Why I started vLoging daily?

Let me be honest with you. I was contemplating vlogging for a long time before I decided to try it out myself. And I did not start doing it for myself per se.

I first tried doing weekly live broadcasts on Facebook Live for a couple of months. I did it for Amuse Bouche – the coking school where I spend most of my time. It was quite a fun experience, but as we moved to a new and bigger space, I had to concentrate on the more important stuff and stopped putting out the regular weekly live video.

I had to do what I had to do. Moving the business to a bigger space meant that we had to change our whole workflow and adapt to the new environment that we have created for ourselves. The new “office,” of course, is more costly to maintain, so this automatically translated to more work, longer hours, and even less time for me to do anything else.

So let me fast-forward about five months. After settling down a bit, I started thinking about restarting the weekly live broadcast on Facebook. However, I could not find a suitable time to do it so people can watch. Since I know that consistency is crucial, I figured that starting a weekly vlog would be an alternative to what I was doing on Facebook Live.

At first, I tried doing a weekly post on YouTube. It seemed to be a relatively easy task, but it soon transpired that the videos were longer than what my greatest critics have expected. In other words, my partner was not very happy.

When I thought about the problem I have created, I decided that shorter form content would be better to post on a brand new channel. This is how, after a month of weekly videos, I started vlogging daily.

This also appeared to be not as easy as it sounds. Trying to figure out what to shoot in a day when nothing exciting is happening is quite a challenge. And even if you have something to show or talk about, it takes a tremendous amount of time to translate your idea to a watchable video. At least it was for me. On top of it, I had to learn everything. And I genuinely mean everything related to shooting and editing videos. I had no previous experience in the area, so a short two-minute video could take me a whole day to produce.

I did this daily thing for about nine months, mainly on my own time. With time, shooting and editing became a bit easier and not so much time-consuming. I hopefully learned how to tell marginally better stories too. But with the beginning of the new culinary season as we call it at Amuse Bouche, I stopped daily and put it on a back burner, so I can concentrate on teaching cooking classes and work on other projects.

Now, after more than 60 days of social distancing (as they call it), forced “vacation,” I had time to rethink the vlogging project. I started putting on more behind the scenes content to Amuse Bouche’s channel, and now I plan to start my own YouTube channel, where I can do whatever I want. But thinking and planning are overrated, so I already did set everything up. Now I am left with the daunting task of shooting and editing my first video. Wish me luck, and as they say, “I will see you on the next one”!