Welcome back. A question that a lot of up-and-coming YouTubers ask is how do
you create a YouTube background? So, we're going to discuss what that might mean and
how you do that. -Oh, the actual background? Oh, I thought it
was like the background for... Forget it. That's what we're going to talk about.
That's the... That's... -That was the video logo there. -Yeah.
So, backgrounds. Backgrounds for YouTube. Why does that matter? Who wants them? Does
it matter? I have questions. Begin. -Yeah. Well, people
want to create a show. They think, "Okay, I've got to create my set or you know,
what do i what do I put behind me?" And my first recommendation is to really work
with what you've got. In this case, this was... This sound wall was never really
meant to be a background. -Right. -But I put some blue lights on it and it turned out...
-It works. -It looks pretty good. -Yeah. You know, find something that... -Yeah. You worked
with what you had. -Mm-hmm. -I mean so if you're in prison right now,
unfortunately you're only going to have kind of a gray dingy background. but
maybe if you can work like your loved ones pictures into it or something like
that, right? Isn't that kind of where you're going? -So, in other videos, I've
talked about doing research and finding good examples of what you like. This is
another one of those cases where look at other YouTube channels. Maybe that are in
a similar niche to yours or not. And what do they do is their background. I mean if
it's a vlog, they're changing they're moving all over. But if it's a talking
head video on how-to video... You know, where you've got a continuous background, find
examples of what you like. There's you know, what's the one in link? The
Good Mythical Morning. -Alright. -They're weird set. -Stuff on the walls. -And
were you think of like a sports commentary thing. They've got their
jerseys, track, trophies, right. Yeah. -So, you could... You could create a set like that.
But another recommendation that I have is when you have a high quality camera,
the whole reason what we're filming on here is a DSLR with a
lens with a f-stop 1.4. What that means is it's got a really narrow area of
focus. Which means that back here, we're actually pretty close to the the wall
back here. The further away we are from the background, the more it's blurred. So
you can actually take kind of a messy background or or a kitchen that still
got stuff left out on the counters. But you blur it and it actually looks pretty
nice. -Well, if you go to this link here. This is the link to my little YouTube
place, channel. You'll see some of the work that Nate does for my stuff. The
same thing. The blurred out background. A kitchen or living room or whatever. And
it really does it adds such a nice touch of professionalism. And it makes the... It
makes... It makes visually quite interesting.
Even when (Often) the subjects themselves are not terribly interesting. At least
the look is. You know what I mean? -I do know what you mean. (Laughs) So, in this room here, we're pretty small.
-Yeah. -But in the last time that we filmed at your house... -We turned it around. -Yeah.
-Yeah. -So, I was in the kitchen. Had the kitchen counter. You and your wife were
sitting there and then we had the whole dining room. -And he blew out the whole back and
there's 30 feet or whatever behind us. I've just blown out stuff but it's... It's
kind of we need to move the lights, by the way so they're not in the mirror
reflection. I just noticed. That's just me. You don't... But when you see it, you'll
know what I'm saying. Anyway, yeah, keep going, keep going. -So, that's a
recommendation is to get a good quality lens that can really blur things.
And even if you want a tutorial on that, go to YouTube. "How to blur...?" I don't know
what would it be. -Background? "How to blur background with DSLR?" And by the way, if you're
like a lot of people who don't know what DSLR camera is because... -Digital -...everybody
uses, yes. It says... Yeah. -I used to know. -Anyway, it's a
camera. Just a regular you know, one of these like cameras, right? With a camera
body and lenses. That's how you get the lenses that are widely... That are wide or
narrow or whatever. Like he's talking about. -Also. The quick tip were here was
just throw some colored lights in. I mean I I have these L-E-D lights that I can...
-Yeah. This is not a blue wall. -Yes. This is a... -This is like dark grey, sound
foam. -With blue flashes from each side. -So, I can
turn it red or green or pink. We should do pink. -Do pink next time. Join us
tomorrow. No we won't do pink. -Okay. Now, I'm actually going to have to take
the camera off to show you this. But I'm going to recommend... So, I hesitate when I...
Yeah. I hesitate when I say the word recommend because there's a reason why I
use this. You can use a green screen. -Right. -So, we we held on a green screen.
I've got a roll of green paper up there. Which I'll show you in a second too. But
we then took a photo and put it in the background and this is with a client of
mine, Marianne. We worked on it and worked on it.
The lighting whatnot so that it looked like she was in that room. Okay?
But with my team in the Philippines, with the processing power of their computers
and whatnot, the green screen... It was... It just took more time than I wanted them
to take on editing. It really doubled the amount of work that they had to do. At
the time, it they doubled the length of time. So, I had an idea. I thought, "Why
don't I take that photo that I was putting in the background, printed on a
big huge vinyl background and then just film in front of that. And let's see how
it works." So I spent a hundred bucks on this. So, haven't adjusted the lighting
for this. But you can see, it's just hanging from the ceiling. And I've got
I've got stuff in front of it here because... But you can see. And one thing I
want you to notice... It's going to be a little weird. Notice how I'm in focus and this
is blurred. It's actually in focus on this. But it's printed blurry
intentionally. So let me come back and we'll talk about it. -Oh, I thought maybe you
just be... When you blew it up. It just accidentally was out of focus. You know
what I mean? -But I do know what you mean. So, we I did that on purpose. When you put
a photo like... We talked about blur. When you have a good quality lens, the
background all naturally blur when it focuses on us. So, if I put a photo behind
us, you know, in the editing software, you always add a few percent blur. -Yeah. So,
that it looks more realistic. -Yeah. And sometimes when things are a little bit
too crisp, it's like you can tell that it's not real. But when you blurred it, it's
like, "Oh, yeah. It actually makes it look realistic." -Yeah. -So, when I went to took
that photo... Obviously, I had to make it really large to send off to the the
print company. But I... Before doing that, I did actually add a few percent blur to
it. -And you told them, "Look, this is going to look blurry to you, but it's supposed to." (Laughs)
-So, it's intentionally blurry. -It's kind of fun, yeah. -So, that when I put my camera in
this corner of the room, put the subject about right here, that's in the
background, get the lighting just right. The Lighting's a little bit tricky. But
that's an option is you can take whatever background you want. If you want
to make it appear like you're filming in the Oval Office or... Outdoor scenes are
going to be your get have to work with the lighting but you could really do
anything. If you want to appear like you're in a beach. If you think about
news channels, a lot of times they'll have a glass window behind them showing
the city. -Right, yeah. -They're not... They don't really have windows there with the
city behind them. That's in most cases. Maybe they do. -Some, some do that. Somebody,
yeah. -But in a lot of cases... It's is a TV screen or some type of... -Yeah. It's key to
an imagery or whatever, yeah. So, it's not so... Yeah. Obvious. Maybe, maybe
something to mention too is a fairly basic rule of thumb which is try not to
be too distracting with your background because really the focus should be on
you and your co-host or whoever it is. Because often... And that's sort of a rule
of thumb. I'm an actor and you know, now most people will shoot their own little
auditions and they always say, "Keep a fairly boring..." By boring, I mean not too
dynamic background so that it doesn't take away from the actual focus. -Yeah, way
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