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[June 20] Dreams Ent Audition Camp - Day 6: Group Practices Jun 20, 2019 1:19:39 GMT -8

Post by Etienne on Jun 20, 2019 1:19:39 GMT -8

This is the first full day that the trainees will be working in their small groups trying to put together performances based on pre-existing choreography of songs. The trainees have freedom to choose how much they are going to re-choreograph and re-arrange the songs, but they are expected to keep the songs recognizable.

Yesterday, they would have selected or started selecting a song, chosen a leader, and started assigning positions (main vocal, main rapper, main dancer, and any lead positions as well). Today, they will be focusing on arranging, practicing, and getting themselves ready for a check in with the trainers tomorrow.

They will be being filmed some during this process for the behind the scenes clips that Dreams Ent is releasing to try to get people interested in the Live Final that they will be streaming to show their audition process and get people interested in the trainees that will hopefully feature in their upcoming groups.

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Taijia Lin

[June 20] Dreams Ent Audition Camp - Day 6: Group Practices Jun 24, 2019 13:52:31 GMT -8

Post by Taijia Lin on Jun 24, 2019 13:52:31 GMT -8

Tai was intrigued by his little group. Felix was the oldest, and he was the youngest. However, he ended up being the person who could communicate the best with everyone, and considered the most advanced trainee. The other two weren't from Seoul, and they'd mostly just learned from the internet, so the training camp was their first real chance to get proper training. In that sense, Felix was ahead of them, despite his weak Korean.

None of them had really had much in the way of ideas of what song to do, so Tai had thought about what would be something they could learn and polish fast that would still look cool, and he'd ended up on Got7's "A", partially because he figured that there was a good chance that a group with non-Korean rappers would give Felix an easier time, even if the rap was in Korean.

The evening before, they'd laid it out for parts, and then Tai had bounced back and forth between helping people practice their parts of the song and dragging Felix into helping him lay out the formations for the choreography. He'd also partially picked it because he'd done a solo arrangement of it before, and despite having flashy parts, the basic footwork was tiring but fairly straightforward. The biggest challenge was how to make it work with four people instead of seven.

The arrangement of the lyrics had Tai doing Youngjae's parts, and the intermediate vocalist doing Jaebum's parts. Felix got all the rap parts barring a few of Mark's interjections that happened during one of his other lines, and the beginner vocalist did the parts that were Jinyoung's and Yugeom's. Tai had been relieved that the intermediate vocalist was already at least fairly familiar with the song, though he still found himself coaching the older boy through some of the more difficult parts. Most of his time when it came to singing was spent with the beginner vocal, who was improving by leaps and bounds, but still needed quite a bit of help. He was pleased that he was able to pass some of that off to the intermediate vocal who was comfortable with Yugeom's parts especially.

The first day, they'd worked on the sections of the dance that were footwork in parallel so that Tai could leave the less skilled dancers working on that and getting the rhythm of it down while he and Felix worked on formations. They couldn't do a one to one partially because there were only four of them, and partially because the intermediate vocal wouldn't be able to do some of the floor work that Jaebum did in the dance, but the intermediate dancer could. They mixed and matched the dance lines to keep the overall appearance, and Tai focused on making sure that since the beginner dancer wasn't going to be able to do any of the stunts, he got to play a pretty front and center role in some of the more acting type stage craft that went on in the choreography.

By the middle of the day, Tai could tell that the two less experienced trainees were tired, and he wasn't sure about Felix, but he figured that a break was probably in order. He said, "I think that we should stop for lunch. Some of the trainers might be around to check in later, so we should be fresh to show them what we have so far."

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Woo Seojin

[June 20] Dreams Ent Audition Camp - Day 6: Group Practices Jun 24, 2019 20:48:14 GMT -8

Post by Woo Seojin on Jun 24, 2019 20:48:14 GMT -8

It had take Seojin's group a while the evening before to come up with a song that was the right combination of having rap, having a cool but not too hard dance, and having vocals that would give everyone a part that they could manage. Finally, they'd settled on Itzy's "Dalla Dalla," which Seojin was pretty happy about.

Other than the rap part, which their rapper had been able to take over handling right away, a lot of the arranging of music and choreography had fallen on Seojin. She wasn't glad that they'd found a five person group to distribute because it meant that she didn't have to change that much. The formations were mostly two people to each side framing the person in the middle, which meant that there would be time to do show off elements if they had time to figure them out, and the attention would mostly be on whoever was in the middle at any given time.

When distributing the lyrics, Seojin was glad that it was actually pretty straightforward. She took Lia's parts because they were the hardest. She gave Anya Yeji's parts except for her rap, which along with Ryujin's parts went to their rapper. Anya's friend from the intermediate classes got Yuna's parts, and the beginning singer got Chaeryong's parts. The beginning singer in their group was definitely the one who needed the most help with her lyrics, but she tried hard, and all of them made progress quickly. Because she'd changed who sang what in a few places, she did have to shift some of the dance formations to compensate for it.

Seojin was pretty happy with how the choreography was coming along so far, and she was especially glad that she honestly hadn't had to change that much, and their rapper had stayed late with her the night before and gotten to the training rooms early that morning to drill the footwork and the most complicated parts of the dance. She figured that they could probably perform it by the end of the day and be OK, but she was glad that they didn't have to because it meant that they could work on show offs for each of the girls for when they were in the middle.