When she opened and took a look, as expected, most of the posts were from Molly, with the other two gentlen only responding symbolically after her lengthy discourse.
Hua Yan quickly exited WeChat, took out her phone, opened the video app, and directly found [Human Truth] from her follows. Upon opening it, she was startled: "From six o’clock to half past twelve, more than six hours have passed, and the number of likes actually exceeded one hundred thousand?"
Even the comnts exceeded three thousand, a majority criticizing Lisa, but many were also dissatisfied with the female protagonist Siya, calling her cowardly, and so even targeted the male lead, saying he was two-timing, a scumbag, lacking commitnt to love. The top pinned comnt was [Doesn’t the male lead look a bit like the retired Ling Yao? Is it Ling Yao himself?] and [When will the middle episode be released?].
[Human Truth] only followed the four of them. She didn’t dare to use her main account and used her smaller, private one, which others couldn’t add or see her videos and likes. The other few all used their main accounts.
Though the photography brother didn’t appear, she had already prepared an opportunity for him to show his face, which would be during the behind-the-scenes footage released with the subsequent video. Duan Feifan expressed willingness to appear, but she planned to update each episode a week apart, and before the exams, they could shoot two more short clips to last until the new year.
Having learned from the first experience, the next two sessions of filming beca much more comfortable and smooth.
The second shoot was chosen to be in their dorm, inviting Molly’s roommate to cooperate, with the na [Odd Roommates] split into three parts: upper, middle, and lower.
The roommate appearing did not receive compensation, but her video account would be tagged in the top comnt, allowing anyone interested to add her as a friend, indirectly increasing her followers. The roommates naturally agreed, and despite no compensation, Hua Yan and Molly each bought fruits and ordered delivery for them, so it wasn’t entirely uncompensated.
Since boys couldn’t enter the girls’ dorm, fortunately Hua Yan knew a bit, so she didn’t appear this ti, leaving the opportunity to the roommate while she took charge of the filming. The shoot was done on Friday night since people wanted to rest on Saturday, and they didn’t need to do much makeup, just went for it directly.
Hua Yan instructed several tis on how to act, emphasizing naturalness, and after about ten retakes, they finally reached a good state, finishing the shoot by nine that evening.
That night Molly stayed in the dorm, and Hua Yan exited early citing editing at ho, entering space.
Over the span of a week, the video [Green Tea Bestie] gained heat, accumulating over seven hundred thousand likes, with more than ten thousand comnts, and her follower count shot from zero to ten thousand, surpassing her main account’s increase rate. It seems shooting such short videos can really get addictive!
The first episode was chosen to release Monday at six, while the middle episode was set for Saturday morning at six, when traffic is better.
After resting one night, an energized Hua Yan directly brought her computer to the school library, starting to edit the footage shot the previous night in the library setting.
The video was shot at night, fortunately, the indoor lighting was decent, and they had the usual light panels prepared. Not to ntion professional, at least it looked reasonably presentable.
While Hua Yan was busy editing in the library, a freshly awake Molly excitedly called her.
"Did you see? We’ve gained fifty thousand followers and likes broke a hundred thousand within just five hours of your update. Wow, what kind of traffic is this? It’s so popular! Who said Mountain videos had no audience? Look, isn’t there quite a crowd?"
Hua Yan’s lips curved up, "Look at you, so excited. Alright, get up quickly, let’s have lunch at noon together, invite your roommate over, watch and see, we will keep getting better."
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In the blink of an eye, 2016 passed, and New Year 2017 arrived, with a three-day holiday. She didn’t go anywhere, busily filming three short clips with Ling Yao and a few others, one per day.
Before New Year, [Green Tea Bestie]’s full three-part episodes were uploaded. After New Year, a week later, [Human Truth]’s follower count surged to 230,000, with the first two episodes’ likes breaking a million, and the third episode reaching over fifty thousand. The comnt section was ablaze with curses, and of course, fans were enthusiastically complinting and calling out for the leads’ attractiveness, yelling in the comnts for live broadcasts and faster updates.
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