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• Member: Kusoyaro
• Studio: Kusoyaro Productions
• Title: Bachelorette
• Premiered: 2000-10-07
• Categories:
  • Drama
  • Serious
• Song:
  • Bjork Bachelorette
• Anime:
  • Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie (Adolescence Of Utena)
• Participation:
  • Otakon 2000, Otakon 2000 (2000-08-10)
  • Anime Weekend Atlanta, Anime Weekend Atlanta (2000-10-06)
• Comments: Comments as seen on 2001-01-16 22:40:08:
  
  This is the only video I've ever done where I had the source first and searched for a piece of music to fit it. I obtained a copy of the Utena movie off of DVD (thanks MaachaQ!) and searched high and low for a song to fit it. One option I toyed around with was the song "The Day Going" by S.E.S., which I still think would work wonderfully, but I had just done an S.E.S. video and wanted to try something different. I eventually decided a Bjork song would fit nicely. I narrowed it down to the songs "Joga," "Bachelorette," and "Venus As a Boy." I put it to a vote with my friends, and they chose "Bachelorette." The movie was only about 80 minutes long, with nearly 20 minutes of it involving a car race that I didn't think would fit into the video at all, so I was left with about 60 minutes of usable footage. As a result I cut out about two minutes of the song (a verse and a bridge were deleted).
  
  From the very beginning I struggled with this video, as I was working purely with sound and imagery. Although the general tone of the lyrics fit Utena, I couldn't exactly match them with footage. In addition, I had only seen the Utena movie unsubbed and had no clue what was going on. I worked through it though, and produced a rough draft that I wasn't very happy with. EK provided some encouragement and good suggestions though, and eventually it panned out. I'm still not entirely happy with the ending, where I ran out of footage and was forced to fade out the song anti-climatically. One of my more popular videos.
  
  An interesting side note: Back when Scour was up, my brother (Bjork's biggest fan) was searching for *real* Bjork videos, and when he tried Scour, all he could find were copies of my video :) Muwahaha!
  
  Winner of Best Drama and Best Shoujo at AWA 6 Pro.
  
  Update 8-23-01:
  Okay, I guess I should clear something up that people have been commenting on in the opinions. I didn't cut the song by simply fading it out somewhere in the middle. I cut a large chunk out of the song (nearly 2 minutes worth) in the MIDDLE, and at the end I actually only cut out about 5 seconds. The song itself really does end as anticlimatically as you see it in the video, though in the original ending it fades to Bjork singing alone to accordian accompaniment very briefly. That's really the only part I cut out of the song at the end. I just wanted to clear this up because it seems many people are misunderstanding.