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welcome to my new apartment here in Chicago I just recently moved with that I have the
opportunity to get a little bit of a bigger space because before if you watch my videos I always
filmed and transformed my kitchen basically into a studio and that was not sustainable so now I have
a bigger place where I have what is considered a dent it's not necessarily a bedroom but down
the hallway here we're going through the gallery right now so like a couple of photos put up here
from my various trips and that leads us to the den which is a small room it is seven by eight feet
large basically at the end of the day my vision was really to build it out as like a minimalist
space that has an industrial Vibe but also has a touch of nature I'm renting this space and I
cannot really build it out as much as I wanted to so all these things are semi-permanent and if you
are in the same situation I think this video is for you check it out [Music] without you okay so
what purpose does this room need to fulfill for me on one side it is a shooting space I want it
to be versatile have different kinds of backdrops so I can shoot talking head but also shoot product
shots and on the other side it is a workspace where I edit my videos just to have like a place
to go back feel inspired and also work in a you know like just like on a consistent basis rather
than what I usually do and edit on the couch and for me a desk has to fulfill three purposes on one
side it needs to be convenient to work from and certainly the 60 by 30 flexi spot E7 desk here
big shout out to flexible spot for sending this over allows me to have a large workspace then it
has also to be beautiful in front of the camera because I want to use it all as a presenting desk
where I can just have talking head discussions and last but not least it also should be used as
a product short tables it is on casters so that I can just like move it around in this little space
here as easy as that that and there's a standing desk my back will thank me I just hit one button
and it goes up if I feel lazy and let's be real that happens a lot I can use this C8
share here it's an ergonomic share also from flexi spot like it it's very comfortable has
this extra headrest it is on Wheels as well again to be flexible and just push it out of the way as
you can see I'm using a 2021 M1 Max MacBook with that BenQ video and photo editing monitored and I
had for a while I feel like a cable solution down there below as well which is important
as I'm moving things around here there's only one cable going out everything is powered from
a Central Station down here so that allows me to again be flexible and then to give it all a
little bit more personality I have like a little few accessories like everyone needs an Edison
Light Bulb actually I have some in my living room as you may have seen already so it kind
of continues the overall design philosophy that I'm that I have in this place and then this fake
little bonsai tree great just so you know links to all these products that I'm talking about today
I'll leave it in the description below so you can check it out whenever you see some then you want
foreign [Music] s the backdrops because honestly this is what I'm most excited about in this studio
and have obsessed for months this studio comes with these ugly eggshell wide world so I had to
do something about it and I wanted to give it a premium more sophisticated look and I landed on
this combination between these black wood slats and these concrete walls here because I feel it
gives like a nice tunnel effect and gives this room more depth and dimension as well so let's
talk about these Woods that's here those are from the wood we near Hub thanks so much for shooting
them over I am absolutely in love when I first saw them online on Instagram I believe is when
I first saw them and they come in different colors and are pretty easy to install again to that point
like this is not my space as so I had to find solutions that are semi-permanent you just measure
this place first like how much how many wood sets you need they come in basically one foot by eight
foot Dimension and then I have now eight feet here in this wall on each of these walls and it's
pretty easy to install you can either either glue them which I didn't do again it's not my space I
drilled them into the drywall pretty easy with about nine screws per panel you don't even see
the screws because they're black here and hidden and then if you see it down here if you have power
outlets you can just carve it out as well or cut them really easily if you need to shorten them
again it's it's pretty straightforward to install for someone who's not very talented and it comes
to any woodworking or installation jobs what's very cool about them is that they are actually
sound deadening so as you can imagine we talk about sound a little later this room is equity
is crazy and these have this felt in between and therefore are sound deadening now you can improve
the sound deadening effect even more so if you create a little distance between the taking wall
and your wood sleds by putting like some some additional bars of wood behind it to create
that basic deadening space on top of it now I have already limited space and decided to go right into
the wall but that's that's definitely possible if you want to increase the sound deadening effect
even more so here on the back end we have these concrete panels now I really wanted to go for
this industrial look and it was pretty hard to find a solution to make actually this kind of
concrete wall look happen initially I had these sticky wallpaper you can just stick to the wall
it just doesn't look real especially if you shoot it from different angles even on camera it doesn't
look real and if it doesn't look real on camera you can imagine how fake it looks in real life so
I ended up on these concrete faux concrete walls that I got from war Theory again leave the link in
the description below uh but they're about Urban concrete they come in different thickness levels
these are the the thinner ones but they absolutely do the job if you have if you don't see the top
part or where they end you wouldn't know that they are actually fake and they're super easy
to install as well so in my case I actually drilled them into the wall behind these like
mounting points here and Within These Little Hook points I just like drill in a screw a couple of
them I think I have like eight per panel and it's super fast to do as well if you have like I had
here in this case I had to cut them I just used a drywall saw and cut them down measured it before
obviously and and position them in in the right spot but it allowed me to really like blend this
concrete wall look into this whole design as well and if I still feel like it I could still use my
seamless paper here that I've used a lot in the past if I want to give it a splash of color or if
I have a client project that needed a certain kind of color scheme for that I just pull up two very
holds here and set it up here on one of those those walls now very Pole now you may be wondering
how are we actually mounting all these lights and all the sound panels and whatnot on one side I
didn't it needs to be semi-permanent so I can't really drill in much into the walls especially
not heavy heavier stuff and B I want I don't have that much space so we wanted to get everything off
the floor as possible so these very poles shout out to my buddy Brandon who actually showed them
to me first and I bought a bunch of them now these those I'm using to both mount my lighting as well
as my audio equipment and and other things I will get to in a second but lighting so
as you can see we have basically a four point lighting set up here I have two main lights here
that's the Nan light compact they are bi-color LED panels that give a very nice smooth light
they're not as bright as my Forza 500 with a soft box that I've been using in the past but they're
also weigh smaller in its profile so for me that was important as I can just like put them out
here so you can have both like a key light and a fill light shout out to Nan light I've been using
nanolite for quite a while and they helped me out to fill in some gaps here as well for hair light
for backlight or also for some texture we're using actually the the forza 60cs I drilled them in here
with a Matthews Mound into the wall they're pretty light so totally works with a drywall and in in
both corners on one I have a projector attachment here that can take in gobos so you can put up
patterns on one of the walls here as well to give it a little bit more visual interest if I shoot
down here these are also RGB colors colored lights so I can make any color of the rainbow this place
if I really want to get a touch of color again I'm there's possibly not the look that I'm going for
but I could totally turn this into like a club here and we can all party and you can see I did
the whole Cable in here I actually like rounded it up here with some extension cords and looped
them around in these two very poles now these very poles are generally speaking not designed to
be a horizontal tension rod but they can take some weight when it and they're also sitting on my wood
sleds here so it's actually fine I can also throw a let me show you a uh I can also put a power tube
up here to give it a little bit more of a touch from up up here but Pavo tubes also play a role
to give the background a little bit of a touch we're using here one on the ground just to give
it a little bit more depth and dimension on these very poles I also have attached my rode ntg3 boom
mic and it is using just like super clamp super easy to install a little bit of a friction arm
here as well as one of these like bendy things I don't know what they're called do they have a
name bendy things bendy thing I can basically move it anywhere in the studio here no matter where I
stand and talk to the camera I can move this this microphone and I just pipe it here into the task
and Porter capture X8 if I want to have a podcast conversation I have that Samsung microphone right
here that also can pop pipe into the powder capture and have an alternative audio Source or
I use my beloved tentacle sink lab mics and audio recorders if I do a lot of movement also while it
is pretty optimized for sound deadening with the walls clearly because this is this high ceiling
that I'm working with here it's like 12 foot high I needed to do something about the audio bouncing
up from the ceiling so I built these sound panels here myself by ordering some of these foam pieces
as well as double-sided sticky tape and use some of the cardboard that that came with the table
here to build these sound panels here just to kill some of the reverberation that is coming from the
ceiling now you may actually hear it right now but there's still some Echo coming from the from the
hallway so for that we're gonna go down for that are actually installed again with the tiny tension
board that you can get off Amazon another curtain just to kill the sound here when I'm recording
it's super easy to install by the nice thing is actually there's no window here so I don't have
to worry about light spill but certainly like that helps already to kill some Echo coming
back from from the hallway as well I know this video is about the studio so we're not going to
spend too much time on cameras but just want to give you an idea of what I'm shooting at possibly
my new a cam will be the Ronin 4D because of its autofocus and it's tracking features so if I move
around in the room it just follows me well that's Paul following me but just kidding we're shooting
actually on a komodo right now which is still also my alternative a camera especially when I'm gonna
shoot product shots or something on a slider also talking head the Komodo is still very much core of
my production and then I also have the A7 S3 which I possibly will use a lot for top down shots I
have this little Contraption up here which allows me to get real quickly set up for top down shots
and with the A7 S3 that I can use for an alternate angle or just like a top-down shot is my solution
here now you may have been wondering where is all my gear stored and let's see if we can show
you here is where all the cameras are in it's so much nicer to have a little bit of a structured
way to have my cameras figured up here's like all the audio equipment is a lot of lens accessories
filters you see all the lenses the main cameras are down here hard drives USB cables loads of
cables here that is not released yet these are like very interesting everything is in here
so it's super easy to access it for me bring it right to the studio and then over here we have the
backpack and lighting storage this is like lights always come with these massive bags so you find
all the lighting some additional Sliders in here as well as all my backpacks and last but not least
the battery card and charging Bay now this is a big question that loads of
people always talk about and ask about like how do you how do you charge your batteries
I just came up with this little card here which I had for a few years but I've never
used it for Batteries basically the idea is that I put all my empty batteries down here
then I have this whole middle section here which I use to well basically velcroot all my charges
to that allow me to charge multiple batteries at one time but the reason for velcro is is because I
travel a lot so I need my Chargers on the go so I just rip them off take them with me and then once
the batteries are charged they go up here you get the idea and it's pretty mobile so I'm just
like moving around and and put it in different spaces wherever I need power so that's pretty
cool right all right yeah such Studio build out is not cheap but it is certainly an investment in
this Channel and in my business and if you are feeling inspired by any of these products I'll
leave the links in the description below I really appreciate your support only with your support
this was possible but if you have any ideas on how to make this space even more useful or beautiful
with accessories so let me know down in the comments below as always I really appreciate you
watching it give this video a thumbs up and if you haven't done so subscribe as always have a good
morning have a good night whenever and wherever you are around this beautiful planet bye bye