NIS Agent Reincarnated as a Genius Actor - Chapter 212

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Episode 212. Persuasiveness

The point Yeon-woo considered most while filming the CF was ‘childishness.’

 

Due to the nature of the fantasy genre, strong likes and dislikes were inevitable.

The basic visual of holding a sword and wearing armor could work against someone’s preferences.

 

Although 「White Blood」 had succeeded at the box office, no matter how much people around talked about how interesting it was, those who wouldn’t watch it still wouldn’t watch it.

 

‘Even people who haven’t watched the drama shouldn’t feel it’s childish when they see it.’

 

Yeon-woo nodded as he looked around the filming set.

He could see the members who had changed into costumes from 「White Blood」.

 

Childishness is felt when viewers can’t immerse themselves in the story.

 

Even when holding the same sword and wearing armor, viewers don’t feel it’s childish when watching historical dramas.

That’s because there’s already been an implicit agreement between viewers and the genre in historical dramas.

 

‘Historical dramas have already completed the agreement that they’re period pieces depicting stories from times when people actually held swords and wore armor, so viewers can immerse themselves freely.’

 

However, in CFs with short running times, drawing out immersion is twice as difficult.

 

For that, two things need to align well.

 

Sophisticated special effects.

And intense Acting that can captivate viewers even in a brief moment.

 

‘Director Jung Yo-han will handle the special effects well on his own…’

 

This wasn’t something to think lightly of just because it was an advertisement.

Rather, because it was an advertisement, he had to act with all his might to concentrate viewers in a short time.

 

“Alright, we’re going into the shoot. We’ll be filming in slow motion, so please walk with the largest steps possible.”

 

At Jung Yo-han’s words, Yeon-woo and the expedition actors nodded.

The scene they were about to film was a group scene of expedition members gradually receiving light as they emerged from a dark corridor.

 

Although filming was pushed to later due to Makeup, it was the first scene that would appear right when the advertisement started.

Therefore, it needed more impact so viewers could immerse themselves.

 

For that, it was better for the actors to coordinate with each other.

Yeon-woo made eye contact with the actors standing on either side of him and spoke.

 

“Everyone, please act as confident characters who have completed all missions in 「White Blood」 and grown mentally to another level.”

 

Since it was the first time he had made an acting request since starting the CF filming, everyone looked at Yeon-woo.

But they soon nodded.

 

“A grown Akenaton… I’ll give it a try.”

“I’ll try my best to do that too.”

 

Hearing Jeong Cheol-min and Dong-ha’s words, Han Byeol and Jung Su-yeon also nodded.

 

“High Action.”

 

At Jung Yo-han’s signal, Dong-ha and Jung Su-yeon, who were at both ends of the formation, walked forward first.

 

Confident, dignified steps.

It wasn’t just Akenaton in the drama who had grown, as Dong-ha quite skillfully put emotion into his walking.

 

Jung Su-yeon also lifted her head and stepped lightly, walking with large strides like a model.

 

‘Both of them are quite good.’

 

Though they were wearing the red robe and white gown costumes from the drama, their confident facial expressions and dignified steps reduced the awkwardness from the costumes.

 

The Corridor Set currently being filmed had the Ceiling covered with intersecting screens, creating areas where light entered and dark areas.

 

As Dong-ha and Jung Su-yeon walked out, Lighting intermittently illuminated their moving figures, adding to the atmosphere.

 

And when those two took their steps, Jeong Cheol-min and Han Byeol followed.

 

Jeong Cheol-min was the oldest member and Han Byeol was the youngest, but regardless of age, they had something in common.

Excluding Yeon-woo from the expedition members, they had the best Acting Ability.

 

The sight of the two walking diagonally attached to those who started first also showed no awkwardness.

 

Starting from the outermost positions in order, only Yeon-woo in the center remained.

And Yeon-woo, positioned at the apex of the V-shaped formation, took his steps.

 

‘Bring attraction with the most intense Acting at the very beginning.’

 

He used mind control on himself and emanated presence.

He walked forward while identifying the positions of Lighting seeping through the corridor’s Ceiling.

 

That sight entered through Jung Yo-han’s visual cells as he watched the Monitor and was etched in his mind.

 

Although Editing was planned to apply slow motion for slow movement, the Filming Set was reality, so it couldn’t look slow.

 

‘…But why does it seem like I’m seeing it in slow motion.’

 

Yeon-woo on screen was definitely walking slowly with Do-jin’s charismatic appearance.

 

He gradually moved from dark areas to bright areas, revealing his appearance.

 

Starting with his jet-black hair, past his prominent nose bridge and expressionlessly closed mouth, below that could be seen Armor and a sword sheath painted entirely in jet black.

 

The advertising director watching the screen next to Jung Yo-han was also captivated by that entrance.

 

‘Ah, this is real jet black.’

 

The color Yeon-woo was in charge of for this smartphone.

Jet Black wasn’t just a simple black color, but a pitch-dark matte black.

 

And Yeon-woo’s appearance walking out with an indifferent expression was definitely jet black.

 

Before long, depending on the position of the lighting shields installed on the ceiling, Yeon-woo entered the darkness again.

Instead, Dong-ha and Han Byeol, who had only been visible as silhouettes in the darkness while Yeon-woo was out, received the light.

 

That’s when it happened.

 

“Ahh…”

 

Yeon-woo’s appearance as he continued walking forward and received light again, showing his figure, drew gasps from the staff watching the monitor.

 

In that brief moment of disappearing into darkness and reappearing, Yeon-woo’s expression was changing like a gradation.

 

Yeon-woo’s appearance looking straight ahead with challenging eyes and smiling with the corners of his mouth raised was enough to captivate the attention of the staff watching the monitor.

 

Hearing those gasps, Jung Yo-han thought.

 

‘The surrounding staff are reacting this much while watching the original without slow motion, so if it’s Ryu Yeon-woo appearing slowly with editing and music…’

 

Director Jung Yo-han, who was the overall director of the advertisement, couldn’t have not considered the same concerns Yeon-woo had.

 

Since it was a composition that could become childish if done wrong, he was planning to compete with editing while putting in as much grand music as possible.

 

‘But if we start with such a strong impact from the first scene of the CF, we can really grab attention.’

 

The intense presence itself was giving ‘persuasiveness’.

To make viewers understand that the genre of this short CF was fantasy.

 

‘I think I felt this kind of feeling once during a drama…’

 

Jung Yo-han, who had been tilting his head, made an expression as if he remembered something.

 

‘Right. That courtroom scene.’

 

That was also the scene where Yeon-woo first appeared as Jeong Do-jin in 「White Blood」.

 

When Director Hwang Min-kwon asked Yeon-woo to walk out intensely with a look like a tiger about to devour, he had overwhelmed the audience and radiated presence even while bound in chains.

 

‘That actor already knows how to make the following content convincing from the first appearance scene.’

 

He wasn’t just good at acting, but was cleverly utilizing everything on the filming set.

 

It felt like he had grasped all the parts where light fell from the ceiling and was intentionally exploding his presence by making maximum use of that set.

 

This scene probably wouldn’t need to be reshot.

He’d have to watch it in slow motion to know clearly, but Jung Yo-han was confident.

 

“Okay, cut!”

 

Jung Yo-han gave the okay sign and immediately applied slow motion to the part they had just filmed.

The actors also gathered near Jung Yo-han, curious.

 

In actual editing, they would split the scenes more in detail and add various special effects for additional directing, but just applying slow motion alone had produced a sufficiently good scene.

 

The actors watching the camera were also amazed when Yeon-woo, who started walking at the very back, appeared.

Since they were walking in front, they couldn’t see how the person behind them was walking.

 

“Wow, this guy Yeon-woo is devouring the camera. Who on earth taught you? Who is your master?”

 

At Jeong Cheol-min’s joking words, Yeon-woo smiled.

Then Dong-ha added.

 

“When I debuted, our company’s producer always told us to devour the camera when we went on stage, but we didn’t know what that meant so we just widened our eyes? But this is what devouring means…”

 

Han Byeol, who had been quietly thinking about something while watching the screen, raised her hand high.

 

“Director! Could I reshoot the second scene we filmed earlier just once?”

“Hmm? The second scene… you mean the scene where you adjust your bag and stand up?”

“Yes!”

 

The scene Han Byeol wanted to reshoot was where Han Byeol in reality, wearing a school uniform and going to school, adjusts her bag at the entrance hall of her home, and it changes to Ella’s oxygen-carrying basket bag as their appearances cross over.

 

Jung Yo-han looked into Han Byeol’s eyes and grinned.

 

He had just thought she was young, but among these people, excluding Yeon-woo, she seemed to have the most passion for acting.

 

‘Her eyes are really burning. She must have realized something after watching Ryu Yeon-woo’s acting just now.’

 

He nodded with a satisfied smile.

 

“The costume is the same as what you’re wearing now anyway, and the group scene ended unexpectedly in one take, so we have time to spare. Let’s reshoot that scene.”

 

As passion spread like that, the filming set that was wrapping up caught fire again.

 

***

 

After finishing the CF filming that started in the morning and continued until late evening, Yeon-woo returned home.

 

“He should be getting off the ship around now.”

 

Yeon-woo entered his studio and put on his headset.

 

“I’m here.”

– Ah, Team Leader. Your timing is perfect. Kim Su-hyeok just got off the ship.

“I see. The ship enters Okinawa Port around seven in the evening.”

 

Yeon-woo deliberately instructed Kim Su-hyeok to board a flight to Kagoshima and then take a boat to enter Okinawa.

 

Thanks to this, Kim Su-hyeok endured seasickness and boarded a ferry that would sail for 25 hours.

 

‘But if we do it this way, no matter how much those Baeksol guys search later, they won’t be able to find any connection points.’

 

Ships heading to Okinawa only perform simple identity verification and don’t manage passengers as strictly as airports.

 

There was no problem at all even if the identity used for the flight from Korea to Kagoshima differed from the identity used for the boat from Kagoshima to Okinawa.

 

– Did you also conduct operations in Okinawa, Team Leader?

 

Yeon-woo nodded at Han Hae-woon’s question.

 

If it had been his previous life, he wouldn’t have been able to speak about it even to a colleague within the National Intelligence Service since it was classified information, but now he was no longer affiliated with the National Intelligence Service, and Han Hae-woon was the only one he could share secrets with anyway.

 

“It was when I had just started handling overseas operations, so it was more than ten years ago from now. At that time, North’s missile provocations had reached their peak, and we received intelligence that Japan’s Self-Defense Forces had deployed missiles near the US military base in Okinawa.”

 

At Yeon-woo’s words, Han Hae-woon answered as if remembering something.

 

– Ah, I think I saw that in the educational materials for the East Asian international affairs section.

“Since it was an investigation into strategic weapon deployment, we had to handle it secretly to avoid violating agreements, so we infiltrated a black operative.”

– So that operative was you, Team Leader.

 

At that time, he had infiltrated disguised as a Japanese-American filming a documentary about environmental pollution.

 

To do that, he had to speak Japanese and English perfectly enough to fool even locals, so he remembered obsessively practicing even the slightest pronunciation differences.

 

“So I stayed in Okinawa for quite a long time. The infiltration period was about a year or more.”

 

The video that Kim Su-hyeok was transmitting appeared on the monitor.

It was a familiar harbor scene to Yeon-woo.

 

Unaware that Yeon-woo and Han Hae-woon were having a nostalgic conversation, Kim Su-hyeok got off the boat while clutching his queasy stomach.

 

Then Kim Su-hyeok’s quietly whispering voice was heard through the headset.

 

– I’ve arrived in Okinawa. I’ll begin the reconnaissance operation immediately.

 

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