Chapter 432:
After all the classes were over.
Seo-jun headed to the first practice room where team 436 was supposed to gather, along with Kim Joo-kyung, han Jinho, and Kang Jae-han.
“Seo-jun, are we going to practice from today?”
“No. I don''t know if everyone has other plans, so today we’ll just say hello and choose a team leader.”
Seo-jun answered Kim Joo-kyung''s question.
“There might be some people who made appointments without expecting to pass.”
“That makes sense.”
The three nodded at Seo-jun''s explanation.
When Seo-jun arrived at the first practice room, he scanned the faces of the people who came in.
There were some members of Mirror, the team he worked with in middle school, and some students who were from the same art school as Mirror but not on the same team.
There were also students from other middle schools.
“Hi, chae-yeon.”
“Hi.”
Kim Chae-yeon, the music team leader of Mirror at the time, greeted Seo-jun with a smile.
“Where''s the art team leader?”
“He couldn''t participate because he has an overseas exhibition.”Chee?ck out latest novels at novelhall.com Chae-yeon exclaimed.
It was amazing that a student had an overseas exhibition, but there was also regret in her voice.
“It''s more comfortable with people you’ve worked with before...”
“That''s true, but... isn''t it fun to meet new styles?”
Kim Chae-yeon nodded at Seo-jun''s words.
Anyway, they would work separately by teams, so there was no particular problem for Kim Chae-yeon, who was on the music team.
“You’ll do all the hard work anyway.”
“Hahaha.”
Seo-jun laughed it off as the team leader who had to combine music and background.
The students came in one by one.
Kim Young-chan and Park Yeon-ji, first and second-year acting students, came in stiffly with nervousness.
Seo-jun and the third-year students greeted them warmly.
“Welcome.”
“Nice to meet you!”
“H-hello!”
Like Alice in Wonderland, Kim Young-chan and Park Yeon-ji looked around the practice room nervously.
It was a familiar practice room for acting classes, but today it seemed new, strange, and cool.
“Sit here.”
“Yes!”
The students in the first practice room were roughly divided into art, music, and acting teams.
Park Min-hyung, a first-year art student, was sitting with his friends when he saw his seniors who were on the same art team as him during Mirror and smiled happily.
The music students also gathered with their seniors and juniors who were from the same academy and chatted away.
“Chae-yeon noona, you were on Mirror team, right? Can you see the acting team perform often?”
“Hyung. How is Lee Seo-jun sunbae''s acting in real life?”
“Min-hyung. I saw the graduation performance, but was the rehearsal that amazing too?”
Most of the conversations were about Seo-jun.
The students who worked with him during Mirror told stories about that time with a smile.
“They’re all here.”
Seo-jun checked the number of people and got up from his seat.
He emitted a bit of aura and the noisy practice room quieted down quickly.
Everyone''s eyes were drawn to Seo-jun.
The Mirror team members who were familiar with Seo-jun and the students who were not also looked at him with sparkling eyes as if they were seeing a shining star.
The third-year acting students admired him. He always had a cool presence no matter when they saw him.
Seo-jun smiled and opened his mouth.
=But they don''t release the video of the practical test??
-Conclusion) We can never see Seo-jun''s practical test video.
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“This is how the beginning part will go.”
Seo-jun told Kim Joo-kyung.
“I want to make the audience feel that the scientist is an alien.”
“Okay.”
Kim Joo-kyung, who played the role of ‘scientist’, also listened to Seo-jun''s explanation with a serious face.
“So at first, you spit out some weird words like an alien language. Then it changes to Korean as if you’re tuning the radio frequency.”
“How about doing it in a foreign language? Wouldn''t it be fun to interpret if you put some meaning in a language that people don''t know well?”
Seo-jun thought for a moment at Kim Joo-kyung''s suggestion and shook his head.
“This will be released on YouTube after the official performance. People from that country will be able to see it too. Wouldn''t they dislike it if we use their language as an alien language?”
“Hmm. Maybe.”
“I wouldn''t be immersed if I saw a foreign movie where aliens speak Korean. Korean is not an alien common language either.”
“Ah.”
Kim Joo-kyung was convinced by Seo-jun''s explanation.
It wouldn''t matter much if foreigners who didn''t know Korean watched it, but if Koreans who understood and used Korean watched such a movie, it would be funny no matter how serious the content was.
“That makes sense. For the alien language... how should I do it?”
“It''s short anyway, so a simple combination of ABCD is fine.
‘ABCD’ sounds bright, so... maybe EU sounds better?”
“Like ‘GNEUDR’?”
“Yeah. A bit slowly.
‘GEU-CRUSH-’ like that, mix the order and add final consonants. It doesn''t have to be EU sounds either, I think anything would be fine.”
Kim Joo-kyung nodded at Seo-jun''s test.
“Got it. But if I just spit it out, it’ll be hard to say the same thing every time during the performance.”
“We’re going to record this, so you only have to do it once. We’ll also add machine sounds and distort the voice to make it as alien as possible. We just have to match the timing well when it changes from alien language to Korean.”
“That''s no problem!”
Kim Joo-kyung nodded and wondered what sounds would suit the ‘scientist’ better.
Seo-jun put down the script and looked around the first practice room.
Han Jinho, Kang Jae-han, Kim Young-chan, and Park Yeon-ji were sitting apart in the spacious practice room, looking at their scripts without disturbing each other''s voices and acting.
The first practice room was assigned to Team [436], and everyone gathered here after school.
Of course, it was only the acting team, and the music team was in their assigned music practice room, and the art team was in their assigned art room.
They communicated with each other by phone and sometimes Seo-jun visited them personally.
Seo-jun checked on his phone if there were any problems with the other teams and started to focus on his own acting practice.
He was busy because of situations other than acting, but he felt a sense of accomplishment that he and his teammates were making everything from scratch.
After the acting practice, during the break time.
The acting team chatted while eating sandwiches and juice bought with the graduation performance support fund from Mirinae Arts High School.
Park Yeon-ji and Kim Young-chan, who were nervous, also seemed to feel comfortable in this place and started talking first.
“You''re all applying to Korea National University, right?”
“Well, yeah.”
The 3rd graders laughed as if they had given up.
Park Yeon-ji and Kim Young-chan, who would face the entrance exam next year and the year after, sparkled their eyes.
“I finished applying for early admission a while ago and submitted all the documents like self-introduction letters or high school transcripts.”
“I guess the music and art departments are the same. The test date hasn''t been announced yet, right?”
“Yeah. We’ll have to adjust our schedule when it comes out.”
Seo-jun answered Kim Joo-kyung''s question.
Considering everything from early admission to college entrance exam, and then practical test after that, it was inevitable that the 3rd graders’ activities would be limited.
That''s why there were fewer 3rd grade applicants than during [Mirror].
‘I guess they applied considering that too.’
Seo-jun also planned to think enough about his teammates’ schedules as a team leader.
He thought that except for the acting team, the music team and the art team would probably be centered around 1st and 2nd graders.