My Current Dilemma - Aerial Vlog - July 5, 2023 

I'm absolutely stunned by this video. You are such an amazing, impressive and self-reflected personality. I don´t think you need to seperate your mermaid videos from your talking videos. They are one. They both form your awesome channel. I will continue to support you as good as I can. :) Not to forget: You are ability to make the mermaid battle video a real masterpiece. No doubt about that. :)

What do you think of having the subtitles included right in the video itself? Does it add extra value? Does it just distract you? I'm playing around with formatting right now and trying to figure out what is best! I'd love to hear what you think!! 🤙🤙

I found your channel by accident, when I was trying to find info about setting up a backyard aerial rig. Watched your video about the setup, then about your Mermaiding adventures and subscribed after that. Love your videos, they feel so genuine and authentic to me. Your channel reminds me of old day RU-vid that I miss, when people would just be sharing whatever they feel like sharing. No content plans, no promotion/marketing strategies, just sharing open heartedly, using whatever equipment they have at hand. You know, one can be running on some social scripts or whatever and yet still be themselves in their RU-vid blog because their purpose is not to impress the audience pretending to be something they're not, but rather to open up, to share, to create a community. And I feel that this is exactly what you have been doing! As you experiment in that space, you may suddenly stumble upon some direction that will feel very valuable, rewarding, and exciting for you. As for feeling like you can't express things the way you really want, I think it's a matter of experimenting and iterating too. I'm not a content creator myself but I think it works similarly to any other creative work, be it writing, making art, dancing etc. You sort of keep shedding these layers of your personality that are in the way of true self expression, and your creations become more crisp, more to the point, more aligned with who you are (and your understanding of who you are improves too). P.S. While RU-vid algorithm may not be doing you favors, I'm sure there are several people among your subscribers who have notification bell turned on :) I'm personally looking forward to anything you may feel like sharing next: mermaiding, aerials, random thoughts, your day to day etc.

Love you friend! And the algorithm is really weird cause for awhile I saw every post you made but for about the last month or two I haven’t gotten a single notification. But alas, you always make me smile and listening to your thoughts soothes my restless heart ♡♡

I don't know how many of them were truly helped, but I see a lot of RU-vidrs saying they found good advice on skillshare

First of: I don't know what the algorithm likes and dislikes so this is definetly on the side more on the personal advice side than mxaimizing clicks or whatever. I think there is space for both the authentic and aspiring film maker. Especially the mermaid content but maybe also the aerial content would be a cool base for some more cinematic clips. That doesn't meen ALL of that content has to be like this. See it like when producing your own movie style content that this is just another hobby you share with us and it has different rules. Movies are not expected to be authentic 😄 so dont feel bad about it if you are not. You could even share the behind the scenes. Basically what it takes to make one. with those you could be more on the authentic side of things. If you like you can just let the camara do its thing. See if you like it, if you have problems with the talking without script you could do a voiceover or prepare anything from notes to fullfledged scripts. I don't know if you are the type of person that prethinks a lot of things or if you just let things come and build an opinion as things come up. If you are the latter type like i am you will propably want to take some notes just for figuring out all the details of what your opinion really is. Look at it from different perspectives. If you then present it with whatever amount of preparation on script and notes it is still you. Beeing authentic is not about just presenting your gut feeling to other people. But if you would want you could even include your gut feeling and how it has changed or not in the clips after you forged your opinion. Hope this makes sense and I m not failing at the language barrier

Hm... finding the balance betwixt videos that do well, and videos that make your heart happy can be challenging. One of the tidbits of wisdom that I've had to chew on comes out of watching numerous interviews with voice over artists. Many of them had moments were they had realized that they continued to face multiple rejections that occur in that industry stemmed because they simply "had" to have a creative outlet. Perhaps your dilemma is adjacent to that in this: seek to continue to make the effort for the videos that provide that outlet for you, whether seeking to create community, content, or what have you and then you will be ready for when the "right moment" happens.

The subtitles are fine. English is not everybodies mothertongue so sometimes it helps. :) By the way: I have sent you an Email recently. Did you got it? I really would love to connect with you. If you need help and/or feedback for the mermaid battle for example, I would love to help so much. :)