 Sup everyone welcome to a brand new video today. It's more of an editorial type of you We're kind of laid-back more in my kind of pajama kind of wear today But what I want to be going over pretty much is some of you has been asking what equipment do I use? How does my setup look like behind-the-scenes and pretty much just a bunch of behind-the-scenes questions that I think you guys deserve to know You know, we just hit 900 subscribers. This is a video. I've been wanting to do so Yeah, this is my behind-the-scenes video and also I don't know how long this is gonna run because I also want to throw into this video for people who want To start a YouTube channel what equipment to get what equipment to start out with and Tips for you to have within your channel when you boot it up because I know there's a tons of subscribers I have that don't actually make videos yet But I hope one day that this video might inspire you to see what equipment I do use because to be honest I think a lot of you guys are gonna be surprised with what I use to just make my videos an overall daily basis So without further ado, let's get straight into it All right, so we'll just be coming into my room right here Obviously you see over there you can see my computer a little pops on that desk And of course, this is one of the other tripods. I actually have I actually this is the first tripod I ever bought I got from Amazon and of course you can see that there is no camera on here And of course as you can see there is no camera on that one either now Here's the most important thing with this whole look and we'll get into what camera I use in a second But I want to show you guys something so this hole so this is my whole look This is what I like you can see from behind this tripod I use for certain other videos where I need the lighting to be kind of higher or lower But in other cases I kind of just set the camera right on top of here with this little handy dandy tool And of course, this is a ring light this thing is Bright as all hell, but I love this thing to death like I actually this thing was like 60 bucks or something I got it on a deal on Amazon But I mean this thing works it brightens up the room a ton and I cannot recommend another ring light as well I think I'm gonna buy another one though to get from the side so I even have a brighter background I mean, I love these ring lights and I think they're a ton of fun But of course, this is kind of like what you can see from the side There's my chair you can see right there that I obviously sit in right in front of the videos I plan on getting a more comfortable chair for the longer types of videos because sometimes it affects me There's my little food tray that I sit there I set my microphone on it Sometimes I'll have a notebook or maybe my other iPhone that I throw on there to kind of go over Maybe if I need to remember someone's actor and actress in a movie or even maybe I'm writing down a list I can have it all right down there. Of course from playing rotten or fresh I'm gonna have my notebook there so I can fold it up show my score and of course you can see right here I have my Yeti microphone and this Yeti microphone is gorgeous this thing. I got it So big thing for youtubers starting out I have to say is that this Yeti microphone There's something important about this microphone is that you can go to GameStop and I got it for I think at GameStop. I got this Yeti microphone for around the price of It came out to be $80 is what I got it for but also there was a video game that came with this microphone So what I actually did is I took the microphone out when and sold the video game got like 30 bucks for the video game And the microphone came out to be over like 60 bucks So it was totally thing. I totally recommend checking out GameStop for these Even if you don't want the game, it's worse just selling it to get the money back Now this is I think the most important part that I have to show is this thing This is what I plug into my camera now. You're probably wondering well Zach This is an iPhone charger iPhone plug. So yeah, this is where we get to the most important part of my video So let's cut to it now as we move in here I now have this core that I told you guys yeah, you guys are wondering well It's an iPhone so I film with an iPhone now. This is my older iPhone I'm actually using for the main purpose of this video just to show this is actually the iPhone I use for that I actually use for my first videos ever on this channel But I'm the iPhone I usually use is the camera I'm using right now and that is an iPhone 7 plus Yes, I use that to film every single one of my videos I don't have a regular camera, but I have a certain specific Look on the world when it comes to using an iPhone and filming and just this whole generation of movie lovers and movie YouTubers and film Creators and life that I'll get to later down in the video But yeah, so I use an iPhone now for the purpose of video like I said I am using my older iPhone to just show how it looks, but this is how it does So I put this cord in obviously this connects to my Yeti microphone I use this yeti microphone for a reason so this plugs into the Yeti microphone Which you can see from that red light that it is actually on right now But when you go over here, I have this other cord that's plugged in here, which is just a normal charger It's one of those 12 feet charger. It's just going back into there now What this does is this is something very cool It one because if you just plug this in regularly, it won't it won't work with the Yeti microphone It it'll suck so much of your battery your battery will either die really fast or it won't even be able to support it with Enough power now this this support the Yeti microphone But also be able is to connect it into this iPhone camera Making me be able to use the Yeti microphone into my mic and yeah, this is my setup I use an iPhone camera for every single thing obviously I have my iPhone 7 plus which films in 1080 60 frames per second 30 frames per seconds even 4k sometimes and I use an app called filmic pro At times that I use that sometimes works a little bit better But sometimes I just use the regular camera the filmic pro I usually use just for the short films in general that I've made but yeah Everything I've ever filmed is has always been on an iPhone and I believe in using these for a certain reason But yeah, so this is my typical lookout you can take it right there take it what it is take a screenshot and stuff And yeah, this is what I look like and when we go over here to sit down. We'll sit down no fast This is what I usually see of the Yeti microphone right here Set that right there have the little ring light going and then the iPhone camera right there And I just sit there and talk my life away You guys are probably wondering well Zach like use an iPhone camera, but that's cool But how do you edit is the most important question? So this is the editing question That's a little bit hard I did start out with iMovie actually on the iPhone just basic simple stuff and at times for some of my actual videos I still use this program I use the cut and splice a lot of stuff because it's so much easier to use just tip of your fingers work on it Work go on the go it's so much easier to use But what else I also do use is some other things is other than iMovie I also use some editing softwares all around the computer. iMovie is one of the ones I've been kind of tinkering with I'm not the best at it yet, but it's one of the ones I know some of you guys are like wow how do you get your trailer reactions up so fast and I'll show you what apps I actually do use to get my trailer reactions up like like that like the snap of a finger It's so simple and so simplistic It's easy to edit push put it into YouTube and get it up and going and it's a fun process I love doing trailer actions because they're so easy to do all right everyone So now we are on to my phone. So this is I'm gonna show you how to make a thumbnail how I make thumbnails I'm also going to show you how to edit and just throw stuff in here. So easily First thing a lot of people are wondering how do I get my trailer reactions up so easily? So what I do is I go to YouTube Go to the YouTube app. You're gonna say let's see Black Panther trailer Say I want this so I'm gonna take the Black Panther trailer share copy link Then you're gonna back out go to documents so documents is most important out This thing is completely free and so you go in here you hit this little Safari button you hit enter the URL or just paste it It'll start loading it easily once it comes up. It'll pop up you hit download And it'll take a second hit save Now it'll back over here now. I already had something saving on here. This is actually the background music I'm actually gonna use for this video and now to save this you easily just hit these blue little bars move Camera roll move to camera roll the bottom and it'll save it now We are waiting for this Black Panther thing So I am gonna sit here and wait a little bit to show you someone's trailer to take a little bit longer I do prefer doing this on Wi-Fi if you can't you can also do it on data it does download Just depends if you want to save your data or not so again same thing move over to camera roll and back So now we're gonna hit the back button easily and what we're gonna do here now is I'm gonna show you so I movie We're gonna go to I movie and what I'm gonna show you is we're gonna go to my movie Edit now. This is the same thing. I'm already adding This is my behind-the-scenes video that you're actually gonna be watching right now now if I were to place this in here What I would to do is say so let's just go to the front of the I just want to show you how to put a Trailer into a video so say I already filmed my trailer reaction I watched it on my computer, but now I need to get the trailer in there How am I to do this so when you hit this plus button in the corner? You're gonna hit the video button It should be the first video in your recently out of you're gonna hit that then you're gonna hit that The button and it's gonna have a bunch of different settings So I obviously type typed it in twice, but if you go reverse it backwards if you throw it in there So you have a bunch of different settings the plus button is to add it or you just double tap and it'll pop it in play it We'll play the video The squiggly mark will give the sound effects of you're trying to get a sound effect So you're trying to get music from a video or something the big square will overlay it into your whole image The small square will put it into either the corners Which is usually that's how I do it So that's the setting we're gonna do and then of course the last one If you did watch my ranking there for the MCU that's what I did I got posters threw it on the side and just split the image down the way but now so we're gonna do this So here we go. You can obviously see right here. I do have the trailer I have the trailer here. I put it this side this side. I can make it as big as I want I can zoom in on I can zoom it in Zoom it in if I need to I'm sick of this video. I'm just gonna throw in the corner So say I was reacting this you just hit the play button and From there you just you can hit the sound on you can turn it on from this bottom of the route This little button down here will also control how fast you want to freeze it freeze frame it You're trying to do some maybe like breakdown reviews and if you there's also different filters for it I usually don't screw up the filters unless I'm making a short film, but for the sake of this Yeah, and if you ever need to delete it You just hit it you just tap it and hit the delete button if you ever need to go back You just hit that back button as well, but to go back out of the video now I'm gonna show you how to make a thumbnail So I'm actually gonna make the thumbnail for this video this behind the scenes video So what we're gonna do is we're first gonna go in superimpose now This is like a five dollar app and this app is pretty much photo shop for your phone My sister introduced me to this what you're gonna do is you're gonna hit these little things in the import background And we're gonna find the picture that I'm gonna be using for this now the video I think picture I'm gonna go with this might not end up being the one I use But I think I'm gonna pretty much end up using this one I really like that I took it in between my ring light and everything else But what I did mess up on first is that obviously this isn't gonna fit into a YouTube video So what you can easily do is either go to Google Images and find a YouTube Thumbnail in Google Images that is the size or you can tinker with it and find your own So this is the one I'm gonna use so for instance This is also a plug battle which most checked out what you're gonna do you're gonna hit this import foreground And we're gonna be using let's see. Yeah, let's you let's use this one Let's use this one. So what you're gonna do obviously you're gonna kind of shape it shape it into there perfectly There you go, so there there's the thumbnail, right? There's the thumbnail What you're gonna do is now hit merge and yeah, there we go. We got a thumbnail It'll fit into the YouTube thumbnail You got me my sexy little self there and what what what could I be pointing it now? We need the font in there. So what we're gonna do we're gonna save this There's a bunch of different things you can actually do with this app Like I said, this is pretty much Photoshop. It helps so much I've actually turned this on to other youtubers as well totally recommend it now We're gonna back out now. I could use Avery. I can use edit attack it add text to photo So I think I'm gonna Avery first and this is usually what I do I hit enhance and hit the portrait mode you can do high def scenery food You can kind of do all these different types of ones now for this one. I'm gonna hit the portrait one Save it done back out Now there's snap seed Photoshop Express those two I also do when I'm trying to get a little more cookie Business is just a basic one. We're just gonna head into attack add text to photo now There might be other texting photos and I actually don't have I actually have a free version of this So there will be advertisements of course, but um, I need to buy the actual version But I have been lazy on that. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna add text add text and what we're gonna do is say Behind the scenes video and we'll hit that to the side Behind the scenes So and actually this excellent came up Let's bring this back up So say I wanted to put it right here now This might not be the final thumbnail, but for just basic simplities. This is what I'm gonna show you So this is how it's gonna be say we want to change the color say we want pink red blue This turquoise green whatever for this we're just gonna use let's use black Now we'll keep it. We'll keep it turquoise. So we'll do that. There's a bunch of different fonts you can use But we'll just keep it that simplistic you can kind of switch it around you can flip it around you can do the The whole flippy around you can change the opacity in the back You can change it to yellow and also change the X position the Y position all that type stuff different types of tools You want to use if you want to make the font larger get rid of it completely? It's up to you, but that's pretty much how I make a thumbnail those are the apps I use and I'm not joking you can use all these and it'll totally work out completely well to your being And if you have any questions totally hit me down in the comments and I'll give you other suggestions So of course guys, this is the basic last part of my back behind the scenes This is my setup for my computer. I have a laptop another monitor keyboard mouse That's really and then some Funko pops right there and then my little Oscar award right there But really that's it when I do my webcam, of course my webcam is up there that is at 1080 logitech. I think it's a 920c. It's very nice I got it for like 54 bucks at best by it totally works microphone on it's pretty well But I usually like use my Yeti mic more This is actually where I set my lighting at I actually have another light box down here for videos Looks like this can get pretty light But I usually only use it for trailer reactions and whatnot like I'll show you right here We'll just turn that yeah, yeah that thing that thing gets bright I use this thing when I'm on the go and whatnot and I usually set it up on those boxes have the light projecting at me This is my other light I use for the background my video so it kind of brightens it up a bit But overall yeah, that's that's my normal setup for when I'm editing videos and whatnot And if I have anything else to do on the computer I kind of just throw it up on here if I didn't do anything else on my phone Of course guys we're back to my normal setup showing me use my Yeti mic You guys saw the whole behind-scenes video now What I want to do is give some tips to youtubers who are planning on starting their channel and YouTubers who are just maybe wanting to know what else they can do to improve their channel. Obviously. I'm not that high up I don't even have 1000 subscribers yet I'm on that road to 1k and that's gonna be a big milestone for this channel But there's stuff that I wish I would have done on my YouTube channel the second I started it and these are tips that I want to give to new youtubers or people who are just starting out biggest thing I can say is start now. Um, yeah I use an iPhone the reason I use an iPhone is now in today's society like even Actual film directors are now using iPhones to film their movies Steven Soderbergh has a film unseen coming out this year that looks insane and only films an iPhone 7 That's great on Tangerine is another movie that's on Netflix actually and I don't like the movie particularly But it's directed by the guy who did actually the Florida project of last year who's getting Oscar buzz Tangerine's first film is only films with an iPhone 5 and yes If you are into film you can tell usually if a thing is filmed with an iPhone You can really tell by just the film green in it But in general like the normal public audience isn't gonna know and these are the biggest things I can say or one tip I can give Start now start the second you can if you got a phone and you got some nice lighting and stuff Then start there start there and start somewhere. That's where it's all gonna start Don't say I'll start tomorrow. No start now. That is the most important thing I can say even going from there I can't even say if you're looking why I want to get some equipment first before I start What did I just say get a Yeti Mike? Hell the Mike I was just using on the go was a little road Mike that I'm putting Amazon I'll put the link down below for everything and I have and even go get a ring like go get a small little bot Go get these little lights from Home Depot. Just hang them. That's what I was using for a very long time I was using that little lamp light you saw on the desk for a very long time just on my face You go look at my spider-man homecoming review That is one of those lights that I used on that this ring light I just started using in December Yeah, of course this ring light doesn't prove a lot But there's even better lighting than that and really just get start now save up Get a Mike get it you can get this you can get a little cheap little dinky Mike off Amazon for like 10 bucks and Just start with that because everything helps you have an iPhone or even an Android There are tons of editing softwares on your phones that you can look up to just throw an edit splice together videos because once you get the basic Concept of iMovie or what other editing movie software you can go from there You can start getting some on your laptop or computer and go from there and you can even upload these videos from your phone to YouTube Like I said, this is a totally great thing to use Oh, yeah If you are using a laptop or computer a thing that I do recommend to throw onto your laptop or computer is vid IQ if you're Using Google Chrome download vid IQ it actually shows you and helps you out make tags out on YouTube It's a very nice software that I use to gain a little couple more views and shows what's trending What's popular and what people are using in their tags go look at like Chris Stockman or Jeremy Johnson see Okay, what tags do they use for this video and what tags should I kind of use on mine? The other thing I can say is don't worry about your videos keep making it doesn't matter how many views you get It doesn't matter how many views you're gonna make as long as you keep doing it There will be an audience that builds towards you. Don't worry and always just be yourself Don't worry about what assholes gonna comment on your video and say you're a fucking screwball No, don't worry about those those people are trash and don't have any guts to ever come on and make some YouTube videos They don't know they're just trolls and that's all they are But the YouTube community in general is a fantastic community that just Especially if it's movie reviews There's everyone on YouTube has their certain community video game streamers bloggers movie reviewers Everyone has their own community stretch And I mean the amount of people I've met in this community that are genuine They're kind that are amazing are just out of this world amazing and they're some of the bestest of friends that I could ever make Yeah, those are my easy tips go and start a YouTube channel now start it today Get in contact start talking to other people do not be afraid to comment other people say hey nice review man Like I've been doing the same thing just started. I'd love to do a collab or something and also that's a big thing do Collaboration start talking to other youtubers collab with them there their audience is gonna move to your audience And that's how it is. That's the best thing about YouTube if you want to build something you want to build and leave a legacy on YouTube This is what you can start doing. Yeah screw it. You're not gonna make money The monetization bullshit is there. Don't even monetize your videos. Don't worry about them Just go in wanting to have a fun time and meet some awesome people because that's what YouTube's about I don't even care about the money at this point I don't care about any of that because I've maybe made like 25 cents overall and I don't care about any of that I care about meeting new people engaging with people and giving people my perspective on movies because that's what's important to me I love my community. I love the people who comment on these all these videos I hope this video inspires you to go out and make some videos so again as I said I have basic equipment to make and run this channel basic and small equipment now Obviously like when I started this channel, I wasn't very consistent and that was a big thing I wish I would have been I wish I would have pumped this channel out more. I started in 2015 I really was lazy and didn't really get into it till probably pretty much the middle of 2017 Is when I got super into YouTube and that was my biggest regret is thinking I was too good for everyone else and not collaborating earlier not talking to more people Not ignoring the trolls and just letting them get to me when they comment about video And I wouldn't make a video for a couple weeks and I'd come back and it would be no views for starting a YouTube channel I truly believe to just do and do what you want to do basic necessities are all here You need a phone you need a camera need a basic editing software and maybe some lighting and a microphone And even if you can't afford lighting film your videos during the day Open your window up have the light coming on you if the sun's out. It's gonna look gorgeous. I promise you Seriously guys though, I hope this really did help you if you have any other questions Please do not feel free to come and check me out on Twitter and DM me and leave me a message at Pope the king I will always make sure to come and reach out to you guys and give you guys my views and thoughts and maybe even some more Tips if you think I left out something even if I did leave out something Please let me know because I would really like to help you and help you out I want to help other people start on YouTube. This really does mean a lot for you guys to check out this video I know it's probably running a little bit longer than it did It was fun to do behind-the-scenes video showing you guys the equipment I use showing the basic necessities of going into a video and just showing in general some other thing enjoy this video Make sure to hit that like button and subscribe and of course if you have any other questions I'd love to answer them and so of course before we get going make sure to hit hit up all my social media and go check Out sandwich on films down below because down below. I'm part of a website I love being a part of this website where we all give out an advanced movie screenings and also we do with tons of Movie news and movie reviews on the website Make sure to go check us out and until next time guys you guys know what I'm gonna say stay classy and have a great rest of your day