Chapter 47: Busy (Part 2) (Second Update Seeking Recommendations)

  Thank you for the rewards from Royyi, Wo Niu Luo Bo and Wu Yu De Men San classmates. Thank you also to Wo Niu Luo Bo classmate for the "asking for update" ticket.

  Yes, and this chapter has an intention as pure as a lily... I've been thinking about it for a long time...

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  On January 25th, when Ahn Jun-hee finished a day of choreography work and was about to go out for dinner with Hee-jae, Kwon Bo-mu came to the dance studio with two middle-aged men.

  "Junhe, come, let me introduce you. These two gentlemen are the directors of your two title track MVs, Mr. Xu Xiansheng and Mr. Che Yinzuo."

  An Junhe hastily brought He Zai to bow: "Hello, teachers! Please take care of the shooting in the future."

  The two directors nodded slightly and smiled: "Please take care of Junhe too!"

  The attitude was very calm, and the three of them chatted for a few words. Seeing that it was getting late, Quan Baogen said: "Junhe, I'm about to invite the two teachers out for dinner, you come too, and take the opportunity to explain your ideas to the two teachers." He turned his head to the two directors and said: "This kid has always wanted to be a director, thinking of all sorts of nonsense every day. Let the two teachers point him in the right direction, so he can recognize the gap and not be restless."

  Xu Xiansheng and Che Yinzhe, who were laughing heartily, were taken aback for a moment, but quickly regained their composure. However, they looked at An Junhe, who had been maintaining a respectful posture in front of them, with a slightly strange gaze, and nodded, saying, "No problem!"

  Both of them are old-timers who have been in the circle for a long time, how could they not hear the implicit meaning behind Quan Baogen's words? Apparently, this newcomer singer, who debuted as an actor and has decent singing skills, has his own ideas about MVs. Probably because the company didn't agree to give him the director's identity, so as his agent, Quan Baogen used this subtle way to hope that they could listen to his opinions a little bit.

  The two of them exchanged a glance and responded very briefly. Mainly because they had experienced many similar things, many singers have their own ideas about MVs, as MV directors who often collaborate with singers, they cannot categorically refuse, most of the time they will listen to some opinions from the singer, of course, the most important thing is that the singer really knows more about his own song.

  What's on his mind is unknown to others, perhaps he would be disdainful or annoyed, but An Junhe couldn't care about that much.

  The last time I asked Guan Baogen to help me negotiate with the company for the right to supervise, the company's response was as he later considered, and it was rejected without any room for negotiation.

  An Junhe wanted the two title tracks' MVs to be more in line with his vision and not be misinterpreted, but since the company disagreed with him directing them, he could only rely on this method to achieve his goals.

  Later, on the way to a nearby hotel from the company, Quan Baogen took the opportunity to avoid others and said: "Junhe, I can only do my best to help you with this. Whether the two directors will listen to your opinions later depends on your own efforts."

  "I understand!" An Junhe nodded, "Has the company found a good female lead for my MV?"

  "Found her, she's a trainee in our company. You should still remember that our company is going to debut a four-member girl group this year, right?"

  "Remember The Grace?"

  "Uh-huh, the official name is 'Tian Shang Zhi Xi The.Grace', scheduled to debut in May this year. The company wants Tian Wu Stephanie and Zhi Sheng Sunday to appear in your MV."

  Ever since the concept of seniors bringing juniors was proposed and Ahn Jun-hee became a successful model, the company has been enthusiastic about such actions. The four members of Cheonjaeji, who are all relatively old seniors, have heard that even during their trainee days, two of them have already released solo singles, but they debuted overseas and are not well-known domestically.

  Now they are about to arrange for them to debut as a group, and the company obviously hopes that An Junhe will bring them along and increase their popularity.

  As for this, Ahn Jun-hee had nothing to object to. Two days later, the MV of "1 Minute 1 Second" started filming, and he also met Kim Bo-kyung, whose stage name was Haneul Stephanie, for the first time...

  Busy photography studio, staff are setting up the scene, all kinds of noise and shouting fill the air, not far away in the rest area, Ahn Jun-hyuk and director Yoo Hee-seon who is in charge of this MV discuss the script. Because the lyrics of this song use a reverse narrative method to peel off the pain of lost love and nostalgia layer by layer, so yesterday Ahn Jun-hyuk proposed that he wants the MV to show a time reversal effect, Yoo Hee-seon considered it for a moment and immediately agreed.

  This will not increase the difficulty of shooting much, and the greatest difficulty is only reflected in An Junhe - in order to match the mouth shape in the time-reversal effect, he needs to recite the lyrics backwards when shooting.

  After that, Xu Xian-sheng valued An Jun-he's opinions a lot more and discussed many details with him. Of course, valuing his opinions didn't mean everything was done according to his wishes; during filming, the two would sometimes argue over small issues. Although An Jun-he had no directing experience, he had filmed a TV series before and spent several months on set, so he wasn't unfamiliar with much of the work involved in shooting. Moreover, he had an impression of the "original" MV in his mind, and whenever he felt something was off, he would raise it with the director, after which they would try to persuade each other.

  Jin Baojing arrived just in time to see An Junhe struggling to draw a storyboard with his unskilled drawing skills, while also engaged in a heated debate with Xu Xiansheng. She stood by awkwardly, not daring to interrupt their conversation or leave on her own accord.

  Until An Junhe finished the shot division, compared with Xu Xiansheng's shot division, he finally persuaded him. When he raised his head, he saw that this girl who had been waiting for half a day was holding her hands tightly together, with white fingers due to tension.

  "Uh, who are you?"

  With her wavy long hair, a simple knit top on the upper body and light-washed jeans on the lower body, Kim Baojing hurriedly bowed: "Junhe senior, Director Xu, hello, I'm Kim Bao... no, I'm Tian Wu Stephanie, please take care of me in the next shooting!"

  In response to her greeting, Xu Xiansheng just nodded slightly and then said to An Junhe: "Now that the heroine has arrived, you two chat, I'll go take a look at how the set preparation is going."

  An Junhe stood up, politely seeing him off, before turning to Jin Baojing with a smile: "You've been waiting for a long time, right? Sorry about that, I got caught up talking to the director and lost track of time. Come on, sit down."

  Jin Baojing whispered a thank you to him and sat down on the stool beside him, her posture elegant and ladylike, exactly like the standard demeanor that Ahn Jun-hee's etiquette teacher had demonstrated to his female students.

  As he recalled those days, a smile spread across his face and he said warmly, "Don't be too nervous, Bao Gen Shu has shown me your information, you're from Busan, right? My hometown is also there."

  The last sentence, he spoke in the Busan dialect, trying to make her relax a bit. Indeed, upon hearing the familiar hometown accent, the girl's tense shoulders loosened unconsciously, and she stared at Ahn Jun-hee with wide eyes, covering her mouth with one hand, her eyes sparkling with surprise: "Senior is also from Busan? Omo... I had no idea..." But despite being very surprised, she still maintained her composure, showing off the results of the company's training.

  Seeing her dignified demeanor, An Junhe suddenly thought of Yoon-ah and Tae-yeon, Soo-young.

  Among the girls I know, if I had to say who's the most mischievous, it would naturally be sharp-tongued Sooyoung and always-crazy Yuri. Yoon can only come after those two, followed by Taeyeon, Sohyun, and then Sooyeon. But even for those two mischievous people, when they get serious, their posture becomes very proper. Sooyoung is due to her family education and her past activities in Japan, while Yuri owes it to her years of athletic training and dance practice. As for Sohyun, who has always been strict with herself, it goes without saying.

  Only YoonA, TaeYeon and SooYoung, these three girls can't control their image. YoonA's smile is so wide that it looks like a crocodile, SooYoung always looks lazy, her posture when sitting or walking is similar to an uncle in the neighborhood. As for TaeYeon... once in the practice room, two people played a game of taking pictures, before she danced, the subconscious action of adjusting her pants waistband was stuck in his mind...

  These two days, the company is selecting the first batch of candidate members for a new large-scale girl group project. I don't know if these three lazy girls will be eliminated or not.

  There was a faint worry in his heart, but soon this worry was driven away by the busy work. The MV shooting is not a difficult task for An Junhe, who has acted in TV dramas before, but he needs to do more than that, continue recording songs, complete the final choreography, and on the other hand, start producing Bai Zhiying's single "No Longer Love".

  Although the other party did not urge, after all, so many days have been delayed, the reason why it didn't start earlier was due to the influence of "X File" and "Conscience" incident, he basically didn't dare to go out, now that the media has relaxed its attention on him, it's not good to delay again.

  In early February, after a busy day of filming, Ahn Jun-hee rushed to a production company, where Baek Ji-young was already waiting outside the recording studio they had rented.

  "Sorry, Ji-young sister, traffic jam on the road!" An Jun-he looked at his watch and apologized.

  "It's okay, I just got here too." Baek Ji-young smiled faintly, but Ahn Jun-hee could read the anxiety in her eyes. Of course, that anxiety wasn't because of his tardiness, but rather, today was the day they would start filming "No Longer in Love".

  Yes, there are only two people.

  Now everyone basically avoids Baek Ji-young, since she parted ways with her former agency last year. Currently, she doesn't even have a management company, and the production of this single was done by renting a recording studio out of her own pocket. The post-production editing work also had to be handled personally by her and Ahn Jun-hyuk, everything is very simple, making it impossible for her not to feel anxious.

  Fortunately, the song to be produced is a lyrical song, and the requirements for mixing and audio editing are very low, which can be handled by their two levels. The only worry is whether she is really suitable or can perform well in this previously unattempted lyrical style.

  Regardless of the hesitation in her eyes, An Junhe took the lead and entered the recording studio, taking off the backpack behind him, rummaging through it to pull out sheet music and other things, and asked: "Have you been familiarizing yourself with this song recently? How's your grasp on it?"

  The score was given to her on the day "X File" exploded, and so many days have passed, enough for her to thoroughly understand the song.

  As expected, Baek Ji-young nodded without hesitation: "Very skilled."

  "Alright then, any opinions? If you have any, speak up now. We'll be starting the recording soon. If you regret it later, that's your loss."

  This was naturally a joke trying to ease her mood, An Junhe didn't think she would raise an objection, but as soon as he finished speaking, Bai Zhiying hesitated for a moment and nodded forcefully: "Yes..."

  An Junhe looked at her in surprise and curiously asked: "What opinion?"

  "The lyrics are too thin..." Her face turned slightly red, and as soon as she spoke, she reacted as if there was a slight misunderstanding, and hurriedly explained: "It's not that the lyrics are bad, but... I think that just singing it won't be able to bring out its beauty, I'm thinking... could we make an MV? I..." Seeing Ahn Jun-heo staring blankly at her, not speaking, she nervously opened her bag and pulled out a few A4 papers, "These... are the rough scripts I wrote, take a look and see if it's possible to find a director to film it? The expenses will be on me."

  With a puzzled expression, An Junhe took the few pages of script from her hand. The more he read, the stranger his face became. He finally somewhat understood why she was being so hesitant and ambiguous, because...the plot described in this part of the script really couldn't help but make people have some strange thoughts.

  Baek Ji-young anxiously awaited his evaluation, but Ahn Jun-hyuk remained silent for half a day, so she hastily asked: "Jun-hyuk, what do you think? Is it... unbearable?"

  "Ah...... nothing!" An Junhe suddenly came to his senses from his thoughts, shook his head, and looked down for a while with a mixture of laughter and tears, saying: "I just... uh... I just suddenly remembered that maybe I can help you find an actor..."

  As he spoke, his lips curled up in a seemingly smiling yet not quite smiling manner, as if thinking of something that turned into an uncontrollable brightness and playfulness.