Chapter 418: – Money Making Ideas
After returning from the welfare institute the next evening, Lin Jin finally started trying to make the video again.
She wasn’t sure if it was just her imagination, but she easily envisioned what the video should look like with the footage. Then, she put all the footage she had envisioned into the video editing software, and simply followed what she had in her mind to start editing bit by bit.
Since she wasn’t making videos with quick scene transitions like music videos, it wasn’t very difficult to edit. It was a bit tedious, but as long as she edited according to the scenes in her mind, it wasn’t too difficult. Compared to the previous edits she made after much brainstorming, it was significantly better now.
Lin Jin even felt that the edited videos she made seemed to be a bit better than Xia Tian’s.
The first video she made was a relatively simple dance video.
Since it was shot in one continuous take, making a dance video was the easiest. She just needed to adjust the colors and add a filter to enhance the haziness of the setting sun, harmonizing the scene and making it more beautiful. Then using the intro and outro Xia Tian had made before, she could easily complete it.
After finishing the video editing, the next step was adding subtitles. Subtitles were quite simple. The fancier subtitles could be directly handled by the video editing software, while the more tedious smaller text at the bottom could be easily done using the subtitle software Xia Tian had taught her to use.
It took Lin Jin about three hours to make the video, most of which was spent syncing the subtitles and music.
"I'm back." Dad entered with a big sack of stuff and some groceries in his other hand. He placed the sack next to the door and put the groceries in the kitchen. Then, he poked his head in Lin Jin’s room, wanting to enter "What are you doing?"
Since her dad wasn’t home when she returned, Lin Jin had forgotten to close her door. As it was too late to do so now, she turned to look at her dad, who seemed hesitant to enter her bedroom.
"Need something?" Lin Jin stood up and walked over to her dad.
"Sort of, there is something." Her dad scratched his short hair and asked with a chuckle "That uh, if I found you a mother, would that be okay?"
So he meant a stepmom?
Lin Jin’s brows instantly furrowed. Honestly, she didn’t have a good impression of so called stepmothers. Too many villains in stories were the stepmothers, and there were also plenty of news reports about stepmothers abusing their stepchildren.
"I don’t mind, just don’t let me see her." Lin Jin said with a dark expression.
Dad laughed heartily, his expression as simple and naive as when her younger brother Lin Chen smiled.
"Recently, I met a pretty auntie, she’s also been quite nice to me. So I was just thinking..."
“Then you slowly think about it, just don’t bring her back.” Lin Jin shrugged and turned her head away, completely unconcerned “Speaking of which, how’s your business going recently?”
As soon as she mentioned this, her dad’s face lit up with excitement. He excitedly grabbed Lin Jin’s arm and pulled her over to the huge sack by the front door. Opening it, he took out some items and began showing them to Lin Jin.
“These water bottles are very profitable at your school. The ones from your school’s store are quite ugly, so I stocked some pretty ones and they’ve sold really well.” He then pulled out a mouse from the bag, “This mouse is designed especially for girls. They really like these cute ones and they’ve sold well too.”
“So how much money have you made?” Lin Jin tilted her head, and crossed her arms.
“About... three to five hundred or so.” Dad’s expression turned a bit embarrassed. “I sold them relatively cheaply, small profit but quick turnover.”
Okay, didn’t he say the sales were good? Each item earned three to five yuan, then selling a hundred would just be three to five hundred, right? And this took how many days? He only made three to five hundred...
Her dad didn’t look very good. He also knew that just earning three to five hundred after nearly a week was indeed a bit too low. At this rate, he’d probably just make around two to three thousand a month. It wasn’t even as much as what he'd earn from a straightforward job as a waiter.
Lin Jin shrugged again, her attachment to money wasn’t too deep. Back when she was poor, she’d been very keen on making money, even getting tricked into doing tasks by a black cat for cash. But now, since her mom started paying more attention to her again, Lin Jin basically never had any money problems.
But if something could make money, Lin Jin naturally wouldn’t decline.
After chatting with her dad, she returned to her room and started thinking about ways to earn money.
For other video creators, they usually made money by taking paid promotions or stuff. Another way was to create a publicity account where they would premiere their videos to attract fans. Advertisements and stuff would also be placed on this account. A publicity account with a large following probably made a lot of money.
Some of the more successful video creators, like the big names, will even set up their own video production studios and regularly upload several different series of video each week.
Maybe she should do the same?
Lin Jin felt that making videos was quite tiring, so earning a bit of money from it didn’t seem too unacceptable, right? Surely her fans wouldn't mind if she added some ads?
But the problem was that due to her low fame, Lin Jin still hadn’t encountered anyone interested in placing ads with her.
Nowadays, Lin Jin did have a bit of a popularity on A Site, thanks mainly to her seductive Pomp and Circumstance dance video. But this modest fame was trivial even on just this site, let alone the entire internet.
Lin Jin’s laptop was now busy rendering the video. As her laptop was relatively low end, while it was fine for playing small games like Dota that wasn’t too resource intensive, things like video rendering would cause it to freeze and struggle to even open a webpage. So, Lin Jin had no choice but to lie on her bed and play on her phone while connected to the wifi.
Her tasks were done for the time being. Although the promotional video for the welfare institute wasn’t completed yet, Lin Jin had already told the children during her visit in the afternoon that she'd be busy the next day, so she could spend the entire afternoon tomorrow working on it. This made Lin Jin feel like she had plenty of time, so she threw her quilt over her head and planned to sleep all evening.
However, the black cat didn't allow her to rest. Just as Lin Jin closed her eyes, she once again heard the black cat's voice.
"Hey, hey! Do you want to help your dad get a promotion and reach the peak of his life! Come, do my task!"
"No thanks, scram!"