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Originally Posted by emiko
Because I sincerely hope that they got reimbursed either with special goods and/or getting to finally actually meet Ayu.
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Ok, I haven't worked as an extra in Japan (yet), but these are the general standards for it. You can not talk to the artist at all unless they speak to you first. Absolutely no pictures or autographs. Being on a set is treated as a work environment, not a fan gathering. Extras are usually kept in a separate holding room (often times for hours) while the shoot is set up and they go through things like closeups and what not. Then the extras are brought in - you are placed and not allowed to leave your specific place. They give instructions for how they want you to act and then shoot the film. Then reset(which can take forever) wait wait wait and do it all over again a hundred times.
Like I said, usually its at least 8 hours of waiting around and doing nothing. Honestly, most of the people probably have seen and interacted more with Ayu at concerts than at the shoot.
I'm sure most fans do it just to be able to say that they were in an Ayumi PV, but I often find that most people don't even realize that what they are doing is an actual paid job. I remember I was an extra for the NBC show American Dreams several times and one day this girl who had won a contest to be an extra on the show was on set. She was so excited, but didn't seem to realize at all that what she had won a contest to do, we were all getting paid to do the exact same thing.
Poor girl, it was like just go join Central Casting and you can be onset all the time and get paid for it, haha.
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Originally Posted by ownsarai
I don't think that the TA members care about 'being paid' or 'having close-ups' in the PV. They are just happy to have seen Ayu in a very up-close and personal setting. I would have been extremely honored to be part of Ayu's PV, even for one second. I really think the video is awesome. She looks really cute and genuinely happy~ |
Well, at least I can say that I would never do a job for free that I know is supposed to be paid work.(no matter what the job is or if its with a celebrity I like) But that is probably because I know what extremely boring and tedious work being an extra is. Still though, this is really just a side point to the actual PV.
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Originally Posted by waterballoon
I don't wanna sound biased but the only reason why Kazuyoshi's PVs appear to have more replay value is because he gets to shoot the grand PVs with interesting pots & songs. Mirrorcle World, GREEN & Sparkle are all dynamic songs, and the PVs themselves have cool plots... so it'd be natural to want to watch them again. Also an additional reason for me is to just LOL at Ayu's expressions~
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Exactly. It really makes me wonder why Kazuyoshi and Ishii are getting the grand concept PVs, while lately the only PV work Wataru has done for her is performance videos. It would be much better the other way around.
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Originally Posted by JinHamasaki
What is this white light stuff?!?!?
Isn't the CM>>> pv rip so far in color?!?!?!!?!?
Or maybe I should get my eyes checked.
And TA members got paid.....in free tour goods XD, well maybe.
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Well, at least according to the TA member that went the Heyx3 shooting, they weren't allowed to keep the towels.
The CM is very bright too actually.
This white light thing, IS actually there. Really, her closeup shots are done differently than the rest of it - if you compare screenshots you can see the filter that was used on her closeups quite clearly.