Chapter 45: Hard Work, Not Talent

“Are you, are you really going to give me a role?!”

Bom was startled and asked again.

Actor Kang Minseok nodded and added.

“Still, you’ll have to audition first. I have to listen to the opinions of the casting staff. It will be a private audition.”

“A private audition…. I’ll do my best!”

“Yes, I think Bom will be able to do it. What about Sua?”

He turned his head and shifted his gaze to me.

Directing a movie.

It’s a completely different field from directing general variety shows or editing internet broadcasts.

I’ve never done it properly, and I can’t confidently say I can do it.

Of course, since it’s only an assistant director, he could probably make a great work by himself even without me.

He’s already a guaranteed box office actor and a director who has made a movie with ten million viewers.

Then why is he trying to include me?

“Why did you make that offer to me? I’ve never directed a movie, and I’ve never learned it. I’m just someone who edits internet broadcasts, and I don’t understand why you would make me an assistant director.”

When I calmly questioned him, he nodded and said.

“I became interested in Dancing Racoon’s editing because of <5 Years Later Childhood Friend> that Bom acted in.

At that time, I was just amazed that there was such a talented person even outside the broadcasting industry. Then I suddenly thought of it and searched for that name on YouTube and saw the edited videos.”

“It was a video genre I had never seen before, but there were some similarities to TV variety shows, so I remember watching it with interest.

Still, until then, I just thought of him as a friend who was good at editing. But later, when I saw the work video that was uploaded, I wanted to work with him.”

A work video that was uploaded because people were so curious.

I received a contact saying that he wanted to meet me after seeing it, but at that moment, he thought he wanted to work together?

I wonder what part he saw and how it was related to film directing.

“But what I can do is something that skilled people can all do. Besides, if you’re looking for a variety show editor, my uncle would be more suitable.”

“That could be true. But I didn’t see that.”

Kang Minseok took a breath and opened his mouth.

“Editing a video is often compared to crafting or knitting. It means that if you put in time and effort, a good result will come out.

In particular, color and cut distribution may be a matter of talent, but it’s also a part that can be covered if you spend a lot of time studying.”

“Yes, so what I did doesn’t have much meaning….”

“So I could see it. How much effort that editor put in to reach that level.”

“…Yes?”

I asked back at the unexpected words.

“The editor I felt, Dancing Racoon, had no talent for editing. He was a person with skills similar to those of an ordinary person. People praise him as a genius of editing, but I thought he was definitely not the type of genius.”

“…Why did you think that?”

“It’s simple.”

He asserted.

“Hesitation, there is no hesitation in Racoon’s editing.”

“Hesitat…ion?”

“Yes, no matter how much of a genius you are, there is hesitation at the moment of choice. Whether to fade out or blink. Whether to use blur or mosaic.

Even a person who has learned a little bit of editing makes different choices by comparing them according to the situation at that time.

But Sua, you don’t. It’s like you know the exact answer, and you pick the most suitable answer.”

“It’s ‘self-confidence’ that can only be obtained through ‘experience’. And in order to reach confidence, endless attempts and experience are necessary.

So I thought that Racoon achieved that skill through tremendous effort. In fact, when he directed Bom’s video, he had never done such directing before, so it just took a long time.

Likewise, I judged that if he gained experience, he could raise his skills to a level similar to variety show editing.”

“Do you now understand why I’m trying to recruit Racoon?”

He finished speaking and waited for my answer.

However, I was engulfed in an indescribable shock and couldn’t open my mouth.

There was a time when I wasn’t good at editing.

I watched the work videos of people who were good at it, imitated them, memorized the shortcuts, and made videos close to UCC.

There was a time when I decided to edit and devoted more than 20 hours a day to editing.

But now, after experiencing 10 years of regression.

The past of that effort disappeared and was transformed into the language of current talent, proving me.

But his words seemed to guarantee the time of my lost efforts.

I couldn’t think of anything to refute.

Of course, he could say that I wasn’t talented because he didn’t know that I was a child who lived in an orphanage and couldn’t even touch a computer.

Still, there is nothing more exciting than someone recognizing my efforts.

“…That’s the first time I’ve heard that.”

“Didn’t that friend Lee Seongbeom tell you?”

“My uncle didn’t tell me that.”

“That friend has a bit of that side. Still, he’s your uncle….”

Well, the mister knows that I’m from an orphanage.

“Anyway, thank you for thinking so highly of me. Actor Kang Minseok.”

“What, I just stated a simple impression. Now that I’ve explained the reason, what do you think of my suggestion?”

His suggestion to direct the movie together.

It was an offer that had no loss for me.

“Okay. I want to do it with you too.”

“Thank you.”

“But I have one condition.”

“Condition?”

“I want to learn movie directing techniques. And filming techniques too.”

“Haha, of course. From the moment I was going to bring you in as an assistant, I was thinking of teaching and raising you.”

He laughed loudly and was delighted.

Is that laughter because he got a new disciple, or is it laughter because a child as young as his granddaughter said she wanted to do the same thing as him?

“Then we’ll be going back now. If it’s too late, my uncle will worry. I look forward to working with you in the future, actor Kang Minseok.”

“I don’t work as an actor much anymore, so calling me actor is a bit much.”

“Then, director?”

“Just call me grandfather.”

I smiled and said.

“See you later, grandfather.”

“…So you came back after becoming that guy’s granddaughter?”

“Are you jealous?”

“Jealousy, my foot…. Just don’t let me run into that guy.”

The mister said that, shivering and disgusted.

“I’ve felt it before, but is grandfather that scary?”

“No, it’s not scary, what should I say…? Ah, yeah. In modern terms, a boomer. How much nagging he does when we meet. When are you going to get married, don’t be frivolous, set an example…. Ugh, really.”

“Those are all correct words.”

“In our country, there’s a thing called defamation by factual statement.”

I can definitely say that that law is a bad law.

The proof is right in front of my eyes.

“But kid, you’re not going to switch to the movie side, are you?”

“I don’t know? I was interested, but I don’t know how it will be.”

“No! How did I bring you here! You have to do variety shows!”

The mister grabbed my shoulders and shouted desperately.

“That guy…. Is he trying to lure our rising star in the entertainment world with sweet talk…? I can’t let him take you!”

“Then why didn’t you try to lure me with some sweet talk?”

“I did!”

“When you decided to adopt me, saying ‘Call me dad from now on’ is not usually called sweet talk.”

“Wasn’t it a touching line?”

“In what way.”

This guy is definitely a T.

Somehow he was indifferent even in touching moments of dramas.

“Anyway, I’m going to learn movie directing from grandfather. It’s the same as learning variety show directing from you. So don’t be jealous.”

“I told you it’s not jealousy….”

“Sigh, then if I show you what I’m doing first, you won’t be jealous, right?”

“It’s not jealousy, but isn’t that natural as a guardian? But it seemed like it would take a little time, is it already finished?”

“The two people working are very talented.”

I expected it to take a long time to work, but the result was being made in less than a month.

Hayeon’s illustrations were also very good, but Hayoon’s rigging skills were much more amazing than I thought.

As I heard from Jina, she was a very meticulous and thorough personality, so she was doing detailed rigging work even on parts that I couldn’t care about.

Is it because their names are similar that synergy is created?

I’m sure their work will be a great masterpiece.

“So, it’s a technology that tracks a picture’s face, right? I remembered it because it would be good to recruit artists who don’t reveal their faces later.”

“That’s also a good way. Those people couldn’t do live broadcasts because they had to cover it with editing.”

“Yeah, if that happens, artists will be able to make a name for themselves more. So, when will the broadcast using that start?”

The work is almost finished now.

Now, all that’s left is to hand it over to Osorin and let her get used to using it.

“I think it will be soon. At most a week?”

“Then tell me when. I’ll watch it with the team members and give you feedback.”

“It’s a little embarrassing.”

“So, what did you say the name of this technology was?”

I raised the corners of my mouth and answered.

“Virtual streaming. If you upload it to YouTube, it becomes a virtual YouTuber. It will be shortened to VTuber.”

About 4 months after regression.

Finally, VTuber begins.