Interview with Pennacky (ATARASHII GAKKO!) / Berlin Music Video Awards 2024

Berlin Music Video Awards

Discover the interview with Pennacky, director of the music video "ATARASHII GAKKO! - Tokyo Calling", nominee in the "Best Director" category, and won third place!   Check the full music video "ATARASHII GAKKO! - Tokyo Calling":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHMH408ltEM   Follow them:  @japan_leaders  @cekai_jp   Credits :  Interview and edit by Sebastian Sheath and Yannick Solandt (unsigned Berlin): https://www.youtube.com/@unsignedberlin   Do you want to be part of the Berlin Music Video Awards as well? Submit your video here: https://www.berlinmva.com/submit/ We are now taking submissions.

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00:00Tokyo Koryu

00:08Tokyo Koryu, the streets are almost full

00:11A story of hundreds of nightmares

00:14Start off by introducing yourself, what is your name, where are you from?

00:16My name is Menaki, I'm a music video director

00:20What are you here for?

00:22Best director

00:24Have you had a chance to see the other videos in your category?

00:34What do you mean?

00:35Have you seen the other videos yet?

00:36Oh yes, yes, yes.

00:37What do you think of them?

00:38So professional.

00:39What?

00:40Are you allowed?

00:41No.

00:42I'm trying.

00:43I'm trying.

00:44Yeah, I'm trying.

00:45And you're nominated for the video Tokyo Calling.

00:48Yeah, yeah.

00:49Which is backed by 88 Rising as well.

00:52It's with an artist, 88 Rising.

00:54But your style is very DIY usually, and people see it and they think it's DIY.

00:59How do you think your approach changes for something that's got a big budget, like with

01:03an 88 Rising project?

01:05That's a hard question.

01:11So I like DIY style, but the budget doesn't matter to me.

01:17There is many budget.

01:19I can do more creative stuff more clearly, but if budget is low, we have to think about

01:27how to do, how to make the image more different way.

01:35That's the difference.

01:36Nice.

01:37Yeah, yeah.

01:38Are there any shots in the video that you're particularly proud of having made?

01:43For Tokyo Calling?

01:44Sorry?

01:45For Tokyo Calling?

01:46Yeah, yeah.

01:47I think the main, no, no, no, not bridge, the book, the main one, sorry, we tried a

01:59miniature shot, miniature shot.

02:01The city?

02:02Yes, yes.

02:03That's the main part.

02:04Yeah, that's, I really wanted to do for this song.

02:09How did you do that?

02:10Is it a full miniature city?

02:11Yes, yes.

02:13We built a miniature city in the rooftop, but the background, there is a real building.

02:21We tried to make a fake miniature and a real building, and we, yeah, that's the, yeah,

02:30we tried.

02:31Yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:38You also have a really specific color style throughout your videos.

02:43Is that inspired by anything specific?

02:45Not really, but I always follow my childhood memory, so I watched so many, you know, we

02:54have a Tokusatsu, which is a miniature, you know, Ultraman and the Godzilla kind of stuff,

03:04so I have so much memory of that kind of stuff, so we tried to make a similar with that video.

03:11Nice.

03:12How do you do that?

03:14So, for Tokyo Koring, we used the 16mm, and we didn't put any color.

03:22Labo always give us a good color, so we keep that color and just adjust, adjust, a little

03:30bit adjust, so we didn't try any specific color.

03:37But if we do digital, might always we have to discuss about which way, the direction,

03:43but if, when I use the film, we didn't think about color stuff very much.

03:48Oh, okay, cool.

03:58Are there any other projects you've worked on this year that you would like to get out

04:02to more people?

04:03So, this month we released RM, he's the leader of BTS, they are a South Korean idol group,

04:20and we did four videos together, so now, maybe one week ago, everything released, so now

04:28I'm so happy.

04:29Cool, I'll go check it out.

04:31Awesome, that's everything.

04:33Thank you.

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