Fashion Genius Collects Stars - Chapter 87



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Episode 87 Fireworks

NNB, a general programming channel.

The director there, Bae Ho-jin, threw a bundle of documents to the new PD.

“Jun-il, it’s finally your enlistment. You don’t have to do too well, just do enough so that you don’t get scolded.”

Rookie PD Kim Jun-il was so surprised that he jumped up from his seat.

“Hey, enlistment? Is my program coming into existence?!”

“okay.”

“Well, then the program on Western art history and the development of modern times that I mentioned before will pass… … .”

“Huh? What are you talking about? Where is that…? Huh? The plan you submitted before? Hey. Do you think I would have approved that?! Don’t talk nonsense, and check the documents in front of you. Make it appropriate.”

“Yes, yes… … ?”

Kim Jun-il was flustered and hurriedly checked the documents that had fallen on his desk.

Even if it is true that your own program has failed… … .

Doesn’t that sound strange? To make a program ‘moderately’?

No. But wait. This is… … ?

Kim Jun-il slammed the documents down.

“Director? School zone? Female idol concept? Fashion? Styling? How do I do this?”

Then Bae Ho-jin frowned.

“I do it if you tell me to. How do I do it?”

“No… … . Director. That’s not it. I don’t know about this kind of thing!”

“Who makes something from scratch?”

“Director! What I want to do is… …!”

“What do you want to do?”

Bae Ho-jin’s eyes sparkled.

“What do you want to do~? A green rookie?”

bang!

Kim Jun-il was pushed back and fell into his chair due to the brutality of Bae Ho-jin suddenly approaching and slamming his desk.

Bae Ho-jin growled, bringing his red face closer.

“Doing what you want to do is something that big PDs who have been in this industry for 10 or 20 years and have made popular programs explode do. Even if you’re an assistant director with a lot of experience, you should be grateful when they entrust you with a program. What? What do you want to do?”

Kim Jun-il felt a sense of crisis. If he said one wrong word here, it felt like the big fist on the desk would hit the bridge of his nose.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”

“Is it the end?”

“Thank you. For leaving the program to me… … .”

“Let’s do it right, Junil. Okay?”

Knock knock.

Director Bae Ho-jin pats Kim Jun-il on the shoulder and gets up.

Kim Jun-il trembled in fear. He was naturally weak-willed and could not possibly withstand the momentum of Director Bae Ho-jin, who had maintained his career as a broadcasting station PD by fighting with his fists during the so-called ‘Romantic Era’.

In those days, wasn’t the broadcasting world filled with madness, with reporters stealing their fellow reporters’ cars and turning off the circuit breakers in perfectly good PC rooms to see how people would react?

Director Bae Ho-jin was a person who survived those times.

“Uh, uh, Director. Then the assistant director I’m in charge of right now… … .”

“Why are you asking something so obvious? That’s just the way it is.”

“Yes, yes?”

“Just keep doing what you were doing.”

“Well, but after looking through these documents, it seems like School Zone is going on a two-month trip to find a concept… … . It’s mostly overseas and it’s in a documentary format… … .”

“Well, it’s not like you have to be there all the time for a documentary. You have to go back and forth.”

“That, that… … .”

Kim Jun-il’s face became pale. He has a lot of work to do as an assistant director… … He wants me to go back and forth overseas and make one program?

“Okay, Director. Then the program quality… … .”

“Don’t worry about the quality. I told you. Just make it so that you won’t get cursed at.”

“Ha, but still, it’s a regular broadcast… … .”

“That’s being made with full production cost support from Stella Entertainment.”

Director Bae Ho-jin chuckled.

He pressed Kim Jun-il’s forehead with his thick fingers, as if telling him to listen carefully to what he was saying.

“Do you understand? The less we spend on production, the more we win. There are three episodes in total, and we’ll air the first one in a good time slot, and then move the second and third to the early morning hours due to low viewer ratings. So, just make them appropriately. Save money.”

“ah…….”

Only then did Kim Jun-il understand why the program had come back to him.

In some ways, this was closer to a kind of commercial broadcast.

It’s a deformed commercial broadcast by a broadcasting station that is also the production company.

Director Bae Ho-jin laughed heartily.

He spoke as if praising himself.

“Originally, I told them not to outsource the production. What broadcasting station would put in a program like that? I said that they would rather leave the production to us and pay a large amount of the production cost. In return, they would definitely put in a program.”

Bae Ho-jin patted his own head, saying that he was satisfied with his suggestion even after thinking about it again.

“Wow. No matter how much I think about it, it means I’m not dead yet. The income from that alone is more than enough to cover the income from a regular broadcast. Hehe. Stella Entertainment does have a lot of money.”

Then he turned his eyes and stared at Kim Jun-il.

“Do you understand what I’m saying? Do it with the least amount of cost and effort, but not so much that I lose face.”

Yeah. Where would a PD accept such ridiculous conditions?

Heaven and earth know that PDs have strong pride.

A simple rookie PD.

Among them, the most easygoing and hard-working Kim Jun-il.

That’s why he was put in charge of this program.

Kim Jun-il nodded his head creakingly to the director and thought.

‘If you’re the CEO of Stella Entertainment… … . It was Min Hee-sung, right? Is he an idiot? I didn’t see it that way… … . Didn’t you know that if you entrusted the broadcast with these conditions, it would turn out like this?’

Kim Jun-il felt sorry for Stella Entertainment, which would only pay a huge amount of production costs without any real benefits.

* * *

“… … So. The broadcasting station will have little intention of producing it… … ?”

– Yes. Even though it is a general programming channel, we had to make a lot of sacrifices to broadcast on a channel with the same level as NNB. Production time is also not enough.

“Hmm… … . But even so, if you don’t have the will to produce it, aren’t you going to suffer a huge loss? You said you gave me a lot of money for the production… … .”

– That’s why I’m asking you to do this. Now, it’s up to Designer Lee Yong-won.

“To me?”

– Yes. You have to do one of the two. First, you have to come up with an amazing new concept for the school zone, just like you did. If you do that and the sales increase significantly, it will be worth the production cost.

“I guess so.”

– Please do so. I don’t want to take a stake in either.

“……All right.”

– And secondly, you have to make the process of each member finding their own concept as interesting as possible. No matter how roughly you make it, you have to prepare a lot of good sources so that it can be a great show.

“ah…….”

– You said 85%? I believe you.

My heart was about to give out, but since CEO Min Hee-sung was like this, I couldn’t even complain now.

okay.

This is all my doing.

Is this how Caesar felt as he crossed the Rubicon River?

The die has already been cast.

If successful, the percentage of increased sales will increase.

If it fails, everyone’s disappointment and the rate goes down… … .

Now go straight. There is no other way but to run.

“Okay, I’ll show you the results.”

– I’ll look forward to it. Anyway, this is the situation, so please take note when you meet PD Kim Jun-il. From what we understand, he’s a newbie at NNB. He may have been pushed into the job and may not have much motivation.

“Okay, I’ll take that into consideration and meet with you.”

– Yes. Please light the fire.

“Yes… … . I’ll try.”

After hanging up the phone with CEO Min Hee-sung, I let out a long sigh.

Actually, it was my greed that led me to plan the broadcast.

The desire to properly record the process in which each member of School Zone discovers their own charm.

Of course, there was also the idea that idols, like heroes and gods, needed some kind of ‘narrative’.

There was also an expectation that if this show did well, it would remain a legend for children for a long time.

But aside from all that, I had a greater desire to record and collect the growth of the children in the school zone.

So, in a way, it was a light suggestion… … . But when it actually happens, it becomes this serious.

‘Phew. What can I do? I have no choice but to do my part.’

The disaster I brought upon myself. I must endure it with my evil spirit.

Feeling a thick sense of responsibility on my shoulders, I headed to the meeting place to meet NNB’s PD Kim Jun-il.

Daughter-

There is such a place.

It’s a quiet cafe with a great atmosphere and the smell of food and drinks is so delicious, but strangely, it’s empty.

That was the place where Kim Jun-il was waiting for me.

The way here was also through a back alley… … .

Somehow… … I felt like I could sense the taste and sense of Kim Jun-il who asked me to meet him here.

“Are you PD Kim Jun-il?”

Today was a holiday. PD Kim Jun-il said he arrived 30 minutes before the appointed time, and there was only one person in the store… … . That must be Kim Jun-il.

“Ah. Mr. Lee Yong-won?”

As expected, he pretended to know.

We shook hands, exchanged brief greetings, and sat down to face each other.

and,

“Haaah… … .”

PD Kim Jun-il sighed deeply.

No, no.

Even if you have no motivation, isn’t it a bit much to sigh like this when you first meet someone?

“Ah. Sorry. I couldn’t sleep… … .”

Hearing that, PD Kim Jun-il’s eyes were bloodshot. It seemed like his words about not being able to sleep weren’t just empty words.

He turned the pages of the papers, rubbing his forehead as if he was tired.

“Uh… … So. This is mostly done overseas?”

“Yes. I’m planning to go to England first.”

“England… … . Ha… … .”

Again. Another long sigh.

It felt cheap.

I decided to get straight to the point.

“PD, do you have any other work to do besides this?”

The fact that I stayed up all night… … . The fact that I let out a long sigh at the mention of England… … .

Isn’t this a reaction that they don’t want things to pile up any more because they have too much work?

But Kim Jun-il did not answer my question.

“Ah, that. You said it was a trip to find the concept of the school zone, right? A combination of fashion, styling, and storytelling… … .”

You’re taking care of it. You’re taking care of a lot of other things.

PD Kim Jun-il changed the subject as if he didn’t hear me, but that was the most conclusive evidence.

I felt like my insides were being completely dried up.

I didn’t want a show that was made hastily… … .

PD Kim Jun-il continued speaking without knowing my speed.

“The production schedule is tight. You said it’s a two-month trip, right? And since this is a trilogy… … . I think we’ll have to film for about two to three weeks, edit for one week, and then release it right away. Hmm… … .”

PD Kim Jun-il said while flipping through a document full of notes, as if he had already made various plans during the 30 minutes he had arrived.

If there’s one thing I hope for, it’s that the person seems sincere.

I felt grateful that he had been able to do some research like that, even though he couldn’t sleep last night.

Ha. I felt a bit pathetic that I had to be thankful for something like that… … .

PD Kim Jun-il spoke while chewing the tip of his pen and looking at the documents.

“I think I can somehow work out the schedule… … . The problem is the content. Fashion. Fashion… … . Well. I don’t know much about fashion, but could you tell me what kind of scene you have in mind specifically?”

but.

PD Kim Jun-il looks like he doesn’t know anything about fashion.

Does it look like my old self?

Fashion for people who think dressing up is a waste of time and money.

A hairstyle and glasses that make you think you only studied.

Well, I have no complaints.

Because anything related to fashion is something I can take care of.

Instead, there was something else I wanted to ask of PD Kim Jun-il.

“Yes. But I want to include as much storytelling as possible in this project.”

“Ah… … . Good, storytelling. But what kind of… … ?”

“The goal is to weave together stories about fabric, fashion, styling, history, society, culture, and other humanities, allowing each member of School Zone to have diverse experiences. So I would like the PD to take charge of the humanities part.”

“Humanities? Fashion?”

Huh? What is it?

At my words, Kim Jun-il’s eyes, which had seemed dead, lit up.

Rather than saying that I like it… … isn’t it similar? Ridicule? That was a somewhat difficult gaze.

Even his posture changed a bit.

Isn’t it that your shoulders and chest, which were hunched over with fatigue, are straightening and taking on an arrogant posture?

He looked straight at me with a faint smile on his face and asked back.

“Humanities? Fashion? Is there such a thing…?”

Huh?

Is it a challenge?

I looked at PD Kim Jun-il.

His attitude was very arrogant, openly looking down on fashion… … but anyway, it was the first moment when sparks flew between me and him.