hey guys so for today's video i'm gonna be showing you how i film my youtube videos specifically
like my one eyed eyeshadow tutorials i get asked all the time about my camera my camera settings
my lights and just my overall setup and so i think this would be fun to kind of show you guys behind
the scenes of how i film my videos maybe you want to start your own youtube channel and just want
some guidance of things that may be helpful or you just kind of want to know what things look
like behind the scenes i think this will be fun today you're going to learn all of my tips and
tricks of exactly how i film my videos so first let's go over my makeup room like as a whole and
just my overall setup i have showed this before i recently did a makeup room tour when i redid my
whole makeup room once i moved to texas so for my filming table i just use a desk from ikea i really
like it i love the drawers for storage it's really big and then i have three lights in front of me as
i film i got these two new panel led lights once i moved to texas and these lights are so amazing
they're thin they don't take up a lot of space and i love that you can adjust the brightness
and the color temperature of the light i'm also going to link all these products down below so
don't be worried so i have those two lights to the side of me to kind of light up this area and then
directly in front of me i have i think it's an 18 inch ring light i'm going to show you what it
looks like from my perspective use my phone here but here are the lights on the two panel lights
and then the ring light and then i keep the rest of the room dark so i don't have my overhead light
on and then i close my blinds and then i like to sit on a rolly kind of spinny chair so i can like
grab products behind me if i need to it's just more comfortable for me to be able
to like move around and then i have my rug that everything sits on top of so i have my
lights my desk and my chair on top of this rug which is very important to have
again because i'm using a rolly chair so i don't want to have my really chair on like
this hardwood floor because that would be so loud to my neighbors and having a rug also helps with
any echo in the room it kind of picks up some of the sound and i'm very excited about this because
this part of the video is sponsored by ruggable so i've always wanted to try ruggable i've seen their
ads for their rugs all over the place they have so many rugs so many sizes so when they reached
out to me i was so excited so they let me pick out a rug for my makeup room and this is the
diamond trellis black rug and a five by seven foot i actually really like the darker colors
of this rug and how it kind of contrasts with my white desk and my white organizers behind me
and then also has like a little pop of it's almost like a bronzy gold color which complements my
room as well so my new rug was so easy to set up it came nice and rolled up in a tall box
and in the box you have the rug cover and the rug pad i'd recommend having two people to set up the
rug because the rug cover does stick to the rug pad like very easily like your rug is not going
to move once it's attached to the rug pad rub cover it's really light so in case you didn't know
ruggable rugs are water resistant and stain proof so of course we had to test that out so first i
wanted to test out like a powder makeup spill so i had rue knock over some powder onto my new rug
and the powder actually cleaned up really easily with just some soap and water so
it was very easy to spot clean up yeah actually came out really good
but then i wanted to kind of challenge the rug and try something harder so i
spilled some red juice on the rug i'm so nervous
oh no
i hold a lot of juice
okay you can't even see that oh it looks pretty good
like yeah it's wet but you don't see any of the color of the juice that's pretty cool i
soaked up the juice with a towel again i used some soap and water and the stain was gone
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just to roll up your rug and put it in the washer and yes it did fit inside my apartment size washer
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size is great and i think my favorite feature is definitely how easy it is to clean if i spill
makeup or any kind of drink on it so if you're interested in checking out any of ruggable's
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thank you to rugbal for sponsoring this video and now let's keep talking about how i film my videos
alright so we talked about the room the desk the rug the lights that i use let's talk about the
camera a little bit so i use a canon 90d camera to film all of my videos and i use the 18 to 135
millimeter lens because i like to be able to zoom in and out so for example here is my camera zoomed
all the way out so then when i'm filming my videos i have a mirror in front of me always
i've had this mirror for so long and it's really just a basic little flippy mirror it's not super
tall and it just sits right on my table and i want to show you how far away i am from the camera so
i'm going to set up my phone really quick so here i am sitting this way if i'm doing like
a full face of makeup or just filming like the intro outro this is usually where i'm seated
like i said i got this lens so i can zoom in so if i'm filming an eyeshadow tutorial i zoom
all the way in here i am with the camera and i actually scoot in just a little bit
and i kind of get my head into position here so it's pretty easy people always ask how do i get
such a close zoomed in shot this is it i just zoomed my lens all the way in i scooted just a
little bit closer to the camera and here we are all right but here's my mirror just sitting on
the table and when i'm filming i like it to be i like it to be just a little bit taller so i have
this just like little acrylic organizer and i just stack my mirror on top of that so now my
mirror's just kind of more straight in front of me but it's not blocking the camera you know it's
not like this or anything it's just right there okay so i'm doing like a full face of makeup my
camera is mostly zoomed all the way out here i am probably sitting about here doing my makeup
easy and then here's the number one question i get how am i sitting for a one-eyed video
so again we scoot in a little bit we zoom in the lens i kind of got a slouch down
actually and i'll actually move my mirror kind of around here i've actually kind of been doing more
of like a two eyes in the frame so i'll kind of zoom out mostly get my left eye in focus
and then get like a little bit my right eye right there so kind of like that but again
i'm just moving my mirror with my little holder around to see where i want to get
to see where i want to be i do this shot a lot so i kind of like tilt my head a little bit
doing my eye shadow so i hope that's helpful to see from this angle like just where i'm
sitting in proportion to the camera and then people always ask like where i'm looking when
i film so just to show you on my camera this is what i see looking at the lens viewfinder mirror
hello so i know a lot of youtubers use like a monitor screen like a bigger screen so they can
really see what they're looking at but i just use the viewfinder of my camera so this is what it
looks like if i'm looking into the viewfinder and then looking into the lens and this is me
looking into my mirror i've tried to do the whole like monitor setup but i just could never get it
to work for me and this has been working for me for the last like five years so i'm just gonna
keep it this way i'm trying to show you all the views here will you balance on lipsticks possibly
am i professional yes all right we're crooked but it's fine so like when i'm doing a video
i do have to keep my head pretty still i can't be you know moving around so i kind of have my
head here let's say i'm blending i'm blending looking in my mirror checking the viewfinder to
make sure i'm still in frame blend blend check but what happens when i'm filming if i'm like
let's say doing something really precise like a winged eyeliner i can do it from this far away
but then i need to like get closer to my mirror so i'll go out of frame like this because i'm
getting closer to my mirror to check and then i'll get back in frame which is also why i
haven't really done a video where i show myself like not editing the video just doing my entire
eyeshadow on camera because i do go out of frame a lot so i'm still working on how i'm going to film
that video it's coming soon but yeah that's how it looks like blending blending blending
look in the mirror like the viewfinder and it was pretty tricky to get used to this at first
i'm going to talk about camera settings in a second but you can see there's that little
box around my eye so this is really weird to do so i can move this box of where i want myself
to be focused so i kind of go there and i just and i just kind of tell myself to keep my eye
in that box and that's how i know i'm in frame okay now let's talk about camera settings
really quick and i've never talked about camera settings before because your settings depend so
much on your in your environment where you're filming and more importantly your lighting
so i'm not an expert on camera terminology i've taken like basic camera classes in like
high school and college but the only setting i really mess with i just had to google it is the
shutter speed so again i have these three very bright lights in front of me so it looks like
all right okay so i have my shutter speed at 1 over 50. my f stop at 5.6 and my iso at 640.
that's that so my camera is on manual so i can change all of those things i will use auto
sometimes if i'm like switching things up and like filming affirmative window um but most of the time
these are the settings on my camera but what i like about this camera is that it's so easy to
change the settings like with this touch screen or with the little knobs i kind of like know
how to use my camera backwards if that makes sense so like for example if i need to zoom in
sometimes it gets like too bright so i just change the shutter speed see right now it's 1 over 50.
and now she's getting lighter and lighter so one over 50 is where i usually stay sometimes one over
60 sometimes one over 40. it also kind of depends if like there's any light coming through this
window that affects it trying to think about other camera settings are important obviously i have
my camera on a tripod like if that wasn't clear so far it's just like a little manfrotto tripod
it's on like the lowest setting but i do raise it up just a little bit right here but i like
this tripod it has like a little quick release right here and then i do have a mic on my camera
it is a rode mic that just sits in the hot shoe and that's what it looks like and it's
on i don't know what any of these settings means but that's what it's on 75 and the mic
just plugs in right here into my camera i like it this is what it looks like when i'm filming
easy peasy i also wanted to mention too that i have been doing this for five years and it
is my full-time job so i have played around with different setups different lights and this is what
works for me if you're new to youtube you don't need to have this fancy setup using a window works
perfectly i know so many youtubers who just use natural lighting but i would definitely recommend
to have a tripod or just something steady to set your phone or your camera on and a ring
light is handy to have too as well i did ask you guys on instagram if you had just like any
questions for me so let me just quickly go through those what lens and camera do i use my settings we
went over that thumbnail photos that's a good question so my camera the canon 90d can take
photos and videos so if i'm gonna take a thumbnail i literally just switch the settings over to photo
do my little zoom in um maybe adjust the shutter speed again and i i guess let me show you this
all right we're gonna okay we're back to the phone so i'm gonna switch it to camera settings
and then i would zoom in focus my eye it has a little focus button up here okay it was looking
kind of dark so i'm just going to lighten this up so we're at 1 over 40. i kind of get into frame
boom picture so that was a good question but that's how i take my iphotos how long does it
take you to do an entire look good question if i was just gonna do like a one-eyed video most of
the time i'm literally just wearing eyeshadow on that one eye that probably takes me about
30 minutes to film but if i'm doing a full face of makeup and in that case usually i film like
one eye and a lot of my face makeup that probably takes maybe an hour or so to film how much footage
time do you actually cut out that's a good question too so i did kind of talk about um
when i'm doing like an eyeshadow look you know i'm blending and i want to look closer to my mirror so
i do go out of frame so i can see myself closer in the mirror so i always cut out those bits or
else you're literally just like seeing my hair and that's just not helpful kind of a random thing but
like what i'm editing let's say i'm showing myself like applying the transition shade i try to show
that for at least 10 seconds so 10 seconds of this shade maybe 10 seconds of the next shade
and that's not how long it takes me in real life which is why i do want to do a video where i try
to do no cuts no edits you can really see how long it does actually take how to film on phone
camera i've never really filmed any of my videos on my phone so i can't really answer that for you
and then for editing i just use imovie on my mac laptop it's free it's very easy to use a couple
years ago i tried to use final cut pro because i wanted to like be more professional with my
videos but it's like my videos don't really need those fancy transitions and effects i just need to
be able to cut and copy paste things around so i find that imovie works for me again it's free and
very very beginner friendly it has just basic transitions if you want to add a little title
you can and then for editing any makeup pictures i do use photoshop for that i'm not an expert at
photoshop but i have just a little basic knowledge so maybe some skin smoothing brightening some
colors getting rid of any stray hairs or like flaky skin that's popping up alright so i think
that's going to be everything for me today if you have any questions or something i might have
missed for this video just leave it down below i'll try to get back to you and i hope this was
helpful for you to kind of see some behind the scenes of my filming setup and again if you want
to check out ruggable there will be a link and a discount code in the description box so i hope
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