably, Tak & Koshi were EXHAUSTED, you could tell Koshi wasn't his usual genki self. He really was NOT as energetic as the video makes him look. XD They like, used the few shots when he looked like he was into it.

Another fun fact is that it had been raining off & on ALL DAY in L.A., and they tried in the PV to make it look like it hadn't been. We had to put umbrellas away, take hoods off, all that. But if you look closer during some of the daytime shots, you can tell the pavement is wet.

And there was supposed to be more to the PV's "Story" sorta. There were supposed to be shots of us waiting outside the theater for a concert that our "characters" thought was gonna be inside... for whatever reason they scrapped that part-way through the shoot, so the story of the extras pretty much started when we see them on a truck that pulls up. *shrug* Doesn't make as much sense this way, but for whatever reason it was easier to shoot that way.

Tak was awesome - he threw guitar picks out into the crowd ^^ I didn't get one, unfortunately Probably for the best cuz everything I have from that time is gone now.

One thing the PV doesn't show enough of is the chick playing the bassist. She had this jersey tank top on, and a big purple tutu. She ROCKED. XD I was really sad when they hardly showed her at all in the final cut of the video.