 I recently moved into my new studio space and I documented the whole build, including making my acoustic panels, the lighting setup and various other different things like that through a series of seven videos during Vlogmas as a sort of video diary, if you will. Now I've had quite a few questions about different aspects of the studio since then. So what I thought I'd do was just stitch all of those days together into one video so that you can go and see the whole process from start to finish in this video. I'll leave timestamps so that you can jump forward through the different days if you wanna miss the beginning parts and just see what it looks like at the end, and I'll also be back at the very end to give a quick wrap up. But without further ado, let's jump straight on into day one. Hello and welcome to, effectively, the first video from my new studio. I know, exciting, right? So this is, we call it the cottage. It's a little building at the bottom of our garden and it consists of this room. And through there is a bathroom and then just out of this window is our little vegetable patch and her garden. And then we've got another couple of windows at the front there as well. And so it's just a little self-contained building. And up until recently was pretty much used as a storeroom, to be honest. So I've cleared it all out and now it is gonna become my dedicated studio space. So I've got a bit of work to do. I'm already underway, apart from clearing it out. Look at that, I've got a tub of paint. So I'm gonna be painting that back wall there and also the side walls with this color, which is a gray and yeah, it has per, obviously, doc's instructions. I've got a couple of nanolite pavo tubes that are gonna go on either side so that then whatever color I shine on them, the wall will just basically absorb that and appear as that color. Thanks also to Joel Foner, by the way, for popping a link into the LGL group with the place where you can go and basically input the color that you want and it'll tell you the color code to use for any paint manufacturing or most of the paint manufacturers. So via that, I managed to get the right color paint, hopefully we'll find out. So I'll leave a link actually to that in the description for this video as well. So what is the planet exactly? Well, I just turn around this way. So that is basically the front wall and that's where sort of the main garden is. So that is where likely the children will be playing and causing the most noise. So my desk is gonna be positioned actually right in front of this window here. So what I'll do is currently my monitor, so a 43 inch monitor, it's on a TV stand, so I can wheel it around, but everything is basically mounted to that. So my teleprompter, my camera, overhead camera, things like that are all just mounted to that so it can be wheeled around. So I'm also gonna change my configuration a little bit with this space as opposed to the basement where I usually am. So this one I'm gonna actually have a standing desk and so I'm gonna obviously just raise the height of the monitor and everything on the stand. But what that means is that the monitor will pretty much be up to here anyway. So it's gonna pretty much cover this window. So what I'm gonna do is actually just completely cover that with sound insulation, actually within the recess where the window is. So that will effectively be totally blocked off. We've got this window here. I do wanna keep that so that I've got some natural light. So when I'm sitting at my desk, just along here, then I can look out and see into the window. I can open the window as well if I want. But when I'm recording, I definitely will want to be locking that off. So I'm gonna be making some acoustic panels to hang on the wall. So what I'm actually gonna do with here is I'm gonna have a rail that runs along the top and then I'll make an acoustic panel for here, which will be here when the window's open, but then I can just slide it to cover the window when I want to record and block out any noise or anything from the outside. Also, it blocks out the light as well. It's pretty good actually here because there's a nice grass roof out to the front. So I get shade from that side. Got some nice big mango trees, banana plants outside here. So there's some usually trapped around there, but it doesn't get a lot of direct sunlight. And then there's some big trees that are coming over the top of it as well. So it's pretty shady really, but I just wanna be consistent with lighting. So just being able to block off all the light. So one thing I do like about my little current basement studio is it's always consistent. Everything is always the same. So by having this window will be blocked and then this one having the acoustic panel, which will also obviously block the light, slide over will help with that as well. There is another window there, which is just by the way, place where you walk in and out. So that goes to the outside. So I'm gonna put a curtain across this little, corridor is it, this little entryway. So I'll put a curtain across here, which will do two things, help with the sound coming in potentially from that window. But then also it will just block the light out as well. In terms of the setup, so yeah, the camera angle will basically be here. It won't be quite such a wide shot as this. So it will be a lot tighter in on that back wall area. So I'm just thinking about exactly what to do in the space. That cable there hanging down by the way, that is for an aircon unit. So I have an aircon on the wall there. Normally what they would do when they're installing the aircon is they would put the compressor on the wall outside or maybe on the floor outside, but obviously they can be a little bit noisy. So what I'll probably do is root the copper pipe from the aircon unit going around at the back. And then we've actually got a separate wall sort of at the back of this as well. So I'll mount it onto there. So it won't be attached physically to the building. So it's not going to have any vibration from that way. And then also there'll effectively be sort of actually two walls between me and it as well. So that should hopefully help to keep the noise down. I'll be doing, as I say, some sound treatment with the acoustic panel. So as well as, excuse me, as well as having an acoustic panel covering this window here and the sliding one covering that. I'll also be having them on the walls here and here and on the back and then also on the side and then a couple of just above me as well. The acoustic panels I'm actually making myself and these will be basically timber framed, wood framed and then covered with material. And inside is, I've actually ordered some acoustic insulation that's specifically for this job. And that comes in sheets which are two foot by four foot. So 60 centimeters by 1.2 meters and two inches, five centimeters thick. So I'll be making basically acoustic panels that are the same size as that. So they just fit right in. And yeah, those will be sort of dotted around and I'll probably do something in the corners as well just to help with the acoustics in the corners of the room. And then yeah, I'll have, because of the amount of orders, come in boxes of six sheets basically, so I've ordered 12. So there'll be two for this window, two to cover that window and then some sort of single panels around. And then I'll have two as well that I'll just hang from the ceiling, one above me and one a little bit further back. So as I say, the camera angle will be around about here, although a lot tighter in on that background. So what I'll do is I'll do something interesting with the back wall. I haven't figured out exactly what I'm gonna do with that yet. Probably some sort of shelving, something like that. And we'll have a little think about that a little bit more. The desk that I'm gonna use, as I say, I'm gonna go with a standing desk, although at the moment, I'm probably just gonna use my original desk just in the interest of time and just jack it up a bit. Do a bit of a MacGyver job on it. However, what I do want to do ultimately is build a new desk that will be bigger. So the desk that I've got at the moment is what, 90 centimeters? So three foot by 1.5, so three foot by five foot. I'd like a little bit of a bigger desk than that to be honest. I might go with a four by six or four by seven or something like that. And then I'll have that along there and then also some sort of side bench down the side so that when I'm doing sort of electronics or anything like that, then I've got some writing work to do that. In terms of the cameras, as well as my regular camera, which will be here, and I've got my overhead camera, which I use in any case, I'll probably add a second angle in from here. Let's sort of looking back at the, sort of slightly from behind at the screen. I quite like when you see people doing that on their YouTube channel, where you can actually see what they're doing, as opposed to just looking either at the screen or directly at them. So I'll do that. And then potentially, maybe it's a later date, I might add a top down camera that is specifically for the work bench as well and another camera angle for that. But for the time being, I don't want to go to Keith Pelzer. The two or three is going to be good for the moment, but who knows? Who knows where the Acquisition Syndrome will take me? Well, here we are on day two and the acoustics in the studio are still pretty terrible, but we've got some gray walls or actually we've got some colorful walls, because as you can see, those are three gray walls. Now that I've got the lights shining on them, that's the Nanlite Pavo Tube 6C's. I'll obviously be doing a review on those in due course on the other channel. But you can see how basically the walls sort of takes on the color of those lights. So I don't know about you, but it's almost starting to look a little bit studio-like, isn't it? So what else have I done? I've beefed up the security on the windows a little bit and I've also got myself my rail, which is going to go up here and I've got the running gear for that so that I can basically create a sliding acoustic panel, which will cover that window. This window will be completely blocked with an acoustic panel as well. And then this one, I'm just going to have a curtain that goes across there to block that out. So still plenty to do. But for the time being, I'm quite happy with progress. So the acoustic panels that I'm going to use to make the walls with, or the acoustic panels that I'm going to put on the walls, the material for it is all coming in the next day or so. So I shall be cracking on with that as soon as it arrives. Well, there's been a bit of progress since the last video, namely the rail is up there, that is for the sliding acoustic panel that's basically just going to slide across and block out the noisy vegetable patch when I'm recording, and also keep out the light as well. The material has arrived, the actual acoustic foam. So that is basically in here. So we've got these sheets, which are basically two foot by four foot or 60 centimeters by 1.2 meters. And then it is five centimeters, two inches thick. It's actually almost exactly the same color as the walls, isn't it? But it will be put in a frame. So I've got the timber there for the frame. And then I'll be heading to the fabric shop, material shop today to get the covering for those. And so then apart from the sliding wall here, or the sliding panel, there'll also be another two. So one sort of here, and one in the corner here, one on this wall. And there'll be a bit of a gap at the back because I'm going to have some shelves up there. And then there'll be one in this corner, followed by basically a row of three along that wall. I've only got sort of two of them on there at the moment. Now I've also been having a little think about the layout in terms of where things are. So I've got marked up on the floor. My desk is going to be actually central in sort of side to side direction. And so that is kind of like the center line. So when I'm actually at my desk, I will be sort of centered in the room basically. Otherwise that would drive me crazy. If the camera wasn't centered in the room. But it works out quite well in any case, because if we look back here, then I'll have a double acoustic panel again that will be blocking out that window. There will be a curtain that goes across this sort of entryway. So it blocks out the sound and the light from that window. And so yeah, that is the sort of the space where the desk is going to be. It will be stood off from the desk, from the wall at the back, because I actually have my camera and monitor all mounted to a rolling TV stand. So I'll show you that when I actually get it in. It'll be easier to show there. I'm going to have some sort of cupboard unit actually about the same size as that box down on the side there. And then at some point, I will also add in a second desk here for electronics work stuff like that, the stuff that I don't want to dirty my main desk with. And that is about it. So today I'll be heading to, as I say, get the fabric, the material that's going to cover the acoustic panels, and then I'll get those made and share that with you as well. I'm still debating to be honest, whether to keep those as one big sheet. So I've got big long panels, or whether to actually split them into squares and do something a little bit more decorative with them. Incidentally, the panels also will be stood off from the wall, so they're not completely flat against the wall. They'll be stood off by two inches. So what I'm thinking of doing is having some sort of low, discrete lighting behind them that we'll just sort of come washing out from the side onto the wall. So still got that one in the back of my mind as well. Haven't quite figured out how to mount them to the wall yet. I've got certainly lots of different options. I did also wonder about handing them from the ceiling. So they are suspended, but that might be asking for trouble. I can see me knocking them off or pulling them down. So I'll have to give that a little bit more thought, but I'll keep you posted. Hello, and welcome to another update. And there was quite a lot of progress made yesterday. And although I had a video that went out last night, my time, I do actually record these videos in the morning, talking about the progress from the day before. So there's usually a days worth of progress we've made by the time I actually post it. In any case, so yesterday, what I was doing was making the frames for the acoustic panels. So you may recall that the acoustic panels are two inches thick and then basically four foot by two foot. So I've got some timber. Up to Daisy, some of it's on the floor now that I've been using, which is this sort of cross section. And this is basically just slightly wider than two inches. So it's about two and a half, three inches wide. And then that allows me to put a baton along the back to hold the panels in place. So that looks something like this. This is one of them quite finished actually, but this is just a big frame that's basically the same size as the panels. What I've got to do on this is just actually finish off the corners. So you can see that the bevel sort of stops where the other one joins over it. I've just gone with simple joints. I didn't do mitre joints or any stuff like that. It is going to be covered by the material that covers it in any case. And yes, letting go of my perfectionism. So I'm just literally trimming off the edge once I've built them. And so in the final panel, or not the final one, but actually at least the structure of it, then looks something like this. So you can see that this one has had the ends sort of slightly more finished. And it basically, can you hear me? Can you hear me now? It basically just holds the panel in place like that. And then across the back, we've got a bracing strap here. And so that is basically what they are like. So the next step then is to actually cover them. So I did go to the fabric shop yesterday. Don't want that to fall over. I went to the fabric shop yesterday and actually got two different sets of fabric. So one is going to be just black. So this is a sort of, it's got a slight stretch to it so that it's going to pull nice and tight over the top, but ever so slightly, not a great deal. And then the other one is more of a gray color. So the panels are basically just going to alternate with the different colors around different colors. Gray or black, alternate gray or black around the wall. I did actually take out all the panels and just sort of put them around the wall where they're going to go. And if you watch yesterday's video, you can probably see already, just with them literally leaned up against the wall like this, that there is a big difference in the acoustics already. So once I've got them all up, not just a few of them and got everything into the room, I'm sure that the acoustics are going to be going to be a lot better. So I've currently made one finished frame. I've got three others that are kind of roughly finished. I've got to finish off the corners obviously. And then I've got to make the other four regular size frames. And then there's going to be two double ones. One for the sliding panel that I had going over the window, which is what that rail is there. And another one for sort of behind where my monitor's going to be, which will cover another window. But I've got all the pieces cut and drilled, ready to just assemble basically. So that would be a pretty quick job. And then I've got the old staple gun and compressor so that I can get the material covering, the fabric covering on them pretty quick as well. I was saying in my last video about, I wasn't quite sure, sorry, one was just falling on my foot. I wasn't quite sure how I was going to mount them to the wall. In the end I decided to keep it simple. I'm basically going to add a wire to the back with a couple of eyelets and then effectively hang them like pictures. So I'll have some hooks that stick off from the wall. I'll just be able to hang them there. And then at the bottom, they'll have a couple of little feet because they do need to stand off the wall. So they're two inches thick for the foam, the acoustic insulation rather. And then it will be another two inches off the wall. So I'll basically just hang it the right distance off the wall and then have two little sort of feet at the bottom to keep the bottom off the wall and stop it from moving as well. Hello and welcome to another installment from the studio build and quite a lot of progress yesterday actually, not quite as far along the line as I was intending, but then I do have other things to do with work and so on. So I couldn't quite devote enough time to it yesterday. But nevertheless, still, as I say, quite a lot of progress. All of the acoustic panels are now effectively hung. So they are positioned. All I'm going to do is take them down, the ones that aren't covered and add the covering to them. So I've only done one of those so far, which is obviously that one over there. So let's take a look at that. So here's the first panel. It's all being covered. Technically it's not quite finished, but I'll show you that in a moment. But I'm quite pleased with the look of it actually. It's got the fabrics stretched nicely over it, the beveled edges of the wood. We're intended to just give it a little bit of an extra feature on the edge. And I think that that works quite well. The panel is, the insulation is two centimeters thick. Two inches thick, I beg your pardon. And the back of that is also two inches off the wall. So that means that there is a sort of gap behind that. I haven't put the lights in yet, but I will be putting some sort of lighting behind that so that it just sort of washes out from the wall and helps it to sort of stand off. You can see that the color of gray of this material is actually very similar to the color of gray of the wall. So it will take on the light in a similar fashion to the paint. They're not all gonna be this color though. I have got some that are gonna be black. So this is the material for that. So it's gonna be basically gray, black, gray, black all the way around the room. And so yeah, now I'll just show you how I actually mounted them in the end. So if I take it off the wall, basically up at the top, I mentioned in the last video that I was thinking of hanging them like a picture. In the end, I decided to have a two hooks at the top and then basically two little screws here. The hooks are actually sideways on, so it sits on top of the hook, but then the little screws that I've got in the top here just stop it from falling forward. And then at the bottom, on the back, there is two little blocks that basically space it so that it stands off from the wall. When I said it wasn't quite finished, this is why. Still lots of loose material there that I haven't trimmed off. I will put a backing in here as well. Technically, I should have put the backing in first and then wrap this neatly over the top of it, but the way that I'll put the backing in, you won't see it anyway. If I was gonna mass produce these, then definitely I'd make a few adjustments to my workflow. But basically I'm really, really happy with the way that these have come out. And certainly the next sort of step of adding all the material to the others will be pretty quick. It doesn't take long to sort of whizz around it with the air stapler. And then we'll have all the others on the wall. So there is one other thing that I did yesterday as well, which is hang the sliding panels. So I'll show you that one now. So basically my desk will be actually around about here, but there's a window here that I wanted to be able to block off when I'm recording, but then I could also open it to get some natural light and fresh air and so on in when I'm not. And so that was the purpose of having this sliding panel. And so this basically just slides over to reveal the darkness of the early morning behind the window there. But that means that this will just slide completely across and completely block it out so that it keeps out, obviously, as I say, the sound and the light. Now it isn't quite at the same height of the other ones. That was intentional to a point because there will be an air conditioning unit going up here, the internal part. So I needed to leave space for that. And in any case, when this is slid across, you won't really notice it in the shot. So you may well just see the edge of the rail there, but I'll figure out a way to actually cover this with like a helmet or something like that so that it is covered and doesn't look quite so unsightly. Believe it or not, I couldn't actually find the right bolts. So for the moment, I've just used screws into a couple of blocks of wood to actually mount the rail, but I'll be getting the right bolts if you can bet your money on that to make it look all nice and neat. But for the time being, it's certainly working. I've still got to make the panel that's going to go on the wall in front of me. I've made the panel, I've just got to mount it rather, but yeah, that will block out the window that is directly in front of me. And then we'll be pretty much nearly ready to move in. There is however, another job that needs to be done and that is to mount my lights to the wall. I don't like free floor standing, lighting stands and things like that with trailing cables. So I will be mounting them to the wall just like they have been in my current basement studio. And so all I'm doing with that is I've just got some regular brackets, pretty, pretty sturdy. I don't know for me knocking it shows you how sturdy they are. They're quite strong though. And then these are just like I say, just wall shelf brackets. But what I did is I enlarged that hole there and then basically just got a bolt that fits through. And then I've got one of these lighting spigots that can get the bolt through. These, you can get these, I'll leave a link to them in the description, but these are just the little lighting spigots that you would attach light fittings to. And so then this mounts onto the bracket like that. And this is just then mounted to the wall and I've then got a mounting point for my lights without needing to have any, as I say, any stands or anything like that. And it's quite a nice, neat, elegant solution when it's mounted to the wall. And then I'll just have the obviously the cable trailing down. If I was really building a full-on studio, as in actually building it from the ground up, I would definitely route cables and things through the walls. But hey-ho, we'll have to do with what we've got. And certainly for the moment, I'm really pleased with it. I feel like it's gonna be quite a big difference to my other space, which you obviously only see the green screen version of it with obviously the green background and my various fake backgrounds. But this is certainly a step up from where I was because I was tucked away right at the back of the basement. And yeah, this is certainly a nicer space to work in. So that's all for this update, but I'm hoping by the next update, all of these will be fully covered. And maybe there might even be a desk in. We'll have to see. Well, here we are for another update and there's been quite a lot of progress yesterday. I've got all of the acoustic panels now completely finished. So they've all been covered. And as you can see, hunger on the wall on this side. I've got the sliding one finished and check this out. I've even got the one behind the window and above the desk and I've even bought the desk in and got the lights up on the wall as well. So really chuffed actually to be in. I've still got quite a lot of work to do on cable management. So if I just come down here, you can see my little mini's there on its little shelf and no cable management whatsoever. And worse still, if I come around this side, you can see all behind here is just a little bit of a you can see all behind here is just basically a mess of wires. Incidentally, that is the TV stand that I've referred to in a couple of other videos that my monitor is mounted on. So it's just basically a big wheeled stand. Perhaps easy if I come around this side in fact. And you can see down here that there you go. It's just a TV stand, but with this 43 inch Phillips monitor, I've got my camera that I have sort of mounted to the top of that as well. So there was actually a fitting on here that I was able to attach a ball head to and the camera is mounted to that. This is actually the Desview T3 teleprompter with the Lilyput A7 monitor. I have actually just made a little bit of a hood for it because I found that that helped to keep off a little bit of the glare. Not that it was a major issue, but it just helped to keep it nice and clean. And yeah, this is then just a little addition, a little MacGyver addition, where I've just basically added a little arm onto the back. And that is my, it's actually an iPhone 5S. And that is for my top down shot. And so it's all fixed to that. I've also got the Elgato Wave low profile arm. I was previously using something a little bit like this, which I'd sort of Jerry rigged to come off the, offer some shells to the side, but I've recently got the Elgato Wave and I may actually just mount that to the same TB stand as well. A collection of coffee cups there because I'm not joking when I say this channel is fueled on coffee. So buy me a coffee.com slash take one tech. But yeah, that is where we're up to. And I'm pretty pleased with it, to be honest. I've still got to put up the, whoopsie daisy, wrong direction. I've got to put up the curtain that goes across here. So that's the last sort of, not really major construction is it, but the last sort of main thing that I've got to do in the room is in terms of drilling holes, is to put up this thick curtain here, which will help to just block out the sound and the light from the window that's behind that curtain. And then this is the, this window here is being completely blocked by this acoustic panel. And then behind this sliding panel, I've then got a window which can still be opened, but I can just basically block it off when I'm recording. So that is where we're up to. And of course, I still do need to figure out exactly what to do on this back wall. I do kind of know what I'm going to do, but I'm just going to go out and get to the various things that I need for it. I also need to get a nice big rug for the floor just to help with the acoustics. I've also got some other sort of acoustic insulation that I'm probably going to be positioning on the roof at some point. The other thing that I do need to think about though, is if you have a look at the camera angle on my camera, you can see that it's sort of pointing down. And that's because, well, first of all, the monitor is quite large. So it's a 43 inch monitor and the camera's obviously sitting above it. But what that means is the camera angle is sort of like this when I'm sitting down. So it would be looking down at me and hence looking sort of down at the floor. Now, you probably didn't notice that in previous videos where I was using the green screen because obviously the background was the correct angle. And you maybe just didn't even notice that it was pointing slightly down at this angle and rather than completely flat at that angle. So I need to figure out what to do about that because I don't want to obviously have my camera pointing down at the ground. I was thinking of anyway, using a standing desk because this will be modified at some point. But I thought I'd give it a go before I actually go and build one because I might just get a bit tired. So we'll have to see how that goes. But we definitely need to do something about the camera positioning there, whatever that may be. So I'll give a little bit more thought to that and I'll keep you posted. Well, hello, I thought I would just do another quick update from the studio because I haven't really changed much cosmetically as such, but I have resolved some of the issues that I was talking about in my last update. So, namely, what I've done is changed my desk setup slightly. So if I come over here, I've got a little chair as well. I've got to relax from time to time, haven't I? So if it's quiet, I'm either, I'm either having a nap or recording. But this is the way that I've got things set up at the moment. So if you watched the previous video, I was saying I wasn't sure what to do about the desk, whether to go with a standing desk or a sitting desk. And the issue that I had was that the camera was basically kind of up above the monitor and pointing down at me. And so that didn't really give a good shot for the background. I've sort of compromised, actually. I've raised the desk up to more like the height of a kitchen counter and then I've got a stool. So when I want to sit, I can sit and work. But then for my videos, I will be doing those all standing up. So that means that the camera now is at basically at eye level. So it's going to make the shot a lot better framed. And yeah, it's basically going to frame me in the back. Probably, I wonder if I can change this on the fly. There we go. I did have to pause, but I got there in the end. So that's basically what the shot is going to be. And so it's sort of framing those panels in the background. Lighting will be a bit different. I'm just filming this still on my iPad. So I do need to do a few more things with the lighting. I have there. I've got those Nunlite pavo tubes at the moment. I've sort of positioned them behind me. So it does just sort of give a wash of color behind me on the wall. And then I've got those linked to the Nunlink app on the phone so I can change the color and everything of them from the mobile. I am, as I mentioned in another video, going to put some backlighting actually behind these panels. So these are the acoustic panels that I made. And I'm going to have some backlighting behind those, just some RGB lighting that I can change the color of that as well. And so it will just give a nice sort of wash of color. Because actually on my main camera, the background is a lot sort of darker than this. So it will just help them to stand out for a little bit. I have done a bit of work on my cable management, which was another thing that I was talking about last time. So they're apart from that back corner. Having just said that, you'll have to excuse that. You'll also notice I've got a fan, which is not ideal really, sort of blowing directly across the front of the microphone. But the air con is not yet in, so it is getting a little bit hot in here at times. And so yeah, we've still got a bit of a tangle of wires over there. But we don't have all of that mess on the floor. And underneath the desk is where my Mac Mini is. I've got my, obviously my headphones just dangling down. Mac Mini there and all the cables are rooted. Obviously my foot pedals on the floor there. And then round the back of the monitor is looking a little bit tidier. Thinking about the easiest way to show you this. So here we go. I've got all of the switches related to things that are mounted to the monitor on the back. I've got all of my cables that are coming out because this has basically got an integrated USB hub in there as well. So that's all nice and tidy now. The camera and the teleprompter on the top. I've got my little top-down camera just using Camo by Re-Encubate is the app that I use for that. And so that is just using an old iPhone 5S of SX, was it, I can't remember. And then I've still got one of my old lights which is basically, what is it called now? I forget the name of it. I'll leave a link in the description. I shouldn't really forget the name of it, should I? Ulanzi BL49 RGB, there we go. Just have to put a bit of effort into it. So I've got that there and I just made a little hood for that actually just so that it doesn't actually shine on basically the top of my head and directs the light down if I do need any extra light on the desktop when I'm showing my desk. And then I've also repurposed an old Logitech webcam to give me a little sort of over-the-shoulder shot to look back at the screen. And speaking of screens, you can probably see over there, I have actually got a green screen. This is a lot smaller than the green screen I had before which was basically three meters by two meters, something like that. So it was completely covered the wall behind me. This is a much smaller version but actually built in the same way with PVC pipe. And then just using the PVC pipe wall clips to just basically clip over and hold the material in place. And it gives you actually a really nice sturdy green screen. And then on this side, it's nice and tight so that it just gives you a much better green screen effect. Obviously, what light shining through it, you don't normally see the poles in the middle. And these bits on the side are actually to fold out and then my little lights will fit on the side of there to shine light onto the green screen itself because as we all know, to get good quality green screen results, you need to make sure your green screen is properly lit. And where does this go? Well, look at that. I've got two strings up above so I can always just basically hang this from here. And so then I do have the green screen directly behind me because although for my channel videos, I'm not gonna be green screening anymore. I do still have some use cases where I do need to use the green screen. So I did still want to have that ability. It could be a little bit wider. It means I've got a sort of crop in the shot. What I might do is actually fit a rolling green screen which basically just fits sort of down between here and the same on the other side. And then that can just basically roll down with a touch of a button or the wind of a handle or whatever it happens to be. So that would still allow me to have a sort of full green backdrop for when I need to do those sorts of things. It just saves fiddling around with cropping out edges and stuff like that. And then if you only have a partial covered area with green screen and you sort of put your hand out of it, it almost looks like your hand's just disappearing into nothingness. So yes, I'll be working on that and I'll keep you updated. What to do next? Well, pretty much we're there. The only thing that I'm really gonna do is fit the lights in the background, put a bit of furniture and decoration and things like that. I am still gonna put some sort of curtain across here. I do actually have some of this material left over that I used for these acoustic panels. So I may end up just using some of that and making the curtain that's gonna go across there just to sort of block out the entryway there and help with the sound and light issue there. Not that there's that much of an issue, to be honest. It's pretty peaceful and I'm really pleased. I've said it before, I'm really pleased with how the acoustic panels came out though. They have just made it a really sort of nice place to work in. So that's where we are up to with the studio. There is still lots more to do. I've got camera upgrades, lighting upgrades and various other different things to add in. One thing since then, in fact, that I have added though is you'll notice that I have got that back lighting that I talked about on the acoustic panels. So that is just LED strips and they are just sort of mounted behind the acoustic panels to give that sort of extra little bit of glow to the back wall. 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