- So you guys know Steve, the producer.
He just launched the YouTube channel.
I must say, I watched the video, really informative stuff,
about how to break down a script,
so you pick a script, and then you color code stuff like,
wardrobe and props and you kinda categorize things,
and have everything organized, on the day of shooting,
you have like a list of exactly everything you need.
Even though we've worked together, so many times,
I never knew you actually did that.
I was like, I'm learning stuff.
If you guys are film makers, I suggest you check it out.
But, what was up with that lighting?
There's a light that went.
So first of all, I think we should pimp out,
your lighting set up.
And the thing with video lights, is that,
they are expensive, specifically because,
they're video lights.
Anything that is specifically made for video,
is gonna be more expensive, 'cause it's more specialized.
And that's why we're at The Home Depo.
Are the lights in there any good for video?
I have no idea, but let's go find out.
So, let's go.
Just add a sound effect, so it can sound like,
I actually did it.
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It is a lot of stuff here, wow!
What we need for video use, is something that
can project the light to one direction.
Most of these lights, right now are designed,
to light up an entire room.
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There's a few things we wanna look out for,
when we're looking for video lights.
One main thing is the color of the lights,
so, this is more daylight color,
useful to make a place look really bright,
or try to match it with some light coming in,
from the outside and this is much warmer color.
With your filming space, I'm thinking a warm look,
would be kinda cool, huh?
This is 2700 kelvins, that's actually very warm.
They even have the CRI, 90+ CRI.
That's basically a method to see,
how accurate your light is.
So, you want it to be very high,
90+ is actually pretty good, like video lights,
they are like over 97 or 98, but we're at Home Depo.
That's cool that they actually list off that CRI.
- That's new, they didn't used to do that.
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- You can just put a bulb in here,
and just project this forward.
Another thing I'm not sure about,
is also some lights flicker,
we can't really see it with our eyes.
But cameras can sometimes pick it up.
So, that's something that doesn't really say so much,
on these lights, but we'll see,
maybe we'll just grab a couple and see what works.
Wait, you can adjust the color temperature,
on work lights now, what?
Doesn't say anything about CRI, but 2700 kelvin to 5000.
So, that's actually kinda cool that,
Ryobi is making lights that
are flexible and color temperature.
A little bit on the pricier end, 69,
but this could power off a battery, so that's kinda cool.
Yeah, let's get that.
Well this light is only 16 bucks,
so I feel we might as well try it.
$54 a light, which is kind of expensive for a work light,
but relative to video lights, as I can see, they are cheap.
So the CRI is only 80, so, that's not great,
it's just a lot of output, but the color accuracy,
is just not all the way there.
This is the kinda light I used to buy,
when I was starting out, I would come to Home Depo.
So this would work, it was 20 bucks.
The biggest downside of it, is that,
it's old school technology.
So, this is gonna draw a thousand watts
and actually heat up the room like crazy.
So, it's probably not gonna be worth it, 'cause
Steve is gonna be sweating the whole time he's filming.
And the color accuracy out of halogen light like this,
should be pretty descent, but it's just very warm,
like the color temperature is more orange on this,
than the other lights.
And also if you put stuff in front of it like gels,
or you try to customize it, it's gonna just like
melt all that stuff.
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It would be kinda cool, is if we could get
a practical light, like a little lamp
that's actually in the frame and also doubles as a light.
Christmas lights are great things to just have as ambience,
you can put it in the background and this is only 9.97.
Just for giggles, look at that one, blue one, party it up.
I will try this a little bit, whoops!
We're looking pretty hot here, I think the only other
things we need is one thing we could use as a diffuser,
so its just some sort of fabric or cloth
or something that's somewhat transparent
that can soften up the lights,
so its not gonna be as intense.
But also something we could use as a bouncer.
That can literally be anything
that's kinda big and nice and white.
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Oh my goodness, look at this big shiny board,
I don't know what this is,
but this could be a beadboard, right here.
- You know what it actually is?
Put this in your garage door and when it rolls up,
and this is your insulation for sound.
- You can see how it's reflecting light on to my face.
We can definitely use this stuff.
We can actually get this cheaper, by going to like arts
and crafts store and like getting
a dollar poster board that's like that big.
But right now we're trying to get everything at Home Depo,
so this is what we're going with.
Dude, this right here would be perfect diffusion right here,
but this would be a very expensive piece of diffusion.
Its translucent, so it's gonna soften up the light,
but its still gonna let the light through.
So its gonna just basically take harsh light,
and kick it out as soft light, that's what we want.
$5, shower curtain, this is our guy.
White board is to reflect light, and we want some black tape
so we can absorb light.
I think we're good to go, huh?
Go team!
That was really lousy.
Before we leave, we gotta take a good thumbnail photo.
How do we put this up?
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It's really hard for me to hold stuff.
Let's go look at his crappy set that he made in his house.
So the background itself looks really solid or ready,
so you already did a good job on the set grass.
I think we just have to make some few technical adjustments,
here so, let's go set up the camera.
So, how much of a budget do you have for the camera?
Oh, that's, it'd be useful to have a few more dollars,
not gonna lie, I wanna get a camera with auto focus,
and descent prime lens or something.
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they provide us with a budget,
so we can do this kinda stuff and usually,
I'll do a give away, with a lot of these stuff,
we get from sponsored videos, but this time,
we're gonna do the give away to Steve.
This is the part where you have to act,
like really happy, about it.
- This is amazing.
I can't believe that a company would just do this.
- You should have been an actor.
For real though, Steve didn't know
that he was getting a camera,
till like a just few minutes ago, I'm like,
"yeah, let's go get you your camera."
He's like, "what, what camera?"
So this actually pretty cool and finally,
he can stop asking if he could borrow my stuff.
- I'm never gonna stop.
- In addition to the camera, we're also gonna give you,
this 11 to 22 millimeter lens, which will be perfect,
for vlogging, is a nice wide angle,
so you can actually hold it out and record yourself.
But I think what's gonna make this set better is,
this 22 millimeter prime lens, it does not zoom,
but it has a fast aperture, so you're gonna be able
to create a little bit of separation
from yourself and the background.
Now this is definitely gonna be
more than enough for the camera.
And again you don't need a awesome camera,
to get a good shot.
What's more important, is honestly going to be
the lighting in her, we're gonna try
to control it a little bit more.
Alright, so this is basically our starting point here.
First thing I would do is, switch to a prime lens.
So we got our F2, 22 millimeter prime.
Look how tiny that thing is, so cute.
Now we add an F2, so we can drop down our eyes,
so quite a bit.
Now, since it's a tighter lens, let back up the camera.
We're gonna try to create a little bit of separation,
from you and the foreground, so when we put a light,
on Steve, it doesn't fully affect the background.
And when we put a light on the background,
it doesn't really cast too much on Steve.
So let's create a little bit of space.
So Steve, slide on forward, oh yeah.
Now that we have an F2, we're getting a little bit blurry,
around that background, so that is good.
Let's get that logo back on the display.
Just so it's not as empty, black void of nothingness.
It is a little bit destructing, 'cause it is moving,
but kinda trying to plug our production company here,
so I guess that actually kinda works.
So, this one was interesting because
it has, adjustable color temperatures.
That is cool, that this little work light,
is actually capable of going daylight to warm.
That's awesome.
You can see there's eight LEDs in there, four of them warm.
Alright, we're definitely seeing some sort of flicker,
oh yeah, see that?
So now we're on the low setting an you can actually see,
a ton of flicker and on camera,
it just comes up as these horizontal lines.
So, basically, if we're gonna use this light,
we need to keep it on full strength, so it's not flickering,
which is a little bit unfortunate, but that's the price,
we pay by trying to go cheap with one of these things,
instead of professional video light,
for example, one from aperture.
I'm wearing their shirt right now,
so I feel like I should represent them.
Let's check out a couple of the other lights,
and see how those look.
These are dimmable, 90+ CRI, 120 watt equivalent.
Here we go with our lighting fixture.
Ah, okay, her we go, nice and generally warm.
Now because we know this has a relatively descent CRI,
at least opposed some of the other LEDs.
I think we should use this as our key light right here,
this light here, is 3000 degrees kelvins.
So, it's pretty warm, so, I'm gonna dial this camera,
to 3000 degrees.
So this itself is actually a pretty bright light,
which is good, because we're going to diffuse this later,
so, it is gonna cut out some of this light.
Alright see how harsh this lighting is, on Steve's face.
That's why we got those shower curtains.
This is gonna be the best five bucks,
you've ever spent on lighting gear.
Alright, all this harshness on Steve's face,
we're gonna bring up this curtain,
oh yeah, so much better, so much softer.
What we might do is add a little bit of bounce,
so, let's see if this helps a little bit.
Now if you look at the dark side of Steve's face,
you can see all that gets filled, the closer,
he brings that bounce card in.
I think that's too even, want a little bit of contrast,
I want a little bit of that shadow.
So pull it back, right around there,
I think it's a good amount.
I think the lighting on Steve is looking pretty descent.
Let's go play with that background a little bit.
Alright, so here's our bi-colored light,
and again, what's awesome about it,
is that it is flexible, in terms of how we color it.
So we can actually adjust the color, to match our mood.
So, going blue like this, makes this place,
look a little bit more techy, like we're on a space ship,
or something, but if we go warm, I say we go warm to match,
that warm, gentle heart that you see right there.
And the reason we have this light up kinda high,
is so that the light comes down on to everything,
and creates a natural looking shadow.
Most natural light comes from above,
like our sun or our lamps.
And another thing I'd like to do, is this light,
is just kind of a blur, like let's shape a little bit.
Create a little bit more texture,
we can do that by making some barn doors.
So we cut up the box that this light came in,
we're gonna cover it with black tape.
Now, here's an issue I've never ran into,
is that, we only made one opening on those barn doors,
but it's making two completely separate slashes.
You can see, there's one up there and one down there.
It's because inside that fixture, the LEDs are spread apart,
so far that's creating completely separate shadows,
so not exactly what we were hoping for,
but I think we'll play with it and make it work somehow.
So that's an interesting shape right there,
it's doing a little bit to highlight that guitar.
You see that reflection on the TV, on the top left?
So, let's try to cut that out.
So that, Jonathan bringing the board.
Now it just basically needs to get in between the TV
and the light, right there.
Good thing we have all these pieces of foam here.
Now, let's try to put a little bit of light behind Steve,
just to bring that part of the background back.
Oh my God, so much flicker.
- Yeah, I could see it flickering myself.
- That sucks, these lights flicker like crazy.
Here's how it would look like, if we were to edit it,
to remove the flicker but rather not deal with having
to edit out a flicker in every single shot
that we shoot here.
So, now we have our blue, tinted light,
they actually were selling different color of lights,
like red, blue, yellow.
Do I look like an avatar?
We're out of light stands,
so we're just gonna plank it on the floor.
Not ideal, but, we're just kinda doing what we can,
with what we've got right now.
I think the blue is actually kinda working.
Looks kinda interesting, but it's a little bit too blue,
so I'm thinking we could actually try
that one inexpensive light fixture, that we got,
has a low CRI, so we don't wanna put that on skin tone.
So we're just gonna use it to splash the background,
with a color, actually might look pretty good.
That light is 4000 degrees kelvin, so it's not necessarily,
a blue light, but relative to all these warm lights.
And we have the camera set to 3200 degrees kelvin, right?
Now, so it should actually look kinda cool.
So, let's give that a shot.
Alright, so, we got that light right there, facing straight
against the wall and it's actually a bit intense.
And with this light, again, we don't have much functionality
out of it, so we cannot dial in,
the strength and brightness of it.
So, I think what we can do, is just get one more,
of those bounce cards we got,
'cause we got a whole package of them.
This is bounce out that light off that white card,
just so that it evenly, lights up the background.
And that's just giving us a little subtle touch
of blue to the background and just making it so,
Steve isn't falling completely in to darkness there.
Mahn, this just cool, the only thing that's killing me,
is that little black hole of a TV back there.
So before we end that out, I think we should whip out
one of our lights, even though we didn't get it
from Home Depo.
Came TV, I'm not sure how you pronounce them.
But they just sent these RGB tubes out to us try out.
They're kinda like quasars, if you're familiar with them,
and it's a little bit cheaper, but my downsize,
is that, look how many cables there are.
So it's kind of a lot to power on each individual light.
But once you get them plugged in,
it is actually pretty powerful.
Here's the LED light itself,
it has its own little barn doors,
which is kind of cool, it's also very lightweight,
and we should be able to place this pretty much anywhere,
without too much trouble.
And this kit comes with four of them,
which is cool, but it's just a lot of cables to manage,
opposed to the quasars,
which is plugged straight into the wall.
This is full RGB spectrum, so, you could do a whole lot,
and they're pretty bright so, it's pretty cool actually.
Ooh, what is that green?
That's kind of cool, blue,
and it's got some interesting lighting settings
and that's actually surprisingly bright,
that's actually pretty dang powerful, for just one tube.
If you stack four of these, that's a bright light.
I mean look at that, it's lighting up the whole room.
I actually love what that light bar is doing,
'cause it's totally filling out that little dead area,
that used to be there.
That one Came TV LED, is probably worth more,
than all the lights we've got from Home Depot combined,
but it is pretty cool and definitely useful.
And they were kind enough to send us a kit of four of them.
So, might as well just throw another one on there.
It actually looks kind of interesting.
These LED strips are making it completely
into a whole different type of shot,
obviously that was a lot more work than it should have been,
because, we just got everything from Home Depot.
But I'm actually happy with the way it turned out.
And yes we did cheat a little bit by using,
two professional tube lights,
but even without those tube lights,
I thought it was actually looking pretty descent.
You could always get fluorescent lights like that,
from Home Depot.
A lot of times they're not gonna be RGB,
they're not gonna be as bright,
but as long as you know what you're looking for,
when you're buying lights you can get away
with something pretty cheap.
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He loves that.
Anyways, hopefully some of that information was helpful,
to you and yeah in case you haven't seen my last video,
my arm is broken.
I'm not gonna replay the clip of my arm getting broken,
'cause that last video immediately got demonetized,
for having graphic elements,
but yeah I did break it while I was filming,
so don't watch my last video, if you have a weak stomach.
But yeah, I ended up needing to get surgery on it
and I just came out of surgery, day before yesterday
and luckily everything went perfectly smooth.
Here's what my elbow looks like now.
I have these plates in there, to hold it together.
And since those plates and screws are so strong,
I actually only have to wear this cast for two more weeks.
So, I'm actually excited about that.
I was expecting to have to wear cast for
like four to eight weeks.
But yeah, the reason why they're taking this cast off,
in two weeks is because the elbow is something
that gets stiff really fast.
So the last step is just gonna really be cranking my arm,
to try to get a full range of motion, so that's the goal.
Immediately after the surgery, I didn't really have
any feelings in my pinky and my ring finger here.
It's because to work on that part of the elbow,
they actually have to move your nerve,
it's what a lot of people call the funny bone,
but really it's a nerve.
But you know how sometimes you tap it
and your arm feels electric?
That's because your nerves pretty exposed right there,
so they actually have to take it and relocate it
and then work on the elbow and then bring it back down,
but so they could even just permanently relocate that nerve.
Crazy stuff that they're talking about.
But yeah, with anesthesia it was literally over,
before I even knew it had started.
And yeah, now I'm on the road to recovery.
I'm like wondering what my arm
looks like underneath this cast.
I know there's a bunch of staples and stitches in there.
So, you're like unwrapping a Christmas gift.
Well, surprise!
Top comment from my last video was,
potato jet breaks his arm, what do I do?
I should probably go to the hospital or something.
That's the thing I wasn't a 100% sure,
if I needed to go to the hospital at first.
'cause I've seen videos of people, relocate their arm
after they dislocate it.
I was like, what if I could just do that too?
But now, knowing what I know,
so glad I just went straight to the hospital.
I'm 34, was thinking about getting a skateboard,
but not anymore ,thanks Gene.
Yeah, you can learn from my mistakes
and I would advise against it.
I've never seen a high definition fail
and perfectly in frame, this one's a first.
That's what happens when a cinematographer vlogs
and breaks his arm while he's doing it.
Potato jet breaks a bone, dog with three legs,
am i a joke to you?
Oh lefty, I know how you feel now.
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