it turned out the focus of our trip was the set of an soap opera called full house that ended 3 years ago. it was a real house where they had filmed everything. some guy loses a house because he is a gambler, and it goes to a man and woman who have to live together. they dont get along at first, but, well, lets just say he fixes the cable. it was kind of weird walking around in there. i think they tried to make it feel like we were just hanging out while the couple was on vacation or something. there was a kettle on the floor and pictures on the wall of the two of them hanging out, learning how to ride a bike, and getting married (all from the TV show). yet at the same time there were cardboard cutouts of the two of them and one cut out of the guy actor sitting on a half empty bench. so i think i know who the main target was. so were they supposed to be there hanging out with us? why were there two of them?
its kind of weird how if there was something like that in the US, there would probably be more attention to that kind of stuff and making it flow better. in advertising here it seems like they just throw a bunch of stuff together and dont pay much attention to the back story on which is the foundation. there was also a computer table and on the table were the scripts for the show. wish i had someone to talk to about it there (lookin at you stan) because i love critiquing that stuff and two heads are better than one.
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if i had been there i definitely would have gotten my picture next to the dude on the bench.
you bring up and interesting point about advertising. why create all the back story? it seems kind of ridiculous on one hand. just a ploy to encourage consumers to buy spin-off merchandise. or at least rope in more people b/c it doesn't feel like a normal ad.
but on the other hand, it makes sense. commercials (and TV shows, surprisingly enough) have characters. for any character to be believable, they need a realistic back story. something that has shaped who they are at the point we see them, either in the commercial or on TV.
but it also strikes me that perhaps this is more of western trend (at least currently). maybe the koreans are just trying to replicate this style in fact, but not "in spirit."
i don't really understand the script though. were they trying to imply that the characters actually wrote their own show? maybe it was supposed to be like seinfeld (jerry and george's show idea based on their own lives: "its a show about nothing"). another option is that the person who decorated the apartment to look 'lived in' was using the scripts as reference and simply forgot to remove them.
i like that option the best.
As far as I remember, female character's job was a writer,,
and actually she wrote about their story.
It was filmed almost only in that house focusing on the actor and actress's charming; that's why I didn't like the show because I like a show with a "good story."
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