Tokyo: The evil god doesn't want to be the top star

Chapter 353 The Beginning of Hell
"Ming, I understand..."

The middle-aged man known as "Supervisor Ozawa" wiped the sweat from his bald head and responded reluctantly.

Although he is not as famous as Manjiro Akimoto, as a senior supervisor within J Company, he has also participated in the production of many boy group talent show variety shows and has decades of practical experience.

His team was originally preparing a gay love variety show, but was temporarily transferred to take over this show.

It would have been fine if they took over halfway, but I didn't expect it to be a hellish start where they couldn't "directly intervene" in the content production and could only "indirectly intervene" after the official broadcast.

But Matsudaira Jenny, the "idol called father", has been powerful in the company for many years, so naturally no one dared to complain or say "no".

"What is the current public opinion situation?"

Seeing that Matsudaira Jenny had finished his speech and began to close his eyes and meditate on his Buddhist beads, Supervisor Ozawa quickly took over the chairmanship of the meeting.

"Because the content of the show is uncertain, the company did not conduct any publicity and preheating as in the previous episodes."

"However, based on the big data feedback from broadcasting channels and social platforms, the audience's reservations and expectations for the latest episode of "Idol Birth Festival" are 1000% higher than before."

"The reason is, of course, because of the mysterious 'recording accident' that happened not long ago..."

The staff member who is responsible for analyzing countermeasures to online public opinion typed quickly on the keyboard and analyzed seriously.

This time there was a "publicity vacuum period", but the popularity of the program has not decreased but increased, because the "Idol Birth Festival recording accident" has recently become a hot urban legend on the Internet and a real traffic code.

Although the authorities are relaxed on the outside but tight on the inside, they have been trying to cover up the past with excuses such as "minor safety accident", "the criminal has been arrested", and "the police are investigating".

But you have to know that the trainees and staff affected by the accident can be said to be "unknown", but the four mentors here are all stars who can become hot searches just by falling or spraining their waists, let alone such a "mass safety accident"...

The media rushed to fabricate gossips such as "Anti-fans are raging at the talent show", "The end of krypton gold chasing stars is gas", "I pushed for elimination? Gas is waiting!" There are dozens of different versions of the specific content of the "recording accident", but there is still no relatively unified "official statement".

The trainees, staff and mentors who were at the program recording site on the day of the incident are still in the "treatment observation period" and "investigation cooperation period" and cannot contact the outside world.

Two days ago, when he was accompanied by the police and publicly reported his safety at a "media meeting", he did not reveal any words related to the case.

The police's cautious attitude in handling the matter has made netizens anxious and curious about what happened on the day of the recording.

Many netizens believe that the truth of the incident is in the latest episode of the show, but because the scene of the safety accident is too complicated, this last episode may be "postponed forever"...

Just when the public thought that the "Idol Birth Festival" program had come to an end, the program's official website suddenly posted a "broadcast preview" for the latest episode.

Therefore, not only the original fans of the show kept refreshing the website, but even many "spectator netizens" also recharged their memberships and waited for the last episode.

This has made the anticipation for the idol birth festival program unprecedentedly high.

"It's not a good thing to have too high expectations when the content of the show is unknown..."

Director Ozawa rubbed his brows and was not happy about this data that could be called an "industry miracle". Because of a "recording video leak" incident in the early stage of the program, Director Akimoto left the recording resources in the local area network and did not synchronize them to the company's cloud server.

As a result, the current temporary production committee has no live recording of the show, and cannot find the people involved in the recording to ask questions. They have no idea about the performance on the stage, whether the performance is completed, and the voting situation.

Even if the official "professional team" only edited a semi-finished product of two or three programs and received a lot of bad reviews, they would not be surprised at all.

"Time is running out. You, the public opinion countermeasures team, should watch and analyze the possible 'hype points' in the program content, as well as the 'black spots' about Xia Fan, and take action to guide online public opinion as soon as possible..."

"Supervisor, this is bad. The program was broadcast on the website 20 minutes early!"

Supervisor Ozawa was still chattering away while arranging work when he was suddenly interrupted by the staff member next to him, who shouted loudly.

"What... twenty minutes early?!"

The work meeting, which was already running against time, was suddenly shortened by 20 minutes, which made him feel so distressed as if his life was shortened.

"The official 'professional team' has no sense of time... Start playing immediately!"

"Got it, it has already started."

Then, on the 262-inch 4K TV on the wall of the conference room, words such as "Idol Birth Festival" and "Idol Group Formation Night" appeared...

The content of the latest episode actually starts with the "track selection" recorded immediately after the survival results of the previous round were announced.

As for the supporting songs of the four mentors and the allocation of the trainees, no one present was surprised at all because it was already decided internally.

“Although it is just a routine talent show, the transitions, subtitles, character expression capture, editing methods and rhythm are all very mature, and even movie-level camera techniques are used in some places.”

"The overall rhythm is very smooth. The suspense before the result is announced and the timing of the commercials are just right. The details are also handled very well. The overall viewing effect is even better than the previous episodes..."

"I can't tell at all that this is a temporary production team. Where did the Metropolitan Police Department hire these people?"

The layman watches the excitement, while the expert watches the details.

Just the content of the previous parts such as the appearance of the mentors, the announcement of the songs, and the group drawing, the "movie-level" production techniques and detail processing made Director Ozawa and the post-production team nearby marvel at it.

“The expressions of the characters in the close-ups are well chosen, and the review clips of the supporting songs are also very classic. The producer has good taste.”

"When the results were announced, they deliberately cut to close-up shots of Yayoi Tsuki and Xia Fan. It's obvious that they wanted to stir up the 'leftovers' of the previous hot topic. They really understand public opinion."

After being assigned to the "temporary production committee", they also held a meeting to discuss how to produce the final episode after receiving the unrecorded materials.

To be fair, if they were to do it, with such a short time, unfamiliar characters and program content, it would be almost impossible to achieve the quality of the film we see now.

(End of this chapter)