TWL Development and release The music video for "T.W.L" was filmed in one entire day on January 29, 2011 on a soundstage and directed by Tatsushi Momen. The concept of the video was for Kanjani Eight to act freely on a soundstage and act with their animated counterparts. Filming was split between three segments: a "Lip Synch Shoot", a "7 Jump Scene Shoot", and finally the "Image Shooting". The lip synching shoot involved filming the members singing along to the song while acting freely on stage. There also was a headshot scene where the members sang through a frame. The "7 Jump Scene" involved all the members standing on the edges of the sound stage and jumping off of it and finally the Image Shooting, which was the longest to film, had the members act against the green screen with props that would later have the animations added in post production. The image shooting scenes were shot separately for each scene.
Ryuhei Maruyama,
Shota Yasuda, and
Shingo Murakami filmed their scenes first and
You Yokoyama,
Tadayoshi Ohkura,
Subaru Shibutani, and
Ryo Nishikido filmed their scenes last. The video was aired on Space Shower TV and m-on. It was released on DVD as a coupling with the Limited Edition A version of the song's release.
Synopsis The music video begins with the members singing the hook, alternating between headshots that introduce each member and the group singing on a stage. The video then continues on with each member interacting with their animated counterparts and the animations coming in and out of the green screens around them. Maruyama has super human strength, Yasuda can fly, Shibutani is an ace
marksman, Yokoyama is a
peeping tom with X-Ray vision, Nishikido is a skateboarder, Murakami has the ability to control weather, and Ohkura can control fire. Whenever they walk behind a green screen, their animated form is shown. Occasionally, their outfits flicker in color, alluding to the possibility that they're animated characters in the real world.
Yellow Pansy Street Development and release "Yellow Pansy Street" was filmed in one entire day on location and directed by Takuya Tada. Much like the former, the concept of "Yellow Pansy Street" is amalgamation of glamour shots and the band performing. The set's colors play off of the band's look for this song's release, a red and black suit inspired by the
Beatles' look of the early 60s. Filming began by shooting the glamour scenes first, which consisted of each member standing against a black background with curtains waving behind them. The lip synching part was filmed with the song sped up faster for post-production. In post, the film was slowed down so the curtains waved at a slower speed while the band member was singing in "real time". The band scene consisted of Kanjani Eight playing their respected instruments.
Crane shots were heavily used during majority of the filming with the entire band. Individual shots of each member playing their instruments was split up throughout the shoot, with certain members added in for certain angles. The last shot filmed was with all the members walking towards the camera, which was slowed down in post. The final scene had them sing with the background track sped up. Fake
yellow pansy petals fell on them which was eventually slowed down in post. Production for the video ended in March 2011. The photoshoot for the single's jacket covers and other promotional material was also taken during the filming of this music video.
Synopsis The music video opens with an empty room of falling yellow pansy petals before cutting to Yasuda playing the opening guitar riff, Yokoyama playing the wind chimes, and Ohkura playing his drums. The first half of the video is the band playing against the backdrop of orange, yellow, and red drapes. The entire hue of this scene are in shades of red with interspersed scenes of the band slowly walking towards the camera. Muted color shots of each individual member interspersed the band scenes, with falling drapes, in the second half of the video. In the final moments of the video, the band stand in the center of the draped set, without any instruments, singing the final chorus of the song while yellow pansy petals fall on top of them. The scene switches to an empty shot of the draped room with falling yellow pansy petals before cutting to black. ==Track listing==