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Post by Etienne on Jun 18, 2019 1:15:17 GMT -8
This is the final day of the Training Bootcamp before they move into working on position . The beginning of the day will be spent practicing the song that they have been learning, and then, around midday, all the instructors and the CEO will be coming to watch them show their reassessments. Then they will be grouped into the next bracket and do songs in groups (all the same gender, required to be a mix of skill levels).
They are mostly given free practice time with exception of the beginner groups who still getting some focused practice time with trainers. However, some of the Yuseong members might come check in on them unexpectedly.
At the end of the day, they are all called into the practice stage room to show what they've learned to the CEO. This part will be filmed, and the highlights will be posted to the company video channels (Youtube, Naver, etc...).
 [practice stage room] All the judges (and potentially some of the other Yuseong members) will be there, and it will be their first time getting shown to the public for approval. |
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Post by Taijia Lin on Jun 19, 2019 0:39:44 GMT -8
Taijia was surprised that after some of the comments from trainers, he'd ended up having not just Anya coming to him for help with things (that would have been expected), but a lot of the intermediate and beginner level trainees and some of the advanced level ones as well. He was notably the youngest person there, but he tried his best to show people who asked him for help through the steps, or the note progression.
One of the things that had always worked in his favor in classes for music and dance had been that he picked things up quickly, so by the end of the day that they'd actually learned the song's rearrangement and dance, he'd pretty much had it polished. It also helped that it had been designed to be at a level that even the much less experienced people would have a chance to get it down and looking and sounding good if they worked hard. Tai was definitely finding himself talking more than he would have expected. It was especially hard to remember to use honorifics, since he was very used to being in classes, and even leading dance practices for said classes, with people older than him in the states where it was less of a thing. Not that he'd never gotten weird responses for being the "little kid" in masters level classes, but it was just a different tone.
He found himself really appreciating the other people in the advanced dance class who didn't need his help, Seojin had stood out to him among the girls. She was the only person who he'd right away decided was probably as good a dancer as he was. It was interesting watching her, but he didn't talk to her much, glad that she pulled a decent number of the people away from asking him dance questions. He'd definitely noticed Felix's dance level as well, though he had offered to help with language stuff if he could, so he tried to stick close to the older boy.
He was more than ready for it to be time for the reassessment time by the middle of the second day, but he could see that some of the others were panicking a bit. He kept on practicing the dance instead of working on a variety of things mostly so that other people could follow along.
The song itself was nice, but it wasn't hard. The rearrangement was interesting to him, and he'd gone ahead and learned both the girls' and boys' parts, since with his childish voice, they were both in his range for the time being. He wasn't sure if he could actually sing the boys' part as well as he could sing the girls' part, which was in his more natural range, but he could hit all the notes for both consistently, so he figured he was fine. He was glad though that at least not quite as many people were asking him for singing help.
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Post by Woo Seojin on Jun 19, 2019 0:46:53 GMT -8
Seojin was surprised at how easy the dance was in a way. She knew that the trainers wanted to make sure that all of them could learn it well, and that for advanced dancers, they'd be paying more attention to the quality of execution than anything else. She also realized that even in the advanced dance class, there were a few of the people who were closer to the margins of being in the group who were struggling some. She tried to jump in and help where she could, and she made sure that she was there to answer some of the intermediate and beginner level trainees when they came in with questions when the trainers weren't around.
She noticed that a lot of people were going to Tai, and he was an impressively patient teacher for a kid as young as he was, ten in international age, twelve in Korean age she reminded herself since it had come up in passing. But she did start intercepting people who seemed pointed at him because he was looking a little overwhelmed by as many older students as there were gathering around him.
When it came to singing though, she found herself half tempted to join them. She had noticed that he seemed to have the whole arrangement down by the end of the first day, actually sitting down at the keyboard in the room, and early in the day the next day bringing in his guitar to be able to help some of the people who came to him with questions find the key and follow the progression. She was glad that she'd made it into the advanced group in both singing and dancing, but seeing someone that much younger than her basically overshooting the requirements that much was a little bit daunting.
She shook herself out of it and kept practicing. The song wasn't that hard, and she was able to sing it, though she could tell that she wavered a little bit on some of the high notes. She drank some tea with honey the first night and warmed up her voice carefully in the morning, and it got easier with practice. By the time the evening and the time for reassessment drew near, she felt ready.
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Post by Felix Choi Sungjin on Jun 22, 2019 9:35:01 GMT -8
Felix found himself also trying to intercept some of the beginner trainees that were going to Taijia for help, noticing Seojin was doing the same, trying to keep the boy from getting too overwhelmed. Although he couldn't explain things as well as Seojin or Taijia, he knew how to say "like this" and knew how to dance. And although he didn't get much chance to practice the dance himself, teaching others was an excellent alternative. So when he had the time, he focused on getting the singing parts right. He knew he needed to work on his voice, so he focused on that, but he was also working on memorizing the rap since the trainers wanted him to focus on becoming a rapper. At least for that, his biggest hurdle was memorizing and pronouncing the lyrics correctly. He occasionally went to Seojin for help on some words, if for the meaning or how to pronounce it, at least when they were all in the training studio. In the dorms, he'd ask Taijia for help. Before coming to the camp, he hadn't expected his go-to person was going to be a ten-year-old, but Taijia knew what he was doing, and he admired the kid's determination.
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Post by Anya Young on Jun 22, 2019 10:02:12 GMT -8
Anya had taken what Taehoon told her to heart; and by this point, with the dance mostly memorized, she was feeling a lot more confident about being in the Advanced Dance group. Still was a bit sad that Taijia and Seojin were being bombarded by the beginners as she didn't have anyone else she was familiar with, but she did fine on her own, and ended up chatting with a girl in the Intermediate group who was just a bit older than her. She occasionally wiggled her way past everyone to ask Taijia to help with a dance move, but overall she was fine, if not a bit bored, on her own.
She focused on the vocals as well, realizing she was getting better at Korean pretty quickly just by being in the country, so the lyrics were a bit less of a problem than they had been previously. Though she still had memorizing to do, she wanted to learn the lyrics with the proper notes as well, and she found herself gravitating towards Seojin when she wanted help with vocals.
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Post by Etienne on Jun 23, 2019 0:11:05 GMT -8
The CEO and both of the head trainers were going to be there for the reassessment, along with most of the members of Yuseong. It was the first time that the trainees would be getting to meet with the CEO this close, though some of them had been at auditions that he hosted. It was also going to be the first time that they got to interact as directly with some of the members of Yuseong.
The CEO got set up in the viewing area for the practice stage, dance and vocal trainers to one side of him and the Yuseong members to the other.
The trainees were going to be brought up to do their reassessments one at a time, starting with the ones who had been assessed to Advanced in both areas, and working their way down to the people who had been assessed to Beginner in both categories.
The CEO called up Tai first, and held a whispered conversation with the two trainers about his progress. He also turned to ask the members of Yuseong who had interacted with him in training what they thought, giving Kangwan a pleased smile in the process.
[[Mod Note: @shihyun , @qiwang , Kim Kangwan , Yeo Taehoon can/should all jump in on this thread with reactions!
Also, all participants can choose themselves to go next. Feel free to go ahead and put what level you will have them reassess to in a note at the end of your post.]]
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Post by Taijia Lin on Jun 23, 2019 0:17:39 GMT -8
Taijia wasn't precisely surprised to be called up first. He knew that there were a fair number of expectations riding on him since his auditions and original assessment, especially since he'd already been on their radar. He wasn't worried though, the dance and song were easy, and he'd practiced and taught them for the past few days.
He lined up at the starting point for the song, taking the opening pose, and waited for the music to start. He decided, rather on the spot, that he'd do the entire vocal line, male and female parts, partially because he'd learned them, and the trainers hadn't discouraged him in actual training.
He kept his focus up, and he executed moves sharply and fluidly by turns where the choreography called for it. He tried to focus on his facial expressions as well because for a long time, that had been what he struggled with the most in dance.
He held the ending pose of the dance for a few moments, and then went forward to the front and bowed, pretty sure that that had been close to flawless on the dance, and he'd not lost his pitch at any point when singing, but not quite sure how the CEO, trainers or members of Yuseong would react. There was a smattering of immediate applause from some of the other trainees watching, which did make a small, tentative smile come on his face, that grew even more as the CEO and the two trainers joined them. He looked over at Kangwan and Taehoon, looking to see if he had their approval.
All the finalized grades would be announced after the reassessments were done, so he had to go down and wait, fairly sure he would stay in Advanced, but slightly nervous for the first time since the camp started.
[[Note: Tai will reassess to Advanced for both dance and vocal.]]
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Post by Woo Seojin on Jun 23, 2019 0:22:57 GMT -8
Since Seojin was in the very small group of people who had been assessed into Advanced for both, she wasn't surprised to be the second to go up. The CEO gave her a small nod, and she remembered that he'd been very positive at her audition. She hoped that she would be able to maintain that approval. She felt like Tai was a little bit of a hard act to follow, considering he'd done the entire song, and she'd only learned the girls' parts. She reminded herself that that was what they'd been asked to do, and she was a dancer first and they knew that.
She shook off the slight feeling of insecurity, and remembered that she loved to do this. She took her place on the stage, and when the backtrack started, she moved through the dance cleanly. Hitting all her marks. She wasn't worried about the dance part. She kept her focus most on the singing. She could feel herself straining for the high notes a little bit, but she hit them, one after the other, not holding them quite as long as she would like, but she figured it would work out. She didn't sound bad.
She was relieved that she got some applause too, and the CEO was nodding a little bit. The dance trainer seemed to be very pleased with her, but she couldn't quite tell what the vocal trainer thought. She looked over at the members of Yuseong, hoping that she would get more of a reaction from them. She knew the dance was good, but she just hoped that she'd done enough to keep the Advanced in vocal.
[[Note: Seojin will reassess to Advanced for both dance and vocal, though she will get warned that she's right on the cusp of it for vocal right now, but she's showing improvements.]]
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Post by Felix Choi Sungjin on Jun 24, 2019 20:31:54 GMT -8
Felix was within the top ten to go up, though not right after Seojin, and he felt his nerves coming on as he was called up on stage. He had focused on the rap; he was confident on the dance, and with the trainers telling him to be a rapper, he knew he needed good vocals, but not the best.
Following after the child prodigy and the (also extremely talented) Native Korean had thrown some unexpected hits to his confidence, however, and he ended up messing up on a couple lyrics. But, at least it was the lyrics themselves and not the notes. Still, it made him cringe internally. He was confident he did the dance flawlessly though, and he thought he did pretty good on the rap. He held his final pose for a moment before waiting to hear from the judges. The Yuseong members seemed pleased, and the dance trainer was definitely happy, but the vocal coach was harder to read, and he definitely couldn't tell what the CEO thought. He could only hope they felt the same about his performance as he did.
[[Note: Felix is keeping his positions in Advance dance and Intermediate rap. He's also going to get a comment about making sure to memorize all the lyrics, but overall he did well at memorizing them considering his current level of Korean.]]
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