The Chinese in Thailand, the Chinese who like Thailand, there should be no one who does not know Sean. His YouTube channel, called Sean's World, has 88,600 subscribers. His headline is called "Sean's Thai Life" and has 1.091 million followers.
Yesterday he came to 14,400 square meters of fern paradise to find Mei Yi happy to shoot a video. From the perspective of a video protagonist, Mei Yi Happy immerses herself in how a blogger with a million accounts makes a video. There are so many points worth learning.
A shooting equipment and staff
Sean's video Douyin alone has 1 million fans, plus other platforms, the total number of fans is amazing. Secondly, Sean is still a day change. The workload is high and the audience is large. So what about his shooting equipment and team?
Sean's shooting equipment is a pocket camera. Shoot handheld. As you can also see from his video, the depth of field of the video is very simple and there is not a lot of change.
Sean and his wife came to paradise of ferns, and there were no people accompanying him. Sean is solely responsible for the video shooting, and in the later stage, two people divide the work, one is responsible for editing, and one is responsible for adding subtitles.
The "Sean's Thai Life" channel has been changing for a year and has never stopped. Sometimes it's even two times a day. Mei Yi happily asked, why do you need two more issues a day?
Sean's answer was very clear. Because some of the material stories are too long, they are divided into upper and lower episodes. If you post the last episode today, send the next episode tomorrow. The next day the episode will have poor traffic. So I just sent out two episodes a day. Viewers who watched the previous episode, by the way, watched the next episode.
From travel bloggers to character stories
Sean's video wasn't all that hot in the first place. He likes to play around, and the first thing he did was a travel blogger, sharing Thai food, drink and fun, and the data is not very good.
Mei Yi Happy from last August to start the day more video, at the beginning is also filmed Thailand travel vlog, today to a café, tomorrow to go to a temple. The effect is also very poor. In February, I tried to make a vertical short video, and the one with the highest reading volume was 3,000.
Mei Yi Happy did vibrato for two months, and the fans did not exceed 100. Considering the 15-second short video, there is no fan precipitation, and there is no knowledge precipitation. Mei Yi Happy decided to return to making a medium-length video. Start from 0 to make popular science videos of ferns.
Sean's current video is not simply a travel vlog. Instead, it is based on the character story.
Take a look at the titles of his recent videos and see what kind of character stories they are.
"Chinese ethnic minority girl, came to Thailand alone for 8 years, opened 4 restaurants and closed 3"
"Shanghai demolition households, why rent a house of 1,000 yuan in Thailand, are they happy?" 》
"Northeast Big Brother in Chiang Mai, Thailand, the inn was forced to close its doors and move to the mountains to live in tents"
The title is very interesting, a living person, a vivid story.
He shoots a happy video of Mei Yi, titled "Shanghai Girls in Thailand, Dealing with Plants Every Day, Sharing The Experience of Achieving Financial Freedom by Luck".
3. Set the theme before shooting
Sean arrived at fern paradise at three o'clock in the afternoon. Before he came, he had already preset a theme. A Shanghai girl in Chiang Mai, working with plants.
After meeting, we simply said hello. Sean quickly found a filming location and recorded the opening footage of the video by the hotel's pool.
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The next step is to find a place to talk and choose an angle where you can see the ferns. In the form of an interview, Mei Yi was asked some questions.
1. Why did Mei Yi Happy come to Chiang Mai?
2. Where did Mei Yi's funds for a happy trip around the world come from?
After asking two questions, Sean and his wife discussed where the focus should be. I designed the following questions to visit me.
3, a Shanghai girl left the city and lived in nature. That nature has a lot of small animals, geckos, earthworms and the like, mei yi happy or not?
4. Leaving Shanghai and coming to Thailand alone to live, what kind of boyfriend will Mei Yi Happy find?
5. After the epidemic, will Meiyi Happy continue to travel around the world, or what plans will it do?
These problems revolve around a Shanghai girl running to a small foreign place to open a homestay and a café.
IV. Add commentary and details to interviews
At this point, Mei Yi was happy to do not do well when she made the video herself. When formulating some nouns, it is not elaborated more.
For example, when we talk about xiaomi's small love speaker, Meiyi Happy just brushes a small love.
Sean will add details to the elaboration of the little love speaker.
When Sean asks Mei Yi if she is afraid of bugs, she will use her wife as an example. My wife would be scared when she saw a gecko. Then ask Mei Yi to be happy, living alone in the botanical garden, afraid or not afraid.
This gave Mei Yi a lot of inspiration for happiness, and later when Mei Yi was happy, she needed to be more straightforward and provide more elaboration.
5 Add themes during filming
During Sean's filming, Mei Yi Happily pulled the Thai grandfather into the camera. Let Grandpa introduce you to the history of the Fern Paradise Hotel.
It is very large, with 14,400 square meters. Sean asked Grandpa how much the land would cost if it were sold? Grandpa pressed the computer. A big number.
Sean asked how much a month a hotel would cost before the pandemic.
Sean summed up while shooting, there are many hidden rich people in Thailand. I photographed grandpa's dress again. Speaking to the camera, even so, they were dressed very low-key.
We took a picture of the hotel, the nursery, the café.
Sean is going to shoot the end of the video to summarize. His wife asked him which video you were going to shoot, and if the protagonist was Mei Yi, it was a summary of the Shanghai girl's life in Chiang Mai, Thailand. If it's Thailand's hidden rich, it's another one.
Sean stood and thought about it, then recorded two endings directly at the pocket camera. There was no manuscript in the whole process, and it was basically blurted out.
Welcome to Fern Paradise to play with me
Mei Yi Happy in the 14,400 square meters of fern paradise, met several Chinese people who do self-media.
Mei Yi Happy will also pay attention to their accounts to see how they make videos. Most of them are in the form of tourist vlogs.
Come to Meiyi Happy to play here, take pictures of the material, go home and make it for a few days, and will send the finished film to Meiyi Happy.
Their videos will briefly talk about ferns, introduce cafes and hotels, and occasionally shoot a few shots of Mei Yi happy. The number of followers on the platform ranges from 500 to 3000. I've been doing it for half a year.
The "Sean Thai Life" channel can achieve 1 million fans in just one year. After Mei Yi Happy personally experienced being interviewed, she realized that the cattle people really have something different. The first is the grasp of the topic, the continuous discovery of attractive points during the shooting process, and the creation of a new theme. The conclusion summarizes and sublimates the theme.
This is a rare opportunity to learn directly with the video blogger Big V. He can really excel. Mei Yi Happy will also work hard to carry out the science popularization of ferns to the end.
Welcome to Chiang Mai, Thailand's 14,400-square-meter paradise of ferns.