Love Slave to My Dev Chapter 101

101 His Idea and My Efforts

“Thank you for your attention. After flying over to visit so wet markets that sell dog at and visiting various dog at farms of various sizes, this is the storyline and storyboard that we ca up with. We were captivated by the idea of conflicting views of our common society to that of the local people, especially the older generation where eating dog at is still a part of their tradition and culture,” I paused a little as I changed the slide.

I could tell that I still had the attention of everyone in the room and that was a great step forward compared to my first presentation in this room when I first joined the team. They could hack at my presentation with their killer questions later on, but for now, I wanted to complete telling them the entire story that I had in mind.

“We still want to push for a clear ssage to ending the cruelty of the dog at trade and farming while showing that we’re not actively advocating for the destruction of cultures and traditions. We plan to do this by incorporating the real trend that this activity is in fact losing its popularity especially among the younger generation. Naturally, we believe that this tradition would cease to exist anyways as dogs take on another role in society as people’s pets and friends,” I explained patiently.

My explanation earned few nods from the audience and that gave

more confidence to go on. It seed like Ace’s storyline was heading in the right direction and now I just need to make sure that the storyboard that I had on the slide portrays that storyline well.

“As for the storyboard that we have in mind, we’ll start by showing footages around the the of dogs as a man’s best friend before flashing to show the conditions in uncontrolled dog at farms. We believe that the contrast would be quite disturbing and will help capture people’s attention. We will then go on to show the tradition related to this issue such as scenes from markets and local restaurants before transition to show the downfall of this trend over ti by showcasing the newer and younger generation including people around our age, then teenagers and then children with their new relationship with dogs as a companion rather than food. Then we’ll end with introducing the foundation and instructions on how the viewers can make their donations while keeping that as subtle as possible,” I explained before coming to the end of the storyboard on the presentation slide.

There was a brief mont of silence as everyone seem to take in my presentation. Ace seed quite satisfied with my presentation although he did not comnt on anything.

“Any comnts?” Ace asked the other in the room.

“Is that your idea for the storyline? It’s very like you,” Jeremy asked with a smile on his face.

“You can tell?” Ace replied lightly.

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“Yeah...it’s very...well positioned to resonate with many people,” Jeremy comnted openly.

I guess after working with Ace for a while the team had gotten used to telling which was his work even without Ace standing up to take credit for it directly. Even I knew that all of Ace’s work had a touch of him and was quite unique from the others. I bet all of his works were successful because I have never heard of a project that Ace supervised that ended in failure or was not well received by the audience of the public before.

“That’s my storyline that Karina adapted, and that storyboard is pretty much her independent work based on a few sentences of the storyline that I gave her. Not bad, right?” Ace said with a grin.

“Right...not bad at all,” Richard chid in with a nod.

I felt like praises were being rained on

from above and suddenly the sun was out and shining. For Richard to say that my story was ‘not bad’ felt like a hard-earned complint. I bit on my lower lip a little to keep myself from smiling like a fool right in front of everyone.

“Thank you,” I murmured as I headed back to my seat.

“Well, that is that. Do we have a consensus already on the storyboard or do we want to put it to the vote?” Ace asked as he leaned back casually in his seat.

“No need. We’ll go ahead with what you and Karina had co-developed. We’ll all do our part now for the detailed design, budgeting and all that. There are many technical things that needs to be sorted out for sure on the filming and production side,” Richard said sternly.

“Great. That’s that then. I’ll leave it up to Karina to co up with a more detailed storyboard. Of course, you’re welco to mash in so other ideas from the other teams as well. I think they’ve got so good ideas for more emotional scenes here and there,” Ace suggested before wrapping up the eting.

“Ok. Thank you,” I replied determinedly.

Suddenly, I had my work cut out as part of Project Alpha and it was a very big part as well. The storyboard will determine almost everything about this project. It would be a hit or miss and I was determined for this comrcial to be a massive hit.

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I was in Ace’s office when I received a call about his schedule from senior secretary. Every week or so she would give

a call to recap Ace’s schedule especially the parts that required him to interact with external parties.

“A business trip? Aha...ok...” I said as my hand busily jotted down so notes about the upcoming business trip.

The secretary gave

additional details about the trip including who Ace was expected to et as well as so requirents that the client had slotted in.

“Chase Creatives will also be there?” I exclaid in absolute surprise.

Why would the client invite both Ace and soone from our biggest competitor in the industry to go on the sa trip? Is this so kind of competition or sothing?

–To be continued...