My YouTube Setup Breakdown!

so I thought today would be a great day to pull back the curtain and show you all how I film my YouTube videos whether you're someone looking to start your own YouTube channel and looking to get ideas on how to set up your talking head situation or someone who's just interested in the behind-the-scenes of what's going on in this situation right here you've come to the right place so without further ado let's go ahead and break you down so here we are in the living room of my apartment or all the magic happens whitewalls decent size just overall pretty average spot to film something so one day I decided I was gonna put up a seamless backdrop behind me just like take me out of my living room and where I live and I ended up like Ian just kind of sticking with it the first thing that goes up is the backdrop try to get it out of the way first because it's the most annoying part of setting up I have three colors at the moment and usually just choose them based on how I'm feeling that day one of these I got from a local rental house and the other two I picked up on Amazon and I'll leave links in the description below if you're if you're into those kind of things all these are 9 feet which are basically just the biggest that will fit into my apartment now setting these up by yourself is never an easy task but to set this up I have a little frame inch Dan package I bought for pretty cheap off of Amazon I said the stands about nine feet apart now I lay my back job across the couch then slide the connector pull throw it one says through with the help with a couch holding up the weight of the backdrop I place the first end on a stand I then go over to the other side and slide it on once those are in place I go back and forth from side to side slowly lifting each side until the height is maxed out it's kind of flimsy but it holds and I'm usually too lazy to put sandbags on the legs but hasn't killed me yet fortunately then roll the backdrop down until it touches the ground I don't film full body so there's no reason for me to roll it out on the floor and get it dirty once it's rolled out to where I like it I put a clamp on one end to stop it from rolling on its own next thing I do is set up my camera which lives on a tripod you know my Canon C 200 with a sigma art 18 35 millimeter make sure the card is formatted and the settings are in check I should these talking-head sessions at 4k on the 8 bit mp4 code at the safe space and time and editing I shoot at 24 frames per second with a shutter angle of 180 which is essentially the same as setting your shutter to double your frame rate set my lens to F 1.8 to give me the most depth of field and usually said to around 28 and 32 millimeters on the focal length the can see 200 has autofocus which works great for scenarios like this so I turn it on and leaves me one less thing to think about then to monitor everything in show me how big of a doofus I am I use a nice big small HD 702 monitor I've flipped around to face myself then once the camera is in place I start setting up the lights so I use three lights to shoot these I use an aperture 120 Demark to Napster 300 II in this young you know light one the 120 acts as the key light essentially brings out the levels on my face i fuse it with the after light dome r2 which is just a simple and convenient way to get a big soft source I usually set my 120 to be at about a 45 degree angle from my face that's just to give me a nice Rembrandt lighting style on my face from getting nice shadows that aren't too moody but still have some shape to the face I'll make micro adjustments when I get ready to go but I typically have the light as close to my face as possible without being in Fame The Closer your light is to you the bigger it is to you and the bigger the source the softer the source and what we're going for here is a soft quality of light and the 300d is the most powerful light I own an axe to a million light the backdrop here I'll close the windows to the outside light doesn't change on me and I blast the light into the walls and the blind to the side of me the light bounces back as a large soft source lastly I use the young new o light one which is the light I've owned for about two years now and it is really the only light that comes with me to everything I'll shoot no matter what it's like fully RGB super compact super versatile stood out in the car in him comes with me all time and it was like 80 bucks here I use it as a little tap edge light to separate me from the background a little more on the right side of me I throw a little pieces of fusion over it to soften it up a touch and the cool thing about this light that will just thread onto my c-stand arm here and I can arm it out over top of me once I have the lights in place I'll just finish out put and placement to get everything just right I usually try to keep the brightest part of my face at about 70 Ayari for these and the bulk of my skin tone around 60 Ayari which is common for white skin if you have darker skin you'll probably be looking at like the 40 the 50 IRA range you're able to find your IRA right here on the like whether you have a wave form or whatever you use for exposure I try to keep it brighter when I shoot because I know in post-production I'm gonna bring down my levels a little bit make it a little more moodier so I just want to make sure I have all that information ready to go the next thing that I set up is the audio which is obviously very important the mic I used to record is the rode shotgun ntg3 B which works great for me my mic sets on this little boom stand thing that's broken and difficult to deal with and I run the audio via an XLR cable from the mic directly into the camera's XLR input let me quick say that I'm not like a audio guru so take everything I say with a grain of salt but I think I do a decent job for what we're family the important thing here is to get the mic as close as you as you can without it being in frame once it's in place I monitor my levels that our camera monitor usually try to make sure that I'm not going above negative 6 decibels to make sure I'm not peeking at any point what am I talking then the last thing I do is drop a little blanket on the floor to stop sound waves from bouncing off the floor back into the mic it usually ends up just being like a bed for Sansa just know that any video you've ever watched to me Sansa is laying directly at my feet and I want to have it any other way hey sounds up so cute oh thank you love you know your boys never gonna miss an opportunity to promote the resistance of drugs and violence so I need to put on my lucky dere shirt once everything is set and feels right I take a swig of water and blow my nose because I have a hard time speaking English to start to a dry mouth and a stuffy nose certainly doesn't help the cause also before I start I'd do some weird facial stretches and vocal warmup type things which I know are weird but I don't know if they help or not I have my phone in the hand with a scrip on it that I wrote as an outline for video I'll read a line and then look into the lens and deliver that line to camera I'm actually reading this line as I speak usually you line by line and try to do two of a time if I can because honestly I'm like too awkward and nervous all the time to do anything more passed that started to sound stupid and just get like really sweaty honestly like no matter how many of these videos I make I like barely ever get less nervous like I'm always nervous and I'm always sweating so if you're first starting out and it feels super awkward for you when you're doing this that just means that your normal person because it should feel awkward but yeah I'll sweat through my shirt screw up a hundred million times but this is generally how I film these talking head type videos that you're watching right now and I know that I have like a lot of stuff and don't let that intimidate you at all when I was first starting out it was just me my DSLR camera and like a fifty dollar light in my bedroom I mean obviously like dim look as good as it does now but part of the the fun of it all is the the process and the growth you don't want to look back on your first video and be like wow that video actually look good you want to be able to look back on a video and be like wow what was i doing like I was awful and that's what I'm able to do and I'm so proud of it so yeah whether or not you found this video helpful or not I'm glad that we were able to find some quality time together so thank you for watching and see you on the next video I love you bye but even right now like I need to change this shirt because I was sweating so much like I should even wash this shirt because every time I filming it I just sweat so much in it so I might as well just like I'll leave it sweaty you know [Music]

Channel: Danny Gevirtz

Views: 45,584

Keywords: video, canon, c200, smallhd, record, yourself, how to, tutorial, aputure, lights, light, background, backdrop, seamless, paper, mic, audio, talk to camera, soft, gear, videography, film, filmmaking, filmmaker, 2020, peter mckinnon, matti haapoja, chris hau, professional, beginner, start, sigma, art, cinematic

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Length: 8min 40sec (520 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 27 2020