#rkmar17eval

[rkevent]

THE SAMSUNG COMMERCIALS ARE FINALLY AIRING!

The announcement is made over breakfast in both the Seocho Complex and the five company buildings alike: the commercials trainees filmed for Samsung’s Galaxy A7 series in March will begin airing starting Friday, in the spirit of the holiday season. Each commercial will air on Korea’s main television channels at least twice in the next month, and will continue to air periodically for the next six months. Commercials that suit each season will be aired more frequently during each season they suit, while commercials with no seasonal theme will air at about the same rate during the six month period. The commercials will make rare appearances on television networks all over the world as well, and as ads preceding Youtube videos based on each viewer’s Youtube history. All commercials will be uploaded onto the Samsung Mobile Youtube channel as well. 

The commercials will closely follow the concepts outlined in this post, with information about the Galaxy A7 with a clean design expertly spliced in between the shots of the trainees. Throughout the year, the information and editing in the commercials will change based on Samsung’s current promotions and deals, but they’ll contain the same scenes of the trainees, though shorter versions of each commercial will air as well.

Trainees featuring in the commercials will be listed in the fine print of every commercial, including their names and the company they were under contract with at the time of the commercial filming. The fine print will also show the time the commercials were filmed: March 2017. This means when the commercials air, all featured trainees will be public trainees under the Samsung Group! A lot can change in several months though, and the public has no way of knowing if everyone featured in these commercials are still currently under their companies (yet, anyway). Those not presently under contract with Samsung will receive minimal screen-time compared to those who are still trainees. 

All trainees involved in the commercials are reminded by company staff to present a clean image to the public, both on SNS and anywhere they appear, as the commercials air. More eyes will be on them than before! (This isn’t a bad lesson for trainees who won’t be shown in the commercials, either.)

[rktiffxny]

✦* — class act ,

it wouldn’t be her if she didn’t tease him. but then again, what she’s jokingly going to tell him about his concept could be said for her. the hwang miyoung who first signed with kt over three years ago was most certainly not balanced and what she has now threatens to fall apart again with the whisper of one name, the implication of one possibility. a choice that could be taken away because of the current president in the united states, as if everything wasn’t stressful enough. “i wonder if they meant to put you on another team,” she grins with a mischievous glint in her eyes, as if she can hear the whining already. 

“mm, then again, you are very proper. saluting even when completely unnecessary and calling people ma’am or sir. again, unnecessarily,” her scolding is just as much jest as her claim that he’s in the wrong group but it is true she’s not fond of it. that much she makes clear every time he tries. “kim jongdae, a class act. kinda sounds catchy, doesn’t it?” 

[rkwendy]

Double Team | Seokjin

@rkseokjin

“Looks like we’re a team again,” Wendy chuckles as she links an arm around Seokjin oppa. Fate really has a way of messing with them all, she supposes. Then again, after the time she passive-aggressively bitched at him, they’ve become rather close... or she’d like to think tat way. After all, you don’t survive the MGAs and promote “The Wave” together without developing some kind of kinship. “So oppa, will you be showing any cool tricks this time?”

[seungcheolrk]

coping.

rkmar17eval — shooting. samsung commercial ad shooting, march 20th 2017.

( tw !! depressing thoughts, loneliness )

it gets harder and harder as time goes on to hide his dislike for this two months’ evaluation. he appreciates that it has its merits — after all, he’s had the chance to spend time with minsoo again, learn more about hyuna, and meet hyeri. he’s going to be on television, too, which is nice, he supposes. (at least, he assumes he will be. he kind of hopes he will be, since he doesn’t fancy going through all his nonsense for nothing. on the other hand, he’s almost certain whatever he does is going to be painfully uncomfortable looking, but maybe it’ll work in his favour. maybe he’ll be known by netizens as ‘the awkward loser in that one samsung commercial’. it’s better than nothing.) 

he guesses he should be grateful. it could be worse. it could be solo. (though, then he certainly wouldn’t be chosen, and wouldn’t feel guilty about bringing his team down, either. when will he stop blaming himself for everything? god knows.) 

the big day arrives faster than he expects it to. it feels like it was just yesterday that the cosmetic changes were announced, yet now, he’s suddenly thrown in front of a green screen and told to act as if they’re having the time of their lives, the wind blowing through his hair and the grand canyon unfolding around him. 

it’s sad that he has to think of pre-signing to have even an idea of what that felt like. 

ungrateful. that’s what he thinks he is as he switches between ‘driving’ and eyeing the map app on the phone he has no idea how to use (unsurprisingly, he has no idea how to drive either). this opportunity is... incredible, he knows that— he tells that to everyone he can. truthfully, he’s overwhelming thankful for being where he is, it’s just not what he expected. or maybe it is. maybe he knew deep down that he’d be crippled by loneliness. maybe that’s why, on some level, he was apprehensive auditioning without jihoon. 

still, there is plenty to be thankful for. he’s thankful for not having to change his hair to something he doesn’t like. he’s thankful for getting to go to practices, even the dancing classes. he’s thankful for the chance to debut— to make music, be a real musician. 

it’s just going to be a long lonely road getting there, he supposes. he’ll just have to get on with it; do what has to be done. he plasters on a fake smile for the cameras.

he’s getting good at that, after all— pretending— coping. 

[rksona]

— long time no see ;

starter for @rkcheonso !

if there was one upside to the samsung buyout, it was definitely the fact that dawon now had the opportunity to reconnect with many old friends from before she’d given up most of her free time. ever since signing with nova, it was obvious that she’d hardly get to spend as much time with her friends as she might have liked, though that was ultimately something that she’d signed up for. it was just another thing to deal with, another thing to adapt to.

it’s time for lunch when she spots soyeon, and she’s more than grateful for the opportune timing. she had almost been too lost in her thoughts over the upcoming commercial filming to notice the girl’s familiar face, so she considers herself lucky this time around. “soyeon? wow, i haven’t seen you in a while...” probably not the best greeting, though it’d have to do. “how have you been?”

[rkmason]

YOU’RE PRETTY THE WAY YOU ARE, [이대로도 예뻐]

He runs his hand lazily through recently trimmed hair. His personal concept for the photoshoot is confusing, is he supposed to dye his hair darker? It was already black but had been lightly kissed by sunshine. Did they want complete black? Shorter? These decisions are better left to someone else who knows much more about hair and he’s lucky enough to technically live with one. “Hey Candy,” he calls out to her, walking out of the bathroom to look for her as she gets ready for training. Her filming time was before his and he couldn’t imagine how she felt. “Do you think I should cut my hair more?” Lifting his hand to run it through his hair again, it changes path, fingers curling in the red of hers. “You’ve been going gradually further away from blonde lately.” 

[kaiark-blog]

{ 🍷 } i just wanna see you strip.

@rkeunae

this entire aesthetic was one that kaia greatly celebrated. from the concept to the wardrobe, everything was perfect for her group she felt and everyone with her probably made up the most visually pleasing office in all of seoul. it was a pretty big leap to say that but she felt it down to her core. looking at the clothes on her rack, she was flattered that she was chosen as the girl to wear the pencil skirt. a pantsuit could be badass on a girl but she just wasn’t that kind of girl. a pencil skirt could be just as fierce when worn by the right girl, she felt. stepping back from the rack of women’s clothes, she pulled at the hem of her top to begin getting dressed. as she carefully buttoned the top up -- bare legged as her bottoms were pooled around her ankles -- she began to wonder just where eunae was. wasn’t it close to time for filming?

[rksunyoung]

                                   #BEADVENTUROUS 🌺                                   🌤  MARCH EVAL PART 2

it doesn’t take long for the dreaded feeling she once had to disappear.

it was probably due to the fact that sunyoung didn’t really do awkward all that much. sure, she only knew one out of the the three people within her group; and sure, that meant it was probably going to be harder to act like they’ve been best friends since the womb, but for the sake of a good commercial ( and for the sake of their asses because this is still and evaluation, she has to remember ) that’s something that can be easily ignored. it also helped that the girls, including herself, didn’t seem like the shy type in the slightest.

it makes her job easier to sling an arm around one of them as they’re around the campfire for one of the many takes, telling them to make a silly face while her other arm showcases the phone camera taking abilities -- snapping several pictures of them in a row, eyes widening as she marvels at the quality while showing it off to the other ( “this is nice as hell!” the girl states while flipping through them. ) it also helps when one of her marshmellows stay in the fire for a little too long, to the point where it ends up becoming black, melty goo and sunyoung yells, jumping from her place at the campfire and turning quickly so that it landed upon the sand than someone else. “cut” is heard for the umpteenth time that day and she’s told that she’s no longer allowed to roast marshmellows because that’s the 5th one she’s melted within the span of an hour. the director doesn’t sound angry but the girl bows and expresses her apologies, even with the soft laughter of the crew and her own members around her.

( in revenge, she takes part of the molten, sandy goo and presses it to luna’s cheek. )

there’s a scene where they’re supposed to run into the water, carefree and unrestrained, and that in itself takes several takes as well because the director has a certain way he wants them to run and a certain way he wants the camera to be shot and a certain fucking way he wants the water to soar through the air -- he’s way too meticulous for sunyoung’s tastes. nevertheless, she puts on a smile and goes back to the starting point each time, despite how her thighs start to ache in the slightest due to all the fussy running. every time she watches a commercial from now on, she’s going to appreciate all the hard work that goes into it -- this isn’t something that anybody could do in just a couple of hours, she’s learning.

there comes a point when they’re playing within the pool where sunyoung is recording the group having a good time from her own phone, attempts to wave at the group to get their attention when the device slips from her grasp, landing in the watter with a damp plunk and she is so sure that she feels her heart drop out of her body and into the water as well. panic is etched all over her expression as hand dive into the water, searching for it with fear pumping through her veins -- it was only a matter of time for the phone died or fucking exploded underwater ( it probably would happen with her luck ) and then director would blow up at her and katie lee would rip her contract in half and guess whose gonna be blackballed from the whole entertainment industry and would have to work in japan or some shit --

wait. it’s still on when she pulls it out. even when she shakes off the water and scrolls through the phone, no smoke to be seen or even a twitch upon the screen.

“did she forget that it’s waterproof or is she that good of an actor?” sunyoung can hear a staff say off screen and relief washes through her, a hand going straight to her heart as her legs give out and she falls into the water this time, laughter flowing from her mouth at her own stupidity. cut rings through the area once more, and she hopes that at least that would make it on screen.