Two Friends.
Time is moving on. A few days, weeks, months go by. Then we go on our first trip together: Barcelona. Viva España. Sun, beach, siesta. In the luggage: a camera and two smartphones with terribly bad camera functions. We don't make videos. We only take pictures. We take the camera to all the sights, to musicians, market vendors, take pictures from viewpoints around the city and take pictures of our feet on the beach overlooking the sea. Back in Cologne, we invite family and friends to photo evenings. We put tapas on the table and drink sangria. We tell about our positive experiences.
Some journeys went by.
2014. The moment has come. We're filming. First, just a few musicians, sometimes in Rome, sometimes in Venice. In Stockholm we start planning to shoot with the camera to cut a film. And because the photo evenings are not enough for us, we upload our Stockholm video on YouTube and wait for the first comments. It happens exactly...nothing. We wait. We tell friends about it. A few commentaries. Maybe nobody wants to watch 11 minutes of video on YouTube? We keep on doing it. It'll be fine. Think positive.
5 minutes - The concept.
We are working on the branding of our YouTube channel "theTravellers“. The research costs a lot of time. How do we want to perform? Who is our target group? What is our vision and mission? Which video concept? We know that we have to try out a lot. Nevertheless, we set some basic rules for our channel. The most important insight is that we have to create recognizability. This is happening on the one hand through us, Thomas and Cengiz as theTravellers, but also through the concept of presenting cities in 5 minutes. We have to admit at this point that smaller cities get 3 minutes of broadcasting time. Budapest in 5 minutes is our first video based on a new concept. Cologne in 5 minutes follows. Bit by bit we travel the world. Europe is geographically optimal for us. Then we travel through Asia, America and finally Africa. Our first long distance destinations are Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Krabi in one tour. In America we fall in love with San Francisco. The beautiful island of Mauritius is the first African destination on our scratch map to be scratched free.