Hey guys!
Welcome to Refinery29's YouTube channel.
If you're new to this channel, my name is Lucie and I'm a video producer at Refinery29
and I'm also on camera in a lot of our content, and my job has led to me having a bit of a
social media following on Instagram.
And so pretty much every single day I open my Instagram account, and I have private messages
from people asking me all sorts of questions.
I was going through these questions recently and I realized there are so many questions
that I just haven't answered yet.
So it's no wonder you guys have a lot of questions.
So I made a post on Instagram where I asked people to comment the questions that I've
never answered below, and I got hundreds and hundreds of them.
And I'm just going to go through a few of the questions that I got, and I'll give you
my honest answers.
Before I get started, give this video a thumbs up.
I just had to sneak that in there.
Okay, let's start.
So here is the first question: Flowerpower_emily asks "When did you realize you were in love
with Michael?"
To be honest, I think it was the very beginning.
We started dating in 2009 and pretty early on in our relationship we made a little video
together that I have on a DVD at home in my drawer.
And I remember putting that video away and saying, "I need to keep this in a safe place
because I want to play this at the wedding."
And that was almost 10 years ago.
Thenebbie wants to know "What was your very first concert to go see?"
My first concert was in the year 2000.
I was 8 years old and my dad got my whole family tickets for Jingle Ball 2000.
I don't remember much from the occasion but I do remember that it was New Year's Eve.
And we walked right into the Baha Men singing "Who Let The Dogs Out?
That was fun.
Aveschwab asks "What is your favorite Try Living With Lucie episode?"
That's a tough one because they're all like children to me.
But if I had to pick I think my favorite episode at least to shoot, was Five Days of Facing My Fears.
More than any other episode, that one took me far outside of my comfort zone, but I had
so much fun doing everything I did.
So even though I was screaming when I crunched the crickets.
Oh my God.
Secretly I was having the best time in my life.
Allisonkitten wants to know "What is the best way to learn how to edit videos and what
software should a beginner use?"
Videos.
Disclaimer this is coming from someone who has never taken a class on how to edit videos.
I've only ever learned by sitting and watching other people edit and then watching what their
fingers are doing and copying it for myself.
But I truly believe that the best way to learn how to edit is by just editing content.
Shoot something on your iPhone, drag it into a iMovie and play around with it and edit it.
At a Refinery29 we use Adobe Premiere, which is a really high quality editing software.
It's very similar to Final Cut.
The only thing about Adobe Premiere is that it's not free.
You have to buy the entire Adobe Creative Cloud Suite and then you download the Premiere
application.
For a beginner I would say iMovie is more than enough.
Rachaellondono asks "How tall are you?"
I'm five feet and seven inches tall.
Lj2828 asks "What's the scariest thing that's ever happened to you?"
Alright, guys, story time.
When I was about 12 I was on a family vacation to Aruba.
And I was playing this game on the beach with my brother and his friends at night.
Never go on the beach at night, that's just probably not a good idea.
We were playing sort of this dodgeball game where we were hiding behind stacks of pool
chairs, and running away from each other, and trying to peg each other with the ball.
And I went off by myself, was hiding behind a stack of pool chairs, and I kind of saw
that there was a figure standing off to the side of me.
And I didn't look to see who this person was, but I just sensed that they were there and
I wasn't particularly scared.
I felt very safe.
The next thing you know–and I'm not kidding, this is not a joke–the next thing you know
said person stands up walks two feet towards me and just drop kicks me in the head.
I just want to show you what I mean by drop kicked.
This person just walks right over to me and just goes right in my head.
I just flew across the beach.
I just looked over to see what had just happened and I saw this teenage American boy just walking
away from the scene.
I actually didn't learn that much information about this kid.
I think he was just an American that was on vacation in Aruba at the same time who got
a little drunk and went around and kicked a young girl in the head.
I never heard from him again.
I never got kicked in the head by him again.
And to this day I still don't know who he is, where he is, or what his deal is.
But Sir, if you're out there and you're the guy that kicked me in the head, you're mean.
Goldcostgrace asked "Who did you idolize growing up?"
I'm not sure I idolize her any more because I don't know her current whereabouts, but
back in the 90's I totally idolized Amanda Bynes.
She killed it.
She had the Amanda Show, All That.
She was hilarious, she was smart, she had a great head on her shoulders, and she was
overall an incredible role model in the 90's.
Hannashkarl721 asks "What is the best and worst thing about living in New York City?"
There's so many great things.
I don't think I can pick one, but if I had to, I think I would say that my personal favorite
thing about living here is just constantly being reminded of how magical it is to live
in such an iconic city.
The other night I was walking with Michael to our favorite ice cream shop and on the
way back our view uptown is just a straight view of the Empire State Building.
And I said to him how amazing is it that the walk back from our local ice cream shop has
us looking at the Empire State Building.
Which is this iconic building that's known around the entire world as a New York City
staple landmark.
And here we are right in front of it.
And my least favorite thing about living here has got to be the Subway system.
I don't know what New York is doing with the Subway system but it is so confusing.
I lived in London for a couple of months and I took the Tube and let me tell you that tube
is clean as all hell.
And it is so easy to get around.
In New York without fail, before you go underground, you need to look at a phone or check out the
MTA website and make sure you know what Subway to take.
And not only is the Subway a little bit confusing, but it's also pretty dirty.
I've seen a number of rats cruising around the tracks.
I've gone down there and I've smelled and seen urine, but I've got to say the subways
are the best way to get around.
I take them every single day.
And part of me kind of like the rats.
Aleah_beal4 asks "Do you want kids and if so how many?"
Yes I do.
I want children and I think because I come from a family of three, I would love to have three.
But Michael comes from a family of two and he'd love to have two.
So maybe we'll have two and a half.
Musicimprov asks "What is something that people commonly misunderstand about what you do?"
I get the feeling that a lot of people think about my job and envision what I do, and they
probably think that everything is so much fun.
I'm going to this restaurant, and I'm trying the food.
I'm dancing with the Rockettes.
I'm making doughnuts.
I'm here and I'm there, I'm in Costa Rica.
I'm sure it looks like a party all the time.
And don't get me wrong, getting the opportunity to do all this stuff and try new things everyday
for work is a party.
It's so fun.
But I feel like a lot of people think that I show up on a set and there's a whole crew
there waiting for me.
And we're all ready to go.
And I just hop in the video, do my fun thing and then head on home.
And that is not how it works.
I should probably make an entire video, about the process of making videos because there's
a lot to unpack here.
But especially working in digital versus traditional media, if you're a producer you're doing everything.
First you've got to come up with the idea, which honestly I have to thank you guys majorly,
because I take most of my ideas from the comments section.
Then once you have the idea, you have to reach out to all the people involved.
You have to consider the legal implications of where you're going to shoot.
Got to make sure to get all the proper forms signed.
Plan the video.
And that's called pre-production.
Then you go on set.
And usually it's just me and one camera person.
It's very run and gun.
Two people, we go in and we shoot what we need.
And then when it's done and the footage gets dropped off with our post-production department
it goes through an editing process.
I have to be available via email to watch cuts and give notice to the editors until
the video comes out looking the way I envisioned it.
So there's a lot more than just showing up on set and having fun and try new things.
It really is about seeing the video through from start to finish until it's fully uploaded
and it's on YouTube.
Rachana.g04 asks "When did you start shaving?"
I was in eighth grade when I started shaving and I remember it very clearly, because I
was at summer camp and I had wanted to shave for years and years before.
But my mother would not let me.
And I remember being at summer camp with all my friends shaving.
Everyone was allowed to.
And I was so jealous that I even asked them if I could shave them for them.
So my camp friends will tell you I've shaved their legs, I've shaved their armpits, and
I'm pretty good at it.
And then around eighth grade I started shaving, and I remember shaving my legs and my armpits
and feeling so old.
Once I had the razor in my hand I felt, "Wow this is it."
It was like the same feeling I had when I drove a car for the first time.
It's like, "I am shaving my body hair."
It was great.
Havaschultz asks "How much did you vlog and how big was your following before you joined
the R29 team?"
Before I worked at Refinery29, I actually didn't vlog at all.
At that time it was really focused on my stop motion videos and creating artistic work that
I was using as a portfolio to get my job at Refinery.
And I think around the time that I started at Refinery29 I had about 2000 Instagram followers,
and most of those people were either friends of mine or people that followed me to watch
my stop motion videos.
Maditedrow asks "How do you make long distance relationships work?
Especially ones from high school?"
How to make it work.
First and foremost I think that there's just something innately that some people have that
makes them able to do long distance relationships.
And I can't verbalize it.
I don't know what it is, but some people have that ability and other people just can't do
it and that's okay.
The second most important thing is trust.
The third is the ability to visit one another.
And the final thing is having a real willingness to grow on your own.
Just because you're in a relationship, it doesn't mean that you should stop prioritizing
yourself and taking care of yourself and growing as an individual.
So having a real, real willingness to take care of yourself and allow yourself to be
present where you are, and to make friends and do things on your own is actually really
important to the future growth of your relationship.
Emiljohnston asks "Have you ever had dark times in the past with self-doubt, insecurity,
depression etc?
And if so how do you deal with them?"
In high school pretty early on, my sister Allie and I realized that we weren't exactly
that similar to everyone else.
So if you asked us what our ideal Saturday night looked like, we wanted to put on pajamas,
put on fuzzy socks, throw a movie on and eat some popcorn.
A lot of people we were friends with wanted to go out.
They wanted to try smoking.
They wanted to drink a lot.
Stuff that just didn't sound that much fun to us.
In high school a lot of times the people that are really into the partying, and drinking,
and trying the drugs, those aren't the cool people.
And I felt like something must have been different or wrong about me, because I didn't want to
do that.
And I think the way that I dealt with it was that somehow at 15, I had the foresight to
recognize that my life was going to be so much bigger than what was happening right
then and there in high school.
And I really do think it's hard for a lot of middle schoolers and high schoolers to
recognize in the moment, that their current situation, and their current gossip and all
the drama is just not going to be important one day.
Because you'd think that's it.
You think this is your life.
This is your bubble, this is your world.
But if I can impart one piece of wisdom on you, if you are stressed and struggling and
feeling insecure or feeling like you don't fit in, just know many of the people that
are currently important to you right now will not have any importance in your future life,
and you as you get older will be able to pick and choose who you remain friends with and
who stays close to you.
The_cowaburger says "Girl I've got some real ish.
A couple things I'm curious about with being an internet personality.
1.
How do you Instagram sponsorships advertisements work with you?
Or 2.
How did you get with all the photographers who do pics for you?"
Great questions and I think everyone who's on Instagram who sees sponsored posts should know.
First and foremost when you have any semblance of an Instagram following, brands are going
to naturally reach out to you and want to send you their products.
Most of the time, I'd say 80% of the time, they're not sending you money to post products,
they're just sending you the products.
And I've now turned to Thursdays on my Instagram story, into Thank You Thursdays, so I can
thank all these companies for these products.
But at the same time there are plenty of products that I'm getting that I'm not showing, and
that's because I either don't believe in the brand or I don't particularly care about it,
and I don't want to push it onto my audience.
Things like that.
So the next phase of this sponsored Instagram world is when a brand actually pays you to
post about their product.
And that's a completely different story than just a PR company reaching out.
That's actually a formalized program.
There are contracts involved.
You've signed something, you've agreed, you get the product, you post and then you get paid.
If you see #ad or #sponsored on the post, that's their way of disclosing to you that
it was paid.
I don't want to speak for everyone but whenever I take on a paid sponsor partnership, it's
a brand that I actually really do like, and really care about promoting.
And then the next question about how I get photographers to work with me.
A lot of times we just connect over Instagram.
If I see there's a New York City based photographer whose work I particularly like, I'll reach
out and ask if they want to collaborate.
Sometimes they reach out to me and they ask if we can set up a time for them to shoot me.
And then we both will share the photos individually in our feeds and it becomes mutually beneficial.
Tess_Lynn_Hunter asks "If you could work anywhere rather than Refinery29, where would you work?"
I think I'd work for NASA.
I want to go into space.
Yeah, in another life I think I'd be an astronaut flying through space, zero gravity,
squirting water into the air and biting little balls of water as they float by.
mira.p36 asks "Where did the name Lucie come from?"
Good question and there's an answer.
My full name is Lucinda and I was actually named after Lucinda Scala Quinn who is one
of my parents really good friends and she's actually a TV personality with Martha Stewart.
She's a chef.
She's got a show and my Mom and Dad always loved her name.
So when they knew they were having kids they actually asked her for permission to use the
name Lucinda for one of their daughters.
And as a young girl, her nickname was Cindy and she told my parents don't call her Cindy
because I was called Cindy.
And I didn't love that name.
I always wished I was Lucie.
So if you take the name Lucinda, you have to call her Lucie for short.
And my parents agreed and the rest is history.
Thanks so much for watching this vlog.
I really hope I answered all of these questions as well as I could have.
Also I haven't done any of these videos where I've just been sitting here and talking to
the camera.
So if you have any other topics or videos like this that you want to see, comment the
ideas below and I will definitely read those ideas.
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