After the official announcement, the various teams successively received notices from the crew to take official costume photos. [Qin Wei] had class in the morning and was unavailable, so all the work was arranged in the afternoons and evenings.
The first class also ran into [Ye Jiahe]. Since it was an unimportant elective, [Ye Jiahe] let her rest her eyes for a bit, knowing that later she would be going to take photos, which would take up the entire day.
Previously, she had only felt that [Qin Wei] would only need to wear beautiful clothes and casually pose in front of the camera, after all no matter what [Qin Wei] looked good.
But after following Director Yuan for this period of time, she gradually came to understand that hair and makeup and styling takes several hours; posing according to requirements and taking photos is also no easy task. Behind every usable photo are hundreds of shots, taking up several hours, while also facing lights and flashbulbs, having to maintain one's composure and cooperate the entire time.
With such tight schedules and heavy tasks, costume photos require shooting several outfits in one day, changing clothes back and forth, redoing hair and makeup and styling taking up several more hours each time.
Come to think of it, it really is quite tiring, but as a little fan in the past, [Ye Jiahe] had never heard [Qin Wei] complain about it in public.
"Aren't you tired at all? Or are you cultivating immortality?"
[Ye Jiahe]'s suggestion was rejected, and she couldn't help but ask [Qin Wei].
[Qin Wei] was already very used to this kind of pace, breezily responding:
"I'm not tired. I'm paying to attend school, so I can't waste it and have to listen attentively. Whenever I have free time I sleep, I'm not cultivating immortality. I have a unique skill for catching up on sleep...
But what exactly is the teacher saying in this New Media Operations class? I can understand every word, but strung together in sentences I can't understand at all?"
[Qin Wei] looked at the words written on the blackboard, at one point suspecting it was her own problem. She put on her glasses, but still did not understand.
[Ye Jiahe] said:
"It's teaching you how to operate your own social media accounts, how to choose an attractive headline, copywriting, shooting and editing videos, then gain followers and bring traffic to yourself."
[Qin Wei] was silent for a few seconds before asking her:
"Oh, so I'm learning how to be an influencer?"
[Ye Jiahe] could not deny it, but still had to tell her it wasn't so absolute:
"Including but not limited to being an influencer. Some short video bloggers and the like are also included."
The teacher had finished the main lecture and began assigning homework for the term—
"What you all need to do this term is register an account on a short video platform, personally operating it the entire time, posting at least one short video every day without limitation on subject, no plagiarism or reposting, anything else is fine as long as it's legal.
The above are the basic requirements. The goal that needs to be met is gaining 500,000 followers, posting no less than 100 short videos, videos with less than 100 likes do not count toward the total. Buying followers is not allowed and will be considered cheating if caught.
This makes up 80% of your final grade, the remaining 20% goes to those who gain over 500,000 followers."
The students in the classroom sighed:
"Isn't the difficulty too high, teacher? We can't do it!"
The teacher encouraged them:
"Go for it! This is our school's signature course. Most of you will be entering the media industry, so you'll inevitably come in contact with this. It's best you try early on, it'll be helpful without being harmful! If you really can't pass this term, just retake it next term. Keep at it future media professionals!"
The students continued to suffer—after all, not meeting the standards for this course would really mean failing it, plus it was a required course!
While the other students sighed, so did [Qin Wei].
The teacher couldn't help but ask what she was worrying about.
"Are you afraid you won't have time to complete the assignment?"
[Qin Wei] shook her head. "Is it 50,000 new followers a day?"
[Ye Jiahe]: "..."
The others: "......"
Teacher: "For the whole term."
[Qin Wei] asked again: "Is it definitely necessary to post over 100 videos? Even TV shows don't have that many..."
Teacher very politely: "Yes, that is the basic requirement..."
[Qin Wei] opened up her studio's account to show the teacher:
"I have 8 million followers here, with 70 videos. Can I turn this in as my assignment now?"
The teacher shook his head.
"Of course not. It has to be a personal account, with you personally selecting the titles, writing the copy, shooting and editing the videos yourself. You can have others help but it needs your own operation."
[Qin Wei]: "....."
...
After school, [Qin Wei] was stuck on what to shoot when [Ye Jiahe], who also had to go to the photography studio, suggested they go together.
Once in the car, [Qin Wei] asked [Ye Jiahe] what kind of short videos she planned to make.
This is what [Ye Jiahe] was most skilled at:
"I plan to edit your videos into narrative ones and post them. My initial idea is to use edits from countercurrents into a campus story, Starfire into a rebirth story..."
She also asked [Qin Wei]:
"What about you?"
[Qin Wei] thought for a bit:
"I'll just casually shoot some plants and whatnot..."
[Ye Jiahe] sighed:
"I guess so. This assignment is no challenge for you. As soon as you open an account you'd instantly gain millions of followers. Casually posting a wall would get over ten thousand likes...But I feel doing the bare minimum like that would be too dismissive of your fans and the class..."
"I'll give it more thought then."
After [Qin Wei] finished speaking, she reached out to [Li Liang] for earplugs and an eye mask and started napping.
Asleep in just a few minutes.
[Ye Jiahe] looked to [Li Liang], who just nodded without a word:
"Mm-hmm, catching naps in every available moment is always how it is."
...
By the time [Qin Wei] arrived, it was about time for lunch. [Qiao] was also there, but had already been shooting for a whole morning, much further along than her.
From six in the morning til now without any break for a drink of water.
[Xiao Wang] had prepared herbal tea and a vegetable salad, half of which was snatched by [Qin Wei].
[Ye Jiahe] said she shouldn't eat anymore and to eat after finishing shooting.
[Qiao] didn't say anything and set it down in front of her to eat.
[Xiao Wang] found an excuse to pull [Ye Jiahe] away to help with something so she'd leave.
[Xiao Wang's Diary: My gradually increasing mastery of my sister's protective instincts allowed me to very cleverly pull away Director Yuan's little assistant right as she was about to go into protection mode, thereby avoiding my sister getting angry and yelling at someone as well as a youngster getting hurt. Perfectly defusing a disaster. I'm so awesome!
This kid is also something. A qualified assistant needs to keep an eye on their surroundings while also playing a bit dumb and deaf. The most important thing for an assistant is emotional intelligence!
It's obvious that when the silly sweetheart wants to eat, my sister will scold her. But if you scold her, she will definitely get angry! Protect the baby! She is super protective of this roommate!
Why be so oblivious? Can't you see that when my sister is around no one else is allowed to say anything to the silly sweetheart? Although she herself scolds her all the time, just because she can scold doesn't mean others can scold as well! Isn't this common sense?
It's like if your kid studies poorly and you scold them every day, but if others also come scold them, would you be happy?
She definitely wouldn't be happy! And if she's not happy then things get really difficult for me. This intern really is hardheaded, corporate slaves need to stay away from them!]
