College Central Launches New Mini Web Series on Valentine’s Day
HAVING successfully premiered on Valentine’s Day, Love Made Me Do It is College Central’s latest offering, with the film company insisting on revenue generation vis-à-vis quality production.
College Central Head of Production, Kudakwashe Jani, told EnterSportNews that the new mini web series is available on YouTube and Gateway Stream Media.
“Gateway Stream will be a week ahead of the YouTube schedule, and this is meant to generate revenue as we are selling the series on Gateway,” he said.
Jani emphasised that the production quality would increase if they could get proper funding.
“Well, the biggest challenge is always money or sponsorship, and we end up cutting many corners. However, where we lack funding, we make it up by being creative,” added Jani.
According to the director Derby Bheta, the inspiration towards this production was coming up with something for Valentine’s Day.
“Vanessa is telling us her story, and she did what she did because of love, hence the title “Love Made Me Do It”.
The mini web series has five episodes (15 minutes). It is the story of Vanessa, recently engaged to Benjamin, who finds out he is dating two other girls, Diana and Wadza, who are pregnant with his child.
Vanessa invites these girls to the house to confront Benji as he is tied down. Still, the plan goes south as Vanessa ends up killing Benji to save Diana, and now all the girls have to work together to get rid of the body without being caught.
“Clotilda Nyagowa plays Vanessa, and Ngoni Chikowore plays Benji,” said Bheta.
Jani concluded that they chose Gateway Stream mainly because they have worked with them before, and the platform is secure with no chances of hacking.
“The content is also assured, so it was easy to partner with them,” he said.
“Wadiwa Wepa Moyo Season 2 did quite well on Gateway Stream as it was one of the highest-grossing content on the platform in 2021,” he added.
College Central has worked on other productions: Wadiwa Wepa Moyo, Blue Roof, Close Call, Things We Do For Love and Special Class.
