- In this video we're going
through how you build out your YouTube studio, so you go from this to something more like this
or something more like this. So if you want to do more
of the artificial lighting with the colors in the background or if you want to do more
of a daylight studio, I'm gonna go through the different things that I do to be able to
create my YouTube sets and I have two sets
built here in one space. All right guys, let's get after it. So guys if you're new to this channel, my name is Jeven Dovey, I do
a lot of filmmaking tutorials, product reviews, I also do
a lot of YouTube training so make sure you hit that subscribe button and turn on those bell
notifications if you want to learn how to grow you channel and
get better using your camera. So originally I just had the
one set built in this room and it's been evolving over time. That's something that
you need to think about when you're creating your
set that you're going to use for your YouTube videos. It's not going to be
perfect the first time you set it and you get going. You're going to keep
evolving this over time. Originally, I started with
my artificial looking set, it has a lot of colored backgrounds. Let's just go over there. In this set, I use all the time
to create my online courses, to create tutorials but
there's a lot of times where I don't want to just be sitting here talking to camera so this is a good setup that I've built for this style of content. But when I want to show a product or be more involved with the
things that I'm working on, have a little bit wider shot, that's why I built the other
set with the standing table. So you have to kind of
think, what kind of videos are you going to be creating
and that's going to dictate what style of set that you want to build. Like I said, this is
more artificial lighting. So I have completely
blocked out all of the light in this room and as you can see over here this is my window and so
I've put a piece of duvetyne across my entire window and
that means that all the light in this room I have put in here. So everything has a purpose. Whereas, when you go to my other set, I'm gonna pull this off. Now I didn't turn off the
colored lights back there but this is more of the
natural daylight studio. So I used light from the window
and then I have one light to fill in my face, so I
have a nice look on my face. So we're going to talk about the lighting and I'm just going to talk
about camera placement, audio, things like that. For this video specifically
I'm using a lav mic. (tapping microphone) That's the one that's
on my shirt right now and I'm actually just using
a little audio recorder. So this is my Tascam DR10 but the DR10 is an audio recorder and
I use this all the time because you can see your levels on it and you can actually just record and then sync it up later in post. So I have four cameras
going, I have one, two, which are my two cameras
I use for my sets. I got my 360 camera back here. And then I have a fourth
camera which is my Nikon and I'm using this just to
give you guys some details as I walk around. So I can point out specific things and be able to show you
guys exactly what I am doing instead of having to
cut and do some B-roll. I'm going to shoot another
video on how I create videos faster using multi-caming. And that's essentially what
I'm doing with this workflow. Okay, so let's get into the set build. Like I said earlier, I have duvetyne. That is this black material. It cuts out all light. Now duvetyne is great
for covering windows. And so what I've done is
created eyelets on the duvetyne. And as you can see right here. I've made these myself and just used a little command strip hook to attach it to the wall. And so for me that makes it super easy, so I can just hang this up
any time that I want to put the black on the window
and cut out all the light. Now I've also put up the
hooks here on this side and the reason for that is
I've done it in the past different backdrops here. So I don't have to pull
out stands and I don't have to pull out a bunch of gear to
be able to put up a backdrop. And I have a bunch of
these cloth backdrops. So, if I wanted to do say like
more of a brick background and I've used this for different videos. Then this works great. I put eyelets in this as well
and hung it up on the wall. So, one room can have multiple purposes and I think using your room multi-purpose makes it so that you can
have more flexibility in the content that you're shooting. I do a lot for my office, so
I enjoy having the flexibility of building out different sets here. Now let's talk about lighting. So use an aperture 120D, that
is my main light right here that provides all of the
fill light on your face. And so I put that about a 45
degree angle from the camera. So I have my camera, my
GH5, right in front of me. Right off to the side is my aperture 120D. And you can see that I
just have this sitting here and it's always put up. I never tear this down. Super easy, I put an egg crate on it and what the egg crate does
is it focuses the light a little more. So if you take the egg
crate off what happens is the light floods
further around the room. So I always use a egg
crate so that it focuses more of the light on me,
less on the background. The idea is that you want to create different pools of light. So where I'm at, this section
that's one pool of light and when you're lighting the background you want to think of
that as a separate pool of light because you
can do different things in the background, you
can put different colors, different exposures. You can bring up the ambience,
bring down the ambience and it will change the look and feel of how your whole space works. But if you're relying on your
one light to do everything or two lights and this is also
controlling your background. Then it's going to be a lot harder to get the look that you want. So I always say independently
control your space where your subject is
and then your background. And try to create two pools of light. And that's the easiest
easiest way to think about it when it comes to building
out like a YouTube set, is think in those terms. What is the background? Expose for that and then
expose for your subject, you and expose for that to
match the background or be a little bit darker
or a little bit lighter. However, you want that exposure difference to be in your shot. And this is something that
you can start looking at when you're watching other YouTubers is look at their set. Does their set darker than their subject or is their set brighter? Are they in a big bright open space or it a very dark space and
the subject is lit brighter. Or are they equal, because
you can also do that, where they match perfectly. Okay, so let's talk about my background. I have just the simple
strips behind my desk, which creates the color of light. These are cheap, they're like $20-$30 and it just changes color based
on whatever you want to do. So I got a remote here and I can change, I can change it orange,
I can change it purple. I can do white. So these are good if you
want to create pops of color in the background. Now another way you can do this
is using these small lights. So this is the Vlogger
light and the other one that I have, which is illuminating my YouTube award right now
is the Pilotfly AtomCUBE RX1. Two good options, I actually
like both of these lights. I like the Pilotfly a little
bit more for the options that you get in the light. However, this does come with a nice mount, which allows you to hook
it to basically anything. So you got to pick your
poison what you like better. So, when it comes to this
light, you can change the colors, so I'm going to
change to now, I gotta blue. I'm going to put it at 100% brightness. And let's change the color a bit. So as you can see I am changing the color. So, let's say I put
this in the background. Let's go to a bright
like pink or something. There we go, we'll do a purple. So now you can create the
entire color of your background just using one of these little lights and these things are super powerful. So, as you can see this two pools of light is working very well because
I am still lit properly for the exposure from this camera. But I've just added
this purplish-blue light in the background, which
is creating the crazy color all over in the background. So if you want color,
either use LED strips, which are these things that are on my desk or pick up one of these
lights, the Vlogger or the Pilotfly and you
can change any color. So let's see, there's pink, there's red. We got some yellow, green. So you can really just play around and create whatever color you want. In something like this you can literally just throw it on the
floor and it illuminates the entire background and as long as you have that separation of the foreground and the background, you can create different
color effects using this. So for me I have my background
being a big picture, which is essentially
just, it was on a mirror. I don't know why I'm
still using this color. And you're probably wondering why I just stuck white up here, I'm bringing up the general
ambiance of the room. So if I didn't have this on
when I'm sitting over here at my desk, it actually
a little bit too dark in the background, so I
personally like bringing up the ambience a tad. So something else to think about is playing with those levels
of ambience in the background. So let's talk about my backdrop. I had two mirrors here originally, I got this picture, I
just got it off Amazon and it fits my brand. So you gotta think about
when you're creating your YouTube studio what's
going to fit your brand. So for me, outdoors, mountains, I do a lot of climbing films. If you haven't seen my
most recent climbing film, I highly suggest you check that out. But that fits my brand,
I do a lot of climbing, so I wanted to get a mountain. So I got this. It's just a sticker and
you can put these on walls, you can put these on mirrors, anything. That's how I created this image, it gives some nice depth to the background and then my closet, which is
where I house all my gear. This is essentially all of my gear, it makes it organized so I can
just grab things that I need. Switchpod, if you haven't
got a Switchpod yet, maybe you should get one. I actually just put a little discount code in the descriptions. So if you guys wan to get one,
you can get it for $10 off. A bunch of other stuff. One of the most important
things is a label maker. I do use this all the time. But instead of just
having a blank background, I decided to put my gear back there. The idea is to create some depth. So instead of just flat
walls, I'm trying to create more depth in my space. So it feels like there's more going on. Obviously you don't want
to have it too cluttered but having some depth, so
you see this a lot of times people will put gear and
stuff in the background. You just need to find out what
works best for your space. For me, I had this closet,
so I built out shelves that I put all my gear on it. But you might need to add
something into your room. Like you might need to
add some shelving units that you can add some
depth moving upwards. Because you gotta think about it. You don't want just things
on the ground around you. You want to build up as well. You want to be able to
build out your whole space so it feels like you're
in this environment. So you're hanging out in my space. This is like my creator lab and that's kind of how you want to feel. What is your creator lab look like? What does your space look like? And if you look at someone
like Casey Neistat, he had that space in New York and that was like a mad
scientist for creators. And so you really got into his space and you had all this
texture and all this depth but that was his brand. So what is on brand for you? What is going to be in the
background that fits the content that you're creating? All right, let's move
on to set number two. And this is my more daylight-looking set. This is where I'm able to
have a table in front of me and work with different products. I was just shooting a review
about this whole Gimble Ring. My wife decided to print
something while I'm shooting. But I was just doing a review on this, so this is a good space
where I can have things laid out in front of me and
be able to work with a camera that's a little bit further. So this is not an arm's reach away. I'm using a 35mm lens
equivalent, because I'm on GH5, so it's a 17.5. But I have distance, I can't really see the screen over here. So, what I have is a monitor. My Atomos Shinobi is great for seeing what's going on over there. So I add a monitor so I don't
have to be next to the camera to see focus, exposure all of that. This is a quick release that Zhiyun makes. Jai-yun, however you want to say it. And I put these on all
of my mounting points, so I can just pop these
on and off they're metal. And they're super easy to attach things like monitors, clamps, anything. They're essentially made for tripods on the bottom of Gimbles. And that's what I think they
were originally intended for. But I've found that these little clamps are useful all over the studio. So anytime you need to mount something and you don't want to have
to screw it all the time, you add one of these mounting points, it just pops on and off. Now, the way that I've
set up audio in this room is that I have a microphone above me. Now, I do this for both of my sets, I only have one of these microphones. So the next thing I need
to add is another mic, so I have two. But that essentially
allows me to have the mic at the perfect position above my head. I use a Sennheiser mic, these
things sound really good. And you can see the difference. Here's the sounds of the lavalier and now here is the sound
of the mic overhead. And over there it's a little bit better in terms of reverb because I'm not projecting
out into the room. Are you coming in? - [Wife] We have to fill
out the application. - Okay come say hi. - So I'm explaining how my room is set up. So do you want give an explanation? - Can you pause and I need him to take care
of something real quick? - Now something else that I do and you can see this over here. I have some more stands laying around out in the background here. I got another C-stand here. And I have these stands laying around so that I can do more in the space. Like if I want to put a camera above, I can rig it up so that I
can have a top-down shot. So having some different
pieces on had makes it easier. So that if you're like, hey,
I need to get Rab this shot, you have the gear sitting
around, you can grab it and get your shot. The same reason I have my
closet set up in this way, where I have all the gear accessible. Everything's labeled so
that I can just grab gear, do my shoot, throw it back
and I'm not spending tons and tons of time fumbling with gear. Because over time it does get frustrating. So in terms of lighting
in this daylight space. I use an aperture 120D, I'm
telling you these lights with the small soft box on the egg crate. That is like the best light I found for this style of creating content. But you don't need that huge soft box. The small one works. You're just illuminating
one person and then you use other lights to bring in some other lighting around your space. The 120D is lighting for me but the lighting in the
background is all from my window. So I play with my blinds
and the different amount of light and I use my blinds
to control how much light I want in the background. So, more of a daylight looking studio and if you have a space
where you get direct sunlight coming into your room, maybe you have the sun
peeking through your blinds and it creates a nice
pattern on the back wall. Use that to your advantage, because having some texture in
the background with lighting looks really good. So look at ways that you
can use the natural sunlight to bring some texture into the background. Now one thing that you want to avoid is just putting yourself
in front of a window and having the background fall to black. Now that is a great way to get started and just illuminating your face because when you stand at a window, it's gonna give you
the best looking light. It's going to give you
light looking like this. However, if you just have
the light fall off to black in the background it just
doesn't look that good. This is a great place to start, however, this is much harder to control than if you were to illuminate
yourself using lighting and then controlling your background by bringing up the ambience
or bringing down the ambience. So that's why I don't use
windows to light myself, weather conditions
change, the look changes. And so that's why I like
to use my 120Ds to control the light on me and then if I have
anything in the background, I'm going to use my blinds
or the other lighting that I have to control that. So when it really comes down to it, there's a few things that
you need to think about when you're creating your YouTube set. One is your brand. What is your brand and does
your set show off your brand? The second thing to
think about is lighting. And think about it in
two pools of lighting. So front pool, back pool
and you don't have to be super crazy with the
lighting that you're using. I use one light, frontal, to light me. And then I use some different
lights in the background to give it some texture,
to give it something a little bit different. So think colored lights,
if you like that look. Or think using a window
or another small light to bring up the ambience. So guys links to everything
that I use is down here in the description. So it there's anything
that you specifically want from my setup, I'll put
everything down there in my kit, so you guys can check out every piece that I use. And guys make sure you
go down in the comments and Let me know what you're using for your YouTube background. Is there anything specific that you use that's different than mine. Or is there anything
specific that you like that has really worked for you creating the content on your channel. All right guys, if you
want to see more videos on how to create better
content on YouTube. I'll put a link right here
on the screen somewhere and I've got a bunch of
resources down in the description of different playlists on
how to grow your channel and take your brand to the next level. I'll see you guys on the next one.
