(cheerful music)
- Why would I put those up there?
(cheerful music)
I have tea for our work session.
Today's tea, banana grapefruit, black tea,
a tropical, day brightening blend of creamy banana
and zesty grapefruit so you an sip at anytime.
I don't think I did a good job.
There's a lotta little tea pieces in here.
Lucas and I are gonna have a quick, little session
and get some work done.
We have a project next week with Mercedes Benz,
so we gotta get a few documents done for that,
and then Peter McKinnon's gonna be coming over later today
to check out the office, which should be exciting,
hence why I'm drinking tea
because I assume he's gonna make me drink a lotta coffee,
as you do with Peter.
We're gonna go to a little time lapse
and try to get this done before Peter comes.
(cheerful music)
Okay, so that jam session went really well.
We finished all the documents
for the Mercedes project next week.
Peter just texted me.
He's gonna be at the office in 15 minutes,
so I'm gonna leave our house right now.
(bright music)
I friggin' love our car so much.
Hey, buddy.
- Hey, man, dude, my window wouldn't even go down
this morning in the drive-through.
It was like it was so cold.
Then it stopped.
- [Chris] All right you wanna go check out the office?
- I have been dying to check out this office.
Lemme just get outta here if I can.
Oh, why do we always hang out when it's cold?
- All right. - I'm ready.
- [Chris] Let's go.
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- [Men] Bam!
- Oh, this table.
It smells good.
The floors, podcast booth, the wall, epic color.
Is that Benjamin Moore?
- [Chris] That's Benjamin Moore.
- I knew it.
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Ah!
I've arrived. Do you have a name for this place?
- Right now, we're just calling it the studio,
but we are jamming on some names right now.
We're just putting KHM.
Right now, that's what we're calling, Know Hau Media.
That's we're gonna like little headquarters for now,
but we don't have like, the nest or something.
Isn't yours?
- I don't know.
I used to call the top part, the upstairs of my office
the crow's nest just 'cause it felt kind
of like piratey like fly the flag.
I'll just leave that right there.
But then, eagle's nest and some kind of pirate ship thing.
I just call it the studio, as well.
Curious, I either say the office or the studio,
but is studio more modern
and office feels more like oh, I'm going to the office
to send some faxes and stand around in a collared shirt,
or is studio like I'm gonna go an make things
and be creative?
Oh, I'm just headed by the studio,
or I'm headed by the office.
I can't decide.
- Okay, I'm a big believer in studio.
That's why we names this place the studio
because we also went and looked at office spaces,
and when we walked in, it was like all that old furniture
and everything like that.
Like I don't feel creative here, and in the studio,
I just feel like that matches creativity better.
- Office, though, rolls out easier.
Ah, I gotta run by the office.
Office, it's just an easier word to say.
Studio is a little more tricky.
I dunno, I think about these things.
- Can you guys help us out?
Leave a comment below.
Also, names, we need suggestions
for what you think this little 500 square foot office
should be called.
- I think you should maybe call it Strike Zone.
(funky upbeat music)
- [Chris] What are you doing? - These are nice chairs.
I'm just trying to see where you got them from.
I thought maybe it was on the bottom.
(Chris laughs)
- Pete's owned three studios.
I don't know if you guys know this.
There's like, he just released a whole bunch
of content around his latest studio.
You guys can go check it out clicking up here.
Studio looks amazing,
but this is our first studio.
We don't really know what we're doing
because we used to work out of our home,
and that worked only for about a year,
so we're gonna get some expertise from a guy
who's done this three times right now.
- Three times, three times,
third time's the charm,
but the first time, very exciting.
- [Chris] I brought some of this white blueprint paper
that you can kinda like design
our little 500 square foot room.
- Dude, this is like actual blueprint graph paper.
We're making moves here.
- I'm gonna walk Pete around right now
to show him what we have so far
and what the plans are as of right now.
And then we'll get a little bit of Lizzie's thoughts
on the things that she would want.
Lizzie's just like give me the egg chair and we're good.
- The egg chair is legend.
It has to stay, but when anyone comes to sit in it,
you should like oh, no, no, no!
Only Lizzie sits in that chair.
If she were to ever find out
that someone else was in the egg chair.
- Instant death. - We can't deal with that.
You need a red velvet rope
so when no one's near, it just goes from here to here
and it just clip.
- So starting in the space that we have right now,
this, where Lizzie is, the egg chair,
this is the podcasting booth.
- Why not a giant sound panel,
but there's a few companies
that actually make sound panels amazing now.
You can both print art on them, your photos on them.
You could so a series of photos that actually look cool
for a background that act as sound panels,
along with hanging baffles.
So you could actually make it look pretty cool
but utilize that efficiency of also having it sound sick
for this little corner,
but that would hide all the piping
and all the plugs in the walls and stuff like that.
- [Chris] So this little section we were thinking
of storage area.
This as gonna be my desk here.
This we're not too sure if we're gonna keep or not,
but we're gonna put a neon sign, for sure,
that says "remember why you started" here,
so that's been ordered.
- Tell me it was white neon.
- Oh, oh, it's white neon.
- I have a teal neon sign, and where I love it
and it is dope,
(dinging) the white neon just, it goes with everything.
So if you move to the next space, it still works.
It works and it just looks good,
and it's neon without being like ah, I'm a neon sign!
So white neon is, that's the way to go.
- [Chris] Here is gonna be Lizzie's desk.
We're getting these fully L desks,
so they're gonna go on the wall.
Monitors there out here,
so then we can put a camera in this area,
but then we have the ability
to shoot the different backgrounds here if we want.
Coffee station.
We're gonna have a hanging wall kinda situation here,
maybe another gear shelf here,
and then entrance, welcome area
with putting coats and whatnot, and then maybe gear storage,
maybe something on this wall.
- You've already got your shoes here,
but I would definitely put a bench here
'cause you're gonna come and this is what you're gonna do.
You're gonna come in the door.
Boom, lights on.
Oh, lemme take my shoes off real quick.
You're gonna sit down, kick 'em off, bam
Then you're gonna walk up.
You're already facing this way
'cause you were just sitting on a bench,
so you're gonna walk this way instantly.
I would say move this and put a piece of art here.
That way it kinda opens up this space
right when you come in 'cause this is where they're going.
I learned this is web design.
Basically you gotta design a site
so that once the page loads, you basically direct.
It's directing someone's eye where you want it to go,
so you wanna design it that way.
So since we're already sitting down,
they're coming this way.
So this desk, I'd say if you have an editor or something,
because you have a beautiful table with four seats,
I'd just have people sitting here,
and it would eliminate the need to have anything here,
which will, again, make it feel more open,
and it's a sick wall for something awesome.
Even like a gallery wall,
you could put two big prints.
You could stack prints, always looks good.
This is kind of like the main.
It's going this way.
Then from here, people are either gonna decide
to go left or right, but I'd wanna keep this
as open as you could.
- So that's what we have right now
and then obviously the centerpiece,
which is the amazing table, and carpet,
which we're just obsessed with.
By the way, obsessed with carpets.
I kinda want that to be a thing.
I wanna buy a carpet book.
- Wait, wait, they make carpet books?
(bright music)
(grunting) Okay.
Oh, they're not smelly ones.
Let's draw this office.
You have a little bit of a wall there.
You have a long walls,
and we have another long,
another long wall.
So it's a rectangle!
We have a table in the center.
This is rough, okay?
So bear with my art.
Do you remember "Art Attack"?
That show was great.
(percussive music)
That's probably a Canadian show, but.
There is a pillar that is going to be useful to us.
This is our podcast corner, coffee table, Lizzie,
egg chair, another chair, a coffee bar,
and then there is a fridge.
Now, this is what I would do straight off.
So we have, as we saw in the tour earlier, the gear here.
What's a good way to block that off?
Now, because we're gonna be using the studio to shoot,
what I would do is I would put some kind of piping
in the wall anchored here,
and I would anchor it to that pillar.
Now, that pillar's kind of useless otherwise,
so that's why it comes in perfect for this,
and I would run piping on an L kind of bracket.
That way with some grommets and some nice kind of drapery,
like a studio drape, I would use that
to be able to stow the gear away out of view
so if I'm shooting, you don't have to see it,
or I could open it up and I could see it if I wanted to.
I'm assuming you guys are probably gonna be taking
a corner here and a corner here.
Let's just say Chris is in this corner.
If he's shooting this way, this gear that's all in here
can be blocked off, but he could also move the curtain
through the pipe, which would look cool on itself,
and then you could see all of it or hide it,
two different backgrounds, which is great.
It also kinda cleans the space up.
Because it's smaller, if things are hidden,
it's just gonna look tidier and a little bit cleaner.
Now, because we're shooting in the corner,
the best angles for me whenever I've had a studio,
is I've always wanted to shoot into the studio.
So instead of shooting into this corner,
that could be anywhere.
So I would wanna be shooting in this direction.
My desk, I wouldn't wanna push it right up against the wall,
and this is actually what Becki Peckham told me once
is usually when people get a space,
naturally they just butt everything up against the exterior
of the entire space, so they line the walls
with all of their things, and then the next thing you know,
you're kinda just in this weird room
with everything on the perimeter, and it just feels off.
The table already there helps with that,
so this is something I probably would've recommended,
some kind of neutral space where people can come and chill,
and if you have guests, they can all work at these tables
while everyone still has their own corners.
I would try to get some kind of collapsible,
let's use this weird line,
so that if you guys are both working at the same time
or Lizzie's shooting in this direction
or you're working with a buddy and you're both editing
at your desk, let's say it's here,
that's not gonna be in her view.
She can draw this curtain,
and then it's just looking clean,
and that divider kind of keeps your spaces separate,
but if people are coming over
and you wanted to make it look bigger,
then you can remove that divider.
So even some of that could, again,
hinge to the wall that you could just pull out
and pull back in would be cool.
You don't wanna close it off too much
because it is a smaller room.
This is more room than you need.
This studio space right here is bigger than Casey's office,
and you saw what Casey was able to do with his office.
So sky's the limit really.
It just kinda comes down
to how creative you are with things.
We're working with drop ceiling here, right?
So these lines represent the ceiling.
Now, I didn't know this, but I found out this recently.
A lot of people would look at a ceiling like this
and be like well, that's useless to me
because I can't do anything with it
because it's a drop ceiling.
The brand Impact, they make a specific mount
that goes in a drop ceiling
that basically connects on these frames.
So you could put mounts over the table,
wherever you wanted for your podcast station,
and it's puts like a, it's called a spigot
in the industry, but basically that's like a steel post
you can mount aperture lights to,
you could mount boom lights to, you could mount key lights,
accent lights, those types of things,
and you can still mount them with a drop ceiling.
Both your desks should kinda mirror each other.
That way if the divider wasn't here,
when you walk in, 'cause this is where you're coming in,
you're lookin' this way,
you kinda get a nice bird's eye view of everything.
This could be cleaned up.
That's covered.
Both desks symmetrical.
You could have the divider there.
This coffee station, obviously,
is gonna end up getting spruced up with accessories.
The layout is kinda perfect as it is.
I would sound panel this wall.
I would sound panel this wall, cover those cables.
I'd get the L desks going this way
with enough room to walk behind the desk.
A desk pushed up right against the wall
never really looks that good.
You've kinda dialed it as is.
It's just those extra things like the curtain
that could cover this stuff.
It's the divider here.
It's having this space.
It's putting stuff mounted to the ceiling
so that you don't have to take up all your floor space
with C-stands and light stands,
and then after that, it's artwork.
Artwork makes the space come alive, so.
I'm going to come back in a few months,
and we're gonna redo this video,
and it's gonna be entirely different,
and we're gonna make a little before and after,
and it's gonna be fantastic, and I cannot wait.
- All right, Pete's on his way out right now.
I think we're gonna implement a lotta that stuff.
I really like the curtain rod thing.
That was a great suggestion. - Curtain rod, yeah.
It's kinda like a change room.
Do you also notice that we always hang out
on the coldest days?
- [Chris] Yes.
- Negative 21 Celsius right now, and it sucks,
and here we are.
- That's a part of our friendship.
- We suffer through the elements to enjoy the friendship
that we each provide to one's soul.
- All right, you guys, thanks so much
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Go have fun down there.
Bye!
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