Sunrise PV thoughts

[agashi]

powerful PV!! its AUDIENCE ~episode II~
maybe the LIVE performance in music station liker audience live version in music station!

[MissElin_]

Well. like I sad yesterday (but not here) it was pretty much as expected. I enjoyed it. It made me silly summerish happy. Simply as that. ^^ I'm all fine with it. Summery Humming 7/4.

[emi♡]

Originally Posted by naxxo.licious™

@emiko: at least to me, seeing ayu on a platform would be more than enough.

but you're not a hardcore TA member who's seen her a million times before lol

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Random draw. A ton of them entered.. a couple thousand? And only 300 were chosen.. and then they had to reselect after rain issues.

I think Zin deserves more screentime, but it seems like he likes being in the background with Go-mi and Subaru, haha.

okay I see. So then I suppose that the people felt very lucky.

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by emiko

Because I sincerely hope that they got reimbursed either with special goods and/or getting to finally actually meet Ayu.

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.

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.

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~

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.

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.

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.

[truehappiness]

while lately the only PV work Wataru has done for her is performance videos. It would be much better the other way around.

Psst, he's been doing her concert background videos, which explains why they've been so good, haha. See taskinst and so on. I don't get why she can't carry that over to her PVs though..

[stepYOU1234]

Her actions were really like the Fly High pv which I love! It really did remind me of that. Even the hair and how she looks. Obviously no real storyline, but it made me feel genuinely happy/warm/fuzzy which I think was the idea.
That location is really nice! I'm glad she is getting out of studios again and doing more locations.
The dancers don't irritate me so much here. Because if they are going to be in PVs, this is the kind of context I imagine it should be. They used to only really pop up in summer PVs I think?
And she is really loving those boots right now. I think they are the ones she wears for the lives??
(Sidenote, I have just realised that I really do like this song)

[truehappiness]

She wears knee high boots for the lives.

And the first summer PV to really feature the dancers was fairyland.. which started a new breed of PV.. oi..

[Meat Pao]

The PV was okay, imo. It's summery and all but it was hard for me to sit through watching the whole thing

[YotaLM21]

Ok, I think it lacks a lot of energy :s even Humming PV is way better because they focused on the fans dancing and doing crazy stuff, while in Sunrise they are somekind of background....

The choreography is really lame, some Zin boy is loosing his powers...

Plus, the hair is terrible, why so much effort on looking like a dumb girl? be the beautiful woman you are!!!!

[Yumsushi]

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

The song itself, I would rank at least higher than Glitter (which I was never much a fan of.)

!!!
Glitter is the ULTIMATE happy summer song.

The PV isn't anything special, but it fills the 'happy summer video' brief and Ayu looks good. Why no close ups of the very excited fans? I'm sick of these dancers. I want someone to file a restraining order to keep Kazuyoshi and all of the dancers away from Ayumi.
I have a question about this white light. Clearly the sky in the video is grey and we know it had rained on the previous shooting day so, could the reason behind the white light is to hide the non-summery weather conditions on the day of the shoot and not just hiding the nonexistent wrinkles Ayu has?

[zyoeru]

Originally Posted by Yumsushi

!!!
Glitter is the ULTIMATE happy summer song.

The PV isn't anything special, but it fills the 'happy summer video' brief and Ayu looks good. Why no close ups of the very excited fans? I'm sick of these dancers. I want someone to file a restraining order to keep Kazuyoshi and all of the dancers away from Ayumi.
I have a question about this white light. Clearly the sky in the video is grey and we know it had rained on the previous shooting day so, could the reason behind the white light is to hide the non-summery weather conditions on the day of the shoot and not just hiding the nonexistent wrinkles Ayu has?

Definitely not. Ayu would only do such a thing to make herself younger. I mean she is almost at the age where her amniotic fluid rots.
[/sarcasm]

I do actually think that that's a good possibility. And one people will have overlooked in their attempts to bash everything she does. I agree with you.

[SunshineSlayer]

^ I don't know if its really to hide wrinkles or not. But like I said, if you watch the video closely, there is a difference between the look of her closeup shots and the far shots. The edges of the shots are faded and the middle brightened. It only occurs in those shots and not the whole video. Truehappiness posted a good shot of it at JPM.

[Yumsushi]

Originally Posted by Furashubakku

I do actually think that that's a good possibility. And one people will have overlooked in their attempts to bash everything she does. I agree with you.

Thank you, kind sir!

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

But like I said, if you watch the video closely, there is a difference between the look of her closeup shots and the far shots. The edges of the shots are faded and the middle brightened. It only occurs in those shots and not the whole video. Truehappiness posted a good shot of it at JPM.

I don't know what JPM is but I just watched the video twice and everything and everyone looks washed-out to me. Maybe the reason Ayu looks more washed out is because she is the closest to the camera?
I just don't understand how she could age so significantly between Sparkle and this and thus require this kind of technique to hide her age. Anyhow, I doubt any of the Sunrise performances at any shows will be altered so that's when people will be able to judge.

[SunshineSlayer]

^ Like I said, who knows if its done for age reasons or not. But its visible from the very first shot of Ayu - if you notice the edge of the screen is faded/discolored, then when it switches to a farther shot the edges are normal again. It happens throughout the video whenever it cuts from a closeup to a far shot.

[amorphose]

I liked it. I thought it was cute and fit the song very well. If Sunset and the music video turn out to be good as well, then this will have been her best single in quite a long time for me!

[AyuHamasaki01]

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

-I miss the originality in her PVs. It is possible to take a fun summer song and turn a meaningful PV out of it. (fairyland)

I agree with this. I thought the PV had an interesting set, I really love it. But overall, I thought it was quite boring.
Well, maybe I should say that differently: I was dissapointed by the fact there weren't more different scenes. You know what I mean?

If Sunset is gonna be like that I'm not sure if I'll be able to keep my eyes open. Nevertheless, I still love Ayu.

[sugarbasil]

I liked it. I didn't think it was great, or even very good, but it entertained me and I felt happy after watching it. It was fun, summery, and Ayu looked super natural in it. She wasn't overacting or oversinging; she was just being naturally Ayu like she would at a concert. That's what I most liked about it.

I was greatly annoyed by her dancers, though. The mics on them didn't bother me, it was their "WTF????" dancing. It was like the most silly dancing I have ever seen them do. I couldn't stop laughing whenever I saw them dance!! And the second Shuya jumped in and made that CRAZY expression I nearly peed my pants.

[y_nathz]

already watched it ~
i like it ~
at least it's better than sparke =)

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Wow, I realized Wataru used the same video filter/lens thing/vignetting [look at the edges] he used on fairyland.. hahaha.

I posted it here, haha. It seems like the same effect was used in fairyland as well..

[Aga-chan]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

And the first summer PV to really feature the dancers was fairyland.. which started a new breed of PV.. oi..

Wasn't it "INSPIRE"? To me those PVs had dancers because of dancing, though. Now it seems more like she is dancing in her PVs, because of the dancers.

I really like it. ^^ It gave me a joyful feeling. She's SO CUTE. The outfit and hairstyle, too. And I like that despite the dancers being there, too, it focuses mainly on ayu, who performs freely and lets the dancers do the choreography. Though I agree that they should have shown more of the audience.
As for the lightening, I wonder if it was done to increase the look of a sunny summer day rather than making her seem younger. Could be both, though. lol
Sorry if something similar was already posted, I didn't go through all the posts.