Chapter 76 [Bonus ] 76 - Vlog Release!

    ??"So you''re going to post your first vlog now?" Selena asked confused as she looked at me and my computer screen in the basement of the house.

    "Yeah, I spent the whole week editing and I think the quality is good enough to post it now." I replied proudly as I looked at my skill.

    [Video Editing Lv 5 - 9]

    With this skill at Lv 9, it was as if I had 9 months of experience in video editing, which was already a big leap in everything I could do.

    At first, I could only edit the most basic things, such as silent cuts or simple zooms, but as the skill level increased, I started to have better ideas and things to improve the quality.

    Of all the things I learned, the one I was most proud of was motion tracking, where I used it several times to make the video more dynamic and keep the audience''s attention, as well as smoother, more fluid zooms.

    Instead of just zooming from point X to point Y in 30 frames at a fixed speed, I started doing several tests and several presets of zooms where the speed started slow, increased halfway through, and then decreased at the end, making everything much more fluid and enjoyable to watch.

    The level of editing I wanted wasn''t something like the ytb poop of my previous world, but I wanted to reach a level similar to Mr. Beast''s. Of course, I didn''t want to clog it up.

    Of course I wasn''t going to clog the video with things happening every 3 seconds to overdose the viewer with dopamine, but I wanted to use 3d visuals and more dynamic transitions to increase video retention.

    If there''s one thing I learned from YouTube in my previous world, it''s that if the video is good and captures the viewer''s attention, the platform will promote your video and you will grow.

    An example of this was my music, which I didn''t promote beyond the first thousand views of Numb, but the views kept growing because of MeTube promotion.

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    Monetized views: 2,160,000 = $1,836

    [Numb - 555,909 views] +117,192 views

    [In The End - 598,349 views] +133,278 views

    [The Lazy Song - 1,867,958 views] +499,926 views

    [Boyfriend - 427,154 views] +259,278 views

    [Boyfriend Live - 764,247 views] +727,926 viewsT/his chapter is updated by

    [68,208 subscribers] + 19,968 subs

    [Spokify Music Plays: 979,000] +460,000 views

    Spokify Monetized Views: 538,000 = $2,152

    [Instabram: 35k followers] +12k followers

    "Considering how much you make from the 20% of my shows, doesn''t that make little money for you and the company?"

    When she heard this, she nodded as she drove away.

    Her explanation was that even though she earned little commission from me, the company still paid her a high fixed salary, not to mention that when I became a Rank A artist, the amount of commission would be several times her current salary.

    Usually, agents like her had several artists under their umbrella, so even if they earned little from each artist, it would still be a few thousand dollars a month when all the artists were added together.

    But Selena preferred quality over quantity; she felt it was better to focus on developing me and earning a lot from me in the future, rather than signing several other E-list artists and earning little for many years to come.

    Which made sense to me.

    We soon arrived at the place where the wedding was to take place.

    - Charlie''s POV -

    After hearing from Tony that BlackVelvet''s younger brother was his school friend, Charlie was completely shocked.

    She never imagined that the singer she admired so much was actually so close to her and she didn''t know it.

    The problem was that when she asked Tony to get close to Ethan, BlackVelvet''s brother, Tony refused and no matter what she did, he wouldn''t accept since the two of them were like arch-enemies at school.

    No matter how much she tried to offer Tony things he liked, Charlie didn''t come out on top and just had to accept that there was nothing she could do about it.

    Can I try to think of something else to convince Tony in time? She thought as she picked up her phone and opened BlackVelvet''s MeTube channel to see if there was any new music.

    Even though she knew he wouldn''t be releasing any music just yet, since they hadn''t posted anything on Instagram, it couldn''t hurt to check, right?

    To her surprise, there was no music, but she did see a new video!

    [The Backstage of My Shows! - Vlog #1]

    Looking at the title, Charlie laughed at how self-explanatory it was, but what caught her attention was that in the thumbnail, you could see him on stage singing on one side of the screen, and on the other side of the screen, a man with a speech bubble saying swear words!

    What is that? Did he get into a fight during a performance?" she wondered, as she clicked on the video to watch.

    The video began with a scene of BlackVelvet talking to a girl in a car; from their conversation, the girl appeared to be his manager, which made Charlie sigh with relief.

    The things that happened in the video were very common, but oddly enough, even though she had watched 70% of the video, she didn''t even notice how quickly it went by and was very entertained by everything that happened.

    Instead of videos where the artist talks to the camera as if the camera was the audience, the camera in the BlackVelvet video gave the impression that the viewer was a member of the BlackVelvet team, making the intimacy they felt much greater.

    The scenes of BlackVelvet making jokes, him getting tired while asking for water, their conversations about general things in the show, all of it was nothing too extravagant, but the feeling Charlie got was like she was there!

    Other subscribers like Charlie, who were surprised by how natural and interesting the video was, watched it for so long that the retention rate became very high, causing MeTube to start spreading the word to people who liked similar content but didn''t know about BlackVelvet, resulting in several people across the country discovering this channel for the first time and having different reactions to this video.