Hey, we're the Michalaks
We're a little family from Bath who make weekly movies
all while trying to keep two small humans alive
We've found ourselves on a journey with our videos; each week we try to push further into the unknown & explore our new lives as first time parents.
We want our family movies to show there is
more to life on this rock than
rigid formats, conflict and drama,
that beauty can be found even in the most seemingly insignificant moments in life.
As creators we're constantly striving to make movies that push us creatively but also have honesty & integrity at their heart.
We want to create a legacy for our family along with something that resonates with the few people who watch us.
We don't look at this as a business, We look at this as something that can effect people in some small way.
When we first started filming we'd leave the house with little more than a pocket camera, we'd then cut together the random clips we filmed each week. What we do now couldn't be more different.
We often take up to 8 cameras, tripods and a drone out with us and unlike before we now also we now script, write, research before we start the production.
The mission is to create something that rivals film or TV in terms of production value.
We'll often spend hours each week researching the perfect music to complement our footage. By using signed musicians we forfeit any advertising revenue on the videos, so to make our YouTube activities sustainable we try to diversify.
Each vlog style video we produce can take anywhere up to 72 hours to produce, edit and upload, meaning very long hours, late nights and lots and lots of strong coffee.
As we make very little to no ad revenue on our videos, we have to fund our creative output via other means. Between us we have set up several businesses, including a boutique makeup bag and print company MaggsLondon.co.uk, and a social wishlist tech startup site called Wantfeed.com. We're also lucky enough to be working with some amazing sponsors, who help to make all this possible.
The four people who make all this work
Hannah started off as a blogger, and then trained as a makeup artist before she first picked up the camera.
Stefan was previously a video journalist for Bauer Media, before leaving to focus creating videos independently.
Fun fact about Verity: She used to have 300 posters of busted in her room.
Sarah is another one of our brilliant managers. Fun fact about Sarah: She’s able (some how) to untie her belly button knot. She calls it her favourite party trick.
Hannah started off as a blogger, and then trained as a makeup artist before she first picked up the camera.
Stefan was previously a video journalist for Bauer Media, before leaving to focus creating videos independently.
Fun fact about Verity: She used to have 300 posters of busted in her room.
Sarah is another one of our brilliant managers. Fun fact about Sarah: She’s able (some how) to untie her belly button knot. She calls it her favourite party trick.
None of this would be possible without the help of our awesome sponsors. Here are some of the guys who have been kind enough to work with us over the past couple of years.
We're very proud to be YouTube Top Creators, a small hand-selected group of creators who work closely with YouTube.
If you’d like to talk about working with us or just want to say hello then please get in touch x
