Let’s work together

Thank you for your inquiry!

I am moving to Japan soon and I plan increasing my output on vlogs for both Youtube and Instagram Reels / TikToks to document my journey.

My style of video is a bit more slower paced than what you usually see from creators nowadays. I don’t believe in super fast and loud vids that appease to the shorter attention spans of today’s viewer. That’s not my intended audience. Rather I like to make videos that give love to the small things. Let the video breathe. Play the raw street sounds of wherever I’m at rather than hammering them with music. Let a shot sit for a little even after I’m no longer talking to let the viewer sit in a moment. It’s a calmer experience. A documental or video diary rather kind of feel. I have examples of this on my page now but for more references I have a lot of love for Emma Chamberlain travel videos and the style of Korean/japanese bloggers who make videos often without even speaking. I know this style of editing may be a bit more difficult to translate in the short form versions though so an alternate approach to that is welcome.

A bit more context. I love editing, but with the job that I am now working in Japan there just won’t be enough time. So with this search for an editor I’m also looking for a partner. Someone who loves the work they put in to the video just as much as I love making them. Someone I can trust to edit and get work back to me at a good time because often due to my line of work and timezones I may be out of reach or late to respond. I want to be able to send the footage and know that you are doing as you must so that I can come back later when I have time to see the finished result.

I’d like someone capable of a turnaround of no longer than 7 days at any given time.

It’ll be a simple system. I get the footage sent over from my day or the event or whatever is I do. I’ll give a quick message describing my intentions with the video. And you as an editor take it from there! I’d like one YouTube video, and from that YouTube video please make shorter one minute vlogs of the same footage in vertical format to be shared on Instagram and then TikTok.

Here is my unique but necessary request for every video. Captions.

Since I am moving out of the country, captions for the dialogue are especially important in these videos.

If the subject is speaking a different language (very often I will say things in Japanese) please use a translation service to make captions for them as well. All captions in English. Please include the title cards in Japanese as well as English. I’ll send what the title is when I send the footage. Think of the captions as characters of their own. Make them fun, change colors or fonts when appropriate. We’re trying to expand into a network of Japanese creatives but it’ll be great to have our English speaking viewers not feel left out.

If you have any questions at any point ever in your editing process let me know, however I won’t always be able to get back to you fast because of the nature of my work and need to be able to trust that you are gonna make good art. Just trust your skills and go crazy, express yourself!!

To begin with pay, this is going to have to vary because I know the effort it takes to make a video varies per the vid.

I’d like to offer a basic flat rate of $75 for a package (YouTube vid and short form). Meaning you will never make any less than $75 dollars, even if the youtube video was only 10 minutes and you barely had footage to skim through.

I am aware though that sometimes I will send you a lot of footage and you will have a lot more to edit that is going to deserve much more than $75 and you will be paid accordingly to an agreed amount.

If we work well together and develop a good system than we can set up an hourly rate where you just let me know how long it took you to complete a project from start to finish in active working time and we go from there!

If we work together expect to start October 1st.