Zheng Wenyao suddenly raised his head and blurted out, "I! I didn't!" His little face turned red instantly.
How could his parents, without even asking for his consent, just tell the teacher he wouldn't be attending? They completely disregarded his thoughts and feelings!
Su Yin looked at him and calmly drank the water she had poured for herself. She wasn't surprised by the boy's somewhat agitated reaction. She looked at Zheng Wenyao in front of her, her eyes revealing the calmness of an adult and the seriousness most adults wouldn't give to such teenagers. "Then think carefully about this: do you want to stick with being a trainee?"
Zheng Wenyao wanted to say "I think" right away, but Su Yin gestured to him to be quiet. She glanced at the clock on the wall, leaned back in her chair, and said to him, "Think about it for three minutes, and then tell me if you absolutely, positively, must continue practicing to become an idol."
The seconds ticked by, and Zheng Wenyao no longer had the energy to blame his parents. He was extremely panicked, with a bit of teenage rebellion and unwillingness, thinking, "I want to practice! I want to be a star!"
At the same time, a voice inside him was saying: If my parents don't agree to my participation, can I still come? Will the company agree to accept me? This trainee really doesn't necessarily become a star. Maybe the teacher doesn't want me anymore, so she won't let me stay...
In fact, three minutes passed and Zheng Wenyao was unable to say the words he had practiced over and over in his mind.
"Okay, you don't have to come tomorrow." Su Yin already knew the result and was not surprised. She stood up and prepared to open the office door.
If a trainee who couldn't stick with it in the early stages of training didn't quit now and chose to quit after training for a longer period of time, it would only cause trouble for her. With his parents so opposed and the child himself wavering, with mediocre skills and character, Su Yin couldn't find any reason to keep him.
When Zheng Wenyao heard this, he felt a surge of grievance and shouted at her, "I want to train!"
Su Yin turned around and stared at him. Her cold eyes and displeased aura instantly overwhelmed Zheng Wenyao, and immediately made him shut up.
"Don't act like a child in front of me. This is the company, not home or school. Asking you to withdraw is both your own choice and the company's choice."
"There's no point in talking nonsense."
"As your teacher for two months, I have one final message for you: study hard and seize your future."
After saying that, Su Yin opened the office door and called out to the aunt outside, "Auntie Wang, please help me get a taxi and take him home." She then glanced at Zheng Wenyao.
Zheng Wenyao only felt that Teacher Su's eyes seemed the same as before, but also seemed very strange to him. He also didn't know what his parents' giving up on him meant today.
I don’t know, but not long after, when he and his parents saw on TV and the Internet that the people who had trained with him had actually debuted and become hot stars, they felt so complicated, regretful and unwilling.
Su Yin asked the staff to send the boy home for the last time without any reluctance.
The three months of free trial training seemed like an opportunity for these teenagers and their parents, but in reality, it was Su Yin's final test. For those who lacked faith and perseverance, she would not hesitate, let alone give them a second chance.
Walking back to the classroom, she saw a young man still training. Su Yin's eyes were filled with smiles again. She went in to help him pack his schoolbag and urged him to go home.
The three months quickly ended, and some people, either themselves or their parents, came to Su Yin, expressing regret and their decision to withdraw from the trainee selection program. Su Yin was straightforward and didn't argue with them, simply letting them withdraw. There were also trainees who had persisted for three months and wanted to continue training. After these three months of contact, Su Yin decided that they didn't meet her requirements for trainees, and she persuaded them to leave.
In the end, after more than half a year of meticulously searching through City A, a city with a population of tens of millions, only eight were left. All eight trainees and their parents signed ten-year artist contracts with Yuexiang Entertainment, the company founded by Su Yin.
After the trial period, Su Yin restructured the training for this first batch of trainees, increasing both the intensity and content. From now on, the company will only hold them to even stricter standards and devote even greater energy and effort to their development.
They needed to improve their skills as quickly as possible while also developing a sense of teamwork. The previously scheduled trainee dormitories had been completely renovated, and the first batch of trainees had all moved in.
Unlike other entertainment companies in this world, Su Yin started preparing to promote and operate these trainees as soon as she finalized the candidates.
The contract was already signed, and since the threshold for becoming a trainee idol wasn't high, Su Yin decided to jump right into promotions, saving as much time as possible. Allowing more people to see them and grow alongside the trainees was the true meaning of trainee idols.
In order to find suitable cameramen and video producers to film the daily lives and behind-the-scenes footage of these trainees, Su Yin spent many days browsing various recruitment websites and also contacted a headhunting company. After contacting several people, she only decided on one candidate.
Some have excellent skills but command exorbitant prices. Others have decent skills but clearly look down on small workshops like these, viewing them as mere stepping stones. Still others have a complete lack of understanding of the entertainment industry and pop culture, and their filming and video production concepts are relatively backward.
Su Yin didn't have high expectations for the filming crew's skills, after all, they were just filming training sessions and daily life in the dormitory. This type of subject matter is highly repetitive, the workload is heavy, and it's inherently tedious. Finding the right combination of skills, price, and availability is challenging. Furthermore, one person couldn't handle such a heavy workload, so at least two people were needed to take turns.
Su Yin is looking for someone who can shoot for extended periods, possesses basic videography skills, has good editing skills, is patient, has some experience, and can produce videos based on her opinions and requirements. Ideally, they would be someone who understands trends, excels at photographing people, and can capture their unique personalities.
Su Yin's small company now consists of only four people, including her. There's herself, a housekeeper, a security guard who also works part-time as a dorm manager, and a young clerk who also juggles multiple roles. For the past six months, Su Yin has juggled all the responsibilities of her startup to save as much money as possible, doing everything herself, big and small, and only getting four or five hours of sleep a day.
Although Su Yin had many ideas in mind about filming a documentary about training and dormitory life, she was just talking about it. She had neither the time nor the professional skills. The most urgent task was to find another person to film.
Su Yin closed the recruitment website and told herself not to rush. She then opened the M station page to see if there were any popular videos today.
M Station is a comprehensive video website, similar to the small, broken-down sites in her previous life. Its audience tends to be students and young people, with a strong emphasis on anime and online content, closely following social trends and trends. To deepen her understanding of the world and stay up-to-date on current online hot topics, young people's perspectives, aesthetics, and cuteness, Su Yin watches videos from several mainstream video sites every day, absorbing useful information and experience to ensure her understanding and adaptation to the world.
Seeing the videos shot by several up-loaders with millions of followers that she has been following recently, Su Yin couldn't help but express her admiration. The color tone, lighting, camera movement, music and rhythm, as well as the scripts with a special personal style are all done very well. It turns out that there are many talents in every world.
She randomly clicked on a few videos on the homepage; the quality was quite average. Not only was idol culture far less developed here than in her previous world, but the internet and its culture were also developing more slowly than in her previous world. Su Yin planned to watch two more videos before turning off her computer and waiting for the trainees to finish school and practice.
At this time, a video attracted her attention.
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