Finally, the broadcaster officially gave permission to produce a special feature of Acorn’s concert.
Because the production team was also active, all procedures from planning, script, filming, and editing were completed like roasting beans in a flash of lightning, and the first episode was released.
– Dear viewers. Our unconditional challenge team has prepared a really big project. What is that project?
-older brother! I get it! is that right? Right? Right? That’s what’s making a fuss on the internet! You know that! acorn! That’s right. The look on your face is just right.
– Boy. Calm down. Let me comment too.
– My mouth is itching to death, so how can I calm down! who’s coming out? What about the place? Is the recruitment over?
– The production team had a meeting first, but there were so many outstanding songs that they couldn’t pick them.
-aha! So, are we recruiting?
– No. If the viewers choose a song by voting, then we decided to cast it.
The first day of the Acorn concert was a short video in the nature of a trailer.
All of the content is that members who challenged unconditionally gather to announce the holding of the Acorn Concert, and vote on which song will be selected by viewers.
Nevertheless, because it was an issue with high expectations, netizens responded explosively.
A whopping 500,000 people gathered on the first day of voting for the Acorn concert.
They didn’t just vote and leave, they turned on the songs of memories, flipped through their mini-homepages and photo albums, and immersed themselves in memories.
Then, the banner on the left side of the Cy Club naturally catches your eye.
[Star’s mini homepage Ver Acorn Concert.]
It was a banner linking the mini-homepages of singers who were likely to participate in this concert.
Even as singers, the sensibility of the minihompy was the same. Photos and posts of those days where the hands and feet shriveled.
And on one side, there was a short video that I filmed and uploaded this time.
-Our Wannabe! If you pick one, we will show you a really cool stage! I’ll send it now
-Thank you so much to the fans who still remember me. ah… … tears i wait a minute. Can I upload it like this?
– Just like back then, I think it would be really fun if all of our members could go on stage as a whole. Please participate in voting. Don’t forget the video too.
The short video posted on the minihompy was not just for publicity.
Singers also sincerely wanted to stand on stage, so they actively uploaded videos to communicate with fans.
“Woohyuk. did you see this? Wannabe posted a video on Watts. We didn’t ask for publicity, but we uploaded it ourselves.”
Park Tae-shik stared at the screen of his phone, his mouth hanging over his ears.
It was only natural that the singer, who was a fan during his school days, was communicating with the service he was running in order to attend the concert he planned.
Of course, the person concerned is like that, and it just looks pathetic to me watching from the side.
“I like you, the organizer, so what if you are haggard?”
“What about good things? oh! I also posted a video on Epic Time. They must have decided to promote it with rap. and! Rap feels the same as before? Listen.”
Park Tae-shik holds out one of the earphones he was wearing. I shook my hand saying no, but he was reckless.
– We’ve been here all along. You didn’t forget either. I’ve been waiting to see you again.
– Even in my dreams.
– I want you to stand on stage together.
When I heard it, it was worth making a fuss about. There was something in the rap with a nice voice that I heard after a long time that really touched my heart.
“how is it? Is Tableau Lab good? Do you feel it?”
“Not bad.”
“Look at how quiet you are again. Even though it says it will kill you on your face.”
I quickly took off the earphones that were playing the song and said.
“I’m just saying this just in case, but you know what happens when someone’s selfishness enters the cast list, right?”
“Don’t worry about that. I like all the songs, so it doesn’t matter if I put my own heart into it.”
“Then I’m glad.”
The cast list for the Acorn Concert has not yet been confirmed.
As a result, fans of each singer were fighting a war in the name of encouraging voting in the Internet community and SNS.
At this time, if word comes out that the singer’s recruitment was influenced by the organizers, public opinion would turn negative at once.
“How about Watts? I heard that the number of uploads has increased considerably.”
Park Tae-shik smiles and shows the daily report.
The report showed a graph of Watts’ user trends, usage time, and number of video uploads, all of which soared about 4 times the previous figure.
“how is it? Awesome, right?”
“I know.”
“The martial arts production team said they didn’t expect it to be this big. I heard that the ratings are higher than the last Idol Music Festival?”
It has to be. If the last idol song festival targeted a specific fan base, those who enjoyed popular songs in the late 90s.
Because this Acorn concert was targeting a wide target, including the early, mid, and late 2000s.
“The only thing that worries me is that the atmosphere is overheated?”
“Originally, entertainment events like this are good when fans become overly immersed.”
“No, not that way. There are signs that this will go beyond the fan base and cause conflicts between genders and generations.”
* * *
The unconditional challenge production team has been holding emergency meetings without holidays for the past few days.
The theme of the meeting was Cy Club’s Acorn Concert.
The Acorn Concert drew attention from the planning stage, but after the announcement that the songs would be selected by voting, all issues in the entertainment industry were being absorbed.
Of course, if the program you produced is successful, it is a good thing.
However, inside the production team, I felt a sense of crisis in the current situation where it was too exciting even if it was exciting.
“If you look around on social media or bulletin boards, all you see is acorn concert. What do I do now?”
“How do you do it? We have to go as planned.”
In the conference room, the production team sighs.
The reason why they are so sad is because the broadcast time allotted for the Acorn concert in a week was only 20 minutes.
“If you air 50 minutes of other episodes and only 20 minutes of Acorn Concert, protests will pour in.”
“you’re right. 20 minutes is too little.”
“PD-sama, how about adjusting the airing time even if it’s too much… … Shouldn’t viewers be convinced at least half and half?”
Concerned voices from the producers are pouring in.
In fact, the person who wanted to increase the airing time the most was Shim Jong-mo, the main producer. But there was a reason he nailed it to just 20 minutes.
“The director said that I can’t do more than that, so what should I do?”
“But 20 minutes is a bit… … .”
“How do you know the permission was lost in the first place? They told me to send it to a corner within a corner for just 10 minutes.”
10 minutes was an absurdly short amount of time for a massive concert story.
In particular, the singing scene was basically more than 4 minutes, so the actual cast members came out and progressed in less than 5 minutes.
“I barely managed to get those 20 minutes because of my circumstances. So, in the future, don’t vomit over the airing time.”
The production crew nodded, but their expressions were still dark. At best, it was like the video was pulled out well, but it was not used because of external factors.
As the atmosphere continues to deteriorate, Shim Jong-mo hits the desk and turns the topic in a different direction.
“Let’s all relax, how did the voting results come out this week? Said they sent it from Cy Club earlier?”
The youngest staff quickly brought the documents and laid them out on the table.
The first place was Soju One-Shot, which the whole nation sang passionately along with the music video at a karaoke room, and the second place was Wannabe’s My Love, which is famous for its small singing style.
“This, the difference in votes is smaller than I thought, isn’t it?”
“At the time, the soju one-shot was overwhelming, but Wannabe fans worked hard to encourage voting, so it was said that they almost caught up.”
“I don’t think Wannabe is a group with a lot of devoted fans like idols, right?”
“that is… … .”
The youngest staff stops talking and looks around.
“The reason why this happened is because voting has become a battle between generations.”
“What generation?”
“Soju One Shot is a song that came out in the early days of Cy Club, and My Love is a song that came out in the middle and late stages, right? Since there is a difference between the two eras, each other’s favorite songs are also different… … .”
“The fandom splits and fights just because of that?”
“That’s right.”
While Shim Jong-mo let out an absurd laugh, the other production crew also stepped in to help.
“Idol fans are fighting. It’s been like that every time, so I understand, but it’s a little bit like fighting over a different song era… … .”
“Aren’t all the Cy Club generations adults?”
“It will be because it is a matter of self-esteem. And there are only 6 seats available for this concert. It can’t be helped that it’s intense.”
Then, the editorial team officially raises their hand and speaks out.
“If the fans are fighting like this, isn’t there something to be said even through editing? Someone came out for 10 minutes, and someone came out for 5 minutes.”
Depending on the amount of editing, voting will also be affected, so it was no exaggeration to say that fans’ complaints came in unconditionally.
“I guess we have no choice but to divide the airing time like a knife for each singer.”
“You only have 20 minutes, so you want me to share it again? oh my god.”
“Would you like to suffer?”
At this time, Shim Jong-mo slams the desk again with a ‘thump!’ and hit it
“There is no distribution of quantities. Time is too short for that.”
“It is true, but if the amount is concentrated in one direction, the problem will increase.”
Shim Jong-mo snorts.
“I have an idea. It’s a good idea to double the airing time and calm public opinion.”
* * *
The day the 2nd episode of Acorn Concert is aired.
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In the Cy Club development room, employees gather in twos and threes to the conference room to shoot the live broadcast.
Park Tae-shik and I also took a seat in the conference room, waiting for the broadcast to begin.
“How many minutes did you come out today?”
Park Tae-shik murmurs at my question.
“20 minutes.”
“I wouldn’t be able to show you anything with that.”
“I think so too, but Shim PD boasted that things would go well.”
“hmm… … .”
After a while, the long-awaited unconditional challenge main broadcast began.
In the beginning, the main episode, the domestic tour, was aired.
This was also an interesting episode, but since the next episode was an acorn concert, I waited for it to end quickly.
Then, 40 minutes after the start of the broadcast, it was finally the turn of the Acorn concert.
“uh?”
As soon as I saw it, my first sigh came out. It was the same with the staff who were watching the broadcast together, and Park Tae-shik.
“Was it a split relay that you boasted about?”
Exactly half of the screen is cut, and one shot of soju plays on one side. On the other side, there is a picture of my love.
Then, at the bottom, real-time voting status appears like a ballot counting broadcast.
Sweep.
In real-time voting, when Soju One-Shot leads by about 0.3%, the screen on the side of My Love shrinks to a small size and the sound goes off.
‘These people, no way… … ?’
No way, it was real. The production team was airing the winning side as the main one, leaving two shots in real time.
“This way, you can send out 40 minutes in 20 minutes. How great?”
I was admiring it in a pure sense, but Park Tae-shik, who was sitting next to me, had a contemplative face.
“Will this be acceptable? Fans on both sides of the internet seem to be on fire.”
“It doesn’t matter if it burns. Then the broadcast will be better.”
“No, right now, but what about the one who lost last? If you immerse yourself too much, you might end up turning anti.”
Park Tae-sik was serious, but I only thought that he was cute when I saw this situation.
In the future, conflicts between generations and genders will emerge as a serious topic that will decide not only the political world but also the presidential election.
Knowing that, I saw them fighting each other according to the era in which the songs were popular.
“Taesik, don’t worry too much. It’s enough to seal it up at the last minute and make it into We Other World.”
“Are you going to split it in half?”
“No. Even when ordering chicken, half of it is too small, so there are a lot of complaints.”
“then?”
“Give me two. Still, we benefit.”
What is important in this Acorn concert is not which song is selected.
Increase in Cy Club users and secure awareness of Watts.
If you get these two, the value of the acorn coin linked to the service will skyrocket, and the company will reap huge benefits.