#famedbasemagic3

she’s walking through the hallways of the venue. too many years, and this feels like home number eight — familiarity writes itself in each room, each memory of walking behind the scenes, loitering away the hours until she’s up to perform. this time’s no different, and she carves out a new memory of double booked schedules and a pre-recording under her belt. 

“we have to pre-record today, and you’ll be back in a few days.”

what she hears from her manager, hours before when she’s inside the van through the early hours of morning. it’s all about routine, get in — listen to the schedules she has to brace herself for. and it’s years of observations and learning through mistakes that already have her ready on her feet, prepped for the quick run through of events.

“pre-record bbibbi then perform it live? is gold star suddenly calling me unreliable?” 

“no — but your unreliability also has you forgetting about the christmas base project.” her manager’s coy smile peeks through the front mirror, and minjung tosses a strand of hair past her shoulders. incredulity of a sharp tongue that drives tit-for-tat in conversations, and she has her arms poised across her chest, eyes geared towards the free-of rush hour on the highway.

many options to choose from, and she could prime herself to pull together ten minutes of rest. but ten minutes don’t beat out the hours she’ll have waiting around backstage. the early-morning brings the sun peaking past the clouds, and she’s failed to scrimmage up any more light to scribble something in the notebook nestled deep in her backpack. when all fails, she reverts back to her thoughts — imagination searching for something worth value to pass time today.

christmas season, and there’s no holiday cheer when schedules compounded result in the mismanagement of time. she has no time to trace back the christmas trees and holiday music that blasts in the speakers. no time to partake in the fancy formalities of a ‘merry christmas’ and santa-doused decor. instead, her time’s managed with one schedule to the next, blurring the days together till december disappears in a blink of an eye.

but she should be used to it by now. 

in-’verse info

the album will be released on december 20. on december 16, a few days before the album release, the idols on the album will hold a special pre-release listening party at a ski lodge for forty fans. base has opened a special selection process where fans (living in south korea) can submit something such as a letter, cover, or fanart of their favorite artist participating in the album for a chance to win attendance at the pre-release listening party. base staff will narrow the submissions down to about ten or fifteen per idol and will then allow each idol to look through and select two fans to attend the listening party. eight additional fans will be chosen by random lottery.

any currently promoting idols on the album will pre-record their music show performance for mcountdown on the morning of december 16 and will not be present at the live recording. in the afternoon, all of the idols on the album will arrive at the ski lodge where they will help decorate the event room at the ski lodge the listening party will be in. this will be filmed. (this is an example of how the room will be set up and decorated — simple, white, and warm with basic decorations, except there will be sixteen chairs at the front of the room, one for each idol in the album.) the idols will also help to prepare special ‘gift packages’ for the fans consisting of goods such as winter snacks, hot chocolate mix, hats and mittens, and posters from the christmas album photoshoot. the fans will arrive that evening and the listening party event will be about two hours. the fans will be asked to surrender their phones and any other recording devices at the door. the idols will play all of the songs on the album for them and they’ll get to talk a little about their experiences. the listening party will conclude with a fan q&a about the album and a mini fansign of the posters in the ‘gift package’.

that night, after the pre-release listening party, all of the idols will be bused back to seoul, where a practice room has been rented to film a special "practice” version of “all i want” with all of the idols in festive costumes such as santa and reindeer costumes (example 1, example 2). this video will be released as a milestone reward.

the album will not be promoted on music shows but on the day after the album comes out (december 21), the idols will be split into two groups (the first group consisting of those singing all i want for christmas is you and joy ‘; the second group consisting of those singing dear santa, just because, and the carol). they will go on two separate radio shows where they will chat with the host and give radio show performances of their songs (except all i want). they’ll be dressed festively for the radio shows. 

on december 30, the whole group will film the final part of their accompanying reality show. they’ll all be taken to a busy shopping district with a film crew and be given their mission: they have two hours to promote their album as many times as they can. promotion can be anything from asking a shop owner to play their song over to shop speakers to buying supplies and making posters to finding a spot to give a free performance of one of the songs. they’re welcome to split off into smaller groups or stay all together but the film crew will keep track of their “promotion points” and for each point earned, base will donate ₩1,000,000 to charity in their name.

at the end of the filming, the idols will take to a stage in a part of the shopping district and perform each song off of the album for unsuspecting shoppers before leaving. videos of these performances by the film crew will be uploaded to youtube later.

mun info

though it is now past the deadline listed on the original post, muses may still be submitted to participate in the project, but you may not join in on writing for the schedules until your muse has been added to the original post.

any further questions should be directed to the main’s ask box!

points roundup

total available points for muses involved in the album: 11 points (none of the prompts count toward monthly limits.)

+2 points each: up to four listening party / radio show / reality show threads of at least six posts by the deadline (for up to eight points total)

+3 points: a self-para of any part of this three-week period of at least 400 words (does not count toward monthly limit)