Chapter 14 Signing and Waiting
After the three-day holiday of the Spring Festival, Zhang Donghu took another day off and took Zhang Chengyuan to Logosfilm Advertising Agency to sign a formal artist economic commission contract with Park Byungyeol, who had just returned to his hometown for the New Year, and completely entrusted Jang Sungwon's acting career to Park Byungyeol's team. The terms of the contract have not been changed, only one article has been added, which roughly means this: if the company does not make efforts to win business for the artist, the artist can find a job on his own, or even terminate the contract unconditionally.
Park Byungyeol thought for a moment and felt that this could not happen, so he nodded in agreement. For him, Zhang Chengyuan is a cash cow, he wishes that Zhang Chengyuan works every day, so that he can earn higher benefits, how can he be willing to let Zhang Chengyuan have nothing to do? Of course, it is impossible to work every day, because the contract has stipulated that Zhang Chengyuan has an average of one month of vacation time every year, and during the vacation, Zhang Chengyuan can freely arrange his own life, as long as it does not damage the image and affect the interests of the company.
To celebrate the signing of the contract, Park Byung-yeol warmly entertained Jang Donghu and his son at a Chinese restaurant near the company. After that, Park Byungyeol personally drove the father and son home, and Zhang Donghu saw that Park Byungyeol was so dedicated and realized that Park Byungyeol really valued Jang Sung-won very much, so he was even more relieved. So the next day, he went abroad again, leaving Zhang Chengyuan alone and more relaxed.
Before the official signing, Park Byungyeol fulfilled the promise he had made, and asked the staff of the advertising agency to take Jang Sung-won to some advertising shooting sites and even film and television drama shooting sets to conduct on-site observation training and understand the filming process. This combination of theory and practice, and the teaching method of emphasizing practice over theory, allowed Zhang Chengyuan to quickly master the doorway, and after more than a month of training, he has become an experienced advertising newcomer.
After the official signing, Park Byungyeol was not in a hurry to let Jang Sung-won officially take over the advertisement, while asking Jang Sung-won to continue to go to the filming locations of major production companies to make cameo roles, or shoot the cover pictorials of some small magazines, while looking for an advertising role suitable for Jang Sung-won's image, intending to make Jang Sung-won an instant hit with a popular advertising image. From these actions, Jang Sung-won saw the deep connections of Logosfilm and Park Byung-yeol's style of being a general who was not in a hurry, so he settled down and waited for the opportunity to come.
Because of the advertising training, Zhang Chengyuan quit his part-time job in early January, and although he received a small subsidy from the company, his income inevitably decreased sharply, so that he had to control the amount of food, and the growth rate of his physical fitness slowed down. During the winter vacation of about two months, my height only grew to 180CM. However, Zhang Chengyuan is not impatient or impatient, he is in a peaceful mood, he doesn't mind this, he just tries to enrich himself, and he almost has no time to do anything else, and even the invitation of Lee Hyori's four daughters has been rejected several times.
It's just that at the birthday celebrations of Sung You-ri, Ok Joo-hyun, and Lee Jin one after another in March, Jang Sung-won gave a birthday gift and a few words of blessing and left, and then was scolded by Lee Hyo-ri on the phone very desolate. However, when Lee Hyo-ri and others learned the reason, they did not blame him anymore, but promised to congratulate him when he became the protagonist of the advertisement in the future.
Time passed quietly, and before I knew it, another month had passed for the new semester. After the miraculous performance in the second semester of last year, Zhang Chengyuan has long been a well-known figure in the school at this time, and the anti-trend black large-framed glasses and his cold and lonely strong fitness image have become his unique and eye-catching logo.
At school, Jang Sung-won was still the lonely loner. In the past, no one wanted to get close to him, but now although many people want to get close to him, they are all rejected by his indifference, Kim Yuki, who was the only one who has dealt with him among the students of this school, has graduated from high school in February this year, and it is said that he is in charge of security at an entertainment venue with an underworld boss, and will never step into the campus to squeeze his eyebrows at Zhang Chengyuan again. In this way, Zhang Chengyuan is even more silent in school every day, unless he is answering the teacher's questions or greeting the teacher, he will never speak, so he is called the "miracle iceberg".
Now the only people who can talk to Zhang Chengyuan are his homeroom teacher Song Youshan and the school's director of academic affairs Jung Jae-deok. This is because Zhang Chengyuan considers that he will often ask them for leave for the purpose of shooting advertisements in the future, and if he can get along with them now, he will be able to get their strong support in the future, so Zhang Chengyuan always performs perfectly in their studies, sports, discipline and other aspects to win their favor.
In fact, Jang Sung-won was reluctant to do this kind of behavior to please the teacher at first, but under Park Byungyeol's strong request and considering that he could reduce trouble in the future, he let go of his Qinggao mentality and became a little with the light.
This change also had its due effect, and every time he asked for leave, although the director of academic affairs Zheng Zaide and the head teacher Song Youshan repeatedly advised Zhang Chengyuan to spend more time on his studies and not to delay his studies, they unconditionally approved his leave every time, of course, there was also the reason why Zhang Chengyuan could always maintain the first place in the future study process.
On a weekend at the end of April, Zhang Chengyuan, who patiently waited for the opportunity to become famous, finally waited for a rare and precious opportunity. On that day, Park Byungyeol happily showed him a commercial script and told him that it was an advertisement made by Nongshim Co., Ltd., the largest food company in South Korea, for its flagship product, Nongshim Shin Ramen. Although the investment in this advertisement is not too large, Nongshim Shin Ramen has the largest market share in the Korean ramen market, far outperforming other similar products, and as long as Jang Sung-won can get this opportunity and show a healthy image in the advertisement, then it is very likely to become an overnight success.
Originally, it was impossible for such a large company to produce advertisements as models for Park Byung-yeol's Logosfilm advertising agency, but Park Byung-yeol, who had strong connections, still got a chance to participate in the advertising model through a friend in the industry, and handed Jang Sung-won's information to Park Tomorrow, the director of this advertising shooting. When director Park Tomorrow saw Jang Sung-won's photo of him, he was stunned for a few seconds and immediately made a decision to let Jang Sung-won audition.
Holding a thin advertising script, Zhang Chengyuan read it at a glance and ten lines, and said: "Representative Park, there are two roles in this script, but the one I want to prepare is a secondary role?" ”
Park Byungyeol said: "Of course, how can such an advertisement of a large company be performed by a popular first-class star." I can get you an audition for a supporting role, and I've done my best. But although it's only a supporting role, the role is not much worse than the protagonist. And if you perform well in the audition tomorrow and get the director's appreciation, it may not be impossible to add some scenes. Alas, it's a little early to say this, we have to fight for this role first. The company has done everything it can do, and the rest is up to your own efforts. Hopefully there will be a good result tomorrow. ”
said so, but in Park Byungyeol's heart, he already felt that Jang Sung-won was sure to get this opportunity. First of all, Zhang Chengyuan's appearance and temperament are unique. Secondly, in the past three months, Zhang Chengyuan's acting skills have changed from jerky to sophisticated, from superficial to profound, and his progress has been earth-shattering, enough to cope with the shooting of any advertisement. All the employees of the advertising agency were amazed by this from the bottom of their hearts, and they all thought that Zhang Chengyuan only lacked an opportunity if he wanted to become a hit.
Zhang Chengyuan nodded and said, "I will do my best." After pondering the script for a long time, he suddenly looked up and said to Park Byungyeol: "Representative Park, for the sake of prudence, please find an experienced actor to play with me, so as to find out what needs to be improved as soon as possible." ”