Chapter 337 Preparation for a commercial
"What is everyone doing? Why has the set not been prepared yet?"
An angry voice resonated as an old man dressed immaculately in khaki pants entered a spacious room equipped with cameras, lights and many other equipment which are mostly used for shooting.
Immediately upon hearing his furious yell, many of the people who were going on with their tasks became startled as they contorted their face in horror.
"Sorry sir, we'll get it done right away."
A lady with glasses came rushing towards the old man and apologized as she tried to appease the anger of that old man who right now was fuming.
"Everybody move fast. We have to finish it quick"
She urged those people working currently to speed up.
Still sounding somewhat grumpy, the old man replied in rather annoyed and furious tone; putting the blame on the people present there, "Were you all sleeping? I go out for a minute and everything becomes a mess"
The lady with the glasses however, despite hearing his thorny words kept on apologizing to him docilely without any signs of retaliation.
"Move your leg fast Nagano, haven't you have anything to eat?"
"What are you doing Satsuki? Move those lights more to the right"
The man continued to spew acid as he nagged and complained without any stop. Yet nobody retorted or dared to go up against him.
After somewhile, a man came rushing towards the scene. Drenched in sweat, he spoke in a hurried manner, "The male model has arrived sir"
Immediately upon hearing those simple words, his already irritated mood became even more irritated as he cried out in frustration and fury, "Argh!!! Now look the model have already arrived and yet we haven't completed preparing the set"
No sooner had those words escaped his mouth, instinctively everybody working there braced themselves for the impact that was about to come.
"Can't you all do one thing in time for once?"
"Why does every time when I'm not present at the set such problems arise?"
"Just can't you do one thing properly without me for once?"
The old man berated the people working their as he shot gaze full of disdain towards them.
Even though most of them had already expected this follow up, still hearing those words made their heart bleed. They were fully accustomed with the directors personality but even so who would like to hear such nagging every time?
"Not only my staff members are unprofessional now I even have to attend to this amateur who doesn't have any experience in acting" The old man grumbled as he annoyedly strode towards the exit, "If not for it being a huge deal, I wouldn't even have paid any attention to this kid in the first place"
"Who cares if he's a huge deal or not? I wonder how many shots would I have to retake today..."
Accompanied by a staff member from Mizuno, Hiro made his way towards the studio for recording an advertisement.
It hadn't been that long since he had signed that brand endorsement deal with Mizuno. And here he was already forced to shoot a commercial.
'At least they could have provided me with an acting instructor to learn some acting first? Now what am I supposed to do? Go and stand there?' Hiro thought as he walked towards the studio where the shooting was going to take place.
Though, he remained expressionless from outside.
But obviously, he was not happy. More than unhappiness and dissatisfaction, he was rather nervous right now. Afterall it was his first commercial.
Yes, he had appeared in the screen on multiple occasion but he had never acted before. Sure, he did have a Youtube channel in his early days, but he had never acted even in that.
All he could do was demonstrate his skills and acting wasn't his forte.
Even before starting, Hiro knowing his situation knew it for sure that he was screwed.
"Hello director Serizawa, it's a pleasure to meet you"
Displaying an amicable smile on his face, the person who was sent by the company to act as his caretaker until the end of the shooting spoke as he addressed that old man with utmost respect and hospitality.
Upon hearing the words of his caretaker, immediately Hiro composed himself as he bowed his head; introducing himself and greeting this old man in front of him, "It's a pleasure to meet you sir. I'm Takahashi Hiro. Please take care of me"
Hiro tried to be as much polite as he could. And while doing so, he didn't hold back himself from showing respect to this fellow in front of him.
Since, he couldn't get out of this situation and since he had to work with him, having a better relationship with the director would surely come in handy.
Thus, with such thoughts in mind, Hiro spoke with utmost respect and sincerity to flatter this old man from whom he could sense dissatisfaction even from far.
Director Serizawa who until a moment ago looked quite tensed
— a smile blossomed in his face as he addressed both his caretaker and him in a gentle manner, "Haha, so you're that famous footballer who has managed to captivate the hearts of many of our country's fellow citizens huh?"
"You do look quite young for someone who has attained so much success. And you've got a pretty handsome face, on top of those amazing footballing talents"
If anybody from his crew were to see this side of him, they would have probably thrown off by now. Afterall his personality had took a 360 degree turn in matter of seconds.
Was he the same person who was spewing acid back then?
Just then while they were conversing, a girl dressed immaculately in black skirt and white shirt made her appearance on the scene.
Her captivating black eyes, speckled with hints of mystery and intrigue while her lustrous jet-black hair, cascading down her head, dangled freely as she made her way toward the scene accompanied by a male who was holding an umbrella, shading her from the sun.
"Perfect timing" director Serizawa upon taking notice of this girl exclaimed enthusiastically, "Your compatriot who'll be working with you has arrived as well"
Hearing his words, Hiro slightly turned his head to look at the girl.
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