Gamer Superstar - Chapter 188

Chapter 188: 188 – Start of filming
Although my character in Duncan Family, Jack Storm, had attracted a lot of attention, the ratio of Jack’s popularity to the rest of the cast, who actually had a lot more screen time than I did, was something that couldn’t even be compared.

Jack had captured the attention and curiosity of a lot of people, but only a small niche of people who watched the show, since he had very few lines in the episode he was in.

Even though there were discussions about him on Twipper, the amount of discussions about Jack was many times less than the discussions about the show in general.

But now it was different, when that fishing episode aired, Jack had a lot more lines, to the point where he became one of the main characters of that episode, sharing the stage only with Steve, Martha and Harley, the other three main characters of the show.

So the impact of that episode on the Internet was much greater than my first appearance.

The main reason for that was because Jack isn’t one of the main characters in the show.

For example.

Harley, Steve, and Martha are recurring characters in the show who, in order to have satisfactory character development, must have serious lines and major personality problems that are worked out and improved over time to show progress in the story.

Jack is just a guest character, someone from the outside who doesn’t have as much contact with the main cast, who, although he seems to have a backstory of relative importance to this character, is nowhere near as important as the other three.

As a result, Jack’s problems don’t have to be as blatant as those of the other three, making him seem more like a normal person in the midst of the Duncan madness.

This might seem to make Jack’s character a bit boring to watch, but it’s the opposite, because from what I read on Twipper, Jack had become a character that the audience could put themselves into the show, practically a self insert.

Not to mention, because of my appearance, I got even more attention on social media, which gave me a lot of followers when the episode aired.

[Metube: 470,000 subscribers] +42,000 subs

[Instabram: 240k followers] +40k followers

It was surprising that we gained almost as many followers on Instagram as we did on Metube over the course of the week, but that’s because the subscribers on Metube came from the millions of views we were getting each week, whereas on Instagram, the vast majority came from the Duncan family.

“What did you think of the episode?” I asked my curious family.

At this point, the episode was over and the five of us were sitting on the couch watching TV.

“I loved it! Your dynamic with Steve was very funny. My dad was the first to comment.

Since he likes comedy, I knew he would.

“That Harley girl, is she the girl from your school that you took for a ride on the motorcycle?” My mother asked curiously.

“Yes, she asked me for a ride to take her to the audition to get that part in the show, and while I was helping her, the producers took an interest in me and decided to give me a chance as well.” I smiled and nodded.

Hearing them smile, even though they already knew, was interesting to see Laura’s performance for the first time.

I noticed that my mother and Liv were very focused on the actors’ performances during the show, just to improve the quality of their acting for the documentary.

Which was very good.

Especially considering that we would start filming tomorrow.

Their level of acting wasn’t high, far from it, but it had gone up a few levels satisfactorily, to the point where their acting was already at an acceptable level for us to record.

It’s not like they had to be Hollywood stars to be in the documentary, the biggest difficulty we would have would be in acting out what happened when I had the inspiration for the song.

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The next day, Jason arrived at my house with a much bigger camera than he usually used, which surprised me.

“Hey bro, what’s that?” I asked confused.

Looking at the camera with a smile, Jason explained. “Well… when I told a teacher about the documentary we were going to make, he got interested and decided to lend me his camera.”

Looking at the camera, I could clearly see that it was much more expensive and complex than his original camera, to the point where I didn’t doubt that the price of this camera was the price of a car!

“Looks like your teacher likes you a lot, huh?” I commented as I whistled at the camera.

Jason laughed. “Since I started working with you, the quality of my shots has improved by leaps and bounds, to the point that my teacher has started to notice and give me more tips to improve even more, we’re almost in a state of master and student.”

I was surprised to hear this, but also very happy.

Just then, Selena’s Tesla pulled up in front of the house.

“What about the director?” Jason asked after thinking about what we had decided.

Thinking about it, I replied. “We were on the fence about it, bringing in a problematic director who doesn’t understand what’s going on, or who wants to change too much of what happened to something that didn’t really happen could ruin the victim narrative we’re trying to build, so we decided to shoot this first episode without a real director, with me and Selena acting as directors, but with everyone having a say, and see how it goes…if we really need a director, Selena can get one quickly.”

Hearing this, Jason nodded.

Selena got out of her car and walked elegantly over to us.

Although she wasn’t wearing the social outfit she always wore when we were about to do something work-related.

Since today’s work would only be at my house and she wouldn’t be filmed, Selena apparently decided to come in a more casual outfit.

A beautiful white and yellow floral dress that went very well with her blonde hair tied up in a ponytail that showed off her long white legs.

I think it was the first time I’d seen her in anything that showed her legs, and I have to admit, she had great legs!

But I quickly shifted my gaze from her legs back to her face, which by this time was smiling at me as if it had realized where my gaze was.

Realizing that she had seen me looking at her legs, I was a little embarrassed, but decided to do the best thing a man can do in such a situation: Play dumb.

I just acted as if nothing had happened, and she did the same, so there wouldn’t be a weird vibe in the air.

My mother and Liv finished their makeup while the three of us chatted on the balcony about the plans for the shoot.

“Are you really going to be the script you sent me?” Selena asked curiously.

Now that she was closer, I even noticed that she was wearing much less makeup than usual, which made me think that she looked even more beautiful than she did with makeup on!

“Yeah, I think telling the story of what happened as it actually happened is a good idea, my mom and Liv have already been practicing it for a week, so I think that might be the best way to deal with it.” I explained.

“But what about the outside shots?” Jason asked confused as he remembered the script. “I remember there are parts in the script where you talk about violin lessons when Olivia was younger, how are you going to deal with that?”

I hadn’t talked to them yet about how I was going to handle it, but I already had an answer.

Shooting those scenes elsewhere would be a lot of work, finding places that would allow us to shoot, hiring another actress to play the younger Liv, and various other things like that if we wanted the quality of the documentary to be as high as possible.

So to deal with that in a different way, I came up with an idea.

A skill that I used to make a lot of money at the beginning of my career as JacobTheWerewolf, but which was now sitting on my system screen.

But before I could answer, Selena spoke up instead. “Animation, right? Just like you did the animation for the music video for The Lazy Song and Boyfriend, you intend to complete the exterior shots with a 2D animation to visually represent the parts we would need from other locations or other actors, right?”

Smiling, I nodded. “Yes, exactly, I intend to use my animation skills to fill that gap, even if it takes a little longer to finish the editing of the episode, it’s like we decided before, we’re not in a hurry, the focus is just to make a good show and then knock Dark Pistol off the pedestal they put themselves on, so we have time to work on it.”

Hearing this, Jason was shocked.

“Since when do you know how to draw and animate? Didn’t a furry artist do that for you before?” He asked confused.

But I froze at his question, forgetting that Jason didn’t know that I was that Furry artist…