- In this video we're going through how you build out
your YouTube studio, so you go from this
to something more like this or something more like this.
So if you want to do more of the artificial lighting
with the colors in the background
or if you want to do more of a daylight studio,
I'm gonna go through the different things
that I do to be able to create my YouTube sets
and I have two sets built here in one space.
All right guys, let's get after it.
So guys if you're new to this channel,
my name is Jeven Dovey, I do a lot of filmmaking tutorials,
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So originally I just had the one set built in this room
and it's been evolving over time.
That's something that you need to think about
when you're creating your set that you're going
to use for your YouTube videos.
It's not going to be perfect the first time
you set it and you get going.
You're going to keep evolving this over time.
Originally, I started with my artificial looking set,
it has a lot of colored backgrounds.
Let's just go over there.
In this set, I use all the time to create my online courses,
to create tutorials but there's a lot of times
where I don't want to just be sitting here
talking to camera so this is a good setup
that I've built for this style of content.
But when I want to show a product
or be more involved with the things that I'm working on,
have a little bit wider shot,
that's why I built the other set with the standing table.
So you have to kind of think, what kind of videos
are you going to be creating and that's going to dictate
what style of set that you want to build.
Like I said, this is more artificial lighting.
So I have completely blocked out all of the light
in this room and as you can see over here
this is my window and so I've put a piece of duvetyne
across my entire window and that means that all the light
in this room I have put in here.
So everything has a purpose.
Whereas, when you go to my other set,
I'm gonna pull this off.
Now I didn't turn off the colored lights back there
but this is more of the natural daylight studio.
So I used light from the window and then I have one light
to fill in my face, so I have a nice look on my face.
So we're going to talk about the lighting
and I'm just going to talk about camera placement,
audio, things like that.
For this video specifically I'm using a lav mic.
(tapping microphone)
That's the one that's on my shirt right now
and I'm actually just using a little audio recorder.
So this is my Tascam DR10 but the DR10
is an audio recorder and I use this all the time
because you can see your levels on it
and you can actually just record
and then sync it up later in post.
So I have four cameras going, I have one, two,
which are my two cameras I use for my sets.
I got my 360 camera back here.
And then I have a fourth camera which is my Nikon
and I'm using this just to give you guys some details
as I walk around.
So I can point out specific things
and be able to show you guys exactly what I am doing
instead of having to cut and do some B-roll.
I'm going to shoot another video on how I create videos
faster using multi-caming.
And that's essentially what I'm doing with this workflow.
Okay, so let's get into the set build.
Like I said earlier, I have duvetyne.
That is this black material.
It cuts out all light.
Now duvetyne is great for covering windows.
And so what I've done is created eyelets on the duvetyne.
And as you can see right here.
I've made these myself
and just used a little command strip hook
to attach it to the wall.
And so for me that makes it super easy,
so I can just hang this up any time that I want to put
the black on the window and cut out all the light.
Now I've also put up the hooks here on this side
and the reason for that is I've done it in the past
different backdrops here.
So I don't have to pull out stands and I don't have
to pull out a bunch of gear to be able to put up a backdrop.
And I have a bunch of these cloth backdrops.
So, if I wanted to do say like more of a brick background
and I've used this for different videos.
Then this works great.
I put eyelets in this as well and hung it up on the wall.
So, one room can have multiple purposes
and I think using your room multi-purpose
makes it so that you can have more flexibility
in the content that you're shooting.
I do a lot for my office, so I enjoy having the flexibility
of building out different sets here.
Now let's talk about lighting.
So use an aperture 120D, that is my main light right here
that provides all of the fill light on your face.
And so I put that about a 45 degree angle from the camera.
So I have my camera, my GH5, right in front of me.
Right off to the side is my aperture 120D.
And you can see that I just have this sitting here
and it's always put up.
I never tear this down.
Super easy, I put an egg crate on it
and what the egg crate does is it focuses the light
a little more.
So if you take the egg crate off what happens
is the light floods further around the room.
So I always use a egg crate so that it focuses
more of the light on me, less on the background.
The idea is that you want
to create different pools of light.
So where I'm at, this section that's one pool of light
and when you're lighting the background
you want to think of that as a separate pool
of light because you can do different things
in the background, you can put different colors,
different exposures.
You can bring up the ambience, bring down the ambience
and it will change the look
and feel of how your whole space works.
But if you're relying on your one light to do everything
or two lights and this is also controlling your background.
Then it's going to be a lot harder
to get the look that you want.
So I always say independently control your space
where your subject is and then your background.
And try to create two pools of light.
And that's the easiest easiest way to think about it
when it comes to building out like a YouTube set,
is think in those terms.
What is the background?
Expose for that and then expose for your subject, you
and expose for that to match the background
or be a little bit darker or a little bit lighter.
However, you want that exposure difference
to be in your shot.
And this is something that you can start looking at
when you're watching other YouTubers
is look at their set.
Does their set darker than their subject
or is their set brighter?
Are they in a big bright open space
or it a very dark space and the subject is lit brighter.
Or are they equal, because you can also do that,
where they match perfectly.
Okay, so let's talk about my background.
I have just the simple strips behind my desk,
which creates the color of light.
These are cheap, they're like $20-$30
and it just changes color based on whatever you want to do.
So I got a remote here and I can change,
I can change it orange, I can change it purple.
I can do white.
So these are good if you want to create pops of color
in the background.
Now another way you can do this is using these small lights.
So this is the Vlogger light and the other one
that I have, which is illuminating
my YouTube award right now is the Pilotfly AtomCUBE RX1.
Two good options, I actually like both of these lights.
I like the Pilotfly a little bit more for the options
that you get in the light.
However, this does come with a nice mount,
which allows you to hook it to basically anything.
So you got to pick your poison what you like better.
So, when it comes to this light, you can change
the colors, so I'm going to change to now, I gotta blue.
I'm going to put it at 100% brightness.
And let's change the color a bit.
So as you can see I am changing the color.
So, let's say I put this in the background.
Let's go to a bright like pink or something.
There we go, we'll do a purple.
So now you can create the entire color of your background
just using one of these little lights
and these things are super powerful.
So, as you can see this two pools of light
is working very well because I am still lit properly
for the exposure from this camera.
But I've just added this purplish-blue light
in the background, which is creating the crazy color
all over in the background.
So if you want color, either use LED strips,
which are these things that are on my desk
or pick up one of these lights, the Vlogger
or the Pilotfly and you can change any color.
So let's see, there's pink, there's red.
We got some yellow, green.
So you can really just play around
and create whatever color you want.
In something like this you can literally
just throw it on the floor and it illuminates
the entire background
and as long as you have that separation
of the foreground and the background,
you can create different color effects using this.
So for me I have my background being a big picture,
which is essentially just, it was on a mirror.
I don't know why I'm still using this color.
And you're probably wondering
why I just stuck white up here,
I'm bringing up the general ambiance of the room.
So if I didn't have this on when I'm sitting over here
at my desk, it actually a little bit too dark
in the background, so I personally like bringing
up the ambience a tad.
So something else to think about
is playing with those levels of ambience in the background.
So let's talk about my backdrop.
I had two mirrors here originally,
I got this picture, I just got it off Amazon
and it fits my brand.
So you gotta think about when you're creating
your YouTube studio what's going to fit your brand.
So for me, outdoors, mountains,
I do a lot of climbing films.
If you haven't seen my most recent climbing film,
I highly suggest you check that out.
But that fits my brand, I do a lot of climbing,
so I wanted to get a mountain.
So I got this.
It's just a sticker and you can put these on walls,
you can put these on mirrors, anything.
That's how I created this image,
it gives some nice depth to the background
and then my closet, which is where I house all my gear.
This is essentially all of my gear,
it makes it organized so I can just grab things that I need.
Switchpod, if you haven't got a Switchpod yet,
maybe you should get one.
I actually just put a little discount code
in the descriptions.
So if you guys wan to get one, you can get it for $10 off.
A bunch of other stuff.
One of the most important things is a label maker.
I do use this all the time.
But instead of just having a blank background,
I decided to put my gear back there.
The idea is to create some depth.
So instead of just flat walls, I'm trying to create
more depth in my space.
So it feels like there's more going on.
Obviously you don't want to have it too cluttered
but having some depth, so you see this a lot of times
people will put gear and stuff in the background.
You just need to find out what works best for your space.
For me, I had this closet, so I built out shelves
that I put all my gear on it.
But you might need to add something into your room.
Like you might need to add some shelving units
that you can add some depth moving upwards.
Because you gotta think about it.
You don't want just things on the ground around you.
You want to build up as well.
You want to be able to build out your whole space
so it feels like you're in this environment.
So you're hanging out in my space.
This is like my creator lab
and that's kind of how you want to feel.
What is your creator lab look like?
What does your space look like?
And if you look at someone like Casey Neistat,
he had that space in New York
and that was like a mad scientist for creators.
And so you really got into his space
and you had all this texture and all this depth
but that was his brand.
So what is on brand for you?
What is going to be in the background that fits the content
that you're creating?
All right, let's move on to set number two.
And this is my more daylight-looking set.
This is where I'm able to have a table in front of me
and work with different products.
I was just shooting a review about this whole Gimble Ring.
My wife decided to print something while I'm shooting.
But I was just doing a review on this,
so this is a good space where I can have things
laid out in front of me and be able to work with a camera
that's a little bit further.
So this is not an arm's reach away.
I'm using a 35mm lens equivalent, because I'm on GH5,
so it's a 17.5.
But I have distance,
I can't really see the screen over here.
So, what I have is a monitor.
My Atomos Shinobi is great
for seeing what's going on over there.
So I add a monitor so I don't have to be next to the camera
to see focus, exposure all of that.
This is a quick release that Zhiyun makes.
Jai-yun, however you want to say it.
And I put these on all of my mounting points,
so I can just pop these on and off they're metal.
And they're super easy to attach things
like monitors, clamps, anything.
They're essentially made for tripods
on the bottom of Gimbles.
And that's what I think they were originally intended for.
But I've found that these little clamps
are useful all over the studio.
So anytime you need to mount something
and you don't want to have to screw it all the time,
you add one of these mounting points,
it just pops on and off.
Now, the way that I've set up audio in this room
is that I have a microphone above me.
Now, I do this for both of my sets,
I only have one of these microphones.
So the next thing I need to add is another mic,
so I have two.
But that essentially allows me to have the mic
at the perfect position above my head.
I use a Sennheiser mic, these things sound really good.
And you can see the difference.
Here's the sounds of the lavalier
and now here is the sound of the mic overhead.
And over there it's a little bit better
in terms of reverb
because I'm not projecting out into the room.
Are you coming in?
- [Wife] We have to fill out the application.
- Okay come say hi.
- So I'm explaining how my room is set up.
So do you want give an explanation?
- Can you pause
and I need him to take care of something real quick?
- Now something else that I do
and you can see this over here.
I have some more stands laying around out
in the background here.
I got another C-stand here.
And I have these stands laying around
so that I can do more in the space.
Like if I want to put a camera above,
I can rig it up so that I can have a top-down shot.
So having some different pieces on had makes it easier.
So that if you're like, hey, I need to get Rab this shot,
you have the gear sitting around, you can grab it
and get your shot.
The same reason I have my closet set up in this way,
where I have all the gear accessible.
Everything's labeled so that I can just grab gear,
do my shoot, throw it back and I'm not spending tons
and tons of time fumbling with gear.
Because over time it does get frustrating.
So in terms of lighting in this daylight space.
I use an aperture 120D, I'm telling you these lights
with the small soft box on the egg crate.
That is like the best light I found
for this style of creating content.
But you don't need that huge soft box.
The small one works.
You're just illuminating one person and then you use
other lights to bring
in some other lighting around your space.
The 120D is lighting for me
but the lighting in the background is all from my window.
So I play with my blinds and the different amount
of light and I use my blinds to control how much light
I want in the background.
So, more of a daylight looking studio
and if you have a space where you get direct sunlight
coming into your room,
maybe you have the sun peeking through your blinds
and it creates a nice pattern on the back wall.
Use that to your advantage,
because having some texture in the background with lighting
looks really good.
So look at ways that you can use the natural sunlight
to bring some texture into the background.
Now one thing that you want to avoid
is just putting yourself in front of a window
and having the background fall to black.
Now that is a great way to get started
and just illuminating your face
because when you stand at a window,
it's gonna give you the best looking light.
It's going to give you light looking like this.
However, if you just have the light fall off to black
in the background it just doesn't look that good.
This is a great place to start,
however, this is much harder to control
than if you were to illuminate yourself using lighting
and then controlling your background
by bringing up the ambience or bringing down the ambience.
So that's why I don't use windows to light myself,
weather conditions change, the look changes.
And so that's why I like to use my 120Ds to control
the light on me
and then if I have anything in the background,
I'm going to use my blinds or the other lighting
that I have to control that.
So when it really comes down to it,
there's a few things that you need to think about
when you're creating your YouTube set.
One is your brand.
What is your brand and does your set show off your brand?
The second thing to think about is lighting.
And think about it in two pools of lighting.
So front pool, back pool and you don't have to be
super crazy with the lighting that you're using.
I use one light, frontal, to light me.
And then I use some different lights in the background
to give it some texture, to give it something
a little bit different.
So think colored lights, if you like that look.
Or think using a window or another small light
to bring up the ambience.
So guys links to everything that I use is down here
in the description.
So it there's anything that you specifically want
from my setup, I'll put everything down there
in my kit, so you guys can check out
every piece that I use.
And guys make sure you go down in the comments
and Let me know what you're using
for your YouTube background.
Is there anything specific that you use
that's different than mine.
Or is there anything specific that you like
that has really worked for you
creating the content on your channel.
All right guys, if you want to see more videos
on how to create better content on YouTube.
I'll put a link right here on the screen somewhere
and I've got a bunch of resources down in the description
of different playlists on how to grow your channel
and take your brand to the next level.
I'll see you guys on the next one.