welcome friends a lot of people have been asking for a studio tour so let's
do a studio tour it's right here behind me you can just see the open doors let's
go out and take a look so this is it this is the studio so back up a little
bit you can see it's in a shed in my backyard nothing too crazy nothing too
large and inside is the kitchen look at that so as we come in you're
gonna see the a camera that is a red dragon and I've got that on top of LA's
Mandy ported jib this is a tool that is absolutely amazing
for doing food in a studio and then over here is camera number two also a red
dragon and a selection of lenses now this camera this is a DJI Osmo pocket
and I haven't used it on the show yet that you've seen started taking this on
travel gigs where I'm elsewhere shooting for my day job and we took it to Mexico
City and we shot a bunch of street food stuff with this camera so I'm interested
to find out how it turns out after the Edit is done and you'll see the Mexico
City Street food stuff coming up probably it towards the end of September
and into October now this is the full studio setup you can see pretty much
everything from this angle and the first question that I want to answer because I
know that everybody's going to ask this question is does you two pay enough that
you can have two red cameras and you know probably a hundred and twenty
thousand dollars worth of cinema lenses and the answer is no not at all not even
close the money that I make from YouTube doesn't cover my food costs all of this
equipment this studio everything that you're going to see is for my first job
most of my life I have worked in film I have worked on the advertising side of
TV commercials the production side of TV commercials so we would get
the we would get the board's and then I would produce it or go out and shoot it
for clients for TV I've moved on from that probably about 2008 shortly after I
started this channel I started doing stuff just for the web with my own
production company and so brands come to me we come up with recipes and then we
shoot the recipes and then we give the final videos and the photography that
the client can then use in print and online either YouTube on their own
YouTube channel on their own Facebook page Instagram and so that's the bulk of
my business and so everything you see is for that part of my business the Glenn
friends YouTube channel is just me having fun it's me trying out recipes
where I don't have to be perfect where I can fail where I can experiment and I
can just interact with people one on one because I got to tell you sometimes
advertising and working for clients can be a little bit soul sucking don't tell
them that I told you that though so here we go the great thing about this jib arm
is that I can move it around the studio
and keep everything nice smooth movement so pretty much this is the view that you
always see of the studio but I want to show you a little bit more so the set up
is lit with these Kino Flo lights and the Kino Flo lights are a fluorescent
light that is specific for filmmaking it doesn't flicker at most frame rates and
it has a really good color rendition much better than a regular fluorescent
light and I've got them hanging from the ceiling on this grid pipe so I've got a
grid criss-crossing ceiling so that I can hang anything from above that I want
to I can hang lights I can hide microphones I can hang cameras if I want
to do a straight down camera but most of the time the camera is on that portage
if that I showed you earlier or the camera that I'm now pointing at off to
the side there's a safe and in this safe I keep my lenses
lenses are worth a lot of money and you know I just want to keep them safe I've
also got a lot of gels here and use gels for light manipulation so anytime I want
to sort of funky light something I'll use these gels in conjunction with one
of these larger lights so this is a big LED light I use it quite a bit for
top-down so what I'm doing client work most of it the camera is mounted up here
and you're shooting straight down and there's just hands and there's music
videos that everybody finds really annoying at this point I think although
they get millions of views so clients keep asking for them I'm gonna keep
doing them you don't see them on my channel anymore I did it for a little
while to try it out but I don't do it much anymore and then of course back
here are all the cupboards and the cupboards are filled with things so
you've got bins all through this one that have all of the kitchen utensils
that I use all of the spoons and whisks and ladles and cutters and serving and
brushes all of that sort of thing above the stove or the oven stuff that I use
for cocktails and we used to do a cocktail series and I think we're gonna
go back to that sort of the end of September beginning of October running
through the holiday season I'm gonna do a lot of cocktails on the ceiling is
foam soundproofing foam so that not to stop sound from outside getting in or
stopping sound from inside getting out but just to deaden the sound a little
bit so you don't get sound bouncing around in an echo sometimes studios can
sound like an echo chamber and that's not good now my studio isn't as put
together and minimalistic as marques Brownlee's but on the other hand it's
not the complete chaos of Linus somewhere in between and I'm not
faulting either of those guys because everybody's got their own style and I'm
sure they both know where everything is well marques knows where everything is
of course over here there's even more cupboards and these are filled with
glasses and jugs and things that I use this covered here mixing bowls plates
some things that I use for that down below here are cutting boards and over
here you have pots and pans and on the back counter
stuff that I use on a regular basis so I've got the food chopper I've got a
mixer blender the knives that I use top of the fridge people notice what's going
on on the top of the fridge sometimes just at the edge of the video and I'm
you know I've got another Blendtec and some more knives just extra stuff that's
shoved up there and so just off to the side of the fridge here that you can't
see from the front I keep a bin of tasting spoons and tasting fourth things
are just mismatched spoons and forks you get them at a restaurant supply store
restaurant supply stores or where I get most of the stuff that you see in this
kitchen they are so much better than a mall kitchen store you go to a mall
kitchen store and you often buy stuff that doesn't work properly it has a
brand name on it and you're paying extra for the brand name or extra for the
design and the design often doesn't do what you need it to do
go to a restaurant supply store where professional kitchens buy their stuff
and it's often so much cheaper and it actually works it may not look beautiful
but it's going to do the job it's going to improve your cooking so these are
spoons that I just buy in bulk because you're always losing them you use them
once you taste throw it into the dish bin I also keep back here a selection of
vinegars thermometers salt and pepper anything that I need to grab really
quickly that I can just come back here and grab that I don't need sitting on
the counter it's a bit of a cheat but it's the way I need to do things this is
a freezer that's been modified to hold two to three degrees centigrade at all
time so just above freezing and inside there I keep beer and soda water so
often times you'll see me grab off to the side and grab something out and I
have a video a separate video that is all about how we carbonate water so
maybe take a look for that if you're interested over here is all of our
equipment and I shouldn't say all of our equipment but some of my filming
equipment all of the filters and follow focuses and dovetails and things for
attaching the camera to tripods or sticks or wherever I need to attach the
camera I've also got audio Geir and these are all cables and over
there I've got microphones and action cams and I've got some lenses for 35
millimeter and 16 millimeter film cameras that I use every once in a while
not much anymore because everything is digital but I still have those cameras I
still shoot a little bit of film here and there light meters I've also got
over here and then down below here are more cables and lights now over the last
couple years I've moved mostly to LED lights but I still have a pile of
incandescent lights I've got dado lights I've got my czars I've got lights from
the 50s and 60s that don't see much use anymore but they do have a quality of
light that you cannot get today from an LED or a fluorescent and where I want a
really nice light I will grab one of these lights from the 50s or 60s because
they're just fantastic over here in this other corner over here I've got I've got
C stands I've got lots of C stands I've only got three sitting here right now
but down in the basement I've probably got 25 or 30 more C stands are great for
putting up stuff if you want to modify light or putting lights on or grid cloth
or all of those sorts of things so when I'm doing close up for food photography
for clients there are days where you cannot move in the studio because there
are C stands everywhere and I've got pinpoint lights where we may take hours
to get a tiny little shot but most people probably don't notice that it
took us that long to shoot it I've also got a slider here so I can put the
camera on and this gives nice even sliding movement back and forth works
really well when you've got a nice heavy camera on it if you've got a light
camera doesn't work very well that's on really thick sturdy legs I've got extra
lights I've got extra tripods I've got extra light modifiers I've got egg
crates so much stuff and this is just in the studio I could probably take you
down to the basement and show you the rest of the cooking gear so this is an
equipment room down in my basement and I've got a table over here where I can
spread all of the ingredients get everything
ready to go put together the trace so that when I take them out to the studio
everything is set up for that recipe we've got a wine fridge we've got
another fridge for holding ingredients that I don't want to hold out in the
studio for whatever reason this mess back in the corner is a completely
different studio set for the studio out there so out in the studio all the
cabinets are this white but I also have a full brown set that I can use as well
and we can just take off the doors put new doors on and it'll look almost
completely different what a pain in the ass to do but we do it from time to time
now all of these are filled with dishes all kinds of dishes for presentation
dishes for putting ingredients in anything that I need to present to a
client if they've going to have a steak and they want have a steak on a blue
plate I can show them dark blue plates light blue plates square blue plates
round blue plates blue plates with a white ring around them all of these
cupboards are filled with those and there's also some props in here as well
so if someone wants cookie jars on the back counter I can put cookie jars on
the back counter I can put little pieces of fancy glassware I've got props for
Halloween and various things for different different celebrations
throughout the year so if a client comes to me and wants those things I can put
them in and I can make that studio look completely different than it does today
or the one that you see on Glenn and Friends these cabinets along this wall
and there's there's quite a few I'll show you the rest of them these are
filled with kitchen appliances or cookware so up here I have a whole bunch
of different kinds of slow cookers BBQ tools and roasting pans this one down
below is filled with cast iron dutch ovens cast-iron brassieres and a whole
bunch of different kinds of ceramic ware for baking either for cakes or
casseroles and of course this room isn't lit because I don't shoot in here at all
so up here I have different surfaces for putting a finished product on or
raw ingredients I've got boxes for wine and beer that we need to ship different
places in this cupboard is just a mix of different types of spices and things
that we use at various places down below here I have deep fryers I have charcoal
grills I have coffee makers I'm sure what's in this one oh just
various pots extra pots of pasta maker extra blender walks things for making
bread down below I have extra mixers vacuum sealer extra walks co2 cartridges
there's even a pressure cooker back there I don't use the pressure cooker
often I think I've used it in maybe two videos and I didn't really like it all
that much so you don't see it too often this last one so I've got stuff up here
for the the wine aerator and I have overflow cake tins this last one is just
filled with cake tins square cake tins round cake tins springform pans all of
that sort of thing and then this one down here this last bottom one waffle
makers three or four different waffle makers countertop grills a couple of
different kinds of ice cream maker I've got pretty much everything it takes to
make the foods that my clients want and also to give me the freedom to play on
Glen and Friends let's go back up to the studio because I know that there's one
more thing that you really want to see
and so I'm gonna say the number one question I get over and over and over
again is what's behind the counter so here it is the big reveal what's behind
the counter the cooktop is right here induction cooktop and underneath it it's
just a garbage bin so when I reach over and I throw stuff into the garbage
I'm literally throwing it into this garbage bin there is always an Apple box
back here Apple boxes are probably the most underrated film tool there is it's
just a plywood box with holes in it that you can stand in different directions
and you can stand on it you can put the camera
you can sit stuff on it very important in filmmaking and I always have one or
two stacked behind here so that I can access them easily on this side where I
usually do the mixing and you see me throw stuff under the counter
it's just a dish bin all the dirty dishes go into this dish bin and then I
can carry the dish bin inside to the house to to the wash up so there's
nothing really intriguing back here just a dish bin underneath here are other
bins that have pot lids I also have a bin right here that is filled with
towels so that I can wipe off my hands and the counter top so that's it that's
it for my studio tour thanks for stopping by
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