Part 1. HOW DANGEROUS IS TRAVEL IN IRAQ? See here what I saw.
The newest series for my youtube presentation, #MinuteMonologuesWithMariande I joined international Humanitarian Sally Becker and Scott LaStaiti of Go to Ground News Inc for a trip to Kurdistan Iraq to find the Yazidi people on their plight of captivity, bondage, genocide and terrorism in their historic home land at the hands of ISIS.
Please join me on these one minute videos to discover a hidden world and a side not often shown by mainstream news. The Hopeful side of a beautiful people who just want to go home.
Scott LaStaiti *Instagram/Twitter: @ScottLaStaiti
Made possible by the Go to Gound News Organization
*Twitter: @g2gnewsinc & http://www.gotoground.com
We arrived in the capital city Erbil (Irbil) in northern Kurdistan Iraq with very little information of what to expect.
Our mission was in support of International humanitarian Sally Becker *Twitter: @SallyBecker121
Representative Prince of the Yazidi religion in Iraq and World, Member of the supreme council of spiritual Yazidi, Breen Tahseen
*Twitter: @TahseenBreen
Our host and guide Karim Kamal *
Twitter: @karimkamal83
The purpose of this trip was to journey into the deepest corners of Iraq where the oldest monotheistic religion in the world, the Yazidi people are currently exiled in large populations outside of from their homes and villages in refugee camps after fleeing for their lives from the enslavement, genocide and torture at the hands of ISIS extremist.
I hope you enjoy this series. My intention as a filmmaker has never been to exploit anyone for the purpose of entertainment but to inform and show the public the urgent need for recognition needed by these people from the Global Community. I believe this journey and series will however make you laugh, cry, and ideally see the beauty of a people who have lost everything and been through things unimaginable and yet they maintained their dignity are fighting for their lost brothers and sisters and seeking recognition by the United Nations for peace, protection and their homes back.
I hope you are inspired.
The Quote is by Alexander Garlands The Beach
The Song is Dayvan Cowboy by Boards of Canada
For more information on how you can get involved, support or keep current with the plight of the Yazidi people still on going at this time, please visit http://www.yazda.org
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Very interesting, looking forward to more of your content.
Thank you, I'm enjoying sharing them here! I also enjoy making them I honestly do it for myself. I'm sure many artists or poets have said it before but my best work seems to come from me when I am at my lowest. Usually with these I'll shoot when I travel somewhere beautiful and then create the edit when I'm free based off of quotes or voice clips I've recorded when I felt in need of something.
Thanks for letting me know that you enjoy them though. I suppose an artist needs an audience although that never stopped VanGogh
I'm really enjoying your minute monologues.. Makes me think I should work towards making smaller videos of some kind as well. And I am working on a VLOG but so far the two episodes I've made are over 10 mins.. So.. If I could get something down closer to around 1 minute like yours.. That'd be good, seems like people are more and more watching the smaller clips these days as well.
You should! I think it' key. There's also a growing statistic that millennial's don't want to read news they want to watch it, and some sites are popping up to respond to that.
10 minutes is A LONG TIME to invest in someone, especially at the beginning. If you look on my channel the videos from two years ago, the Westbrooks stuff, that's a family of sisters who already had a HUGE following on the internet. When you're developing an audience from scratch I think you need to find it's home first. (Literally I think my home is here on steemit for obvious reasons as I stated in my introduction.)
It's like the prequalify stages. And although the channel I built on the girls two years ago has 40K+ subscribers, I know those people are not my new target, which is also something to consider. I think if you took your ten minute vlog and started off making 15 second videos or 30 second videos, focus visuals and relatable content, you'd have no problem growing the audience.
ten minutes is a BEAST and you won't see the return on that unless you're filming a train wreck or something similar... if that even makes sense or is helpful.
I agree that there's a lot more potential in smaller videos.. I just have to find out a way to create a shorter kind of video. Not sure I wanna try to reduce the vlog, I might keep that around 5-10 mins.. But I wanna do something shorter around 10 min or a couple mins.. Just gotta figure out what..
Hmmm... Definitely something to consider.. Thanks!