Chapter 353
So it was Cooper Mitchell! No wonder he looked so familiar!
Apparently, the director and Cooper had worked together on the video. After its release, the entire
student crew was amazed. They whispered amongst themselves, with the focus of their gossip being
Cooper.
“Oh, so he’s Cooper Mitchell! My god, he’s so handsome!”
“So that’s Natasha’s uncle! He received his double Ph.D. from Bayside University at just 18 years old.
God, how can there be such a talented person in this world?!”
“I’m so jealous! If only I could have such an amazing and handsome uncle!”
Natasha heard everyone’s whispers and her lips moved into a confident smile, but she was sneering
secretly in her heart. What a bunch of peasants! What wishful thinking! However, being Cooper Mitchell’s
biological niece, she was naturally proud about it. Thus, she couldn’t help but straighten her back and
enjoy the looks of envy people threw at her.
After watching the videos, everyone dispersed. Sophia and Gemma exited the School of
Cinematography’s building and decided to take a look at the Alumni Corridor. The Alumni Corridor was
also one of Bayside University’s well-known spots; it was where the best students of the university were
disyed along the corridor. The long corridor was continuously expanding, with new ‘Best’ students
being constantly added.
To be disyed in the corridor, one had to be the top student of Bayside University. On average, a new
student was added to the corridor every few years. From its establishment until the present, a total of
over 60 students have been added to the Bayside University Alumni Corridor.
Sophia had never visited the corridor before, and today was her first time. In the corridor, as she was
walking, she stopped when she saw Michael’s portrait. When Michael was studying in the university, he
attended under the name ‘Taylor Murray’. So now, the name under the portrait was also ‘Taylor Murray’.
With that one portrait of his handsome face in the corridor, instantly, the whole corridor became more
star-studded.
Bayside University had many other campuses and amongst them was the Bayside University of National
Defense. It was a military academy and from its name alone, it seemed to have nothing inmon with
Bayside University.
However, they both operated under the same academic systems and were both under Bayside
University management. Thus, alumni from the Bayside University of National Defense were also
present in the corridor, including Joel Fletcher and Irene Weber.
Finally, she came across Cooper Mitchell’s portrait, which had his aplishments listed beneath it. He
was 18 when he received a double Ph.D. from Bayside University in music and economics. He really
was a rare talent. In the hundred years of Bayside University’s history, he seemed to be the only one with
such gifts.
Other alumni often only got their portraits put up in the corridor upon graduating and making a difference
and a name for themselves in the world. For example, Michael Fletcher only got his ce in the corridor
after bing the first actor from Cethos to receive an Oscar.
Even Joel only had his portrait recently hung, whereas Cooper was the first alumni to ever be featured in
the corridor while still an actual student.
Looking at the timing of it, he must have been 17 when he was given a ce in the Alumni Corridor as
he looked 17 in the featured portrait. Cooper’s childhood face carried a carefree smile but ording to
his list of aplishments, he wasn’t just a Bayside University Ph.D. graduate. At that point, he had
also taken over the family business and was the junior president.
Cooper Mitchell, seemed to Sophia like a tall mountain thaty in front of her. A tall mountain that she
would not be able to surpass. No, he was everyone’s tall mountain!
Sophia raised her head to look at Cooper, trying to envision him experiencing the past 20 years. She
tilted her head and looked at it for a long while before subconsciously holding onto the pendant thaty
on her chest. Who knew when would she be able to be like Cooper and be featured in the corridor?
Sophia followed along with the crew of the promo video, shooting for several days straight until it was
done. After that, it didn’t take long for everyone to get the sample of the promo video. She happily took
the samples home to show Michael. After all, this was her debut role!
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Michael yed the sample tape on the living room television. After watching it once, his eyebrows
crinkled; he felt as though something wasn’t right so he watched it again. What the hell kind of video is
this?! The entire video was filmed very well—its pacing was appropriate and the soundtrack to it was
emotional. Everything was of high quality and the editing was excellent too. The only problem was
Sophia.
Whenever Sophia was featured in a scene, the entire film’sposition and color grading changed
completely. Her makeup didn’t match the style of the video. While others had on light makeup that gave
them an elegant and suitable temperament, Sophia had heavy makeup that did not match her clothes.
Theposition, angle, and positioning of the camera were also huge issues.
Amateurs, as a whole, wouldn’t be able to tell what the problem was. They’d only get one feeling—she
was ugly! She had essentially been portrayed as Bayside University’s number one flirtatious gold digger
trying to fish for a man!
Sophia might be a greenhorn who didn’t know how to make movies but she had a husband at home who
did this professionally. Two days ago when Sophia was at home researching and preparing for the promo
video shoot, Michael had also nced at it.
He noticed that it was the same situation asst year wherein the whole crew revolved around one
person, deliberately filming them beautifully and making the others seem ugly.
It was evident who that one person was. One only had to see who was the nicest to watch in the sample
and who seemed to be problematic. Who knew that one could use a promotional video to create so
many new avenues? He had really underestimated Natasha!
Michael directly told Sophia, “All of your scenes need to be reshot. Those close-up photos too; retake
them!” Not only were the visuals in the video ugly, but the photos to be posted on the official website
were shot particrly ugly too. There were major issues with theposition and the angles of them.
They had tried to shoot the pictures from below but it was typically really difficult to get good pictures
from that angle.
When Sophia watched the samples, she did feel that something wasn’t quite right, and now she finally
saw what was wrong. She never thought Natasha would be so bitter as to deliberately make her seem
ugly! And not only her, but everyone else was shot to seem ugly too! She frowned.
“But if we were to reshoot everything—seeing that they could make me look ugly the first time—they’d do
it again the second time. After all, the senior director is one of Natasha’s people.”
Michael set down the remote control. “Leave this to me. I’m the professional.”
With that, he took away the samples. The next day, he invited a team of professionals to reshoot
Sophia’s scenes. Michael personally supervised the entire production. Although Sophia only had a few
scenes, he ensured that they were the most beautiful shots.
And sure enough, it was professionally done. The new sample arrived within a few days and the new
scenes had been perfectly edited into the original sample. Sophia now looked like a dynamite. All her
angles and theposition of the frames were now first-ss, and her make-up was perfect. Everything
achieved the original artistic concept.
However, it was already toote. At that point, the original promo video had already been uploaded onto
the university’s official website.
Michael nced at the website. In the promo video, Bayside University and Natasha looked beautiful.
Everyone looked really energetic and portrayed the university well. Everyone except Sophia, who just
looked ugly. Because of this, Sophia was a little discouraged. After the hectic past couple of days, with
Michael sacrificing his own time to apany her and personally oversee the production on the two-day
shoot, it was still toote. The promo video crew had done all this deliberately!
The college entrance exams were over and it was time to release the results. These next two days would
be when Bayside University’s official website would gain thergest amount of traffic. Who wouldn’t want
to appear on the homepage looking stunning?! Things had already progressed until this point. Although it
was a little regrettable, it ultimately was not a big deal. If Natasha liked being so smug about it, Sophia
could only let her be!
However, this matter wasn’t a small issue to Michael. His wife’s issues were never a small matter! If his
wife was unhappy, then it’d be a huge issue! If his wife was unhappy, then he’d be unhappy!