TEN YEARS ON YOUTUBE!
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- the last few Blogs were just links to my YouTube page, part of my new obsession, to learn and grow as much as I can.
April 2019 will be TEN YEARS of YouTube for me!
Ten years since I set up my YouTube account to share video footage of our amazing time at Kimberley Coastal Camp!
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Kimberley Coastal Camp
One of the most remote fishing camps on Earth!
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Eleven years ago, I first discovered Facebook, and loved that I could share photos with my family.
Evolution of Facebook: Positive Fishing is on facebook, so now I can share with the whole world!
Remember we are talking a bleed'n decade ago, time goes so fast!!
Way back then, I was EMAILING my family letters and photos!! Thanks goodness for Emails really, because we only went to the Mail plane twice in the 5 months we were caretaking there (not for mail, but fresh fruit and veg).
Once I discovered YouTube, I fall in love with being able to share video footage with everyone.
Mind you I was still making DVD's to send home, and only uploading the short clips straight off my video camera. It was years later that YouTube let me upload clips longer than 5mins, and that is when I uploaded the clips on KCC playlist above, of our camp life.
So jump forward a couple of years, we are home in Derby town, working, living normal lifes, hahaha nothing normal about Derby!! The video footage onto YouTube slows, who is interested in us working?? ;)
We are always fishing, catching, cooking, filming!!! So I start recording again.
Up The Coast from Derby: Buccaneer Achipelago
At that time, we were taking our big boat Black Thing, Up the coast' regularly with friends (it's always good to have another boat around when you go that remote!!).
The fishing and scenery is amazing, so I started making party clips of our time up there. Trying to add the best music landed me in the poop.
Back then YouTube was not so worried about Copyright, they let you use any music you wanted, so I had heaps of very cool clips. Then as the music laws started changing a few of my clips got strikes against them, and then a few were banned from being able to play on YouTube at all :(
I was devastated!!
My favorite clip (my biggest fish) was BANNED IN ALL COUNTIES due to AC/DC playing in the back ground! It was heart braking when I had to delete the soundtrack, which also removed some of the chit-chat.
But we roll with the punches, learn from our mistakes, and move on IMPOVED!!
My next mistake: link to our time LIVING ON THE BEACH
While LIVING on the beach in 2015, this could have been an awesome YouTube opportunity, but instead I started this Blog. I treated my Blog as if I were writing home to family, one big letter to everyone. I used my YouTube clips as an extension to the blog, like pictures after you have read the story. Next time (that's a whole other blog!) I will give them both a life of there own!! I can tell the full story on Blog AND YouTube!
-I love my blog, it's not being left out!
Between then and now, I practiced little bits of everything while living in Exmouth
So TEN YEARS on: I'm still super passionate about Fishing, Filming and Movie making.
NOW: since the change of YouTube rules last year, I have had a big eye opener. I did not even realise what was going on with my clips from copyright issues. I had 3 clips Banned from ALL countries (AC/DC has strong copyright laws!!) and A LOT of other clips the music was making the money off instead of me!!
Stop, hold it, wait a minute! I totally agree that the bands, singers, musicians SHOULD be getting the money!! I just didn't know what I was doing. So now I have had the LONG process of trying to take music off my old clips, only to realise that
- some I can not remove.
- if I remove it, the clips are not as good.
- the music is old,
- the clips are old.
I've been reminiscing too much! Looking back on my own memories, thinking too much about my old clips. Instead of moving on and making new movies/memories!
WHEN THE YOUTUBE RULES CHANGED! This woke me up a bit, made me think about my channel, clips and the future of Positive Fishing on YouTube.
Oh and my computer, GoPro and phone all needed to be upgraded at the same time = a sign for sure!
What Now: I'm learning!
I am giving myself a year of learning about filming, editing, YouTube laws! And hopefully picking up a few Subscribers and useful feedback on the way.
So if you would like to be part of my YouTube growth, and watch us fish our way around Australia and NZ, please be sure to subscribe to our channel: Positive Fishing
I'd love feed back on all my YouTube clips, and Blogs please!
Let me know what you think. I have big shoulders I can handle anything.
Let me know what you would like to see more of, or any subject, place or topic you think we should show more of.
I'm excited about my Social Media future!
Oh and did I mention that we are off on another FISHING holiday to NZ in just 2 weeks!!!
Stay tuned for more YouTube movies AND blogs!
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