1. Tell us about the mind behind the Digital Content Creator group.

When the new talents emerged and digital content flow rapidly increased, we realized that many brilliant creators need a platform. Due to not having such a platform, they were wandering in the online world, not getting proper recognition and guidance. Even if we keep the recognition aside, they were neither getting a proper guideline or help regarding what to do next or how to get themselves started and help the rising creative community they were having at their front. With this thought in mind, we initiated DCC to bring everyone under one platform to contribute and share knowledge of what we have learned over the years working in different content- creating genre. We officially started our Digital Content Creator Facebook group in September of 2020; before opening the group, we chose the best 25 creators we knew and got connected with themselves through the messenger group. They were initially the core members of “Digital Content Creators”. Having everyone under the same shade, we planned to contribute and gift our beloved Country the creative contents it always deserved. Thus we formed DCC- Digital Content Creators.

2. How the journey of Digital Content Creator started?

Before we came together, all of us, the founding members, used to make unique content. While reaching audiences, we came across each other’s content, and the friendship began. Later we thought this is not only with us who is struggling with audience interactions; many brilliant content creators are creating excellent content out there. We felt that the problems we are facing might be the same for them also. Later we got connected with them through our content and started DCC together.

3. What type of content do you mostly encourage in this group?

We like to value and encourage all kinds of creative work in our group. But as we are mostly a filmmaking community, we get 80%-90% of posts related to filmmaking, VFX, CGI, Drone photography, etc. There are other sectors as well but the number of people is comparatively less but we always encourage our members to be fully creative in whatever they are creating.

4. Is there any trends that you are currently following?

We don’t believe in trends particularly, but we encourage our creators to do something out of the box and unique, which in many cases in the past have started small trends where other creators got urged to make content similar to that they saw in the past and was appreciated by our audience.

5. Do you have any specific plans to increase the interaction after the pandemic ends?

We currently have 60,000 members in our group, so it is impossible to communicate with everyone individually. We recently had a trip in January, which was the country’s first digital content creator’s trip. The people who are interested in travel filmmaking and photography learned a lot through this trip. Further, we have some plans to come up with competitions to increase communication with our audience. We are planning to do regular Facebook live sessions in our group to communicate with our members. We are also planning to host workshops, meet-ups, and photo walks in the future.

6. Do you have any plans for expansion outside the group?

The Digital Content Creators Facebook group members are increasing rapidly. We are planning to include more contests, fun activities, and learning sessions. For this to go smoothly, We will include more specialists of each sector in our core team; we have also expanded our group moderator team to ensure the quality of the contents and maintain a friendly atmosphere in the group. Besides our group, we have our Film and photography crew. We do our own projects too; we have named it “Digital Content Creators Originals”. Our core team has 25 creators from all over Bangladesh. We have already made few travel films, and now we are focusing on creator stories. Where creators who are thriving in the community can share about their journey with DCC and the community altogether, apart from that, we will be expanding more to the commercial side as well, all the members of the core team are experienced and are involved in
big projects with big brands, we are planning together to work in unity to thrive into the commercial creative space and contribute in the industry. We have already started our activities together and are planning to go more extensive after the Pandemic. DCC’s film crew, DCC originals, offers commercial services for almost all genres- from Music Videos, Fashion Photography, OVC/TVC, to even Travel Documentaries.

7. What criteria do you follow to approve content?

The quality of the content, what it consists of, how it is executed. It has to be something unique and out of the box. We also approve the contents of the new creators to encourage them and guide them to improve it further. The main criteria we maintain approving content is how much effort someone has put in the content.

8. Tell us about the target audience of this group and how do you keep them engaged?

We have a mix of target audiences in our group. We are keeping a blend of all genre content on our platform. Our group initiated travel filmmaking, and we grew up watching all the fantastic travel filmmakers worldwide. We wanted to create a platform where people can learn from experts working in this country in travel filmmaking and other genres. We want to keep people engaged with quality content. People get inspired watching our content and also get inspired to create something themselves. another thing that keeps our members engaged is our friendly and welcoming attitude towards each of our members. We try to point out the areas they can work to develop their content, give guidance if necessary, and answer their questions and problems related to content creation.

9. What responses have you received till now?

So far, the responses have been overwhelming. We are getting a lot of love from the community. Until now, we are happy with the response we have received. We are so glad that the audience likes the quality of the group we are maintaining and the content. So far, we have heard this one common thing from the majority of our audience, “Bangladesh needed something like this,” and that motivates us to do something better and push our limits for our beloved country.

10. How do you perceive the talents in the development of digital content?

Firstly, when we started it was just emerging as a trend. Nowadays it has become very common which is a very good thing for aspiring creators. Nowadays there are many good creators out there which is very great but they are somewhat deprived of the responses they deserve. I think our intercommunication should be better to assure so.

11. What projects are you currently involved in?
We are working on our Digital Content Creators Originals show “Creator’s Stories,” where we interview a creator in each episode and hear out their story and details about their work process. We have already released an episode and will be releasing an entire series soon. Currently, our activities have paused due to the Covid Situation and lockdown. We have also released few Travel videos on Sylhet and Nijhum Dwip; we will be making more travel videos and documentaries as soon as the lockdown ends. We are also working on a skill-sharing weekly-based content named “Fun Learn Friday.” We have a lot more things planned out, which we will be working on after the lockdown.

12. What vision do you want to reach through this platform?

Digital Content Creator was created to give you the experience of a cinematic adventure with a country full of talents. The purpose of this group is for you to witness some of the epic content, post your ones and learn from others. Our group motivates you to learn from other members and to get inspired and showcase your vision. The Digital Content Creator team is preparing to gift you some epic contents that will make a difference. Our vision is go develop and bring a new era of content creation, take it to the international arena and represent quality contents that have never been seen before.