Anyone else rubbish at making reels?
When I started The Good Soap 6 years ago, social media was a much quieter, and for me much simpler, space to navigate. Write a post, post a picture and chat to your customers, simple and lovely. No longer is this the case, I think we are now expected to produce oscar winning reels on a daily basis - try to post pictures on Instagram or Facebook and it's 'Why not turn these pictures into a reel' or challenges from Instagram to post reels every day, and Facebook telling you how many times a day you should post. Now in my life I've always just done my own thing, however, I'd love to increase our engagement so I'm attempting the 'post a reel every day challenge for 2 months' on Instagram. The problem is, I'm no Spielberg or Hitchcock, most of the time I look like a primary school child let loose with a video camera!
I love doing demo's with our products, so intend to make more of those, but even that has had it's stresses, when I deleted a beautiful video I took of Gemma yesterday, demonstrating our facial cleanser. I didn't just delete it from my gallery, I somehow went 1 step further and deleted it from my Trash, then tried to recover it and ended up with some clips coming back, but not the ones I needed, I'm an idiot!
For anyone who desn't know, Gemma is not only our parcel manager she's also my little sister. Imagine this video instead - Gemma sat on a chair, me behind her. She has a headband on to hold her fringe back. My hair is in plaits, mostly due to me being a hot middle aged woman, and I don't mean that in good way! We're both wearing our orange Good Soap aprons (over clothes I must add!). I'm removing her make up, which I have applied for demo purposes, using our facial cleanser looking all professsional, the dog barking in the background as she still can't accept that we have neighbours and tries to protect me as they walk down their own path. Make up removed I decide to follow by demonstrating the cleansing oil as a facial massage oil, so lucky old Gemma now receives a lovely relaxing facial massage, using my hands, a Gua Sha tool and a facial roller, she sits there with her eyes closed, gorgeously relaxed, and then a delivery guy bangs on the front door so loudly it's almost like he's trying to smash through the door, (delivering me a bum bag, now that's a whole other story), the dog flies off the back of the couch towards the front door barking loudly and 'kills' the parcel that has come through the letterbox hurling it around! Gemma and I don't flinch, I'd already decided this would be a silent video so it's fine, I can remove the sounds from the background. We then watch the video back, without sound, and agree that it's lovely and we both approve. It really shows off the product, Gemma looks lovely and I can't wait to share it with customers..........except I can't now........