hello everybody it's joey here video producer for tested video cruiser for testing.com and i'm here
today to share hello everyone and welcome to the end of the year extravaganza folks i
am joey family one of the producers here at one of our favorite things here i tested are tested
uh joey's favorite things of
2020.
favorite film production stuff of 2020. so to be honest i haven't really played with a whole lot of
film gear there's been a little less shooting this year and so i've been playing with less
physical tools that being said i did find a couple little things that i've been super excited about
one being this mix book by roscoe roscoe is a company that makes gels i've used a lot of
gels in the past but they actually have a whole line of lights and lighting systems i'm using one
right here light panel to light me up and i have a couple of other tiny little panels that you can
run dc power to or rig it up to power supply but anyway the mix book is something else kind
of different and it's a little light but it's not usually used for lighting what this is is
actually like a almost like a digital they call it a digital swatch book it comes with this app
that you link up to either this light or they have a family of lights the dmg lights i believe
and you can uh choose different colors choose your intensities etc etc all that sounds familiar right
except one cool thing you can do is audition gels like i said i use gels and they have this whole
family of all their family of gels in here that you can check out ah what does the uh the
gallow gold look like okay there we go gives me a sense of if i want to uh take some time to gel up
more fluorescence to get this color or maybe i want damp squib that's what dam's crib looks like
uh gives me a very quick and easy way to audition gels there is a there's just a plain white uh and
you can use your like physical digital swatch books or physical swatch books i have a book of
just gels that i can shine light through and get a sense of what those gels look like but this is a
quick and easy way to get it done digitally not only that but you can do cool things like scan
other sources scan use your camera on your phone and scan a light source and then that light or
scan a color really and that light will then show through on this a really cool fun little quick way
to audition many different lighting styles and choices when it comes to gels and colors next up
is the relio square i think i reviewed these this year maybe end of last year either way i've been
playing them about a year now and they have been kind of my staple in my garage or in uh in smaller
smaller sets that i've been working on uh they're very versatile i have both daylight and tungsten
they also do like a uv but they're very high quality lights they're actually more high quality
better color representation than a lot of the cheaper leds i have so i kind of rely on these
when i want something really accurate um very very small all magnetic housing so you can you can
attach different filters different diffusions they come with a whole list of things that you just
snap on and plug this into a usb power source and you are going has an app that you can dim i mean i
made a whole video about this go look back at the video if you want to see a little more about these
lights but needless to say i've been using them still a ton and have been really enjoying them and
lastly uh it's sort of an amalgamation of things but it is my little monitor setup here
so we we got the small hd seven-inch uh monitor which i've been using for a long time i really
love this monitor uh it's got some great tools love the uh the image the brightness of it and
everything about it just it's fantastic uh then i have the tilta nucleus nano follow focus here
and then with the mars 400 pro uh wireless transmission system all powered by a sony
v-lock battery so this little guy i guess big guy here is how i do these videos so how i can
take a look at myself and put myself in and out of focus all remotely all wireless
wirelessly with just a little bit of latency but then i can also uh attach a baby monitor
onto this so i can keep an eye on my kid down here shooting video uh so again this is about
three or four different products all put together in this little uh clunky rail system but i like
it and it's uh it's been a fantastic way of shooting these videos down here all by myself
favorite things i've played or watched in 2020 so i should probably clarify this really isn't my
favorite things that i've watched and played this year but more the things that i've watched and
played that made me feel good made me feel happy during this time during this year uh being able
to sit down and escape into something that just made me feel good so here is that list i'll spend
10 seconds tops talking about each of these now as you guessed it the very first show i'm going
to talk about is ted lasso adam norman i talked at length about this show on a spoiler cast so go
check that out uh it is a very fun very heartfelt just feel good show about this american football
coach going to the uk to teach football next up is bill and ted face the music the third movie in
the bill and ted trilogy now i was a huge fan of excellent adventure and bogus journey when i was
just a kid and so i was super excited that faces music kind of came out of nowhere i sort of forgot
that it was happening uh but i just adored this movie and the good natured spirit of it then we
got speedcubers the uh speedcubing documentary on netflix it's a pretty short movie about these
two rivals who are friends these two kids who are excellent at their rubik's cubing and go
to competitions trying to beat each other's time but really it is about the friendship that happens
and what it means to be a parent be a friend be a rival be a something good at something as
particular as rubik's cubing this documentary just had me sobbing all the way through of tears of
happiness so if you get a chance please check that out on netflix now next up is the final fantasy
7 remake i was a 13 or 14 year old when this game first came out the original final fantasy 7 when i
was uh stuck in my parents house playing that game until 3 4 in the morning hours and hours on land
and being grounded in my house during the pandemic playing final fantasy 7 all over again gave me
those nostalgic feels it was really fun to revisit this game and these characters and play through
it all over again looking forward to the next installation and then since we can't get together
and play board games i've been doing some social gaming with my buddies using things like tabletop
simulator i talked a little bit about roll 20 last year i'm still using the heck out of roll 20 for d
and d every every week but tabletop simulator has been a really fun way to just jump into any board
game they have a bunch of different kind of board games it's a little grey on how these are legal
but they do have them in their workshop they've kind of rebuilt these classic board games and you
get to sandbox your way through them and play with friends and it's a blast it's a really fun way to
play any game you really want among us a game pretty much the thing the game where
you just you and your friends just explore space station one person kills somebody and
everybody is trying to figure out who that is and throw them out of the airlock uh this is a
game where you find out how good of liars your friends are i think it's a couple years old now
but i just discovered it this year and it is a really fun game now there is mysterium i first
played this game with some friends on steam uh but there is also a tabletop simulator version and we
have the actual board game but the steam version is where i've been playing most this is like clue
uh meets code names this summer to those one person plays as a ghost the other person
plays as these investigators and the ghost is trying to give them clues through these visual
cards these visual these little cues so you can see a little bit of the code names
in that you're trying to figure out who killed whom and where with what and then eventually
line up the suspects and work as a team to call them out a super fun game just a blast to play
quarantine hobbies fermenting hot sauces kimchi sauerkraut
sourdough of course sourdough it's 20 20. one wheel surfing stop motion animation
and piano and there you have it all the things that have given me joy helped me
get through this very strange very odd year thank you guys for uh sticking with us thank
you guys for watching everything we've been doing thank you for for being you uh we'll
see you guys next year in 2021 which can only get better see you guys next time bye