Meh...

Hello again – it’s been a while since I uploaded some sort of blog. I guess that’s all I tend to talk about on here which is depressing in itself. Like a bird moaning about having to fly everywhere when most of us chumps have to pay a metal tube with engines just for the privilege.

I’ve experienced somewhat of an impasse lately, that has made me think of what is important to me and my video ‘career’ on YouTube. When I started taking the channel a little more seriously and giving myself targets to hit, it was all exciting and new. Then the days and weeks went by and I was watching and admiring people living the dream; making videos and getting loads back; rising up from the shadows of the big players and even making money from it.

Of course my dream will always be just that. To be able to live off making videos. That’s it in a nutshell. But as an adult, that dream comes with rational thought and forces you to weigh up how you could make that happen and what risks are you willing to take to get there. I’ve always been quite a cautious person when it comes to taking risks and it has always been difficult to drop everything and chase the dream. Especially now with a mortgage and commitments that require me to make additional plans to work around these obstacles.

I also never seem to have the time to do the things that are necessary for day to day life, let alone writing that film that I have inside me… ;)

If anything, this journey I’m on – learning about film making, improving the tools of the trade while simultaneously being creative makes me appreciate the efforts of all those people who DO make a living off producing life changing movies.

So what’s next for Snare this year? What is the great plan? What ideas are coming up?

Firstly, I’d like to simply make more videos. Not as many as I did in 2010, which was ridiculous…

I don’t actually think that I’ve spent much time this year thinking about where I want to be at the end of the year, which is strange as we’re almost halfway through… EEK! The main ambition is a clear one. I need to increase my audience and get them involved in my videos. I recently hit the magical 4 figures in subscriptions, and it felt nice that 1000 people like my videos enough to click that little yellow box. ‘How’ to increase that is the big question. I’ve recently bought a new camera and so I have the means to make some excellent quality videos. I just need to get creative, write stuff in my head and get it on paper. Practice doesn’t make perfect, but perfect practice does.

There is nothing more tragic that achieving something like I have on YouTube and then doing nothing with it. I have people who want to watch me, but if I don’t produce anything for them to watch, then they will leave me. Simples.

As always, this has turned into a big fat rant of brain vomit on a lunch break, so apologies for that. I guess I’m just in a ‘desert of no direction’ and need to find the pretentiously named ‘oasis of ambition’ LOL

Seriously though – thanks for reading and drop by YouTube or twitter to say hello. It would be lovely to hear from you.

‘Til next time,

Snare.