BXBX NOVEL Chapter 144 [Bonus ] 144 - D rank in 2 weeks?!
Chapter 144 [Bonus Chapter] 144 - D rank in 2 weeks?!
"I was helping a friend audition for a TV show!" I explained as I stroked his head.
Hearing this, Ethan\'s eyes lit up. "Your friend is going to be an actress on a TV show?"
"Yeah!" I replied.
"Woah!" He was shocked.
"Was she just a friend, Noah?" Liv said with a smile as she alternated her gaze between me and the second helmet in my hand.
"Just a friend." I replied.
"Yeah... yeah..." She replied without really believing it.
When we went into the house, I told them about the test I\'d done and that they were interested in hiring me for a small role as well, which surprised them.
"So you get to be on TV too?!" Ethan asked in shock, as did my mom and Liv.
"Yes, of course, if the show gets picked up. She said they were still going to tape a pilot episode. If the public reacts well to the pilot, the show will get the green light to continue production and then I\'ll have a chance to get my part. In the meantime, I need to practice my acting skills more and get good enough for when I\'m supposed to be there," I said. I said.
Ethan didn\'t understand it very well, but he was happy about it and that was what was important to me.
My mother and Liv, on the other hand, were still shocked that I might become a TV actor!
"I\'ll call Selena and tell her." I told them both and went into my room.
Selena\'s reaction was even more shocking than my family\'s.
"So you went to an acting test with a girl from your school for a role in a sitcom and the producers were interested in you?!" She asked incredulously.
"Yes... I helped my friend act to ease her anxiety and they were interested in me too. But the role they are interested in for me is only a small one..." I explained.
"It doesn\'t matter if it\'s a small part...this is a sitcom, Noah! In sitcoms, as long as you perform well and the audience likes you, the chances of the producers increasing the size of your role are very high, and with how popular sitcoms are, you might even have found a secure income for the next few years..." Selena explained, leaving me surprised that I hadn\'t thought of that.
In my vision, I would only appear in one or two episodes per season and would only be a supporting character, but Selena told me something that woke me up.
It\'s true that if I acted well and the audience liked the scenes I was in, it might cause the producers to increase my screen time and encourage them to put my character in more episodes to please the audience!
"What do you think I have to do?" I asked worriedly.
"Since you have two weeks to prepare, I\'d tell you to focus on acting in those two weeks, getting as good as you can at it, and keeping your appearance impeccable. Your strongest weapon in your career right now, aside from your voice and your talent, is your appearance. So just take care of these things and on the day of the audition, your chances of getting the part are very high. She explained, making me nod.
"And for my musical career?" I asked uncertainly.
"Do you prefer acting or singing?" She asked me in a serious tone.
"Singing." I replied. I replied. "I see acting as more of a sideline."
"Okay, so let\'s continue to focus on your developing music career. Where\'s that Spanish song you were singing?" she asked, making me freeze.
"Dancing?" I asked.
"Yeah, you haven\'t released it yet, have you? What are you waiting for?" She asked curiously.
Hearing that, I started to laugh nervously. "Can you believe I forgot?" I replied.
"..." Selena fell silent at my answer, which made it easy for me to imagine how she was reacting to it now. "Are you kidding me?!"
"I\'m sorry, I got lost in the videos and forgot this song, I\'ll edit it to post it on Saturday." I replied.
"Okay, we might be able to get your rank up to D before you sign the contract for your part in this sitcom, which could greatly increase how much you get paid, so focus on that for now as well as practicing your acting." She explained, making me nod.
"Okay." I replied.
After that we discussed a few more strategies and I hung up.
That was the advantage of having an agent, while I was at a loss as to what to do, having her to guide me in that moment was very useful and important.
With the direction she gave me, I was confident that I would get the part.
The problem now was... how could I reach D Rank in two weeks?
I was currently 723rd in E Rank.
I\'d have to climb 724 places to get to the bottom of the D rank.
Even though I\'d climbed a thousand levels in the past two weeks, the higher you were, the harder it was to climb...
Then I looked at the files on my computer and saw "Bailando".
"In the US, 20% of the population is Latina... if I do a good marketing campaign for this song, it\'s not impossible that I could reach the D rank..." I began to think out loud. "While my English songs are distributed in different niches, the niche I\'ve never reached is Latinos, who make up 20% of the country\'s total population... and with how much my Spanish has improved since I originally sang Bailando, I could sing it even better now..."
Thinking about what I could do and how I could do it, I had an idea.
Instead of doing it like my other songs, where the music video would just be a recording of one of my concerts, I thought I\'d do something different this time.
In San Francisco, there\'s a neighborhood called "La Misíon," which is mostly Latino.
If I used the wedding video to create hype for this song and shot the music video in La Misíon, wouldn\'t that make the video much more appealing to that audience?
Not to mention, since the song is sung half in English and half in Spanish, I wouldn\'t lose my current American fanbase and I would also gain a new Spanish-speaking fanbase, which could be the boost I need to raise my rank!
Thinking back to the original music video for this song, I knew I wouldn\'t be able to reach that level, but I could take some original ideas or ideas from other clips and make them my own.
Thinking about my channel, I decided to take a look at my analytics to see how I was doing.
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Monetized Views Songs: 2,467,000 = $2,096 (+$2,096)
Monetized Views Vlogs: 1.926.690 = $12.522 (+$11.658)
[Numb - 1,411,988 views] +306,156 views
[In The End - 1,389,624 views] +271,332 views
[The Lazy Song - 2,890,275 views] +313,332 views
[Boyfriend - 1,159,190 views] +223,334 views
[Boyfriend Live - 1,995,325 views] +344,652 views
[Backstage at my shows - Vlog #1 - 454,969 views] +33,861 views
[I made a song to sing at a wedding! - Vlog #2 - 448,517 views] +68,351 views
[All Of Me - 1,342,065 views] +404,532 views
[One of my best shows! Vlog #3 - 289,209 views] +51,777 views
[My first musical battle! Did I win?! Vlog #4 - 373,118 views] +178,693 views
[Me at the Lila Brooks concert!!! Vlog #5 - 563,000 views] +430,000 views
[A Bar Song - 662,410 views] +606,410 views
[What does an artist think while performing?!! Vlog #6 - 501,321 views] +501,321 views
[Vlog #7 - 341,361 views] +341,361 views
[Vlog #8 - 178,326 views] +178,326 views
[237,000 subscribers +57,000 subs
[Spokify Music Plays: 5,640,000] +2,000,000 views
Spokify Monetized Views: 2,000,000 = $8,000 (+$8,000)
[Instabram: 150k followers] +45k followers
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In just these two weeks, I had already earned more than 20k from my social networks... which made me wonder how much I would earn by the end of the month...
As I accumulated more videos, my channel began to snowball.
Even though the views of the old vlogs were decreasing, it was still generating a few thousand views a day, adding up the views those old videos were generating with the views of my new videos... the snowball just kept growing, increasing the more and more I earned from my channel.
The best thing I did was to make an agreement with AJP that I would keep the income from my channel and my social networks hehe.
The problem with this is that for the idea I had for the Bailando music video, I would have to invest some money, and since I was the one getting the money from the channel, part of that money would have to come from me.
AJP could help me with some of the costs, but I would still have to invest some of it.
Looking at the $21,000 I had in my bank account, I sighed when I heard that it would decrease, but thinking about how much it would increase when I received my salary from MeTube and Spokify, I calmed down.
At that moment, my focus was on planning how to record this music video while using my time to edit the vlog with the scenes from the wedding where I sang this song for the first time.
While I was thinking about it, I also planned to drop some hints on my Instabram stories that I knew how to speak Spanish, which could already start bringing Latin fans to me...
I had a lot of ideas in my head and it was hard to choose just one, so I just decided to write down several and send them to Selena to help me choose the most viable idea that would fit my image the best and also go viral more easily.