Hey hey! Here’s a draft of a video I ve been wanting to make. My goal for social is to approach the broader traveling community - with emphasis on volunteering and meaningful life experiences. I am a bit torn on what footage I should include, I have some more graphic videos and photos (I’ll attach one too for reference). Personally I would love to show it, as I don’t want to sugar coat the nature of this experience but I am honestly not sure if it would get taken down by the platform or reported for being graphic. Looking forward to some more opinions and perhaps thoughts on script improvements 🐆

Heres the updated reel, foley could use some fine tuning but it's mostly together.

Hi everyone! For tomorrow I have made 2 experimental reels. 🎥 A bit of context: I want to create content that attracts both people who already love nature/biology, as well as people who might not think they do yet but who I could perhaps lure in. My goal isn’t (necessarily) to land gigs, but to see first if I can even reach a like-minded crowd in the online void. And to educate and entertain while doing so. I thus chose to first try creating in English, but I’ll regularly mention I’m a Dutch biologist in the videos. I'm curious to see how that plays out in terms of audience reach (i.e. whether I'll reach enough Dutchies as well). 🌍 These two first trial reels are: 🐝 Why politicians 'should be more like bees' 🎉 POV: being a dorky biology PhD at a party I’m still experimenting with my tone, my storytelling and my editing style in these early stages. The direction I’m exploring is intentionally a bit weird, personal and playful. I hope this will attract the right kind of goofy sciencey crowds, but I am curious to see how it lands here first. 🤓 I already adjusted my Instagram bio in accordance with what I'm aiming to achieve too: "🇳🇱 Dutch Biologist with a Twist! 🧬 Turns out wild animals & DNA expose the nonsense of humanity 🎥 Talks | Reels | Arts 🎤 Collab? → 📩 info@wilddna.nl" I haven’t posted the reels yet. Any feedback on audience positioning, hooks, creators I might align with, caption strategy, how to deal with the initial cringey phase, etc. is very welcome. Thanks and see you guys tomorrow! 👋

Hi all! I don’t make reels very often but would like to investigate my potential here on Instagram - however everytime I am editing a video (whether directly in Instagram, or when imported by making it first in, for instance, CapCut) my Insta / the video is lagging quite a bit - up to the point where editing becomes basically impossible. Especially after adding subtitles… ai have the latest version of Instagram installed. Anyone who has been here before and knows what could be the issue? Technicalities!!! All help is welcome - thanks ☺️!