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Who this?
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What's up socials.
Welcome back to my channel
and this episode of Vlog Like a Boss on Amy TV.
That's right, Amy TV.
Girl got a new YouTube URL.
How bout ya?
I told you Savvy Sexy Social was gone.
So the is the official rollout of YouTube.com/AmyTV.
Get used to it, boo.
Amy TV is all about being your space
for discovering the life that you want
the way that you make it.
So we talk about lots of different ways to do that.
Today happens to be video related
because it's Vlog Like a Boss.
If you didn't know, that's the name of my book.
It's also the name of this series.
Do you see what I'm doing there?
All the branding, all the branding, all the branding.
Yes, yes.
She has had coffee today.
Give it up for the acoustics of this room.
I have carpet for once.
Okay, we're gonna get into all of that.
We're talking about that today
because I have a new office.
Maybe it's evident, maybe it looks the same.
We're not sure.
I'm known for my book shelf.
So the book shelf had to stick around.
But I do have a new home office
which means I have a new studio for Vlog Boss Studios.
If you didn't see that episode.
Check out my empty apartment to where I move
into this apartment recently
and now it is finally ready to film in.
Actually to be fair.
I don't really wait for these kinds of things.
It was ready to film in many weeks ago.
But I was not ready to film and now I am.
So, I really didn't want this moment to pass us by
because I thought.
And I've already, quite frankly,
been getting emails about this.
What I did with my home office to make it a studio
might be of interest to you.
I've already been asked what desks did you buy?
What computers do you have?
What lights do you have?
How are you making videos in your office?
How do you make it easy?
That is what we're gonna talk about today.
So I want to show you around so that you can see
how I designed this office.
So it would still be a functional office.
But so that I could just turn my chair around
and talk to you whenever I wanted.
We all know that the gear set up
is the most painful part of this.
In addition to having to watch yourself back
over and over again while editing.
Before we get into my home office studio tour.
If you're interested in this kind of thing
because you really don't like the idea of video just yet.
Because you're trying to get past all of the little things
that people do wrong.
So that you don't do them wrong
and you look like a rock star right away.
You're definitely gonna want to check out
an upcoming event that I'm doing online.
It is my live webinar How To Not Look Stupid Vlogging
and I know your ear is perked up for that one.
Make sure you reserve your seat.
The link is in the description.
I'll talk to you more about that a little bit later.
Alright, how I build my home office studio.
Let's switch cameras so you can get a quick run down
of what exactly is in the room overall.
So, this is the door to the hallway.
That's out.
We don't want to go that way.
And those are my New Year's Eve balloons.
They say 2018.
They are not a swan, dad.
They are numbers.
I know you can't really tell from this angle.
(laughing)
That is my closet.
We're not going in there cause this is not
a fashion vlog at the moment.
This is desk number one right here
which I'll discuss in a little bit.
And the bookshelf is back.
I have a mirror over there
cause I thought it was interesting feng shui
for us to have that mirror on that side
instead of more bookshelf.
It's helpful for the closet purposes
and also so that I can kind of reflect the white walls
that are over here.
They're really to white.
They're kind of a beige.
But you get my point.
Of course the bookshelf and the chair.
And my other desk which looks out.
This window is super great for natural lighting
when it doesn't look like that outside.
And of course the animal.
Lucy say hello.
Say hello to the vlog.
They hear me talking to you all the time
and yet I never show your face.
Not never, let's be real.
Oh, is that my book.
Oh my gosh, that's so weird.
Oh my gosh, is that my book again.
What, that's so crazy.
We lost some of the things for the bookshelves in the move
but ordered them on Ebay so they should be coming soon.
And yes, you would really never know
what books I have on my shelf would you.
Unless you go to my shop page on my website
to see what books I love.
And that's the bookshelf.
On this desk I'm working with a MacBook Pro.
That was the new one in 2017.
I think I bought that last year, yeah.
2017, it's all USB ports.
And on this side we have the good old Mac and it's old.
It is old.
When did I buy this one?
I bought this one in 2015, 2016.
So, needs a little bit of love and care
but it's still holding strong.
Getting into the details here.
Let's talk about gear first.
I have a couple of things going on.
I have you, the camera.
My Canon 70D set up on a Manfrotto tripod.
I also have below me some audio.
That's my Zoom H1n and it is on an Archon.
Sort of a shorter tripod that's really meant
for flat lay photography and videography.
But I am using it for lots of different things
like holding on to my microphone.
Outside of the frame.
I have three soft boxes.
One of them is meant to light the room.
So it's kind of pointed up into the sky.
I have one that is shining on me
and I have another one off to the side
that is very carefully placed
because I have a mirror over there.
And I don't want you to see it.
But it is brightening up sort of the background of the room.
There's some things about the room
that make these videos a whole lot better
than the other ones that I was doing.
And that is, the room is carpeted.
So that's very helpful from a sound control situation.
I also have bookshelves and things on the wall.
I still need to add some things to the back wall.
But because the room in enclosed
and there's not a whole lot of space for sound to travel.
And I've got some things on the walls.
It's looking a lot better from a sound control situation.
In my old videos you guys probably already know this
because of how much I sort of vlogged around the apartment.
The office was in the living room
which was also the kitchen and the hallway and the foyer
and all those kinds of things.
So there's a lot more square footage for sound to travel.
Which is really, really difficult for good video.
It was better when there was lots of things in the room
to help with that.
But if you didn't figure it out.
The last eight or so episodes of Savvy Sexy Social in 2017
were filmed in my apartment with everything
in the backdrop as you expect.
But the entire rest of the apartment had been moved out.
And I completely forgot that audio is already hard enough.
And I made it even more difficult on myself
by having a huge empty room.
So I was talking a little bit differently.
The microphone sounded a little bit funny
because I was trying to control the sound more in post.
But anyway, you get the point.
A smaller room with a lot of things in it.
Carpet, theses are things that you can do.
Whether you have a professional microphone or not.
To control the sound a little bit better.
Another thing you might notice about this room
is it's very white.
Yes it is.
I prefer the white because it is a color I understand
and can control.
Do you notice that control is quite a theme here.
I've been getting the question a lot.
Why are my books flipped the other way?
And it's because I like looking at white pages of books
more than I like seeing a bright orange book
in the background of my video that I would prefer
not to be bright orange.
I mean I hate to say that bright orange books.
One of my favorite books of all time is bright orange.
Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi.
I love that book.
It's on my shelf but I don't really
want to see the spine, sorry.
I have a couple of desks from Ikea obviously.
You can get everything at Ikea white
so that makes it fabulous.
Ikea shelves, Ikea desks.
They are not the best quality in the world
but this is not a home that I own.
It is an apartment that I rent
and it only has to be as good
as I need it to be right now.
Which means I'm a little cheap on this stuff
and I saved some money.
But it looks good.
I also had a New Year's Eve party
and I insisted on having many, many balloons.
And you might notice that my 2018 pink balloons
are still flying in the reflection of my mirror over there.
Accents of pink.
I have never been more girly in my entire life.
I was really, really struggling with content last year
because I felt like I didn't have a designated spot to film.
And although I did.
I actually did.
If you watch a lot of my content.
I put the chair right in front of the same spot
and I would sit there and film.
But it was not easy.
It was always get the camera out.
Set it up.
Make sure it looks similar to the last time.
How was the lighting last time?
How did everything crop in?
How tall was I?
All these things was very, very difficult
to have to do that every single time.
And when I'm trying to bang out as much content as I am.
That is just so dumb.
That is me getting in my own way.
So it was extremely important to me that we move in December
because we needed more space.
We literally could not function
in a one bedroom apartment anymore.
Lucy was running into everything.
It was ridiculous.
And I also needed a spot to specifically to film.
Now, you might find that you need this as well
because it helps in the area of consistency.
If you actually want to create more videos
and you need a little assistance.
Why don't you give yourself that designated spot.
So for me being able to say I'm gonna have lights
and a camera always set up in a corner of a room
that will be my office.
And I will have it in a spot that is very easy for me to go.
I need to film.
That is so helpful.
It is so, so helpful and I highly recommend it
if you have control of it.
If you don't, at least know
that you have a spot that is yours.
And maybe it makes sense for the camera
to always be sitting on the tripod
so you can get it out as quickly as you can.
Whatever those things are.
Those shortcuts that you need to make.
Make them because they are so helpful.
My goal here was lights and camera in the corner
so I only have to pull one out
to kind of balance things out.
And behind me it will be my bookshelf
and on the side of me to be more desks.
I felt like I needed a workspace here
in case we do some more practical talks.
And I like the idea of having two desks
because quite frankly.
It's lovely to look out the window while I work.
But not when I wake up with the sun
and the sun is in my face for a solid six hours.
And that will give you wrinkles.
So over here is where I work in the morning
and over there is where I work in the evening basically.
I will say about this window.
It is fantastic, fantastic for natural lighting.
But like I said probably gonna shoot in the afternoon
because the sun is way, way, way too harsh in the morning.
But these three light boxes that I have
and I will link to them.
They are in my shop at Vloglikeaboss.com/shop.
They are great because they keep this room lit
whether the sun is up or not.
So that's really nice as well.
If you're someone that needs to film in the evening.
You still want that designated spot.
You've got a room in your home or in your office.
And you're like I'm gonna get these light boxes
so that I can always film whenever I like.
They're really nice for that.
And especially in this room which can't be.
I'm bad at this kind of math.
But it cannot be more than 300 or something square feet.
It's very easy to control the lighting of the room
and pretty much.
This is all you're seeing of the room.
It's just right here.
So, it's really not that bad
from a armature lighting perspective.
The only other things that I'm really hoping
to get for this office that I don't have
right now are photos.
I want to put some photos on the wall.
I have some really great pictures
of people I've met and things I've done in my career.
So I thought that would be kind of cool
to have on this blank wall that
you're not ever gonna see really in these videos.
But other than that I think that's it.
I mean the office is pretty complete
because I can talk to you.
I can get work done.
We have really fast internet here.
I don't know why they wouldn't give it to us
in the old apartment.
Because it's literally two doors.
Two floors.
Two doors, two floors down.
I don't know how that happened.
But this has been such a dream to finally have my space.
I don't know why I waited so long to make this happen.
Okay, I want to hear from you.
Question of the day is
what would be your dream home office studio?
If you could vlog like a boss whenever you like
what would you have in that home office
or home studio if it were yours?
Share that in the comments below.
If this video has been helpful for you what so ever.
Please give it a thumbs up.
I appreciate you being here.
Thanks for hanging with me as I got
slowly going on the videos in 2018.
I promise it's all for good.
Lots of things going on.
If you have any interest in this what so ever.
You want to start vlogging
or you want to do a little bit better
at the video creation side of things.
I highly recommend you check out my live training
coming up very soon.
It's called How To Not Look Stupid Vlogging.
Cause you know there are some things that people do
to make them look stupid.
They don't even realize it in the moment.
We can get you past that so that you can start
vlogging like a boss.
So links to that training are down in the description
or you can just go to Vloglikeaboss.com/webinar.
That's all for today socials.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
I appreciate it as always.
Even in 2018.
Make sure you subscribe for good vibes
and remember to continue to go after the life that you want.
Cheers.
We did it.
Lucy, we did it and you slept
through the whole thing like a champion.
Thank you.