- You know it's not everyday that I have a film crew
come and interview me in my apartment
and film me as I go about a day in my life.
In fact, that's only ever happened to me once
and I wanna tell you about in today's video.
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So something that just seems to happen
when you grow an audience on YouTube,
is that you'll get a lot of brands
reaching out to you via email,
wanting to work with you or like collaborate in some way
and the vast, vast majority of these,
I turn down,
because they're from brands that I haven't heard of
or don't use or wouldn't wanna recommend.
And I would never ever want to promote a brand
to you in a video that I didn't personally know and trust.
No shade to people who do that,
well actually you know what,
a little bit of shade, just a little bit.
But a couple month ago a team at Western Digital,
got in touch with me and asked
if I'd would like to be a part
of a new campaign they're running ,
where they wanted to profile a day in the life
of a creative professional.
The campaign was to promote this little guy.
This is the WD my passport SSD
and there's a whole terabyte of storage,
on this little thing.
Now I was excited to get their email,
because I have been using WD branded data storage,
since back when a terabyte would fit on a drive
that was like this size.
They've always been a super reliable brand for me,
so I was really excited that they were reaching out
and wanting to work with me.
So I said yes
and we had a whole film shoot.
There was a crew and there was like fancy cameras.
It was by far the most professional shoot
that I've been involved in,
so I vlogged some of the day to show you
and then after I show you that,
I'm gonna show you the final video.
The final edit that the team created.
Really excited to show you cause I love it.
I think it turned out so good,
so first off here's the vlog,
roll the tape.
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- [Camera Crew] Charli, tape one.
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- We've completed the interview portion.
Now we're filming on a B-rolled shot,
so I'm doing a little of pretending to work, aren't I?
(Laughing)
(upbeat music)
We're finished filming the shot in the taxi
and then Ricky brought us ice cream.
- Yay!
- Ricky's the best, right?
(all laughing)
- Right met at the YouTube space.
John is here because they said that they wanted me to like
fit more like stuff into my day
and I was like what's something that I do?
Sometimes I meet up with John.
We'll like take photos and then work together,
so that's what this next scene is about,
that we're gonna film here.
You excited John?
- I am, I'm just thinking of stupid stuff to do on camera,
but like.. - Oh.
- I don't wanna..
- Don't wanna spoil it.
- On yours, not on theirs.
- Oh okay good, yeah. - No.
- Cause they'd probably just edit that out.
Go on, do something stupid.
Yeah?
Alright, they want me to vlog some walking down the street
into the YouTube space,
so that's what I'm doing.
You know I'm filming for my actual vlog as I do it.
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We asked them if they could possibly put my videos
on the big screen in the YouTube Space.
Check it out.
Lots of me's!
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Pretty cool huh?
A lot more involved than the videos that I shoot.
That's for sure.
It ended up being I think a 12 hour filming day in the end,
which was a very long day,
but it was all worth it because the shots turned out great,
the videos turned out great.
So without further ado
here is our collaboration video.
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I'm Charli, I'm a web and graphic designer.
I work remotely for a tech company
and I also have a lot of side projects.
So I've got a YouTube channel,
I've got a podcast,
I speak in conferences.
I like to keep myself busy.
I moved to London from New Zealand
about three and a half years ago
and basically in search of bigger and better opportunities.
Living here means that I can travel a lot
and I've also met up with so many amazing creative people.
I work from home mostly.
I work at a standing desk.
I love that my desk has a lot of
natural light around it too.
I think that's really important.
I started making videos because
I was getting really into watching YouTube
and I really wanted to see other designers on there.
I wanted to see their life,
see what they were doing.
I make the type of content that I would've found
really useful to see when I was just getting started
in the industry.
When you work in the digital space,
your digital files are so precious to you.
If your data storage gets damaged or corrupted,
that can mean missing a deadline,
which is kind of disastrous.
That's why I really appreciate that the
My Passport SSD is so robust and sturdy.
It's built to withstand drops and falls
and so I know that my data is gonna be safe.
The My Passport SSD has really fast transfer speed,
which I love cause it makes it super quick
to move files between my computers.
It means I'm not waiting around for files to transfer
and instead I'm just getting back to designing.
It's really handy because it has both USB and USB C
and my computers have different connections.
The right equipment can help make your job easier,
it can help you work faster
and I don't wanna be carrying around
a bunch of heap big technology with me,
so I can just slip this into my backpack
and for something so small,
it carries so many files.
When you're on the go,
a lot of the time you kind of have to fit
work in wherever you are.
No matter where I am,
I know I can get work done.
One of the mottos that we have at the company I work for
is 'create every day'.
Whether it's the work that I do for my day job.
Whether it's editing a video,
I'm trying to create something
and just always be making something new.
I wanna say a huge thank you to the team
involved with creating this.
They were all so easy to work with
and they made me feel really comfortable
and they were very patient with me,
when I couldn't get my answers out right
during the interview portion.
I'd love to hear what you think about it.
So please let me know down below in the comments.
It did kind of make me wish that I had
like a gimbal camera that'd follow me around
all the time for my vlogs.
But hey, if you wanna pick out one of these
cute little drives, the My Passport SSD,
for yourself, then there'll be a link in the description
where you can check it out.
And I just wanna say thanks for watching.
Thanks for being here.
If it wasn't for you watching my videos,
writing comments, replying to tweets et cetra,
then I wouldn't get invited to do
really cool stuff like this,
so I really appreciate you and thank you.
Alright, hope you have a good day
and I'll see you in my next video.
Bye.