I have recently stepped into the world of vlogging with my company Twilight Visuals. Vanessa and I decided to use the video style to help give our brand a face. We both feel like we are more connected to a brand when you can see the people behind it. You can connect with them and grow with them as they progress and feel as though you have helped them achieve a bit more in their business just by supporting them.

Gradually I am getting more confident with filming in public, the more I relax the more I can take time to capture shots I want to show in our vlogs. I may get some random stares but I'm now just trying to take them on the chin, plus a lot of the time I think people are just intrigued to know what you're doing and hope you're not filming them. With doing something you enjoy you just have to be confident, even if it does seem alien to everyone around you.

Getting filming every day programmed into my daily routine is something I have struggled with. As I'm currently working from home I just tend to get on with what I'm doing and don't necessarily push the record button to film every little thing, but I guess that's what makes up a vlog. It's our daily life, but right now I feel mines not all that interesting - so sad - at 23 I don't have an interesting life - stay in school kids. Let's be real though you don't want to sit and watch someone working for a whole vlog do you?

Plus I think a problem is if you're having a bad day, vlogging those moments for all to see is very personal - and I can't say i'm ever in the mood to talk to anyone or see anyone let alone film myself having a bad day for everyone to look at.

What vloggers do in a way is quite admirable, they film their every moment - the good and the bad - and I think that's what draws us into watching strangers personal lives. We can relate to them. I guess it's something I will gradually get the grasp of the more it's implemented into my life. I do aim in the new year to start daily vlogging for my own personal channel as I think it will be very rewarding and will encourage me to film everyday.

Keep an eye out on this space!

   - Hannah x

In the last few month I decided to start my own business with my friend Vanessa. We're both interested in photography and film, well I say interested, extremely passionate is probably more fitting. We've known each other since school, went to different uni's and studied different subjects but still ended up back in Peterborough seeing each other quite a bit.

Now Peterborough doesn't have a great deal in terms of creative jobs, it's mainly made up of retail, restaurants and insurance companies. Yes if you do your research there are a couple of places you could work as a video editor, but as those jobs are so limited they are pretty hard to get.

Here's a little bit of background if you haven't read any of my previous posts:

I came out of uni, returned to Peterborough and fell into a massive rut. All I wanted was a job in film but with no means to move location I was stuck with bog standard jobs I didn't really want to be working. Over time I got back into filming, not as much as I would have liked but enough to realise this is what I want to do. I would mainly film when I went away, so holidays and festivals, they always make for interesting videos, but really it wasn't enough to satisfy my creative mind. I wanted to find someway of optimising my time between shifts in the most depressing, mind destroying places I've ever worked.

My dad is quite the entrepreneur and approached me one day with doing the social media/marketing work for one of his businesses, which turned into being the marketing assistant for multiple businesses and somehow along the way we dragged Vanessa in. We would work together on content planning and writing, all those social media must do's, product photography and editing and a little bit of website designing. We found that we actually worked well together but that wasn't going to be the greatest test of our friendship or what we could do side by side.

This summer my cousin and his fiancé approached me to film their wedding. I hadn't done such a large project like that since I was at uni so was immediately terrified but extremely excited to film something so amazing. This was going to be my first wedding, the fact I had never filmed one before or seeing one being filmed before really got at me. I did my research, I talked with my cousin and his fiancé to find out what they wanted but still I had this little voice in the back of my head that I wasn't going to be able to do this.

I knew I had to do it and I knew I was going to have to overcome the fear of messing it up, it was only the biggest day of their lives, no biggy ehh?

The task of filming a wedding, let alone a family members wedding is a tough one and a lot for one person, so I asked to bring Vanessa along to help. I knew we worked well together and this was going to be the day of truth. On the hottest day of the year and my birthday I had my best friend by my side doing what we love and as stressful as it was I wouldn't have changed that day at all. It taught us that it doesn't matter how organised you are things can still go wrong but most importantly we learnt that we could actually do this.

From filming the wedding we were both approached by various people to film adverts, promotional videos etc. I needed help on some projects so obviously went to Vanessa to be my number 2 and vice versa. It wasn't until we jokingly said one day we should work together that we actually thought it wasn't that bad an idea and that is how our little company came into existence.

Twilight Visuals: a photography and videography company based in a small city in East Anglia, founded by two young women.

I am pretty proud to say the least and really excited for this new adventure.

    - Hannah x

So as always I'm here forever wanting to do too much. My brain just can't switch off. There's so much to do but just so little time in a day and I love my sleep.

If I sleep in I feel great but bad all at the same time for wasting precious working hours. If I wake up early I feel great but groggy because I need more sleep. Well and truly I'm more of a night owl, my creativity usually peaks late in the evening which doesn't help when wanting to wake up early; in the end it ends up being a vicious cycle. I guess the amount I've taken on recently doesn't particularly help.

I work full time some where I extremely dislike. Long story short my brain cells are slowly being destroyed from the boredom and lack of thought processes to do my job in one of the worst run places I have ever been employed.

On top I am currently looking for a new job. I have the skills but maybe not enough visible evidence for some employers, so I guess I'm probably wasting my time. If only I lived in a better city with more opportunities in my actual field it wouldn't be a problem, other wise for now I'm stealing other peoples jobs, sorry!

I have started my own business. Yes, a little crazy but extremely exciting! Although also very time consuming. Being a boss, marketing pro, accounts manager, knower of all is pretty hard and more than a full time job. Leading back to my previous point of lack of opportunities in my field where I live, a friend and I decided we'd create the opportunities for ourselves. Everyone has to start some where right?!

I am also in charge of Let's Buy British's social media and other shenanigans, which isn't exactly five minutes of the day and then forgotten about. Helping to build a business brand is difficult when you can't be on top of it 24/7.

All this along with keeping up on my own social media, doing my personal work and trying to get rid of things I don't need whilst optimistically paying for the gym but never going. A PA is needed I feel, if only ayyy?

Little life update/rant over.

Be back with you soon!

    - Hannah x

So if you don't know what Slam Dunk is, it's a day festival showcasing rock/metal/pop-punk etc bands across the UK over three days. I chose to buy my brother tickets for the festival after going previously and really enjoying myself.

Bank holiday Monday we travelled down to Hatfield and here's the small video I put together of our day!

Hope you enjoy and don't forget to let me know what you think and subscribe to my YouTube!

- Hannah x