Chapter 9: Camera
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Jang Hye-jin as Jo Yeon-woo cried sorrowfully. It was a crying scene that gives you mixed feelings. It was a sad but relieving scene.
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The scene went on for a few more seconds until Jang Hye-jin finished her performance.
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The room's silence was broken by Director Jung, he clapped and praised our performance.
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"We have truly chosen the right actors, this scene is much more interesting and in line with each character. Thank you for actress Jang Hye-jin and Kim Ha-na."
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Writer Kim spoke as well, "Both of them acted it well, it was better than how I envisioned it."
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It was an overwhelmingly postive response.
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I smiled and bowed slightly at the feedbacks.
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There are a few suggestions about how we could improve the scene further, but in general the reception is very good.
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Huh?
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Out of the corner of my eye, I spied someone with an unhappy glint in his eye.
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It disappeared quickly, but I have been looking around the room.
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It was that child actor who played Ki-beom.
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What's going on with this guy?
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Hmm....What's his name again?
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We finished the script reading after a few hours.
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I greeted everyone before we parted. Actress Jang Hye-jin seemed particularly fond of me.
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I guess it's good to establish a decent off screen relation with her, since it would help with building chemistry.
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It's probably not good to be too close to her though, I heard some horrible stuff about her.
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It was like a black hole.
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Regardless, I had a great time doing a script reading after a long time.
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On our way back, my mom and I sang through some songs.
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We laughed so much.
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It feels amazing to be this happy.
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The shoot officially starts in 2nd February 200X.
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We will shoot some of the necessary footage, the rest will be live shot during the airing time. It will be a very tight schedule.
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Daily dramas are typically done in this way.
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The positive is that the drama could be adjusted according to audience reception, the negative is that everything could be changed at any moment, which might end up with more work for us.
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However, this is a stage that provides good opportunity for actors.
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If you can appeal to the audience properly, your screentime could increase, sometimes astronomically so.
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I've seen second leads nearly rivaling the main leads in screentime and how some supporting roles become so loved they could get screentime rivaling third leads.
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It wasn't that common, but it was definitely possible to achieve such things.
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Daily dramas is a battlefield.
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Weirdly, I didn't feel nervous in the least about the amount of acting I would have to do very soon.
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I don't know why I feel so confident, I would get huge amount of parts and that should have intimidated to a certain extent.
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But I wasn't.
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Maybe because it's something I've went through before, maybe it's a familiar territory. After all I've been a child actress for 7 years.
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But deep down I knew it wasn't the reason.
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Maybe it's because I finally let myself go.
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That it's fine to have fun and make mistakes.
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That there is no need to worry as if this drama hold my whole career.
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The winter scenes are going to be shot first, afterwards as the winter went away, the spring scenes will be shot.
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It's like the title, about that period between coldness and love.
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That period of getting to know someone and to start again.
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In that sense, it's a suitable title.
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But after the spring, you must remember that there is the blazing summer waiting.
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The first scene that will be shot is the first meeting between the leads.
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Both Jang Hye-jin and Park Hyeon-do seemed particularly tense today.
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In fact, everyone seemed tense.
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It puts even more pressure towards the main leads. A lot of eyes are on them since this is the first shoot.
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And that's not all for them, they have a lot on their plate.
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They have to prepare for the promotions and for the press conference.
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Promotions is usually a broad category. It could be anything from taking pictures, doing interviews, radios, and variety shows.
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It was a tiring process, one that would soon feel even worse because of the load of shooting.
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The 200X version of me would never say this, but I'm glad that I don't have to do all those promotions.
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For one thing or another being famous is a burden, and it became increasingly clear to me.
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Being so tired for the sake of fame no longer seemed worth it.
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Doing splendid work and being acknowledged for it while having ample money and less recognition is a dream life.
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In a way it is terrific that I never became that famous.
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But it was not fame that drew me in.
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It has always been acting.
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Some people often say that the first shoot sets the vibe of the entire shooting process.
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I don't really agree with such saying, I've seen dramas that start out nice but ended up flopping to their death and also dramas that barely managed to scrap by in the beginning obtaining big wins.
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However, prolonged mistakes and slump happening in the first shoot could infect the others.
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It'll be best for the leads to put their all at this point.
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After both leads have taken their position, Director Jung started the shoot with an 'Action!'.
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After this scene was finished, I left immediately along with my mom.
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It's not the time for my scenes yet, but it was nice to visit the crew to politely support the main leads.
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While we are heading to our car, I felt the subtle feeling of being watched.
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It wasn't an unfamiliar feeling, after all I was an actress and if there was anything about being one it is that you will be watched.
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However this feeling occured in a nearly empty parking lot, with the people around us being busy with their own things.
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What was this feeling?
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It's like having a camera pointed at me.