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Hey guys and girls on Ask Japanese, hold on almost got the dcoor closed... oh these doors
are heavy... here we go hey guys and girls on Ask Japanese it's CathyCat and today I
welcome you to our brand new studio here in Tokyo I'm gonna give you a little tour around
the cool things gadgets and gimmicks we have in this place it's quite exciting so let's
go!
Alright....
I just found out that one of the most exciting things in our studio one was the most expensive
things that.... director you are too close!
One of the most okay ah.... one of the most expensive things.... stop it! ... in our...
can you stop it cut it out! ...in our studio is actually the door... the door focus on
the door not me the door we have a proper studio door here it locks from the outside
so no one can go and sneak and snatch the expensive equipment that's in here and it
locks and it's super heavy it's like you really have to push it like this to close it that's
why I have a problem coming in because it's like you're too close!
I can't stop it!
...okay one of the cool features with the studio where we're too close... is that is
that we used curtains to create a certain effect so we have the curtain here the furthermost
on the inside is a green curtain which will then function as a green screen behind one
we have a black curtain and that one is like a thick velvety kind of type...
I don't even know what we call it but it stops the echo from the walls and then behind that
we have a clear white wall in case we need a clear white wall so these three curtains
uh well the two curtains and the white wall can create a very different effect very convenient
and you can create all kinds of scenarios with this... so that's those then we have
these ones... these ones are to hang light and similar heavy equipment from them now
we haven't used them for much uh yet hopefully we will to be honest right now i'm actually
using one of them to hold up my dresses i'm sure that's not the original purpose but i
think it looks cute so that's probably not what we're supposed to do with them but ... ah
well... then we have this one here... this one is a reflector pad but the cool thing
that the director does is instead of reflecting the light he uses it to diffuse the light
so we have for example lights like these led lights and they're very harsh so we put that
in front of the led lights to create a softer effect because led lights if they're fallen
on your face it's way too bright so this is how it looks with the light behind the screen
and that's without the light
looks a lot better right light is like in a studio like this having good lighting is
gonna be you know major major game changer for us... because if you look at it it looks
like a normal room but all the lights and stuff turn it into a studio... you know the
thing that we use to diffuse the light actually we're using the cover of this thing a lot
as well because with this one it gives the option of having a black screen and on the
other side here is a reflecting pad and if you know anything about lighting reflecting
it the right way can make be a massive game changer so we've been putting this down on
the floor we've been putting this on my lap just to see if it can create a different light
effect if it breaks the light better that kind of stuff so didn't have that one before
kind of cool that we have this one now hopefully we can create some good effects with this
so if you have any advice let us know... one of my good friends here is the ring light
if you want to make a girl happy give her a ring light... if she's an influencer because
it creates that wonderful ring in your eyes and I personally have one at home I'm not
using it as much as I should to be honest but ah a good ring light it's it's such a
game changer it's so pretty whenever I'm here I want to take Instagram pictures... it's
like oh it's so pretty can you see that ring inside of my eyes if you can then replace
the camera and the ring light right because if you do it in the right setting and with
the right distance and you can see that little ring in my eyes and it's kind of pretty and
I do like it...
I'm glad we have this baby here oh baby make me look pretty --- this one here is like our
messy corner so that's all kinds of things like you know clips and cables even some screwdrivers
and similar things like that everything that you might need for shooting so that's for
other people to use as well we have more reflectors you know for taking pictures and stuff here
as well we have like a mix board who's using that i don't know we have a really nice tripod
here the director is actually using this we just used it today to shoot some Ask Japanese
videos so that's really this is all the little extra bits and pieces and tripods a good tripod
is actually really hard to get this one is very sturdy um but also kind of heavy so that's
uh gonna be the director's best friend for the future of the Ask Japanese videos and
a pot... and there's a frying pan........ this one here we bought when we went for a
shoot abroad because we wanted to take really cool music video style kind of music like
videos and it is a fancy stabilizer so even the camera that the director has will get
stabilized with this baby here it is really difficult to set up though and it need batteries
and similar things like that so we haven't used it as much as we wanted to... because
it's kind of "unpractical" and heavy said the director because the camera in itself
is already super heavy and if the stabilizer is super heavy too pffff like I can't I can
barely lift this with one arm like this plus the camera is no way it's way too heavy One
thing that I actually most really like or what I enjoyed now we can now hook our camera
that you are that we're filming with right now up to the tv so I can see what the director
is seeing up until now or never saw he's seeing me it's good for me to like check it's hair
in my face or how the lighting works and stuff so there's a screen here that's the one that's
the one so now I can see oh my gosh it's like a crazy tunnel now... so I can now see what
the director is seeing what you guys are seeing at the same time almost at the same time I
find that kind of fascinating
I will say like I kept checking my hair and I'm like oh my hair is too fluffy and yeah
but that's nice to have that's just an extra thing it's not that we need it but I found
it really interesting and helpful because right now we're still trying all these things
out we're still trying all these things out here and trying to find out what setup works
the best because of course it's a new challenge for us to get used to all the tools here and
how different it is only thing I would say it would be nice to have a different flooring
maybe we can get a green green screen floor because right now it's just stripes and nope
no don't film my socks, don't film my socks, don't film my socks director..... we also
now have some fancy colored lights which is this thing here that actually the director
initially bought for a thing from 100 yen store to have a light effect but also we have
professional lights that change color down here I find them really cool I think it almost
looks like a streamer setup I wish I had this for my Twitch streamer setup because it's
really cool... just look at that look at that oh man I want that for my Twitch it's so cool
it feels really gamery so that one doesn't belong to Ask Japanese as well with most of
the equipment in here we're sharing that with other parts of the company that we work with
so it's all shared it's not just for Ask Japanese if it was just for Ask Japanese that'd be
amazing but this is shared between different departments here... also because we have a
lot of equipment in here and also some sensitive equipment especially the cameras we have this
fancy little box here in Japan we have extreme temperatures it can get very hot it can get
very cold and the humidity can ruin all the fancy stuff that you have so we have this
box here you can also lock it and it contains our cameras or lenses and similar equipment
and keeps them safe I think in there is also the very first camera we used to film Ask
Japanese now over here is the fujifilm xt-1 and this one holds a special place in our
hearts this is the very first camera that we got to film for Ask Japanese and that's
the one we took out on the streets of Tokyo and then yes later on we used the Sony handycam
for more action and moving videos so if you have some where the directors actually walking
with me and stuff we use this one here... haven't used this one in a while actually
and then yes the gh4 was one that we used then for a while... no oh we actually didn't
use that one.
This is the gh4 this one was used for shoots with Kawaii Pateen and similar you can see
there's a quite a lot of lenses and also lens adapters that were used to create the nice
blurry effect for eyes.... director: this one got old and broke
this one broke it was kind of old and broke and then we wow... we have not use this one....
we have?
No not for Ask Japanese.
So this one here is one of the newer models for like walking around and shot it looks
very tv like but we haven't used this one for Ask Japanese that's for another channel
and right now currently we're filming with a gh5 lumix gh5 that's the one we're shooting
Ask Japanese with right now ...and guess what behind these curtains you can see a whole
different world get ready for it guys Tokyo!!!
Here we are so we actually have a view up from the fifth floor we're all the way up
here and uh if we just pull the curtains aside you can see the streets of Tokyo that's kind
of cool I sometimes when we have a quick break when we have a quick break between shoots
I like to sneak behind the curtains and look out at the view and the director sometimes
sneaks behind the curtains to surprise me so yeah he's a bit of it a cheeky one a cheeky
joker you are you too close again GAAAAH there are loads of other fun little things and as
you can see we're still experimenting a little bit like we have normal office chairs here
and we use this table and put it on top of those little stilts here just to get like
the right height so we could use this light behind me and stuff like that so we're trying
out new things you need to experiment a little bit especially with light in a place like
this so hopefully we can make a couple things new interesting shots for you guys that you
guys might enjoy so the director said he uses it to create like lights highlights in hair
for example If you're interested in shooting your own videos never forget to take great
attention or put great attention into lights as well... and that's our microwave do you
remember that one from our lunch video and we brought this one in here so we can do a
review of Japanese foods usually that one is in a different room but hey our friend
the rubber ducky is here... he's he's kind of becoming my co-host by now, just try and
spot him in several of the new Ask Japanese videos I think whenever we're filming in the
studio so far he one for one or another reason was somewhere in the video have fun spotting
our easter egg the ducky and this one is my new friend I am personally very happy that
we have this one first the director was like "you should always hold the microphone" I
was like "come on" sometimes in the studio it'd be nice to be hands-free so finally hands-free
we have this one because sometimes if you look back at some older Ask Japanese shots
I had to put like the microphone somewhere on my dress or like in my cleavage just to
have the microphone in the right place and now I don't have to do that anymore luckily
because this one will hold the microphone for me and I'm so glad about it so so apart
from the tripod and the lights behind us everything is not more expensive than a hundred dollars
per item that's not so bad I assumed that the cameras were more expensive but many of
the items here we tried to get for quite a low budget value because hey it is YouTube
we need to budget people seem to think that youtubers make a lot of money - it's not like
that it's a lot of hard work and a lot of effort and we're really excited to bring you
some new videos now from this new studio exciting stuff - the tv for example used to belong
to a different section of the company and they gave it to us as a gift so actually all
the things we got here "small budget" on a budget so that was a little behind the scenes
with Ask Japanese so in the future when you see our videos that are made in our studio
kind of now now how our studio looks like I hope you enjoyed this little tour around
like I said we tried to get this all together on a budget
but the director is enjoying to like the the fact that he can now try out different techniques
with lights and similar things like that.
Do the moonwalk!" and yeah hopefully we'll create lots and lots of more fun content from
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