Chapter 17 - Public Reaction (Part 1)

When Lee Hayoon heard this, he responded, "Are you crazy or something?"

What a wild statement!

Since there was no rush to push out more episodes, Im Giseok continued writing the upcoming episodes while also refining the earlier ones.

After filming started, he even moved a chair to the set to watch.

The crew of <> had, of course, heard of their famous screenwriter, but this wasn't a big production.

The lead actress was still in college, and getting an acting job before graduating felt like a pie falling from the sky.

To her, who wrote the script didn't really matter.

The producer and the director had no complaints about Im Giseok, so naturally, no one else had any issues either.

—Director Yoo Oncheong's feelings were hard to describe.

He had worked with Lee Hayoon for a long time.

As soon as they started filming the first few scenes of <>, he quickly sensed that this show was different from their previous one—it was filming too smoothly.

Im Giseok didn't write any unnecessary lines, and the transitions between scenes were incredibly natural.

Most of the actors were newcomers, but with just a glance, Im Giseok could point out who had issues during the filming.

Of course, he didn't overstep the director.

Even though, in the crew, a screenwriter's authority wasn't any less than that of a director, Yoo Oncheong felt that Im Giseok didn't seem like a newbie screenwriter at all; he seemed more like a seasoned writer who had worked on dozens of shows.

Im Giseok didn't talk much on set, but when it came to things like camera angles, lighting, shooting techniques, or lines—whatever Yoo Oncheong asked him about—he could always provide him with very sensible suggestions.

Working with a screenwriter like this just made him feel comfortable.

Even though directing was his responsibility, Yoo Oncheong had a feeling that everything about the filming was under Im Giseok's control.

What surprised him the most was that after finishing the first episode, because the script's pacing was so good, Yoo Oncheong already knew exactly how he wanted to edit it.

He could tell that the pacing of this show would be perfect—not too fast, not too slow, and just the right amount of sweetness.

With the adjustments made based on Im Giseok's suggestions, Yoo Oncheong seemed to have found his own footing as a director.

The further they got into filming, the more everyone in the <> crew realized that Im Giseok was a valuable asset.

Im Giseok was pulled into all sorts of tasks to help out, and even after a full day of filming, Yoo Oncheong would still drag him off to discuss about the script.

Because of this, Im Giseok's speed at writing the script gradually slowed down from completing one episode every three days to one every five days.

But even so, his speed was still very fast.

Since Im Giseok was the only one organizing the script, there were no style differences between different writers, so everything felt seamless.