Hello there and many of you guys have been asking what's been going on with those mirrors
in our videos, or the spooky shenanigans and things?
Well in this video I'm going to dive down into what is going on and who's behind it
and I'll give you a big clue right now!
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It appears that we've been causing quite a bit of a stir with the mirror tricks in our videos!
In fact, we caught the eye of a paranormal research YouTuber, Dross, who did a big video
exposé with Matt's barbershop.
Take a look at this!
Haircut Harry, probably the most popular in his niche!
Harry is now at another barbershop
being attended by barber Matt in this really peculiar YouTube genre.
[Spooky Music]
Please look in the mirror, and at the same time try to keep up with Matthew the barber.
Now you realize!
Have you noticed the mirrors in our videos? And I've got to hand it to Dross because he
can spin a tale and convince a lot of people that there was a lot of weird supernatural
stuff going on in our video!
Well, I hate to burst the bubble.
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So the truth is, I'm the one that has been messing with the mirrors.
No, no, no, no! It's all me.
No, no, no, no, no, no, it's it's all me.
And for those of you guys that are really disappointed with Matt's Barbershop not being haunted,
this next clip is just for you!
I mean, yeah, this is the I mean, there we go.
This is pretty scary.
This is the bathroom.
I mean you got the you got the stuff up there.
Yeah, those are my Halloween decorations.
And throughout the year they keep me company!
And, stand aside here so we can actually see. Why is there a TV on there?
Why not? You know, when you use the restroom
you can watch the news or a little bit of daily gossip!
So if you're watching TV on the toilet, okay, which way do you sit?
[Laughter]
That's got to be scary!
Yes it is!
And more to the point. Do you actually have ...
Is there electricity going to that?
Yes.
Right next to the water down there.
Yeah.
Oh my!
Anything could happen at any time...
Is that real? Or is that?
No. Okay.
There we go.
Don't be afraid.
That was pretty scary.
What about this thing up here?
You know, that was a photograph given to me by an associate of mine.
Now he told me some elaborate story.
I wasn't quite quite too convinced of.
Because I honestly believe he actually resembles the gentleman seated there.
And I suspect it is actually truly an ancient photograph of one of his ancestors.
And he just didn't tell me.
He just kind of wanted to sneak it into the shop
because since he brought it in, I felt a sense of an aura a darkness in a sense, like a spirit,
you know, hovering over the shop.
I even had a slow week that week.
And you know when the money's not coming in, something's going wrong.
You know what I mean?
But you kept it here, why did you?
Well, I didn't want to be rude.
Didn't want to throw it away.
I mean, he wrote something very nice.
It says, "May life be curse free."
See, I asked him to write that.
Because I said Zack, you know this was a nice gift but I feel like it was cursed.
Will you bless it in some way or form to give me some kind of confidence
and comfort that you know, you didn't bring nothing possessed into my barbershop here.
But you never know!
As you can tell, Matt is a pretty funny guy!
So don't forget next time you're in Phoenix to swing by Matt's for a haircut
and check out his spooky bathroom.
Now a lot of you guys think that when we're doing these videos, it's a very quick process.
We just film it, we edit it, and we upload it.
And bingo, there it goes.
But really, there's a lot more work that goes into it.
So Mystery Woman is doing the majority of the filming still,
and I am doing the majority of the editing still.
With the editing, we take the footage that Mystery Woman takes
and I put it into my editing software.
We have two cameras so I have to sync up the cameras and sync up the audio of all the clips that we have.
Then, I will do a preliminary edit
which is to go through and do some rough cuts of what it is that the final product or the final video is going to look like.
At which point I will go through and add some B-roll.
And then I will clean up the edits.
And then what I will do is add a little bit of coloring,
and I will clean up all the audio because there's lots of bumps and things like [Bump] that,
that need to be kind of dealt with and taken out and hidden.
And it is at this point that I will then go through and mess with the mirrors.
So let's take a look at this little clip we got here.
So if we look at this piece of footage from Matt's barbershop, you'll notice there is
in the back of the mirror, there is no reflection of Matt in the mirror.
But why?
So here we go look! A few clicks here and there and bam, Mystery Woman.
So that's why I'm covering it up.
I'm hiding Mystery Woman. Mystery Woman would not be Mystery Woman, if Mystery Woman was in the video.
So what I'm doing is using this mask and basically cropping around Mystery Woman and using another
and using another bit of footage that is blank, just the mirror.
In this case, I decided just to leave it as a blank mirror with no reflection of Matthew.
However in this next one, only a few of you ever caught this one.
Take a look.
So if you look here, can you see the mirror in the back?
Let me rewind it a little.
Can you see? There!
I'm in the reflection in the mirror in the background.
So let's see how we did this.
First, I did the same mask as before.
And it's again because I have to hide Mystery Woman who was caught on the second camera.
So what we did was to mask her out with a bit of plain background there.
But you see the picture is frozen in the mirror.
It doesn't look natural.
So I had a clip of me in the mirror leaving the shop.
So in this case, I decided to have a little joke by having myself in the reflection walking
out of the barbershop and seeing how many of you guys actually caught it.
We definitely didn't want to confuse you guys.
And we certainly didn't want you believing that we'd somehow magically captured some
paranormal activity in every single barbershop we were filming at.
It really was my editing.
But here's a little clip that we originally edited for the Burman wet shave video
that we filmed in Yangon.
And it's called the Mystery Woman disappearing act.
It actually took almost a day to edit this, and it was only about six seconds long.
And then at the end of it, I decided not to use it.
But here we go check this out!
Now if you look a little closer, you're going to find all these hidden treats
in all of our videos from the mirrors and more.
I'm not going to tell you which video it's in.
But there's one video where the barber has three arms.
And there's another video where the barber has a tray that disappears.
So happy hunting! And if you ever find them, don't forget to put it in the comments below.
[Scrub Scrub Scrub]