Pete Howlett
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There was a time when I had 134 videos on YouTube and 2000 subscribers (when 2000 meant you were really building traffic - it's small beer now most instruction channels are either professionakl or semi professional and brand name sponsored) and you could build a ukulele start to finish by watchingn them. Many did and I have emails offering thanks but more angry and disappointed that I took them down. They had become an albatross and a focus for some savage trolling and flaming. I got criticised for everything from my strongly held views (expected that) to petty things like, 'Why don't you put your videos in order?" I had to stop; it was doing things to my attitude towards people and what I was trying to do - share my craft.
Well I have never stopped sharing my stuff. I now do it through a group page on FaceBook called Pete Howlett Ukulele Club. ANyonecan join but I operate it like a blog and direct peoople to my eprsonal page if they want to talkk about their stuff or what they are doing. It is my wondow into my workshop and is not a forum so I control the content very strictly.
Rather than producing those sharply edited early vidoes I used to put up on YouTube, that took the best part of 4 hours to set up, shoot and produce I now braodcast live. You get a live showreel, very amateur by the now very slick standards being set by others who have a production team but one which is honest, contains all of my miss steps and every single one of my gems. I try to broadcast regularly and have to do it in the early mornings when I am alone in ther building where my workshoop is - during the day, the constant tapping of the silversmith below really bleeds into the filming. Usually I am broadcasting between 8.00am BST and noon. This is too early for US citizens but it is always psoted so you can watch it recorded in full.
Today I am broadcasting at 11.00am before I go to hospital to visit my wife who has just had major cancer surgery... It will be on hand sanding. There is more to this process than meets the eye and it will be a hard shoot because it is the one process most people think they can do without training.
Please join me if you can - it goes out live. If I have a camera operator I can usually answer questions live but since I will be shooting and directing at the same time using Mevo technology I usually have to leave answering live questions till it is posted.
I will continue to broadcast, repeat stuff, make blooper laden vids and generally share my knowledge over FaceBook. YouTube is now such a slick channel that I simply cannot compete with what is now a 'professionals' platform.
Well I have never stopped sharing my stuff. I now do it through a group page on FaceBook called Pete Howlett Ukulele Club. ANyonecan join but I operate it like a blog and direct peoople to my eprsonal page if they want to talkk about their stuff or what they are doing. It is my wondow into my workshop and is not a forum so I control the content very strictly.
Rather than producing those sharply edited early vidoes I used to put up on YouTube, that took the best part of 4 hours to set up, shoot and produce I now braodcast live. You get a live showreel, very amateur by the now very slick standards being set by others who have a production team but one which is honest, contains all of my miss steps and every single one of my gems. I try to broadcast regularly and have to do it in the early mornings when I am alone in ther building where my workshoop is - during the day, the constant tapping of the silversmith below really bleeds into the filming. Usually I am broadcasting between 8.00am BST and noon. This is too early for US citizens but it is always psoted so you can watch it recorded in full.
Today I am broadcasting at 11.00am before I go to hospital to visit my wife who has just had major cancer surgery... It will be on hand sanding. There is more to this process than meets the eye and it will be a hard shoot because it is the one process most people think they can do without training.
Please join me if you can - it goes out live. If I have a camera operator I can usually answer questions live but since I will be shooting and directing at the same time using Mevo technology I usually have to leave answering live questions till it is posted.
I will continue to broadcast, repeat stuff, make blooper laden vids and generally share my knowledge over FaceBook. YouTube is now such a slick channel that I simply cannot compete with what is now a 'professionals' platform.