- What's up everybody?
You are in the new office, and let me explain
this whole set up, but first. (whooshing)
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I'll figure that out later.
What's goin' on?
This is the new office.
You probably know that by the time that
you're watching this video, but at the time
that I'm filming this video, right now in the present
for me, nobody knows.
Nobody knows at all, there's nothing even in here.
We literally got the keys three days ago
and I've already been shooting in it for two days
for a huge project with Cannon.
I wanted to show you some of the things
that we've done here before the crew comes,
because they're gonna tare it down today
and I wanted to share some stuff with you guys
before they do it and it goes back
to being an empty room of nothingness.
I'm in the bathroom, there's a little bit less echo
and the light is nice, you can see the bathroom. (laughs)
But yeah, this is the office,
we're doing a huge shoot right now,
I'm making 30 small little videos for Cannon
which is massive job.
It's taken the last two days and today is the last day
but we took the open room that's gonna be the office
that Maddie and I have told you guys about,
and we turned it into a complete film set.
I wanted to show you guys that before everyone gets here
and then they tare it down,
'cause we just kinda wanna get in and out today.
I wanted to show you guys what an actual set looks like
for a big project like this.
So, follow me.
I've turned the mic around just so
that you guys can here me better.
In this big room, oosh, is our film set.
Look at that, looks so good, let me pump the ISO up
just a little bit so you can see a bit more.
This is everything we have set up.
This took, believe it or not, a full day to set up.
You might be asking, well why did that take a full day?
It doesn't look like it's a full days worth of work?
Trust me, it is, this entire room was empty to start
which posed the problem, number one, of audio.
How do you get this to sound not terrible
with no echo, and that was the first challenge to overcome.
We got a sound guy, Ryan, he came in here
with all his gear, it's over there,
I'll show you in a second.
We made kind of two false walls with some
of the baker's racks that my friends left here
at their old office.
We put an acoustic blanket on one
and a big piece of foam on the other,
and we put the acoustic blanket that I have in my office,
that you guys normally see me make my videos with,
that's on the floor.
We're trying to control the bounce of the wave forms
from audio, so we don't want it bouncing
off the high ceilings, hitting the floor,
hitting the wall, back and forth,
which is creating that echo.
We need to condense that,
we need to kill that,
so that's what these two walls are for and this is my spot.
We've got our key light up here,
which is lighting me, the main light for the video.
We've got a C2100 for an overhead rig,
that's what's pointing down
and I'm watching what's happening
on this little monitor here.
This is the boom mic so that's picking up my audio,
as well, as a lapel mic.
So I've got a lapel mic on, two sources of audio,
so we'll mix them together in post.
I got a bit of a key light here,
so that's hitting kind of my back shoulder,
that's an Apeture 300D.
We got that kinda rigged up on a little boom arm right here.
And then, we have a light panel at the back,
which is just kinda touching the top of my head
but we flagged it off with this piece of black foam core
so it's not the whole power of the light.
Got these backdrops, just like a dark gray backdrop.
These ARRI lights, airy, arri lights,
I guess it depends how you say it, (laughs)
we don't actually have them on,
they're just kinda props for the background.
What's super funny is, you guys know I love my little
Apeture LED lights, so what we've done is actually turn
these on, we stuck that inside, closed it up
and then when you're on set it actually looks
like the light is on.
It's not gonna get super hot,
we don't have to plug it in,
that thing lasts all day.
One of my favorite hacks, Tony came up with that.
He's got a bigger one in this light
which just looks so good.
Over here we got some Apple boxes stack on a Pelican case,
again, we're building the background of the set.
All that stuff is completely useless,
it just looks good, kinda want it to portray
we're in a film house, there's gear everywhere,
we're in back of some kind of BTS set location,
which is what I was trying to create with this,
being that we came in here and there was absolutely nothing.
That C2100 is rigged up on a Jib
so that it can be an overhead rig.
This is much better than a C stand
like I taught you guys before,
that was for my office, but if you're on an actual set,
probably using a crane is a better idea.
We've counter weighted it up here,
there's a big weight at the back
which is keeping this thing nice and steady.
Let's move around the back here.
Tapin' our cables down.
So back here we have the director's monitor,
so the guys from Cannon are sitting here watching me
on this monitor.
It's got a picture in picture
so they can see what I'm doing with the top down camera
and what I'm doing face on.
This is all Ryan's gear for monitoring the audio
to make sure it all sounds amazing.
This is our second C200 and Tony's got it kinda flagged
off here so that he can actually see the monitor
when I'm sitting there.
He leaves the main camera rolling
and then kinda mans this one.
We got a 7200 on that so we can punch
in on my hands if he needs to.
And, over here is the main camera, which is a C300
and that's pointed straight at where I'm sitting
which is on that stool.
That's kinda what the background looks like a little bit,
but obviously we'll be punched in more.
It's lookin' super good.
We blacked out the windows with garbage bags
and foam core, so that we killed some
of the light comin' in there.
We did the same thing on this side
with a big black bed sheet.
And then, right down here, right on the ground
is another little LED panel that we kinda diffuse
with this mini little softbox,
and that's just a kicker light for my hands
for that overhead camera.
So when that's pointed down,
and you see my hands holding a camera,
this little light here is just kinda like a nice ram
a nice little kicker, just to give it a little more depth.
But, look at all these cables,
so that's why this took a full day to set up.
It was a big job, probably bigger than we expected,
given that this place was completely empty
and now look at it.
That's kind of it, so this is been my seat
for the last three days,
which is why there haven't been videos this week.
By the time you see this video,
you won't even know what week I'm talking about.
That's the one thing that's hard about YouTube,
sometimes you do other projects for different companies
and different people or different things,
that prohibits you from actually getting
your weekly content out.
These projects are also important.
It can be difficult to balance both the YouTube videos
for the platform and then private stuff
that you're doing outside, or freelance work,
or whatever, or personal projects.
I think those are important to do as well
because it really reminds you what it is that you love
about filmmaking and photography,
when you're doing projects that you used to do before
you started making YouTube videos or whatever.
I like to still take those types of projects on
just because, yeah it feels great being on a film set.
It feels great being part of a project
that other creative people are also a part of
and everyone's kind of working together
to make something awesome.
I love that kind of thing.
Does this shot even look any good by the way?
I feel like this camera is also heavier to hold right now,
maybe it's just been a while, whoo.
It is quarter to ten, everyone's gonna be here
in about 10 minutes, we're gonna finish this shoot.
And then, all of this is being taken down, put back
into Tony's BMW X5, all of this. (laughs)
How impressive is that?
You guys see that little black cat in the window there?
Boop.
We should come up with a name for
that little black cat. (laughs)
- How's it goin'?
- [Peter] Welcome.
- What's up, good morning.
- [Peter] I did a whole vlog this morning.
- Amazing.
- [Peter] Just like showing everybody the set up,
it was just dope.
Ryan, Tony, Brett, say what's up.
- What's up, how's it going?
- Alright, let's get to work and finish this project
and then I will show you guys the tare down.
Whoa the light, outside.
Now take it down.
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That's a wrap folks, as you can hear,
as you can see, this shoot is over.
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