Hey hoopers, it’s Deanne Love here. It’s Deanne Love here.
Hi, I’m Deanne Love and I create weekly hula hoop tutorials on my YouTube channel.
My name is Masao Tamaoki. I’m from Tokyo, Japan.
I’ve always been interested in gadgets and computers and stuff, but I didn’t have enough
opportunity to just pick up and get started. And then one day, Deanne said, “oh, we need
to make a tutorial. What can we do?” And we couldn’t afford hiring a camera crew
so I had to learn from scratch.
Actually, my first YouTube video was a couple
of months after I started hula hooping - I just put, a random, just me hooping in my
living room and I thought that was kind of cool.
And it wasn’t until 2013 that we got really serious.
Well it kind of means, that you have a tonne of fun in front of the camera.
The production quality has definitely amped up over the years and so has the connection
with the audience. Masa and I work really closely together on
all of our projects. We’re 24-7 in it together.
But, I’m obviously coming up with the creative ideas for the content and making the tutorials
and thinking about the teaching techniques and doing the hula hoop dance side of things.
And Masa, without him, honestly, none of this would happen.
It would be me in my bedroom with an iPhone trying to talk to people in bad lighting.
And so, he does all of the set-up behind the scenes.
Now we film everything in studio. What I do is set up two, three cameras and
using tripods and just a DSLR, two, three and a gimbal.
And I’m making sure the light’s good enough to expose the subject.
And then obviously audio - audio is very important for us because we
are teaching people online. So we use a headset mic.
Hey hoopers it’s Deanne Love here and in this week’s tutorial I’m going to share
with you one of my improv hoop dance flow sessions that I did on Instagram.
And then after that, I’m going to the editing room and it takes usually one to two hours.
I mean, it really depends on the length of the contents, but usually, I would say, two
hours. And finding music, checking footage with Deanne.
I love to create and I love to dance and I love to teach.
And YouTube is like this platform that gives that connection.
If I could just do all that stuff in my studio and hoop and dance around by myself and maybe
invite a few friends over. But, when I’m on YouTube and I’m sharing
weekly tutorials it means that I’m connected with people all over the planet.
You know with the internet and a cellphone - you can start your channel and you can build
your relationship with the audience. The comments section is amazing because there’s
always feedback.
Sometimes people write sweet things like,
like this one: “You’re so generous, kind and graceful.”
Thank you. “Thank you so much for teaching me.
I just learned about you and I look forward to your workshops and more teaching.”
That deserves lots of love. It is always sweet.
I am super lucky that I don’t get too many hula hoop haters.
“I’m excited for this. I can go crazy with a hoop.
I can keep it moving almost all night long.” I mean, what do you say to that?
And I kind of made a declaration to myself because I wanted to be just more involved
and active. And so YouTube seemed like the right place
for that to teach every week, to show up, to share, and to do that with a wider audience.
But I wasn’t really thinking about what was going on outside of that.
I just knew that I had to teach every week on YouTube.
I had to put up a tutorial. And then I started getting feedback and people
asking more questions and emailing me and saying,
“I really love that, thank you so much. You’ve helped me so much, you’ve changed
my life.” Like big stuff.
And that’s when I realised, “oh, people are watching and it means something to them".
And for me to show up and be consistent - it’s not just about me anymore.
It’s not just about me teaching and me having this creative outlet, because there are thousands
of people, hundreds of thousands of people, now watching and learning and moving their
body and engaging in an active lifestyle. And that’s when I realised it was so much
greater than just a few hula hoop tutorials. So if YouTube decided tomorrow that they’re
not going to pay creators for the uploads that they do or for any ad revenue or whatever,
that wouldn’t make a difference to me at all.
Because it’s not about that. It’s about continuing to have a creative
outlet, continuing to teach and share with people online.
Big hoop love… From me to you…
Big hoop love… From me…
To you…