 Okay so I don't know how to go about this anymore and yeah this is my second take for this particular video it serves me right because I'm not as sharp as I used to be I thought I had done the settings right for my sound I finished recording a whole almost seven minutes talk and I didn't click or I didn't select the right channel for my sound recording which I need to yeah it's on so yeah I don't know if I should say it's good to be back because I don't know if that's how I feel but I haven't recorded in the video in about five months and I don't know how you guys are doing apologies for everybody who to everybody who's been looking forward to content especially from Elaine and I who has not been getting it I receive a lot of comments and engagement from my old videos like the ones on voiceovers so yes thank you very much for watching those videos I'm gonna try as much as possible to come up with a lot more not promising anything yeah not promising anything to come up with some videos for you guys to also enjoy and as well as the content Elaine and I used to make we're gonna hopefully come back as well before the year ends mental conversations which I do on my other channel which is a sitna I'm also gonna come back with those as well but what kind of year has it been that is why I'm doing this video it's been a weird year in in a challenging good way if I should put it that way because I started a year on the back of a previous year which was quite prolific in terms of content creation and doing so much and I thought you know it's just gonna continue on the same tangent I'm gonna create my content I had actually hoped that on on making documentaries especially for client work and do less of that I don't know if I put that out in the universe but it picked it up and I'm doing less of that but with the time that I had on my hands I decided to venture into the narrative space for filmmaking and I ended up making my first short film which is Jolt and Jolt was very massively well received I am like I'm still blown away by how well Jolt was received and it's still enjoying a good festival run there's something I'm gonna or this is something I'm gonna share with you later on because it's not all you know fun so my experiences with the festival run and everything which is exactly why I wanted to make this film to test it out is something I want to share with you at some point because every now and then I do share my wins some of the selections we've got we've gone as far as the semifinal position in one of the festivals all these beautiful stuff but on the back end there are also a lot of disappointments as well I mean if not more disappointment than selections but of course I share the wins with you it's nice because you supported it but I'm gonna let you know the importance of making such a project what you need to know the importance of festivals and all these things in a separate video hopefully one time so yeah that's one of the things I've been up to voiceovers as usual every now and then there's one coming in you know that's income and I joined the AU media fellowship as well so most of the things I've been doing are more on the quality than the quantity so I'm doing less now but they are more tasking and more challenging and takes longer so the AU media fellowship is media fellowship program for media practitioners content creators filmmakers who are selected from about 800 applicants from different African countries and to get training on how to tell their own stories in a better way tell their own African stories the African narrative is the key topic or the key theme here the African narrative especially Africa of the future what is the Africa of the future what is Africa you want so that's a program I've joined as a filmmaker and a lot of incredible journalists and content creators on there as well and it's been organized by the AU with support from GIZ so it's such an incredible opportunity for me as well to be a part of such a thing so these are some of the things I've been up to this year instead of you know creating a lot of the content that I would usually create and generally I would say honestly and all honestly that I've not really felt like doing so much more with YouTube as much as I wanted to which is also fine but yeah I will definitely come back especially with the mental health conversations is something I want to pick up again before the year and hopefully there's something else that we do which is Elaine and I with our videos that would also happen before the year and a few other videos if I can put them together no promising anything no promising anything but yeah today I was here and I felt you know the last time I took my camera out I dusted it and I put it back maybe today I need to set up and record a video so here we are the last time we spoke my hair wasn't this long I don't know yeah my hair wasn't this long and now it's this long so things have changed and I hope you guys I haven't actually you know what nah I hope you're having a good year but I know the economic conditions at the moment are not very favorable but I hope you are managing very well through all these yeah I will not yeah I hope you understand so yeah if this is your first time watching this channel my name is Kwame I forgot to even do the introduction this thing is not easy but yeah my name is Kwame I'm a filmmaker and a voice of our artists and yeah I think I'll end it here because I'm laughing now and I don't know how to even end it that's it that's it catch you in the next video hopefully soon bye bye