Kaze Tachinu/The Wind Rises TV Spot update and news: Voice actors are being served wine when necessary (O.O)

Kaze Tachinu TV spot update

This is an update on my previous Kaze Tachinu post.

Ok, so i'm just gonna talk about the (3 hour?) Studio Ghibli TV Spot which was aired yesterday, since i thought it was pretty interesting.

Kaze Tachinu Teaser: Airplane noise produced with voice acting?

So one of the things which were shown on the TV spot was how the airplane noises, in the beginning of the teaser video, had been produced.

I was pretty amazed, like, how they did it was that they decided to humanly produce the sound effects?

The guy in charge of the sound effect took them to the recording studio and showed them how he had produced the sounds using only sounds produced by his mouth as well as some hand movement. 

When i watched the movie i had absolutely no idea that this was how they sounds were made, ain't it somehow pretty cool? If i hadn't watched this program i would've probably never found out.

Voice acting

On the topic of voice acting. They apparent chose two newbies to play in it.
Hideaki Anno, who is famous for his work with Evangelion, was chosen to play the main character though audition.

The program showed that he had a pretty tough time with the recordings having to retake quite a lot of time with Hayao Miyazaki's instruction. 
After he had worked for quite a few hours, he didn't seem to hide his exhaustion.

One of Hayao Miyazaki's comments were that he should speak with a more bright voice. I do admit this was something that i kind of surprised me while watching the movie.
When the main characters voice was heard for the first time, i somehow felt that it was a bit "not-so-energetic"? monotone? from what i had expected, but not in a bad way at all, although a bit monotone i'd say it was a really gentle and kind voice and that part really matched his character, maybe this was the kind of image Hayao Miyazaki wanted to give him?

Btw as for the main character, i must say that i liked him a lot. I think he is a very admirable and inspiring person ,and somehow really cool (with his enthusiasm towards aircrafts) yet in a kind way(a gentleman! :D, ah!... PSY's image popped up...#(=_=")).

Serve voice actors wine when needed XD

Alright so i thought this was pretty hilarious. I don't know if they occasionally do this or if it was because he was a foreigner? (o_O)

I kinda mentioned this in my previous post i think, but looking at it again i don't think it's a coincidence that the he (the voice actor) resembles the animations character. (Picture from the movies website)

I think he is supposed to be a newcomer at voice acting too. 
I think he was supposed to be American? But is playing a German character? (don't know if he actually spoke German or not)
He speaks Japanese pretty well though, Hayao Miyazaki had to tell him to speak more broken Japanese during the recording since the character he plays is supposed to be a foreigner.

But the thing is, in the movie there is a part where his character sings the "Das gibt's nur einmal"?

Well they sorta found out that his singing wasn't so cough*great*cough (i hope he ain't readin' this). Hayao Miyazaki himself was face-palming observing the recording. 
For the next recording they even had a voice trainer come to help him with the singing, but Hayao Miyazaki had also (just in case) brought a bottle of wine with him for the recording.
And after a while he was like "alright bring in the alcohol", and i think the guy said something like: "is this alright?", "not bad".
And then they continued the recording, Hayao Miyazaki said something like "yappari alcohol desu ne" "so it's alcohol after all(that did it)", and when satisfied with the singing:~ "this will have to do"

When the he(the voice actor) was asked after the recording, whether he was satisfied with the result or not, he was like, "no, i'll come back tomorrow". 
I wonder how it ended....

The Wind Rises

I don't know if it's official yet, but at some department they had the English movie title printed as "The Wind Rises".

When they were talking about how the movie being released overseas, the guy from the department was suddenly like: "this is coming out overseas right?" 

Well i do hope that it'll be released overseas too, the hype up until now has been pretty big too (or that was how i experienced it) with occasional TV spots with updates on the movie, i don't know how many times the same movie teaser has been shown on just ZIP TV.

Jiro Hirokoshi

The crew also gave Jiro Hirokoshi's son a visit. Asking him what his father was like and the sort. It seems the movie character really do portray the guy pretty well as for his character (not only the round glasses), like his desire to built beautiful airplanes. 

They also went to visit his grave together with his son.

Soundtrack

There was also a few scenes showing the recording of the movies soundtrack.

First the orchestra pieces with Hisaishi Joe as the conductor, i think they said that there were 50 or so microphones set up for the recording. And them they showed the piano piece performed by Hisaishi Joe himself.

I must say that this movie too has a really nice soundtrack with some really nice classical pieces. Btw doesn't the piece in the teaser have kind of an Italian feel to it?

Looking forward to getting the soundtrack album when possible (*≧∇≦*)

Animation

There were also two features showing the numerous drawing needed for a few seconds of the movie.
Another showed how the colors had been decided, i think it was done by one person alone, which i thought was pretty amazing, i think she was in her 70's(that's what i call hard working). It showed how the same things were colored differently according to the environment(light...etc) of as was used as an example, the mood of the person from which perspective the scenes are viewed, a lot of thought has really been laid in the making it seems.
As with the other Ghibli movies they also presented the still paintings used as backgrounds in the movie, which had been beautifully done always.

First Showcase

I think around the ending, they showed were all the people involved (in the making of the movie i suppose, Jiro Hirokoshi's attended this too btw) came together for some kind of party were they also had a theater were they all watched the finished movie for the first time and how quite a few people ended up shedding a few teardrops during the Movie (Including Hayao Miyazaki himself).  

Last comments

I think my host family recorded the program, so i might be able to re-watch it.
Wish i could show it to you though(don't know if it might have been posted on youtube yet), there were some pretty entertaining moments.

I've already published this post, but will probably update it again when i get the time to do so. Since there are still a lot that i haven't mentioned yet (so please check back!). 

*Also do take note, that what i wrote isn't a 100 percent accurate since i might have misunderstood what they said (not completely fluent yet) and also that i might not have remembered it right(sorry'bout that, unfortunately don't have the greatest memory). 

Ok, i don't know if writing this is pretty much a waste or what.
I mean, the movie is gonna be released overseas anyway at some point, and the news/info about the making might come up too i guess.

130719 Update

This evening "The Cat returns" was shown on Tv and was followed by a tv spot about Kaze tachinu.

It featured the long trailor of the movie, even though i've already watched the movie , watching the trailer made me want to re-watch it really badly, it showed some really central scenes of the movie. Now thinking back, it was somehow really wonderful.

Wah, i'm so excited that it's gonna be released tomorrow!

Kaze Tachinu Official Trailer

Okay, so i\m a bit late out with this update, but anyways the trailer aired (i think it was the 20th, the day of the release)

Watch it on HD mode >:)

Some of my friends were kind of skeptical about this movie being about the war, airplanes n' stuff.

But really it's not really that much about warfare and such, it's more something like "how the protagonist experienced the war" the war from a civilian perspective? So it's not really the focus of the movie.

Moreover i'm not really an aircraft enthusiast, but nonetheless enjoyed the movie even though i didn't understand every single word that was being said (i mentioned before that i couldn't take my eyes off of the screen and i meant literally).

Anyways do not hold back because of these elements in the movie.

But if you are not into life-stories/biography kinda things then maybe this is not the movie for you.

Anyhow do check out the trailer at least :)

Side - track

What did you think about the main characters voice?

I did think that it was somehow a bit dull to begin with, but watching the movie i felt that there was just something, just something about it... i don't know if it's was just me or...

I think that Hayao Miyazakisaid something about the voice acting not being amazing, but that there was somehow taste to it?