Square Enix North America announced at the end of August that they would be conducting a casting call for an official Kingdom Hearts collaboration video, in order to promote Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX which releases in North America on December 2. The filming took place in the Greater Los Angeles area on September 6th, 2014 between 10 am to 7pm PDT with the official Kingdom Key.
Some of the people lucky enough to take part have posted their impressions and photos of the casting call online. You can read their impressions and view their photos below. If you participated in the casting call and would like to have your impressions and/or photos featured below please contact us.
KH13 member Dragoncat has kindly posted the impressions of a friend of theirs on our forum. You can read them below.
Skypillar:Anyway the takeaway is that the promo video is basically going to be a reaction video within a reaction video
Skypillar:they filmed all of our reactions in groups of 2-3 of answering questions like "what does Kingdom Hearts mean to you?", "what has it taught you about friendship?", etc. They're gonna cut together the best of those answers, then show the video to the dev team in Japan and film THEIR reactions to OUR reactions and then put all that together into one video
Skypillar:they didn't make us sign anything so I think it's OK to talk about it
Skypillar:also Square had an official Kingdom Key made just for this event (I think there are only like 2 or 3) and it wasn't even part of the shoot, they just let us play with it and take pictures
Skypillar:so I have a couple pics of me holding it but OF COURSE I also got one of some dude stabbing me with it and extracting my heart
Skypillar:the actual filming bit only took like 5 minutes but it was SO FUN to be there and just talk to people and hang out
Skypillar:they made me repeat the fact that I flew a thousand miles to be at the event so maybe that one line will make it in, haha
Skypillar: anyway the only bad part is that my camera crapped out so I have almost no pictures
Skypillar:but they would just be of people standing around anyway since we couldn't film inside the actual shooting studio
Skypillar:only outside
Skypillar:, it was so fun and now there's like a 1% chance that Nomura himself might hear about how many feels KH has given me
Skypillar:I forget exactly what the first question was that they asked me but my answer boiled down to "KH has given me a lot of reasons to laugh BUT MOSTLY REASONS TO CRY"
Skypillar:we were in front of a green screen and they said that the background will be game footage, footage of the Disney parks, etc
Skypillar:anyway they didn't say when the final vid would be out but apparently it will be on Kotaku and IGN and all that jazz
Skypillar:I was really impressed with how many people were able to grab the Keyblade and IMMEDIATELY do perfect versions of all the characters' battle poses
KH13 member Churro has posted impressions and photos of the casting call on his personal Facebook page. He has given us permission to include his impressions below. You can view his photos here.
Yesterday was amazing. Being at the Walt Disney Studios for the Kingdom Hearts video casting call was a fun experience and taking a tour of it was also amazing. The icing on the cake was being able to meet and interact with a lot of Kingdom Hearts fans that were also in attendance. I hope you guys enjoyed the stickers I gave out, I still have a whole bunch! It was such an honor to meet every single one of you and share our contact info as well as ALL OF THE EPIC SELFIES!
Events like this is what makes Kingdom Hearts real to me. Making friends and creating memories that will last a lifetime. A big thanks to Sam Hsieh and Kaori Takasue of Square Enix for taking the time to setting up this event and for the late dinner that I enjoyed so much! I hope to see you both pretty soon and as always you two, until next time!
Churro has told us he will be providing more in depth impressions soon.
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