- Good morning.
Did you wake me up buddy?
He's like, what are you holding in front of my face.
It's supposed to snow today, kinda looking forward to that.
Also kinda looking forward to this office being done
and it's only day three.
Okay, time to look alive folks!
Time to look alive!
(calm electronic music)
Don't mind if I just have my morning coffee out here
in the snow, like a true Canadian.
I haven't seen fat chunks like this in, like, a long time.
Here, specifically, so it makes me very excited.
I'm very happy.
There's probably a lot of very unhappy people.
I'm one of the few that actually really enjoys winter
and the winter seasons, but guys, I've been telling you
in every vlog, winter is coming.
Winter is here.
Not fully here yet, but oh, it's coming!
It's coming, oh!
Also, don't judge me for these shoes.
These are my dad's disgusting old Crocs
and he came over to help me move into this house
a long time ago and left them here
and was like, "just keep them, your mother hates them,
"better off that you get them."
Now my wife hates them so I feel like I need
to pass them down to my son so that his wife can hate them.
Just, you know, tradition.
I'm getting flakes in my eyeballs.
(relaxing electronic music)
Look at this dude, just taking it in.
Just taking it in, eh bud?
Little vlog update real quick while I freeze out here
with my dogs, come here buddy, come here, come here.
These guys, he's been waiting for this
just as long as I have.
So has this little bugger, okay, okay.
I originally ordered furniture for this office
that's all being delivered Saturday,
so, I'm gonna be done before,
this office is gonna be done before we know it.
Like, next week it should be done,
like it should be fully finished next week,
which I'm very excited about.
(sandpaper scraping)
- [Narrator] Yo.
- Hey man.
- [Narrator] When did you get here?
- I've only been here maybe fifteen minutes or so.
- [Narrator] Oh, I was out in the backyard; it's snowing!
- I know!
- What's on the plan today for the room,
what are we doing, I mean what are you doing?
- We're finishing this bugger, man.
- [Narrator] The whole thing today?
- Yeah.
- When are you gonna paint, because I would very much enjoy
vlogging the beginning of the paint process.
Do you know when you're gonna do that?
- Uh, about an hour.
- [Narrator] An hour?
- Yeah.
- [Narrator] Okay, I got that.
(upbeat electronic music)
- This office is gonna be done before we know it.
Like, next week it should be done.
Like, it should be fully finished next week.
Which I'm very excited about.
Which brings me to talking about something
that I wanted to bring up, which is,
what should I vlog, man?
When am I gonna vlog where I live?
Well, let me just show you, for example,
what I'm dealing with right now.
I'm in my backyard vlogging the snowfall with my dogs.
I'm assuming a lot of you out there have dogs.
Probably snowing where you are, maybe it's raining,
but you need very little to make
fun stories and fun content.
And it's one of the things that I'm always asked,
that's always stopping people from creating videos is,
yes it was fun making that helicopter vlog
and I loved it and it was a good time,
but I don't have friends that have a helicopter,
that's true, but I'm sure that you have somewhere
where you can sit outside and talk to a camera,
film a dog, have a coffee.
Because the story is layered.
Your story is layered.
You as a human, as an individual, you are layered.
There are many different layers to you;
you're like an onion, right?
It doesn't just start and end with coffee or dogs
or snow, it's more than that.
So how can you peel back those layers
to reveal them to your audience in the form of a vlog?
What can you do, what can you show, what can you say?
What are the things, what are the conversations you can have
with yourself, with other people, with the camera,
with your audience, those are all the things,
those are all the ingredients that you're gonna use
to make stories to tell different stories on a vlog.
So my challenge to you today is whatever you're doing,
make a vlog of it.
Even if you don't post it, it's a great exercise
in filmmaking.
You see, someone told me once, it doesn't even matter
if you, it doesn't even matter if you post the videos.
Just getting into the habit of making things
is going to be good for you, so just make something today
and maybe even use the exercise of restraint.
Make something and don't even post it.
And then make something tomorrow and don't even post it.
But that restraint and that exercise in creating
is going to be so good for you, but it gets you
into the groove, it gets you to the mindset of creating.
What do you think of that buddy, was that good?
Was that insightful?
Was that insightful right there?
I think it was, I think it was.
I hope it was.
Also, whoa, this tripod's getting wet.
Also I put out on Twitter like, what was it,
a couple days ago I tweeted the flow of ideas
usually starts after you get started.
So there's a lot of times I'll sit at home
thinking about what I can vlog and I won't start vlogging
because I don't have that idea yet
but if I just start, and I just start recording
and I go out into the day and just see what it beholds
then things start to show themselves to me.
Things start to happen, ideas start to flow.
I meet different people.
Flow of ideas happens when you start.
Don't just sit around and wait for them.
Even if you have nothing to film just pick up the camera
and get going, and you'd be surprised what could happen.
You picking up what I'm, oh, he's trying
to drink this whole coffee, unacceptable.
Okay, we're all soaked now, in you go, in you go.
(guitar music)
(beans grinding)
It's just so, it's just so great, everyone.
It's just, it's just so great.
Okay, I'm so excited that it's snowing,
I had to, like, I had to come to the forest.
I was like, I need some proper B-roll of this.
I can't just shoot plants in the backyard.
I need trees and fat flakes falling from the sky.
I'm gonna do a little bit with the 16 to 35
and then I think I'll do a little bit with the 85.
I want you guys to see the difference,
and then how good it looks when they're a combo together.
And like, right when I got here, I feel like it's not as,
no, it's good, it's good.
It's good, we're gonna make it work.
(inspirational guitar music)
Look how good this looks!
Okay, now I'm switching over to the 85 mil,
I'm gonna do the same lap with a more compressed lens,
see if you can see what those shots look like
then we'll smash them together, and yeah.
Kind of breaking down the B-roll sequence.
Whoa, it's coming down folks, we're getting wet today!
(inspirational music)
Okay, so there's the difference shooting wide B-roll
with a 16 to 35 versus an 85.
That 85 really compresses things, kinda punches in
on the subject, isolates it, which is why I think
they're a good pair, they work well together,
so when you put them in a sequence it's just a good balance.
There you have it, I don't know why I shared that with you,
just thought you might enjoy that.
But this whole thing, this whole forest excursion
if you will, to get a couple B-roll shots of some forest,
with snowflakes, it just goes to show you.
Kinda goes back to what we were talking about
in the backyard this morning.
I don't know where this day's taking me
and that's totally fine.
I don't need to have a plan written down,
I don't need to have everything laid out for the day,
I kinda think just getting started starts the flow of ideas.
I had no idea I would be here, now I'm here.
This adds that much more to my day, telling my story,
in this vlog, and that's just a little bit of insight
into how I make these videos.
And will this be the most cinematic footage
you've ever seen on my vlog?
No, absolutely not, but will it be better
than what I did in the backyard?
Yeah, it most certainly will be.
And now I have that much more recorded
and I can continue with my day.
That's just kinda how my brain works
a little bit when I'm filming these videos.
Just thought you might wanna know that.
Okay, I'm zoomed in nice and close
so you can't see anything yet, it's not spoiled,
but are you ready for the big reveal?
The office isn't done, it's far from done,
but the paint, two coats have been done.
It might need another coat, not sure yet, but whoa.
You guys ready?
(inspirational music)