- Hey guys, welcome back to the vlog.
Today's going to be a super productive day
of getting stuff done while in lock-down.
So as usual I'll talk you through what I do in a day
for whatever that's worth.
I wake up when my alarm goes off at 9 a.m.
but then I break the cardinal rule of productivity
which is to never get back into bed with your phone.
Having broken this rule,
I spend another whole hour in bed on my phone
going through emails
trying to reply to a handful of Instagram DMs
because I'm nice
and watching, of all things a Logan Paul vlog
- I am sorry.
- Before finally stopping my professional waste manery
at 10 a.m. and getting out of bed.
It's my day off work today
before a string of four 13 hour shifts in a row
where I won't have any time to make videos.
So today's objective is to batch-film a load of stuff
to keep the content factory happy for the next two weeks.
I decide to start the morning
by sticking a load of laundry in the washing machine,
doing the dishes, cleaning the kitchen
and making my morning cup of coffee
with the Arab Press.
For breakfast I dollop some Greek yoghourt into a bowl
and add a couple handfuls of home-made granola,
courtesy of my friend Kim
who's been teaching me how to cook.
We're actually in the process of turning that
teaching process into a class on Skillshare.
Isn't that fun?
Anyway, at 10:30, I sit at my desk
and bust out my Leuchtturm 1917 notebook,
a uni-ball AIR pen.
As usual I do my morning dump which involves
firstly, writing out a list of three things.
Something to focus on
something to be grateful for
and something to let go of.
Today's main highlight is going to be filming
a tonne of iPad related footage because hopefully
the new 2020 iPad Pros should be arriving today.
I'm grateful for, amongst other things,
this apartment that I'm living in
and I want to let go of the fear of delegation.
Maybe I'll talk about that in a video some other time.
After this, in the second phase of the morning dump
I write out all the things I might possibly need
or want to do today
so that it's all out my head and onto paper.
This takes around five minutes, and then from 10:35
I spend some time writing up my morning pages.
This is a writing method that I'm experimenting with
and the idea is every that morning
you write out three pages of A-4 by hand
of whatever's on your mind
and the theory is that it helps unclog your mind
of some of the junk and stress that might have accumulated.
Technically you are supposed to do it on paper
writing it out long-hand,
but I tried and got annoyed
at how slow my hand-writing was
compared to my typing speed.
So instead I'm experimenting with
doing them on Roam Research,
a somewhat fresh and exciting new app
that promises to be your go-to tool for thinking.
I've been using Roam for a few weeks now
and I feel like I've come to some interesting insights
through the connected way that it deals with thoughts
and I'm working on a more detailed video about this
in the near future. If you'd like to see a video
of how I'm using Roam these days
and how I'm learning the ropes of it,
it's part of my work-flow series,
which is available on Nebula.
More details about that in the video description
if you might want to check it out.
Anyway, from 10:45 I spend an hour chatting to Angus,
one of my team members
and going through edits for a video he's putting together.
About two weeks ago, he never edited a video in his life,
but then he took my Skillshare class on
How To Edit Videos In Final Cut and now he's a pro
and doing some of the editing for this You Tube channel
which is kind of fun.
I've put a cheeky link to the class
in the video description if you fancy checking that out
as well #shamelessplug.
From 11:45 I spend 15 minutes reviewing
a monthly favourites video that my actual editor Christian
has sent in and that's looking pretty spot-on.
While I'm there a funky new parcel arrives in the post
and of course, I wash my hands after handling it
just in case. At noon I need a poo
so I sit on the toilet for 20 minutes watching
Tom Scott's latest video about
You Tube's copyright infringement system.
After washing my hands I think,
I then spend 10 minutes hanging up the laundry
and then I spend the next 30 minutes
showering, shaving and moisturising
as I prepare to systematically film a bucket-load
of B-Roll footage of the new iPad Pros.
At 1 p.m. I decide to clean the living room, just generally
because it's nice to live in a tidy house
rather than this pig-stye with camera gear and
empty boxes strewn all over the place.
This is what happens when my house-mate Molly
leaves me for an extended period of time.
From 1:55 'till 2:20, I do the silent unboxing video
with Post-It Notes and then I spend 10 minutes
sending the files to Christian via Google Drive
to see what magic he can work in the edit.
Then I grab some food and oven-ready meal from
Marks and Spencers after which I have to a cheeky Zoom call
with a friend of mine from University
who's name is incidentally also Ali.
This whole quarantine thing is really great
for keeping touch with friends,
I'm not gonna lie.
After we wrap up, I spend the next three hours
filming an absolute tonne of B-Roll of these
various iPads in different locations in the house
which turns out to actually be quite fun.
- All right, so it's 7 p.m. and basically
I've just spent the last,
I don't know how long,
I've lost track of the time
basically just lying in bed
with the two iPads
and using the camera with the slider
to film me playing on the iPads
for a very long period of time.
There's something very satisfying about it
just like lying in bed,
getting like a super close-up shot
and making a slider sort of move in a little bit
but, oh...
I need to actually return these,
so I shouldn't just toss them
unless I'm confident,
Oh, hello.
Of catching them.
That's fine.
Left hand, boom.
Maybe I can juggle these.
Probably quite dangerous
probably shouldn't be doing this at all, really.
But oh, look at that.
It's sort of satisfying
just toss an iPad.
I'm a good tosser, anyway.
Um, let's move on and film some more B-Roll at my desk
and then it'll be time to actually record the video.
Whooh!
Then at 7 p.m. I spend half an hour
sorting out the thumb-nail for the iPad unboxing video
that Christian managed to edit beautifully in record time.
And then from 7:30 I spent another nearly two hours
filming more B-Roll from different angles on my desk.
Isn't my life just so incredibly exciting?
I do take a quick break to have dinner
that's left over from the afternoon
so I guess that makes it alright.
From 9:15 p.m. I have another Zoom call with Nate,
a good friend from University.
And then at 10 p.m. I make a start
on planning, writing and filming this iPad Pro review video.
This takes just over an hour so then at 11:10,
I unload the footage onto Google Drive
brush my teeth and get ready for bed.
But before going to sleep
ready for a 13 hour shift the following day,
I decide to un-box a special package
that arrived earlier that day.
- Alright, friends.
Final order of business for the day
is an unboxing.
So this is the Peter McKinnon X Nomadic camera bag
that I supported on Kickstarter when it first
first got released.
And this is very exciting, this is by far the most money
I've ever spent on a camera bag or any sort of bag.
But oh, look at that.
This is the logo, the Pete's Pirate Life.
Fly the flag new branding thing.
It's pretty clever branding, I like it.
And, here we go, here it is.
It's really heavy.
So, Nomadic, 35 litre, life on the move,
built to last, travel ready.
So this is gonna be my new camera bag.
Let's see it.
Beefy camera bag.
This is huge.
But this should be able to carry everything
for weekend trips, maybe even week-long trips.
Oh, it's a laptop compartment.
That's kind of cool.
And the main pocket unzips like this.
Hello.
Look at that.
Look at all the stuff inside it.
This is an extra bag.
These are dividers.
This is a case for S.D. cards.
This is a memory card case and battery case.
Amazing.
What's this?
Is this like a rain cover or something.
I imagine this is some sort of rain cover.
Strap goes here, strap goes here.
And, yeah there's dividers and stuff.
This is so sick.
Now the coolest part about this whole set-up
is this extra thing because, look.
This is like a camera cube,
but then it magically becomes
it's own little day bag.
See, you put stuff inside it,
and then when you get to your destination,
this becomes your everyday carry-day bag.
How do they do it?
Cube.
That goes here.
Now, what's this?
I think this is a little pouch for Go-Pro
and accessories and stuff.
Yup.
Perfect for Go-Pro and things, fits nicely in there.
This is a filter case.
Yes.
I don't really carry that many filters.
So I'm not really sure what I will use this for
basically I have one filter.
And that goes in there.
And we have a battery case.
And we have the memory card case.
We have slots for different memory cards.
Push up with your thumb nail to remove memory card.
Oh, it's an extra memory card case.
What's this?
Impression cube medium.
This is a packing cube, which in theory fits over there.
So this is pretty sick, man.
Okay, it's past midnight. Time to go to sleep now.
Four days of work, 13 hour shifts
for the next four days, fun times.
Thanks everyone, for watching.
If you like the video, give it it a thumbs up.
Yeah, good night.
See you later, bye bye.