Assistant Manager Kim Hates Idols - Chapter 59



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| Episode 59. Corporate promotional video shooting (2)

“Wouldn’t number 21 be too dark for Lee Wol-i?”

“If you wear something bright, your facial features will all disappear, so it won’t work.”

“Umm… … Do I have to do different makeup for each set?”

The three experts surrounded me and had a heated discussion.

I still haven’t gotten used to the experience of having someone apply cosmetics that I’ve only heard of. It was too much of a burden for a 29-year-old office worker.

Plus, all three of them looked quite serious, as if there was something wrong with my skin tone.

To my eyes, they all look the same from #17 to #23, but the staff members’ eyebrows didn’t even furrow. Isn’t this an environment where you can’t help but be concerned?

“I wouldn’t know if it was just bright, but Yiwol looks a little pale… … Yiwol, are you sick or something?”

“Yes, I’m fine.”

The staff member smiled brightly and said that was fortunate for me to hear my answer.

Then he patted my face hard with something like a sponge.

This is my second time feeling this way since the profile photoshoot, but I can’t seem to get used to it.

How many more makeup sessions await me before my debut? My heart was pounding in many ways.

The power of transformation was enormous in many ways.

First, Choi Je-ho.

This guy was given the role of ‘rough but cute’, so he was assigned the most blunt style among us.

Not only did he sell his tie and have two buttons that he didn’t button, but his hair was also set in a fancy wax style and dyed dark gray.

Do high school students use wax these days? I don’t know because I had plain hair for 3 years.

Compared to him, Jeong Seong-bin feels like a neat class president.

Unlike the other five people who didn’t want to run into each other in the hallway, Jeong Seong-bin dyed his hair dark brown, considering that his face had a slightly gentle aura.

I was worried that a light brown would be too soft for the ‘cold on the outside but lukewarm on the inside’ high school student concept, so I went with a darker shade, but it wasn’t a bad choice.

Park Joo-woo was specially given a sky blue knit vest.

Because Park Joo Woo’s birthstone is that color. Fans don’t miss even these small differences.

Park Joo-woo’s knit outfit was fine even for my eyes, which are not impressed by anything Spark wears.

I expect that when the music video is released, there will be harsh comments like, “Park Joo-woo’s knit X suits him well.”

I also blew my hair with a hair dryer to create a messy look, and the final result was pretty good. Anyone who saw it would think I was a kid who got caught sleeping and got kicked out of the classroom.

Lee Cheong-hyeon looks fine, but shows off a look that is slightly out of the ordinary.

For example, a student with the end of his tie in his pocket, or wearing socks with a colorful watercolor pattern with his dark uniform. For the drama scene, he is also thinking of getting ink on his sleeves.

This guy even dyed his hair purple. For his role in the music video, he created a very unique, if not outrageous, scientist look.

If you look closely, unlike Lee Cheong-hyeon who looks free-spirited, Kang Ki-yeon is dressed in a suffocatingly neat manner.

His shirt was buttoned all the way to the neck and his tie was tied tightly, creating a strong impression in contrast to his sharp face. He was even wearing a black turtleneck underneath.

I went in a different direction because Choi Je-ho was wearing clothes that were as fancy as his face, and he was just as great.

As a bonus, I gave Lee Cheong-hyeon and Kang Ki-yeon one of the friendship items that Lee Cheong-hyeon loves so much.

As I had discussed with the planning team in advance, I attached straps of the same shape to Lee Cheong-hyun’s belt hole and Kang Ki-yeon’s bracelet. In the shape of a cute doll.

After organizing the content up to this point and handing it over to the planning team, all three of the ‘advice sessions for improving stage quality’ that had been stuck on me like leeches were met.

After all six of them finished their makeup and changed into gray school uniforms that matched their personalities, the actual filming began.

In the choreography practice room, I practiced my shoes so hard that the soles were worn out.

The filming set was chosen as a perfect place where I could gain experience without complaint from the system thanks to the hard work I put in all night, racking my brain.

So, just like the recording a while ago, the filming of this music video will also proceed smoothly.

… … Naively, I thought so. It was a naive judgment.

“Stop filming for a moment.”

At the director’s words, the music video filming set instantly became quiet.

I was out of breath from dancing three times in a row, but I couldn’t even make a sound.

This is because everyone, including the filming staff and the manager, gathered in front of the monitor and began to watch the video seriously.

What’s the problem?

Are you feeling a bit lopsided because you haven’t practiced taking center stage?

Or are there still members with gloomy expressions?

Or else… … .

‘Is it because I’m there that the picture looks different than before?’

While I was thinking about all sorts of things, the manager’s gaze turned towards me.

“Guys, come here for a minute.”

At the manager’s call, we cautiously headed towards the monitor.

Then the director played the video he had just shot.

An embarrassed face keeps coming in and out… … No, that’s not it.

“… … The shape of your lips doesn’t match at all.”

“Do you think so too, Yiwol?”

That’s right.

The result was that all of Spark, who had never practiced lip-syncing before, were concentrating on the director’s instructions to “dance while being conscious of the movement!” and only moved their mouths slightly.

Even though the lyrics were already coming out, there were many people who shut their mouths early.

It’s clear that the sound source is all singing the same chorus, but the mouth shapes are all different.

In a world where people capture music videos in 0.1 second increments and even share slow motion gifs, is such a free-spirited person being revealed?

≫ What has one body but six snouts?

└ Spark

└ Correct answer, I’ll give you the lip sync meme of the year as a reward

└ Is that the right award?

Even without watching it, it’s a video. It’ll probably get a humiliating nickname like ‘Gunmudol, open your parentheses, leave your mouth open, and close your parentheses.’

It’s all my fault for forgetting that Spark’s debut music video was a sentimental ballad.

Everyone was just sitting there with their mouths open, so it probably never got to this point.

Since we couldn’t learn how to lip-sync on the spot, we ended up having to shoot a music video with a live performance that was full of emotion and tension.

I just hope the video team can capture this scene well.

* * *

After filming the music video, which seemed to have strained their voices even more than during the recording, UA began planning the album.

Of course, planning the album wasn’t easy.

Because Yoo Han-soo came back with a lot of venom in his mouth.

“So… … let’s release a debut album in three parts?”

“Yes. It shows the flow of the day through three concepts: before school, during class, and after school.”

This time, I think I was familiar with the concept of school youth, but it was just ridiculous.

Who releases 3 albums when they’re just debuting? And from XSO at that.

If it were you, would you want to buy three albums from kids whose faces and names you can’t even remember yet?

It’s quite a sight to see him proudly come up with three ideas.

It seems that Yoo Han-soo doesn’t know the common sense that the less capable he is of doing his job, the more he can help others by not getting involved in work.

It was a moment when I was sure that I had to chase that man out.

Even while I was seriously contemplating how to make the finite number fall off, the finite number’s mouth did not stop.

I wasn’t the only one who didn’t listen to Yoo Han-soo’s words.

The planning team that had to work directly with Yuhansu already had no light in their eyes.

I heard that the planning team is also fighting a battle with Yoo Han-soo.

‘The planning team leader and PD Yoo had an argument?’

‘That’s right. Maybe because they’ve both been working for a long time, their differences in opinion aren’t easily resolved.’

After that, it was obvious what the manager would say without even having to listen.

‘Rather than having a difference of opinion, it’s more like one side is blocking the other side’s unilateral stubbornness… … ‘

What does that guy know about practical matters?

The reason why I was able to get away with submitting the plan to the planning team without any problems was, firstly, because at the time, the company had not yet come up with a proper plan.

Second, because of my age and position as a trainee, my actions were packaged as the ‘passion of a young trainee.’

But, while the project is in progress, let a third party who doesn’t even know the history come in and tell you to do something.

That seems more reckless than proactive.

So, from the perspective of the planning team that has been working so far, Yoo Han-soo can’t help but seem difficult.

Compared to the planning team, I was the one who listened to Han Yoo-soo’s comments. Be grateful, human.

In the bleak atmosphere, the PPT that had to be organized all night under Yuhansu’s instructions was passed over without anyone’s attention. My heart ached.

Yoo Han-soo stopped his presentation and spoke, perhaps noticing everyone’s soulless attitude.

“Everyone, are you listening to me properly right now?”

It was a tone of speech that would not be outdone even by Choi Je-ho.

But I commend the fact that he doesn’t give up his right to speak even though he can’t do his job. Not everyone has that kind of shamelessness.

“PD, what was your intention when you said that?”

The planning team leader asked without hiding his displeasure. Yoo Han-soo answered without hesitation.

“No, everyone is listening so obviously and without any motivation. If that happens, will the person doing the PT in front have any interest in doing it?”

There was a heated argument between Yoo Han-soo and the planning team leader three seconds before a dogfight.

I hurriedly lowered my gaze to the keyboard where I was flipping through the PPT.

Soon after, the voices of the planning team, who were complaining, and Han Soo Yoo’s harsh words in response filled the conference room.

That’s when the system appeared above the keyboard.