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In the second part, you repeated what I had already put in my previous post [(Avex puts out the casting call (with or without specific notes from Ayumi or the director)] but I'm just putting in my two cents as someone who has worked in a casting office.
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with or without specific notes. I have never worked work in a casting office but I can't imagine casting people whitout specific notes from the bosses/"upstairs"/whoever. Or with "unspecific" notes...
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The director isn't the person who only decides shots nowadays, they can and do have creative input. What I find funny is that when a video is lacking plot (like B&D) people blame the director, but when it's a good PV, they say Ayumi had a good idea. It's a collaboration effort between the director and artist. In Vivi diaries, you can see that she writes she is 'having a meeting' with the director. They both have ideas but we don't know how much is actually thought out by either (as it's not shown in any making-of vids). But I think we will both be stubborn in our opinions, particularly since we never see the PV notes.
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Well I know that, I wrote about that too XD I'm just saying I'm sure it's her who puts "non-Asians please" into the casting instructions. She has the position to pull such "wishes" through.
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Oh, it's been posted here a million times when we have discussions about the people she uses in her videos (this is not the first). I think it might be shown in the making of videos for Vogue-Far Away-Seasons and/or Endless Sorrow, since I'm thinking the kids in those videos were all Russian. I wish I had something more concrete, I know it's on here somewhere I just have to find it.
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Oh, those lil brats were so darn lucky! xD
But there's one thing about them. You can see Ayumi talking to them in the making of. The camera guy is away so it's on a big closeup, you can't hear her exactly and it's subbed in Japanese [what she says]. It seems the kids are answering to her, nodding at least. I'm not sure if there was a translator around her....
But oh well, the fact they could maybe speak Japanes doesn't mean they couldn't be from Russia, that's right. I'm not sure if Russians are keen on traveling to Japan, but... oh well [again], they could be from anywhere.