When I Opened My Eyes I Was a Superstar - Chapter 36
#36
One more time Ok?! (6)
#One more time, OK?! (6)
They were advertising filming staff.
The man was verbally abusing a woman who appeared to be either his boss or his subordinate. Dowook briefly looked at the two people while holding their school uniform top and bottom in his hand.
“I’m sorry, senior. “I will correct it.”
The woman, unable to withstand the verbal abuse, began to cry.
“Because I don’t want to become a bastard. “I have to finish filming quickly, so move twice as much today, okay?”
“yes! All right!”
When the man cursed and was about to say something more, Do-wook made a noise with his footsteps.
The two people turned around. The man who discovered Do-wook cleared his throat and left the spot first. The woman who made eye contact with Dowook quickly averted her gaze. Even the light makeup was smudged.
Perhaps because she was embarrassed, the woman went into the women’s bathroom next to the hallway.
Dowook soon went into the men’s room and changed his clothes.
‘What on earth is going on?’
It wasn’t something he could do, but he was curious because Do-wook was also human.
When I came out after changing my clothes, I heard faint crying coming from inside the women’s bathroom. Do-wook recalled the past times when he cried alone in the school bathroom.
It may not be that kind of bullying, but Dowook knew very well how miserable it was to hide alone and cry.
Dowook approached KK’s stylist team, who was in charge of hair, makeup and outfits. The coordinators were gathered together, chatting, and waiting to film.
And through the coordinators’ conversation, I was able to understand the situation a little while ago.
The total filming time that the director of the commercial filming team thought was at least 6 hours. Therefore, the director ordered the location search time to be 8 hours. However, the problem was that the male assistant director on the filming team incorrectly conveyed the time limit to 6 hours from the beginning to the female assistant.
Of course, the female staff selected a location for 6 hours and were called to Director Kim, the general director. When the woman said that it would be 6 hours, Director Kim called the male assistant director again.
However, the assistant director denied it and said he had never conveyed it that way. On the contrary, it was said that he called a female staff member, yelled at her, and made a fuss, asking when she had done something like that.
It is said that the other youngest staff members clearly heard that the man said it was 6 o’clock, but they did not dare to come forward to help and only talked about it among themselves later.
“He seemed to have a really bad personality.”
“I know that people in broadcasting have bad mouths, but that bastard seems like a real jerk.”
“Oh, I really hate it. “If Director Oh was like that, I would never be able to endure it.”
Dowook approached the gathered coordinators and called one of them.
“That sister.”
“uh? Dowook. why?”
“I’ll just use that for a moment.”
What Dowook pointed to was a powder pact for correction.
“Would you like me to fix your makeup? “Is your face okay?”
“Oh, that’s not what I’m going to write. wait a minute. “It really only takes a moment.”
The coordinators were puzzled by Do-wook’s sudden search for a powder pact, but they obediently handed the powder pact over to Do-wook.
Dowook walked quickly into the hallway and stood in front of the women’s bathroom. Soon a woman appeared who appeared to have washed her eyes with water. When I found Do-wook, I stopped walking in surprise.
“Um… use this.”
Looking at the crying face, it was obvious that the man would find more fault and say something. Still, there was no way the woman had time to go back and fix her makeup.
The woman who looked down at the powder compact Do-wook held out for a moment said thank you and went back to the bathroom to touch up her makeup and came out.
The redness around my eyes has definitely cleared up and I look less like crying.
“Well written. Thank you very much.”
Do-wook silently took back the powder compact handed to him by the woman.
“KK member Kang Do-wook… right?”
“Oh yes…”
The woman looked intently at Do-wook’s face.
It took several years to rise from the youngest staff member to the current position. The humiliation I experienced on set during that time was so painful that I couldn’t even talk about it. There were cases like today where I was treated by superiors, and there were many incidents where I was suffered by advertisers or advertising models.
There were many people who watched themselves go through such difficulties. I had colleagues who told me to cheer up, but this was the first time a celebrity comforted me.
Even for a consolation given by a young male idol, it was a consolation filled with very careful consideration.
“I will not forget this favor.”
“no.”
Since he hadn’t done much, Dowook never thought that his actions would repay the favor.
But the woman shook her head and said that she would definitely pay him back and said hello. The woman walking back to the filming set walked quickly.
Still, Do-wook only thought that he was glad that he had been of some comfort. Because he could not have imagined that the woman would really repay the favor later on.
***
Filming proceeded according to the storyboard. Since filming had to be completed within the remaining time, it was a filming site where the director’s will to avoid any delays was felt.
Fortunately, even though it was their first commercial shoot, the KK members received the OK without multiple NGs.
Jeong Yoon-gi, who quickly divides the court while dribbling, Hyeong-seo Ahn, who passes to a teammate in front of him, Ji-hoon Seok, who catches the ball in one go, Tae-hyung Park, who intercepts the opponent’s ball in a low posture.
And even Dowook successfully made a clean three-point shot.
After completing all individual cuts, the camera captured the six members standing in a line. It was a scene to be used in the final ending cut.
Additionally, the director filmed a scene where Do-wook was standing alone. It wasn’t in the storyboard, but I thought it would make a picture.
The filming ended safely with applause.
An official from the Elite Look PR team approached Director Oh Baek-ho and the members, thanked them for their hard work, and delivered the following schedule. Oh Baek-ho decided to adjust the schedule for future poster shooting and print advertisement shooting over the phone, and came out of the filming set with a greeting.
“It was fun, but I’m tired.”
“So, yawn.”
Jeong Yoon-gi complained of fatigue. Hyungseo Ahn also yawned lazily and rubbed his eyes.
“You all worked hard.”
Oh Baek-ho encouraged the members and headed to the parking lot where they parked their cars.
***
It’s been 3 weeks since I took a hiatus.
As a rookie, it was a very important principle not to take a long gap. This was because fans who were not yet part of the core easily turned their eyes to other groups.
KK and the company worked hard to ensure that fans did not feel the emptiness of the hiatus as much as possible. Producers had to constantly create content that fans, who are consumers, could view and enjoy.
It was fortunate that the so-called new rice cake was created when the school uniform advertisement filmed not long ago was aired. Additionally, the members reported their current status through Facenote every day. Thanks to this, the number of followers continued to increase despite the hiatus.
In addition, behind-the-scenes videos edited by the fan-marketing team were also updated on MyTube once or twice a week.
Because of this, fans who say that they cannot feel that KK is on hiatus at all, or fans who are ‘devoted to KK’s hiatus’, have started to appear frequently.
In the meantime, the members practiced individually and concentrated on recording the recently released title song and album tracks.
The songs included in the album were scheduled to include songs received from the album production team and a couple of newly composed songs by Yong Soo-cheol.
The title song was co-composed and written by Dowook and Yong Soo-cheol.
It was a song so addictive that you could never forget it once you heard it. When I first told it to Team Leader Sim Jun, he covered his mouth and expressed surprise.
Currently, the song’s choreography had been commissioned from the choreographer of ‘Sorry but I Love You’. Once the choreography was released early next week, full-fledged preparations for the album were scheduled to begin, including practicing and filming the music video.
‘What kind of reaction will there be….’
Through collaboration with Yong Soo-cheol and Do-wook, this title song was created as a song that had never existed before in the world.
Of course, Do-wook knew the trends of the times, so he chose a genre that would be popular by now from the genre selection of the title song. In addition, the way the song progressed was also adopted in a way that could capture the ears of the public.
Additionally, I had faith in Yong Soo-cheol’s abilities. Therefore, although I was confident that the title song would become popular, I still worried about the uncertain 1% chance.
“Do-wook, aren’t you pushing yourself too hard these days?”
Dowook was barely able to get out of his thoughts when he heard the voice of the person speaking to him.
“yes?”
“Then the dark circles will go all the way down to my chin. “No matter how handsome he is, isn’t that true?”
It was Jeong Yoon-gi. Jeong Yoon-gi was sitting across from Do-wook at the living room table. It was already past two in the morning.
Among the songs to be included, there were two that had not yet been recorded. One of the two songs still had Jung Yoon-ki’s rap lyrics, and the remaining song was being written by Do-wook himself.
After practice, I returned to the dorm, but the two people who still had work to do were staying up all night with their laptops on.
“What a crowd. “It’s really hard for you, right?”
Dowook asked Jung Yoon-gi, who writes his own rap lyrics in most of the songs.
“What am I? You’re doing this just to write a few lines of rap, but you’re even composing and writing lyrics. We worked together, but you have five bodies?”
Dowook laughed. I was tired from laughing.
“But I really like the raps you wrote.”
I meant it. Do-wook learned while working together that Jung Yoon-gi had a greater ability in rap than he originally thought. So, I helped Jung Yoon-gi participate in many parts of the album.
“Thank you, Jjashik. I also really liked the title song you wrote. “I’m saying this now, but when I first heard it, I was speechless because I was shocked.”
“I did it with Yong PD.”
“No, it’s a different feeling from the debut song. I wonder if I was lucky enough to be a member like you. “That day.”
Jeong Yoon-gi’s words touched Do-wook’s heart. Seeing Jung Yoon-gi so happy made me feel like I was being recognized more.
“Anyway, don’t overdo it. “You’re still old enough to be tall.”
“Haha yes… thank you for your concern.”
“Don’t just ignore what someone shorter than you says!”
It was a time when we were chatting and laughing with Jeong Yoon-gi.
A message arrived on Dowook’s cell phone. It was a message from Monster member Kwon Ji-hyung.
[Thank you, junior haha. I don’t know if you heard what I said, but I won first place today. I finally contacted you after the company dinner haha. I was dying because the title song’s performance wasn’t good… but thanks to you, I survived! We’ll give you a big shot later!]
Monster took first place on a cable music broadcast program with today’s follow-up song, the ballad ‘Moonlight Love’.
The lyricist for ‘Moonlight Love’ was Kim Sum. Kim Sum was in charge of writing the lyrics for the song at Dowook’s request. And as Do-wook expected, he wrote lyrical lyrics like verses.
Although I couldn’t say that it was the power of the lyrics alone, I was happy that I was of some help when people said that ‘Moonlight Love’ was good.
In fact, the reason Monster’s title song never ranked first was because Man to Man took first place for five weeks in a row. It was only when Man to Man ceased activities again that Monster was able to take first place.
Man to Man’s ‘Look at Me’ was more popular than ‘You’re So Pretty’ and was leading Man to Man to the top spot.
Ara Entertainment even put effort into reviving the music broadcast ranking system, perhaps because they were conscious of KK.
Thanks to this, the ranking system was revived on most music broadcasts, and Man to Man quickly had more first place trophies than KK.
However, the revived ranking system did not only apply to man-to-man. Now, KK has been given the opportunity to sweep first place across all broadcasting stations.
‘I can do it…’
Do-wook thought again as he looked at Jeong Yoon-gi in front of him.
The release date of KK’s first full-length album was approaching.