MV - Chiaki Sato “Time Machine” (2022)

I participated as one of the directors of the music video for Be:FIRST’s song “Scream.” The dance scenes were directed by Kensaku Kakimoto, and the members’ solo scenes were directed by Ritsuko Nomura.

The album’s 13 tracks were promoted through vertical-format videos. https://www.youtube.com/@atarayo/shorts You can view them all there.

This piece, as its title suggests, is centered on “youth.” The artist told us that the song explores youth from three different perspectives, and that the music itself unfolds in three corresponding sections. Based on that structure, we also created the video as a three-part work. We depicted young people moving in groups within society, in a way that seems to resist that movement—or perhaps not quite resist it. The video is built on real-time rendering using Unity. All of the objects are programmed so that they do not collide with one another.