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Night de Light “Sakura” music video
2021.03 | Music video
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I directed the music video “Sakura” for Night de Light, a band based in Hokkaido. A film that answers, in images, the songs of a band that has kept singing about hope and prayer.
Making the wordless power visible
How do you make the wordless power of music visible on film? Cherry blossoms, a motif everyone knows. Blooming, falling, and coming round again. Layering onto them life's partings and reunions and the turning seasons, I aimed for a film that touches the heart beyond words.
A collaboration between people with the same wish
With Night de Light, I also worked on the film for their suicide-prevention song,“Thank You for Being Alive” (Hokkaido Inochi no Denwa).Music that brings hope, and film that wants to bring hope. A precious collaboration between people with the same wish. I hope we can keep gently supporting someone with sound and light.
- Artist
- Night de LightA four-piece rock band formed in Sapporo, Hokkaido, in 2006, that “sings of hope”
- Song
- “Sakura”Title track of the 18th single “Sakura” (released February 17, 2021)
- Released
- March 6, 2021 YouTube (Night de Light official channel) · 5:00
- Role
- Direction / online editing and VFX
Timeline
How it came together
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2020.09 — 2021.02
Making the storyboards
Director
Before the shoot, I built each scene one by one with the storyboard team. Blooming, falling, coming round again. In what order, and in what light, to show the life of a cherry blossom and people's partings and reunions. It took nearly half a year to take shape.
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2021.02.17
Single “Sakura” released
Their 18th single, with “Sakura,” “Checkered Flag,” “MAZE,” and “Thank You for Being Alive,” made with Hokkaido Inochi no Denwa.
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2021.03.06
“Sakura” music video released
Direction / online editing and VFX
About three weeks after the single came out, it was released on the band's official channel. Besides directing, I also handled the final online editing and VFX.
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2021.03.10
“Thank You for Being Alive” music video released
Director
Released four days after “Sakura,” a music video made together with Hokkaido Inochi no Denwa. I made films for two songs from the same single, one after the other.
Credits
- Director
- Narita Jun
- Creative director
- 土居 恵理也
- Lighting
- 吉村 雅治 (Apex Co., Ltd.)
- Offline editing and color correction
- 冨山 大輝
- Online editing and VFX
- Narita Jun
- Storyboards
- 小野田 依子
- Assistant director
- 大谷 圭佑
- Stylist
- sputnik
From the credits in the YouTube description.
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