Rebirth of the Director in Korea

JHJ Entertainment was established. Like all small companies, the establishment of JHJ Entertainment did not cause any waves in the entertainment circle at all. There was no media attention, no flashlights and reporter interviews. The participation of fans, none of these JHJEntertainment.

In Seoul, almost every day a company is founded or dies. Similar to Jung Hyuk-jae’s seemingly random random handwriting, there is no media reporter to pay attention to it.

However, Jung Hyuk-jae is still at ease. He doesn’t need to be tired of accepting interviews from various media, and he can focus his attention and energy on his shooting and work.

The company has just been established. Naturally, there are many things that need to be done. From the decoration to the recruitment of employees, Jung Hyuk-jae is doing it by himself, but fortunately, the company is also small and does not delay the progress of the shooting. Next, Jung Hyuk-jae has plenty of time, but as the company grows larger and larger, he naturally doesn’t need to worry about such trivial things.

‘Everything is difficult at the beginning.’ As long as you pass this hurdle, the next company’s things will be on the right track, and everything will be much better.

JHJ Entertainment is currently only an agency with only one artist who has not yet debuted, but Jung Hyuk-jae’s goal is not only to focus on these actors, but only in his vision, from the actors From production to release is a complete ecological chain, and actors are only the 1st Step that’s all.

Jung Hyuk-jae recruited a few students who graduated from the Film Academy’s Department of Directing and Director, and asked them in detail about the works or novels they had created by themselves. This group of students will be the backbone of the company’s scripting level in the future. power.

All Jung Hyuk-jae needs to do is to tell them some of the thoughts and memories in his mind, let them improve and supplement, and finally form the script and get it to the Screenwriter Association for the record, and as early as half a year Previously, Jung Hyuk-jae joined the association as a writer of SBSTV Station, and the manuscripts or outlines he created will be filed with the Screenwriter Association to avoid future disputes due to copyright issues.

As for why to recruit these young college students, Jung Hyuk-jae also has his own plan. This is not only to save money, but the most important reason is that there are too few good writers, many Screenwriters and writers of the company are monopolized by the three major TV Stations or snatched away by other film production companies. It is very, very difficult to recruit a well-known Screenwriter, not to mention a’small company’ like JHJ Entertainment.

Apart from this, what Jung Hyuk-jae mainly does is to equip Lee Joon-ki with the manager and assistant. This is a good idea.

As an extremely developed entertainment economy in Seoul, people like managers can be said to be a lot of people. Except for some gold medal managers, don’t be delusional, but want to attract. Managers and assistants are also simple. When advertisements for recruitment are posted, no less than 20 people call to ask about related matters in one day.

The job interview was conducted by Jung Hyuk-jae himself. In addition to his resume and related work experience, quality and personality are also the focus of his investigation. Jung Hyuk-jae does not want the relationship between the artist and the manager The noise is so stiff, the best is the one that can get along.

After the interview, what remained was Ajhussi, who was in his thirties, named Kang Jae-kyung.

He has a big face and a chubby face. When he smiles, his eyes are squinted together. It looks unremarkable, but after reading his resume, he knows that he is a high-achieving student who joined the manager business. He used to be Out of interest in the career of manager, but now manager seems to have become a part of his body, already deeply integrated into the blood.

After asking in detail, Jung Hyuk-jae realized that the Ajhussi in front of him actually worked at SM company, and he also worked as a manager for the combination of’Shinhwa’ for a period of time, but then he didn’t know anything. The reason is to leave SM company and join a small company.

As for the reason, Kang Jae-kyung did not intend to say, and Jung Hyuk-jae did not intend to ask, and skipped this question.

As for the assistant, Jung Hyuk-jae chose a hard-working girl from dozens of interviewees to help Lee Joon-ki and Kang Jae-kyung run errands or something, the staff configuration This is the case for the time being, and I’ll talk about If when I’m really too busy.

The staff was confirmed, Jung Hyuk-jae arranged the work for the next period of time, accompanied Lee Joon-ki to participate in the body and acting training before the shooting of “The King and The Clown”, not only male The protagonist Lee Joon-ki, large and small actors are required to participate.

What Kang Jae-kyung needs to do is to have a good relationship with the director. If Lee Joon-ki has any problems in work or life, you can directly talk to Jung Hyuk-jae.

Coming out of Jung Hyuk-jae’s office, the newly recruited assistant girl followed Kang Jae-kyung with surprise and confusion. She turned around and asked Kang Jae-kyung beside her. : “Ajhussi, is the one just now our future boss?”

“Yes, wasn’t it him during the interview?” Kang Jae-kyung laughed, followed by nodded, “He will be ours from now on The Boss is here!”

“So young!” Thinking of the encouraging words that the boss said to herself just now, the assistant sister couldn’t help but smirk, looking like an’idiot’.

Kang Jae-kyung is no surprise, there are large and small entertainment companies in the entertainment industry, and many of the company’s bosses are younger than their own bosses. Have you seen a teenage brat? Is the child lying on his back in the boss chair and listening to the report from his subordinates?

He has met even more outrageous things! It’s just that lifespan, an entertainment company founded by those people, has only been a short one or two years, and it is more similar to the nature of playing tickets, and the picture is fresh. However, his boss doesn’t look like the kind of person who plays with tickets. Although young, his temperament and demeanor are very stable. He doesn’t look like a twenty-five-year-old young man at all. He didn’t look at his face when he was talking. He thought it was his peers.

What makes Kang Jae-kyung more surprising is the identity of Jung Hyuk-jae. As an old man in the entertainment industry who has been immersed for more than ten years, you should know that Jung Hyuk-jae is last year’s “I’m Sorry, After the director of “I Love You”, the worries in my heart were relieved instantly.

With this incident, Kang Jae-kyung did not pay attention to the age of his boss. He is more concerned about his only artist-Lee Joon-ki, this year has been The 23-year-old newcomer to the showbiz actor is all the current artists in the company, and he is also the only artist under his hand, although he has not made his debut yet.

This makes Kang Jae-kyung a little puzzled. Although the company has just been founded, it has only artists under its umbrella, and they are still newcomers in the entertainment industry who have not yet made their debut. Isn’t that justified?

Even if a few trainees are recruited in cooperation with other entertainment companies, they are better than the current situation, but Kang Jae-kyung dare not go forward and ask, and Jung Hyuk-jae will not say.

One piece of good news is that Lee Joon-ki will join the production crew of the movie “The King and The Clown” next. The first Step of his debut is a big screen work. Moreover, he is still the protagonist, which makes him very pleased.

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Taking advantage of the noon break to deal with the company’s affairs, in the afternoon Jung Hyuk-jae returned to the indoor studio of MBCTV Station to continue the next “Super Rookie” Shooting tasks.

Unconsciously “Super Rookie” has been broadcast on TV for twelve episodes, and the audience’s praise and ratings are on the rise, from the first episode of the first episode, breaking 20% ​​of the ratings to last week’s Twelfth The instantaneous maximum ratings of the episode broke 30%. It can be said that “Super Rookie” has been successful. The 30% ratings puts other TV Stations in the same period far behind.

Because of “Super Rookie”, Kim Jae-yeol of the TV Drama Production Bureau has a lot of smiles on his face these days.

Thinking of more than a month of meetings at the front desk, there are still many people who used the failure of “Sad Love Story” to criticize their inaction in TV series work, and then I took over “Sad Love Story” Broadcasting “Super Rookie” can be described as a’pa pa pa’ slap in the face.

Super Rookie, which broke 20% of the ratings in its first broadcast, has also become the TV series with the highest ratings in MBCTV Station’s premiere in the past two years.

At present, the broadcast of “Super Rookie” has passed halfway. Although there are still about eight episodes left, but based on the current increase in ratings, the final rating after the end of the TV series is over 35. % Is not impossible either.

The higher the ratings, the happier Kim Jae-yeol will naturally be. Although I dare not expect 40% or 50%, 35% is always fine, right?

According to the scheduled shooting plan, in the next week, there are still almost one and a half episodes of the nineteenth and twenty episodes left. When the filming work is finished, the theme filming work of “Super Rookie” will officially end.

When I came to the set, Jung Hyuk-jae saw Kim Jae-yeol who was standing in front of the studio’s props and inspecting work at a glance. He saw someone coming in, especially after seeing who the person was. A smile appeared on Kim Jae-yeol’s face for an instant, as he reached out and shook Jung Hyuk-jae’s hand.

“Why did Chief Kim come here today?”

“Why, not welcome?”

Kim Jae-yeol replied with a smile hehe, face To Kim Jae-yeol, where would Jung Hyuk-jae dare to say the word’no’, with both hands raised, he shouted: “Welcome, welcome! A warm welcome to Chief Kim to check his work!”

After that, Jung Hyuk-jae led the way, leading Chief Kim and other entire groups to visit the set of “Super Rookie”.

From the Conference Hall to the office to Kang Ho’s home, most of the interior shots shown on TV were actually taken in the studio, just like there was such a shot in the first episode. Kang Ho returned home after failing the interview, because he talked back with his mother and was chased by his mother with a feather duster and ran out of the house. In fact, this shot was shot in two parts.

One shot was in the living room of Kang Ho’s house built in the studio, where the family sat cross-legged and had a meal; the other shot was selected in a community near TV Station, where the camera was placed On one side of a unit building, the mother who shot Kang Ho chased the shot thrown by Kang Ho. After the final shooting, the two shots were edited and produced.

While visiting, Kim Jae-yeol turned his head from time to time to say a few words to Jung Hyuk-jae.

“The recent filming work is going well, right?” Kim Jae-yeol stood still in front of a window and asked Jung Hyuk-jae a question.

“It’s okay. The state and attitude of the actors are pretty good. The filming work has been going smoothly. Otherwise, it is impossible to end the filming so long in advance according to the scheduled filming plan.”

Kim Jae-yeol, who was walking in the front, heard Jung Hyuk-jae say so, he couldn’t help but be nodded, and he became more and more trusting in Jung Hyuk-jae’s organization and shooting ability of the Production crew.

Didn’t expect that he chose Jung Hyuk-jae to direct him with the mentality of’giving medicine to a dead horse’ at the time, but the final result was unexpectedly so unexpected.

Thinking of this, Kim Jae-yeol already regrets it a bit. He shouldn’t have just signed a TV series shooting job with him. There should be at least two…no no…three. .. Anyway, he should be firmly nailed to TV Station and let him create continuous benefits for TV Station.

Although the idea is good, it turns out that Jung Hyuk-jae is a screenwriter and director, and he is also a partner of MBCTV Station.

“The income from the pre-advertising has come out, and the money that should be received has also been applied to your bank card.” Kim Jae-yeol whispered in his ear.

“Really?”

“The total is 630 million.” Kim Jae-yeol continued.

Hearing this number, Jung Hyuk-jae silently calculated it in his heart, which means that “Super Rookie” alone should have a total domestic advertising revenue of about 1.4 billion. With this item alone, Jung Hyuk-jae’s total investment has returned almost half.

After talking about the domestic advertising revenue, Kim Jae-yeol continued to talk about the overseas revenue: “Although the TV series has not been completed yet. However, several countries have already considered wanting to introduce it.”

“Really?” Jung Hyuk-jae was a little surprised. He really didn’t expect this time. Foreign manufacturers came here so early and wanted to buy the copyright of the TV series.

“Indeed, I think that foreign copyrights might as well take a little while, and it’s best to wait until we have finished broadcasting. In this way, TV series with high ratings will naturally get better returns. “

Hearing Jung Hyuk-jae say this, Kim Jae-yeol also thinks it makes sense, “I think so too.”

Kim Jae-yeol came quickly He left quickly. After hurriedly scanning a few sets, he hurriedly left, and finally warned repeatedly before leaving:’must shoot the next plot well, and strive for the highest ratings to break 35%! ‘