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$0 YouTube Studio_ Phone + Trash Can + Lamp
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May 12, 2024
"Discover how to set up your own YouTube studio on a budget using everyday items like your phone, a trash can, and a lamp. This inventive tutorial showcases creative ways to optimize your recording space for quality content creation without breaking the bank. Learn how to maximize natural lighting, improve sound quality, and create a functional filming setup that fits any space. Whether you're a beginner looking to start your YouTube journey or a seasoned creator seeking cost-effective solutions, this video provides practical tips to help you achieve professional results with minimal investment."
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What gear do you really need to get started on YouTube
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Do you need a nice camera? Do you need a microphone like this? Do you need professional lighting
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That's what I'm going to show you in today's video. What's it called when you spend every dollar of money you have and buy new gear to create videos
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I think it's gas. So gear acquisition syndrome or something like that
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I think maybe I have gas. But I don't think it's necessary to buy all the gear that I'm currently using to record
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videos, especially lugging it around all over the world as I travel
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I got started creating content for YouTube with my iPhone's success. two paper lantern lights. If those videos with my old iPhone can do that well, I'm sure the phone
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that you have currently is good enough to create content for YouTube. And that's what I'm
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to show you in today's video. We're going to use my iPhone and nothing else that's been purchased
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just what I can find here in the hotel room to create a video. And you can see for yourself
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comparing this with thousands of dollars of gear to what I'm able to record with my iPhone 12
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mini. Let's see what that looks like. So the first thing I was thinking about is if I'm recording
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videos. For me, something that's frustrating is I'm not going to be able to hold this steady
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This video that I've been recording so far is 21 minutes of me messing up trying to figure out
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the intro. And so if you're watching me or I'm trying to hold this up for 20 minutes straight
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it's not going to be something that's very enjoyable to watch. So I need to figure out a way to
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stabilize my phone. What I had in mind is you're going to laugh, but I think it's the right height
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So here is a switch pod. We would usually just clamp the phone right there, but this costs money so I can't use it today
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Something that is about this height is the trash can. So I don't think there's any liquids in here
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So let's just do that. And if we just turn it upside down on the desk I think that about the right height The only thing that we would need right now is something to hold it level So like a coffee mug or something like that I think would be good but I don have one of those
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Maybe one of our lenses. Obviously, there's probably something free. Have the same use
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So I'm going to count that as no investment needed to do this. But right here, I have my homemade tripod, a turned upside down trash and something holding my phone up
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And so me recording right now with my cell phone, I'm still using the light with this
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I probably want to be back a little bit further and something like that
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One thing to keep in mind when you're recording with your phone, I'm making this mistake right now
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is the look over here at the actual lens, not at myself
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So right here I can record a YouTube video in my hotel room with my iPhone
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This is actually the front facing camera. I'll show you later what it looks like with the back facing camera
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but right now we're using something we're not allowed to, which is this light
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So the idea that I had, well, first let's do what the overhead light looks like
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and then I have some other ideas that I'm going to run these through. So off on
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Okay, so here is with the overhead light. So one of the things you're going to notice with this shot, it's pretty well lit
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but a lot of the rest of the room is better lit than my faces because the light is up there
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so it's bouncing off all of the white and reflecting on my face, but this is not the most well-lit
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part in the entire shot. So what I would maybe do here is think about how do we get more light here
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So one idea is what about you using? There's this lamp right here if you can't see it right now
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This is going to get messed up with the white balance and all the other stuff but let's see
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Okay so we have a lamp that I think we can use So generally lighting a YouTube video what we would do and how this light was set up that
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I was using a second ago was we have it kind of at if here straight on kind of 45 degree
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angle and then 45 degrees up and so it's going to shine here. I'm still going to be able to
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record videos even with glasses on and you're not going to see the reflection. So the thing is
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with the lamp I couldn't just have it here shining directly at me. And like I do with this guy is, instead of having a light source that's this big
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this lamp's kind of the same size. Okay, so something just happened
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For some reason, the camera app crashed. I was in the process of figuring out where to put the lamp
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So I don't think here, I think it's going to be too big of a light source there
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The idea that I had, and also there's nothing, there's no shelf for something to have a light that's
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higher up. Got maybe my suitcase, this on top of it. Let's get it plugged in
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All right, there. Got the wall. Turn on. Okay, so here's a quick lesson on lighting
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One of the things, I'm not making any investment with this video, so it's not gonna be perfect
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is this color light is more yellow than that one. So this is why I kind of
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kind of look orange or whatever color my face looks right now compared to just a second ago
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So what I would maybe do is what would it look like if I just use one color light as opposed
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to using two different light sources. So let's turn off the overhead light
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All right So maybe how does that actually here let get the microphone that I not using other way But this right here could be a YouTube video So how does this look right now
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So right now this is recording with the front facing camera. Now what I want to show you is just using this one lamp
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bouncing the light off of the wall. How does this look? So let's try to upgrade this
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I'm going to use the other cameras. Are you ready to get started on YouTube? We have a new YouTube course for beginners
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There's a bunch of live session, so we'll be there to answer any questions you may have
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So if you're interested in learning more, check out the link in the description below
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Okay, so here's the normal rear facing camera on the iPhone. How does this look
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Is this a little bit better? There should be a larger sensor and it should be better at low light
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being this isn't the most well at room right now. but is there a little bit of difference in terms of the quality
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One of the other things that I want to check out is we use the ultra wide angle lens
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and I get the camera closer to me. I'm also getting the microphone closer
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and does that actually improve the audio? So now instead of being arm's length
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I'm maybe a foot closer to the camera and the microphone. Who knows if I'm cut off a little bit
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but the shot right now is probably quite a bit wide. But how does this look right now
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Is this a first YouTube video, a fifth YouTube video, a 10th YouTube video
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I think it's probably okay. So the point of today's video, you don't need fancy gear, microphone, camera, lighting, anything else
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You can create videos with the phone that you have, a trash can, and a lamp
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So if you want to see our entire beginner series on how to get started on YouTube, check out the playlist right here
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Hope to see you in another video. Bye bye
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