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Friday 5 april 2019

It’s A Wrap

ORANJESTAD — Aruba Today re-
cently launched it’s very first video
of the series ‘Ask Pilar’ at Facebook
Aruba Today and on our website
www.arubatoday.com. Let us intro-
duce to you this fresh new project
and the people behind it.

Why a video? Besides our daily
printed free newspaper, our posts
on Facebook and Instagram and
our website content we started
evaluating the plans for short vid-
eo’s about a year ago. The con-
cept was created by Editor-in-
Chief Linda Reijnders to add varia-
tion to the product Aruba Today.
“There is more to this island than
palm trees and beaches and in
our videos we wish to inform and
educate the visitor by showing lo-
cal places of any kind. We are all
new to this, but goal is not to de-
liver a technical perfect result,
moreover motivate with the con-
tent and topic as well as the good
energy coming from it.” Aruba To-
day will publish two or more videos
per week and the concept will be
interactive. Meaning that as the
title of the video ‘Ask Pilar ‘already
reveals, the viewer has the tool Major at the University of Aruba. “I
to actually ask about the topics chose marketing because I want-
shown or maybe even suggest a ed a career that kept me physical-
location/topic for a video. Just ask ly and mentally active. As a junior
our host Pilar through Facebook marketer there is a lot of moving
comments or messenger. around, I can't begin to imagine
what the real world will be like.”
THE TEAM His hobbies include photography,
Pilar Flores, 33 years old, is the jolly gaming, and working on his car. “I
Video Host of ‘Ask Pilar’. She loves am not a car mechanic, however
doing the videos because she gets YouTube helps a lot and I find it
to meet a lot of nice people and of being up to date on all current like to walk in Arikok National park, very therapeutic to put everything
to know many interesting places. “I happenings and events and hav- play with my three cats, color and aside and work on this piece of
hope with it that people will get to ing the inside information. She has spend time with my boyfriend.” metal that helps me move long dis-
know and love Aruba the way us a Bachelor of Theology, achieved The one capturing the images with tances.” Juan Luis loves to capture
locals do.” Flores is Executive Edi- in Aberdeen, Scotland and a Mas- his camera and edit them into moments with his camera and edit
tor at Bon Dia Newspaper, Aruba ters of Applied Ethics in Utrecht, The the end result is our Videographer them into a dynamic video.
Today’s sister, where she is fond Netherlands. “In my leisure time I Juan Luis Pinto Sotter, Marketing Video Director of ‘Ask Pilar’ is Edi-
tor-in-Chief Linda Reijnders, work-
ing in this current position since July
2017 and before that for six years
with the local newspaper in Dutch,
Amigoe di Aruba as a journalist
and Editor-in-Chief of the maga-
zine H&H. “I love working in the
media, I love to write, create, con-
nect, inform and educate. Work-
ing with young, talented and mo-
tivated people like Juan Luis and
Pilar is a blessing to me. We really
enjoy making these Aruba Peeks
and we for sure hope that rubs off
to the viewer.”

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