Chapter 5
Chapter 5
Translator: Penny
Chapter 5
This children's nutritional supplement CF wasn't something I had to do, but something I wanted to do.
A proposal I accepted with my own will, not forced by someone else.
It's true that I was tempted by the higher-than-expected advertising fee, and that I felt a tickling sensation somewhere in my chest at the sight of my parents looking more bewildered than I was.
But that's not all of it.
It was the first time in my life that I encountered something where the outcome could change significantly depending on my will and effort.
A time that could be labeled as regret or experience, depending on what I did.
I wanted to make it a time that was meaningful enough to leave no regrets.
"Um, Director, I have a question."
"Ask me anything you're curious about. Except for my bank account password, of course."
His voice implied that he would answer anything he could, so I first asked what Director Kang Eun-tae intended to convey in the CF.
I asked exactly what kind of image he was trying to portray.
He had already said that there was no need to act out any particular emotion, just to run naturally on the track.
But I couldn't shake the feeling that he seemed somewhat unsatisfied.
"I'd like to know more about your thoughts, Director."
I knew it was an presumptuous question, but I cautiously voiced it.
Fortunately, he didn't find me annoying or try to brush me off, so I was able to get a more detailed idea of the blueprint in the director's head.
The problem, as expected, was that I couldn't easily meet Kim Min-joon, who I had to work with in front of the camera.
I wish I could meet him for just one day.
"Hey, Ha-eun. Why do you want to meet Kim Min-joon so badly?"
"I have something I want to ask him directly."
I didn't tell my mother exactly what I was trying to get from meeting Kim Min-joon.
Partly because it felt somewhat vague to explain in words.
Anyway, right now, there was nothing I could do but wait for Kim Min-joon to get in touch.
After the advertisement meeting, I spent my time looking over the CF storyboard.
In the end, this was all preparation for future Virtual Youtuber broadcasts.
It's not every day that you get to film a CF with a national athlete.
If I could incorporate these unique experiences into my broadcasts, I thought I could create my own unique content.
Of course, if I used the real story as it was, it would be a shortcut to revealing my Real identity, so I would have to add some embellishment.
As time passed.
About four days before the day of the advertisement shoot.
"This Saturday? Ah, yes. That's fine."
I finally had the opportunity to meet Kim Min-joon in person.
"Oh, so you're Ha-eun! A genius girl a hundred times better than a starting pitcher!"
"………………"
A look of half curiosity and half delight, a firm handshake.
Ha-eun's meeting with Kim Min-joon early in the morning was a little more boisterous than Ha-eun had expected.
But well, I achieved the goal of meeting Kim Min-joon itself.
Now all that was left was to observe Kim Min-joon all day and find a way to ensure that Ha-eun's image wasn't overshadowed in the CF.
"Hmm, it'll be boring if you just keep watching me work out. Are you sure you're okay with that?"
"Yes. It's okay if you just show me how you work out."
Like Ha-eun, Kim Min-joon was also someone who had never acted before.
Therefore, the CF scene assigned to Kim Min-joon also didn't require any special acting skills, just 'running'.
He just had to run along the long track and pass the baton to Ha-eun, who was waiting in the middle of the track, and that was it.
Kim Min-joon did have a few lines to record in the CF, but that was not part of the scene captured by the camera.
It was simply because Kim Min-joon was a national track and field athlete.
Just running would inevitably reveal Kim Min-joon's presence.
If people who watched the CF only remembered Kim Min-joon instead of Ha-eun, the essence of the children's nutritional supplement CF would be diluted.
So, in order to find a way to highlight Ha-eun's presence.
From the most basic simple stretching to warm-up and meal times.
Until even the red sunset had completely disappeared and a complete night sky had arrived, I didn't show any signs of boredom and captured Kim Min-joon's day in my eyes.
"Thank you. I've got a grasp on it now."
'...Got a grasp on it?'
Ha-eun's appearance, gathering her hands and bowing politely to Kim Min-joon.
I was a little taken aback by the weight felt from the vocabulary and atmosphere that didn't seem like a child's.
"Hmm, I'm glad I could help. It was nice meeting you, Ha-eun."
"Me too."
For now, I sent Ha-eun and Ha-eun's mother off with a smile.
These days, children sometimes mature a little faster.
But she was still only six years old... there are always exceptions.
Either way, I figured there was nothing wrong with just showing her my daily training routine.
I thought I had answered all the questions that came up during the breaks, which were filled with childlike curiosity, with sincerity.
And when I ran into Ha-eun again at the CF filming site a few days later, she greeted me politely, so it seemed like Kim Min-joon hadn't made any mistakes.
Still, if I had to pick one thing that bothered me.
"Huh? Ha-eun, you want to run with me too?"
"Yes. Is that... not okay?"
"No, it's not that it's not okay... ."
Kim Min-joon, who was trying to warm up in advance to prevent his breathing from getting messed up during the CF shoot, was approached by Ha-eun, who asked him to run one lap with her.
Was she trying to loosen up her stiff body in advance due to nervousness?
"Then let's start with stretching."
"Yes."
And so, after gradually loosening Ha-eun's tense body.
As requested earlier, I ran very slowly on the track with Ha-eun.
It was after that that I heard the voice of a staff member saying that they were slowly getting ready to film.
Then, after patting Ha-eun on the shoulder as a sign of encouragement. I showed Ha-eun a good-natured smile along with the three words, "Fighting."
What came back was a nod or two and the encouraging words, "You too, Kim Min-joon," which didn't sound like a child at all.
'...You have to be that good to film a CF.'
Kim Min-joon couldn't help but stick out his tongue at Ha-eun's unusual appearance in many ways.
She was an interesting child. In many ways.
Not long after that, filming finally began.
I ran towards Ha-eun with a moderately fast but stable posture that I had memorized over the past few days and handed her the baton.
At the same time, several cameras began to follow Ha-eun, who was no longer Kim Min-joon.
However, when Ha-eun reached about the middle of the track.
-Stumble.
In an instant, Ha-eun's feet got tangled and she fell flat on her face.
Ha-eun's appearance, which could only be seen as a mistake, was captured on camera as it was.
As expected, Director Kang Eun-tae should have given the NG signal as soon as Ha-eun fell.
However, instead of stopping the filming, he stopped the people who were rushing to Ha-eun in a hurry.
"Now, get a full shot of Ha-eun's face."
He told them to focus the camera on Ha-eun's face, who had just barely gotten up.
Fortunately, there were no tears in her eyes, but continuing the filming as it was was a situation that no one but Kang Eun-tae himself could understand.
Nevertheless, they had no choice but to move the camera according to Kang Eun-tae's instructions.
Somehow, they captured Ha-eun jogging to the end of the track on camera tape.
It was only after Ha-eun's feet reached the end of the track that Kang Eun-tae gave the cut sign.
Afterwards, Kang Eun-tae himself approached Ha-eun, who was slowly walking from afar, and checked on her condition.
This was also quite a surprising sight for the filming staff, who knew that Kang Eun-tae became a maverick or dictator only at the CF filming site.
"First, get the First aid kit and disinfect the wound, and Young-tae, you explain it to Ha-eun's mother instead."
"Yes? Ah, yes..."
With that, Kang Eun-tae, who had entrusted the care of Ha-eun, whose knees were slightly scraped, to someone else, returned to his director's chair.
As he began to carefully examine the results of not intentionally giving an NG sign from the beginning.
'...Huh.'
Déjà vu.
Only déjà vu was felt.
Ha-eun in the footage looked like a younger Kim Min-joon running.
The pace of her steps, the angle at which she held her head, were all similar to Kim Min-joon's.
However, the moment Ha-eun's gaze fell downwards and she fell flat on her face.
The moment of silence that flowed through the set.
-Glare.
Her silent gaze, which was literally only focused on the finish line that Ha-eun had to reach, was captured on camera.
The déjà vu that had been felt until just before had become a contrasting tool that emphasized Ha-eun's overall atmosphere.
The fact that a child who had been running with a stable posture like Kim Min-joon until just a second ago had fallen and was staring intently at the other side, the contrasting effect was doubled.
Afterwards, Ha-eun's eye level rose as she slowly lifted herself up, and she regained her original altitude.
Ha-eun's appearance, maintaining a poker face and running to the end as if nothing had happened, was coincidentally.
'I want to express Ha-eun's composure as confidence from the nutritional supplement. As if she's confident in any adversity because she has the nutritional supplement.'
It was exactly the concept of the CF that Kang Eun-tae had laid out when he was persuading Ha-eun and Ha-eun's parents a few days ago.
'I knew I had a good feeling about it.'
Was it because the image in his head was so close to the one that appeared from the first shoot?
The corners of Kang Eun-tae's mouth had been slightly raised since some point.
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