How creators make the most of their time?

This week we finally started publishing videos again 🎉 and it feel like such a relief to share creator conversations again.
Freddy allowed me to share snippets of our chat with all of you where I help him think through challenges as a filmmaker who wants to create more videos for himself.

💛 Valentin

How Do You Manage Your Time?

This week I published a new podcast format to kick of season two. It’s an audio only podcast where I talk with Tom about the day to day of being a content creator with a big vision. The goal of this new audio only format is to give you an insight to all the little things we do every day to push our projects further. Tom is the initiator of Creators for Climate an initiative connecting scientists and creators to collaboratively raise awareness about pressing environmental issues. As I pursue our mission to highlight and connect creators across Europe, with the goal of building a community that enables creative independence.

In our first episode we delve into a fundamental challenge every creator faces - How we manage and track our time. It’s the one resource we all have in common that can not be replenished and understanding where it goes and what we do with it is extremely vital to the success of any pursuit we have in life. My way of tracking time is embarrassing simple but it works. Having data on this is the groundwork for assembling a team to bring our visions to life.

I hope you enjoy this first installment and you can look forward to this at the beginning of every month.

How Gawx makes His Videos?

Gawx make cinematic and dreamlike videos like no other. If you’ve been dying to know what goes into every frame the Latest Episode of Digital Spaghetti has the answer. Jack Conte watches a video with Gawx and to ask him directly how and why he created the shots.

It’s a fascinating behind the scenes look into the creative process of a stand out creator.

Don’t Niche Down

Anyone starting out on their creator journey has heard these words before: Find your niche. This is supposedly what's needed to find success on a platform like YouTube. But just knowing what you make videos about is unlikely to get you millions of views. Even worse, it could kill your creativity and leave you feeling trapped. Jay Alto shares his thoughts on what it means to become your own niche and how it helped him transition from Twitter to YouTube.

In my opinion, making yourself the niche is one way of creating enjoyable videos, but there are better frameworks for it—ones I hope to explore in a future issue of this newsletter.

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