🎨 I made an “MTV-style” video using illustrations by Camp Area Play. Respectful Bookshelf Series

Hello, this is Bell.

This time, as a bit of a personal experiment, I’ve introduced the work of illustrator
Camp Area Play, whom I interact with on note, by presenting it in an “MTV-style” video format.

▼ Click here for the video

✏ It started with the feeling, “I want more people to see these drawings.”

There are so many wonderful works on note.
But no matter how appealing they are, if there isn’t a chance encounter, they often flow by without being noticed.
In that context, when I saw Camp Area Play’s drawings, I suddenly thought:

I heard from the artist themselves that they “redraw things many times,”
but that unfinished feeling—the “movement” that resides in the intentionally unpolished lines and composition—
actually seemed to fit well with sound and video—.

Rather than technical refinement, I felt that the traces of trial and error remaining as they are,
that “feeling of being born while drawing,” is what makes them charming.
In that, there is the energy of someone who is currently in the process of becoming an artist.
For me, that was very attractive.
In a way, it’s like a rough diamond.

🎬 The video is MTV-style.

I arranged the video in the style of 1980s MTV, which I was obsessed with in my younger days.
Neon, grids, noise, and a synth sound with a touch of melancholy.
I made this with the hope of getting as close as possible to the atmosphere of that era.

It is just a self-indulgent, handmade video,
but I would be happy if this encourages Camp-san’s creative work
or becomes an opportunity for people to discover their work for the first time.

🎤 The narrator is—the usual Torako-san

The narration is handled by Torako, a character who also appears in my novels.
Originally, her “day job” is getting caught up in incidents in the novels
or solving mysteries with her sharp intuition, but—

Lately, I’ve been using her too much on the video narration set.
She might even be thinking, “Aren’t you going to write the next story soon?” (laughs)

But there is something about her narration,
a perspective that looks at familiar things by “shifting them slightly,” and it seems that her compatibility with these kinds of video works is surprisingly good.

🎨 Click here for CAMP AREA PLAY’s work

Colorful, free, and a little rough around the edges.
But in the humor and perspective behind that,
there is a joy that comes from the feeling that “this person sees the era from a slightly shifted angle.”

That might be the quiet strength that this person possesses.

🔔Bell