0:01 hello there and welcome back to the
0:03 closet historian and back to my series
0:05 side hustling where I take you behind
0:06 the scenes of some of the videos I've
0:08 been making recently or behind the
0:10 scenes of my work in general whether
0:12 that be YouTube sewing writing whatever
0:14 I'm getting up to whatever side hustle I
0:15 happen to be focusing on although now
0:17 that YouTube is my full-time job it's
0:19 less of a side hustle and more of just
0:21 my full-time job today I wanted to show
0:23 you how I built the cyberpunk lookbook
0:25 set which I am very thrilled with even
0:28 though it is it is a bit much I might
0:29 scale it back a little bit to something
0:32 slightly a slightly more cleaner corner
0:34 of a futuristic city for future videos
0:36 but of course for cyberpunk I really
0:37 wanted to push this because ninth city
0:40 is a dangerous and slightly dirty place
0:42 but before I could even build this set I
0:44 had to clean up the last one um if you
0:45 watch my last side hustling video where
0:47 I built the Halloween set and then
0:49 noticed recently it had some fake snow
0:51 on it as well it was already going to be
0:53 a bear to clean up and then I added the
0:56 fake snow stuff which made it even a
0:57 stickier situation so I had quite a lot
0:59 to do before I could even start on the
1:01 cyberpunk set let's jump back in time
1:03 and I'll show you how I got on so I made
1:05 a Star Wars themed lookbook several
1:07 years ago I can put a card up to it here
1:08 if you'd like to see it
1:10 um which this is the set for that which
1:12 is what I reused to make the cyberpunk
1:15 set today you'll see how these pieces
1:17 get slotted in and repainted and reused
1:19 but I did just keep this set because big
1:21 set pieces like this are quite an
1:23 investment obviously it's not as much as
1:25 like a real building would cost but it
1:26 is still quite pricey to buy all these
1:28 things so here's my mock-up kind of like
1:30 Photoshop sketch of what I wanted to do
1:32 for this set some murals some graffiti
1:36 some you know signage from the game some
1:38 stuff from Home Depot I knew kind of
1:40 what I wanted to do but before I could
1:41 do anything
1:42 I need to clean up the Halloween set
1:45 here and like I said it was covered in
1:48 fake snow at this point as well so I had
1:50 a couple of like two full cans of fake
1:52 spray snow on this which is kind of like
1:54 a weird flocking material that you
1:55 really don't want to breathe in and then
1:58 a whole bag of like Fake Plastic snow
2:00 that you get this kind of stuff over in
2:01 like the Christmas Village area of the
2:03 craft store if they have such things
2:06 where you live here in America one of
2:07 the Traditions is to set up a Christmas
2:08 Village I don't know if they have this
2:10 in other countries but
2:12 my mom has one somewhere packed up she
2:14 hasn't set it up in years but sometimes
2:15 you put fake snow on these things so I
2:16 was trying to vacuum up the fake snow
2:17 and some of these leaves with the shop
2:19 vac which kind of worked but I kind of
2:21 just kept clogging the shop vac with all
2:23 these leaves of course because the
2:24 filter in the shop pack isn't very good
2:25 either so I started trying to clean all
2:27 this stuff up and then I started trying
2:29 to move the bricks so I was stacking
2:31 them up in this blue Fabrics box and
2:32 then I put them on this hand truck which
2:35 ended up having a flat tire so I really
2:36 struggled with that one I thought the
2:37 hand truck was gonna make that easier
2:38 but not so much then I grabbed some
2:41 Garden trash bags and all of these are
2:42 rubber wood chips they're not real wood
2:44 chips they're rubber wood chips and I
2:48 used a snow shovel to shuffle those into
2:49 trash bags because I want to save these
2:52 wood chips to use again anytime I need
2:55 you know weird dirt with leaves in it I
2:57 might have to sift that in the future if
2:58 I use it again but yeah we'll see how it
3:01 goes and I took the lamp down from the
3:03 wall and then started moving these Star
3:04 Wars set pieces over here and you can
3:06 see they're still painted the kind of
3:09 Tatooine sand color uh here which I
3:11 didn't really go hard enough with the
3:13 I don't know distressing or lighting
3:14 when I was doing that video but it's one
3:17 of my first super themed videos so I'll
3:18 forgive myself or not
3:20 uh loving it as much as I probably did
3:22 then but of course whenever you look
3:23 back into old work you always see things
3:25 you would change now because hopefully
3:27 you're growing as a person and as an
3:29 artist in life but here I am painting
3:32 these big foam set pieces so Sublime my
3:35 favorite gray color from Glidden and
3:37 going around and painting all this I did
3:39 have to do two coats of this I think I
3:41 had three coats on the door in total
3:42 just because even though this is like a
3:44 light gray here the paint I chose for
3:45 the door this time was like a yellow
3:47 color that was quite transparent the
3:49 paint so I had to paint that a couple of
3:52 times and I painted around these door
3:54 panels that I made that look quite star
3:57 warsy uh and I just hung the open sign
3:58 over those to kind of hide that this
4:01 time I was practicing doing a little bit
4:04 of graffiti here as well 5280 it's uh a
4:06 mile high which is what you see here in
4:07 Denver quite often used
4:09 um so I just was randomly just spray
4:11 painting to see get a feel for what it's
4:13 like to spray paint something but I
4:14 painted the door a couple of times and
4:16 then I started working out how I was
4:19 going to do these ads from the game
4:22 cyberpunk 2077 up here uh I you know
4:24 originally I was going to go get some
4:26 posters printed at like Kinkos also
4:27 here's me my pajamas hello
4:29 um but I was trying to figure out this
4:30 got a couple of pieces of poster board
4:32 that I taped onto the scent for a minute
4:35 and using an old projector I projected
4:40 the least offensive of the many many ads
4:42 that are projected everywhere in the you
4:45 know very dystopian futuristic video
4:46 games higher Punk there's screens with
4:48 ads all over that game and so I thought
4:50 it'd be cool to take some of the ads in
4:51 the game and actually just project them
4:54 instead of printing like a static image
4:56 to do like something that was
4:58 um more of a video based thing so I
5:00 ended up doing that and here I am after
5:01 watching two YouTube videos on how to do
5:04 graffiti trying to do some graffiti here
5:06 and tagging my own set with TCH of
5:08 course the closet historian trying to
5:10 figure out how to do some Stars I have
5:12 the circle outline for the bit of a
5:13 mural that I'm about to paint over here
5:15 I did use the projector to project the
5:17 design onto the wall and then I had to
5:19 figure out how to hang all the duct work
5:21 which is just hung up with yarn and then
5:22 secured to the back of the wooden part
5:25 of my set which comes around here I had
5:27 my mom help me with that because it was
5:28 a bit of a nightmare I tried doing it
5:29 myself and it was a no then again projecting
5:31 projecting
5:34 the image of this like skull it's like a
5:38 sort of 80s or 90s t-shirt inspired
5:41 image that one of the designers did for
5:43 the game that I changed the colors of
5:44 and then painted here on the wall and
5:47 the easiest way to do a mural is to use
5:49 a projector project what you want to
5:50 paint on the wall and then just go over
5:52 it which is what I'm doing here this
5:54 isn't a very complex little mural anyhow
5:56 so no big deal I'm sure most people
5:57 won't recognize this as a graphic from
5:59 the game because I don't know exactly
6:00 where in the game it was used but
6:04 you know we're we're pulling things
6:06 straight from cyberpunk itself to try
6:08 and incorporate into the whole thing
6:09 here and I'm sorry about this footage
6:11 because the open sign is blinking during
6:13 this whole thing so all of the footage
6:14 is sped up
6:16 it's quite a party with this open sign
6:19 with its sick jams in the corner here
6:20 um this is an open sign that's just an
6:22 LED open sign from Amazon so if I ever
6:25 open a business that needs to be open I
6:27 guess I'll have this sign now I might
6:29 hang up these neon signs and then like
6:31 other neon signs if I collect a few more
6:34 some more in an office in the future but
6:35 here's how things are looking obviously
6:38 nothing is distressed yet but my mural
6:40 is mostly painted slightly still wet
6:41 there let's do a little bit more
6:43 graffiti just with some paint got some
6:46 Never Fade Away more 5280 my B I painted
6:49 it in there I did my initials 2022 just
6:52 kind of drawing random things around
6:54 um I really ended up going I think too
6:56 far with the like random graffiti and
6:59 random scribbles and so I end up scaling
7:01 it back later on so you'll see this get
7:03 a lot more graffiti and then I end up
7:05 going over it with some gray paint and
7:07 kind of scaling it back just because it
7:09 got so busy so fast
7:11 um and I didn't exactly know what to
7:12 Graffiti so sometimes I liked what I did
7:14 and sometimes I didn't you know but here
7:16 I am stacking up some containers some
7:18 Jerry cans some random ductwork stuff
7:20 and a lot of trash I had been saving I
7:22 had like a whole piles of cardboard down
7:23 here in case I ever need it and also
7:25 junk mail and stuff so it's probably on
7:27 that on and then started testing some
7:29 lighting so this is a very 80s scheme
7:30 here very neon
7:32 um just testing different types of
7:33 lighting how many colors do I want to
7:35 use at once I don't tend to use this
7:37 many colors at once for the setting the
7:39 background because although this is like
7:43 a fun 1980s postcard uh it's too much
7:45 for when you want anyone to look at the
7:46 clothes you're wearing because the
7:48 background's got so much going on it's
7:50 hard to make it doesn't draw the focus
7:52 to the outfit so something like this
7:54 where it's mostly green lighting with a
7:55 little bit of like pink from the neon
7:58 side or purple from the skull actually
8:01 helps the eye focus on the model in this
8:03 case me a little bit more and this is
8:05 actually still quite clean I had not
8:07 distressed this yet because I
8:08 was putting it off because I knew it was
8:10 going to get paint under my fingernails
8:12 and it's quite a process to distress and
8:15 split to distress an entire set did it
8:18 and it's also hard to say so um I hadn't
8:20 watered down any dark gray paint and
8:21 gone all over the place with it yet but
8:23 this is how we were looking you know
8:26 after the end of day two basically the
8:29 set took me about two three maybe like
8:30 three and a half days three and a half
8:33 four days to put together in total
8:35 but here's how things are looking with
8:38 my hair looking quite a mess
8:40 um on like the end of putting the set
8:41 together and you can see there's more
8:44 graffiti and especially yellow here than
8:45 is in the finished video so again I
8:48 scaled a lot of this white and yellow
8:50 spray paint back so you can see next to
8:51 Never Fade Away that all kind of went away
8:52 away
8:55 um I painted it back so here is on shoot
8:57 day number one in my pajamas and then in
8:59 some clothes what I had going on for the
9:00 lighting I had the pink light above the
9:03 door on I had the open sign flashing and
9:04 when I pulled this in to start editing
9:07 the video pulled the footage in
9:09 uh which you know is a lot of me looking
9:11 at myself trying to model which is very
9:13 fun it's better sped up like this than
9:15 it is in real time
9:16 um but I just thought there was so much
9:19 going on that it was hard for the eye to
9:21 focus on the outfits and the first part
9:22 of the video is definitely my least
9:24 favorite the first like very first segment
9:24 segment
9:26 um and then later when I get to this
9:28 robot suit kind of outfits and the
9:32 second half of the beginning fast
9:34 portion and the rest of the video I am
9:36 happier with the open sign being static
9:38 it's not flashing too much
9:40 um and the lighting being a little bit
9:42 more monochromatic obviously this is all
9:43 blue green here but keeping it in the
9:46 same color family less contrast I think
9:49 helps to be able to focus on the clothes
9:51 more so this set is the you know most
9:53 the busiest set I've ever done so it is
9:56 hard for me to get used to how much is
9:58 going on here there's a lot of trash
10:00 last time I had a lot of leaves and like
10:03 detritus on the in the graveyard this
10:05 time I have a lot of trash which is a
10:07 unique prop to be collecting and having
10:10 set aside some specific trash I'm like
10:12 oh I need some things that are like
10:14 really shiny and like teal keep those
10:16 aside you know and this is another of
10:18 the lighting schemes I have my Spotlight
10:20 here set to a little dot pattern instead
10:22 of the stripes and this outfit actually
10:24 I forgot to talk about in the second
10:25 half of the video so this is outfit 16
10:27 in some ways I forgot to talk about it
10:29 which is hilarious because as much of
10:31 the fashion in this is inspired by Terry
10:34 mugler this is the only mugler piece in
10:35 this this jacket is actually a cherry
10:38 mugler jacket from the 90s that I
10:40 collected actually just before he passed
10:42 away I bought this online vintage it
10:44 fits me like a glove and is the best
10:46 thing ever
10:47 um and yet I didn't get to talk about in
10:48 the video because I forgot because I was
10:51 editing at 3am but I have paired this
10:55 black cherry mugler jacket with a neon
10:58 like Runners top like athletic top mock
11:00 neck top and then my iridescent electric
11:03 blue stretch faux leather pencil skirt
11:05 and then matching heels with that and a
11:06 black patent clutch and a little blue
11:09 brooch I really like this outfit and yet
11:11 I forgot to talk about it like a fool
11:13 and I did wear gray sheer nylon tights
11:15 for all this as well which I had to go
11:17 to Every department store in town to
11:18 find I finally found some at Kohl's from
11:21 Haynes because nobody carries Hosiery
11:23 anymore which is a real bummer
11:25 I highly doubt
11:26 this will be picked up on the microphone
11:28 for the iPhone but this buddy actually
11:30 makes quite a lot of noise this light
11:33 you can turn it uh down this is doing
11:35 the dots over here right now
11:40 um so this has a little filter on it
11:43 that does that I can
11:46 make those all the way bigger or make
11:49 them smaller or if I take out
11:51 the filter we just have a
11:53 normal Spotlight here
11:58 where is it
12:01 change the size of
12:03 if we want to but we'll just leave that
12:06 on for now while I take you around on
12:09 set so of course I have that recycled
12:11 rubber like gym flooring or gym or
12:13 garage flooring that I bought for the
12:15 last set that again is being reused here
12:16 you can still see the two different
12:17 colors of
12:18 material here which is unfortunate then
12:22 I have this like wire curb cover stuff
12:23 to kind of make a curve curb in the
12:24 front of this
12:26 in a nice safety yellow color and then
12:28 of course we have the set in general
12:30 which let me
12:32 which if I move over here and back up
12:34 you can see
12:36 and it's full capacity as it were so we
12:38 still have my theater Flats behind this
12:40 we have our three main pieces of pink
12:43 insulation foam made to look like
12:46 building and then I have another extra
12:47 piece of like really cobbled together
12:49 foam over here
12:52 that is like the cutout of this door got
12:55 put onto there so this was my Star Wars
12:57 set if we use magic I can kind of show
13:00 you what that was looked like before
13:02 um of course repainted and um completely
13:06 covered in Gray and grime to make it
13:08 look like this instead
13:09 um and you can see here's the ceiling of
13:12 the basement it's not a very tall space
13:14 um if I didn't have this like I'm sure
13:15 this is like duct work or something in
13:16 here I could have made my set wider
13:18 which would have been great because I do
13:21 still have to fill in the sides of my
13:24 set because in a full wide screen it is not
13:25 not
13:27 like I either have to zoom in and lose
13:30 height or zoom out and get black bars on
13:32 the side or something so one day when I
13:33 can build another set of course it would
13:34 like it be wider but this is literally
13:36 as physically wide as I could make it
13:38 down here in this basement back lot but
13:40 yes I painted the door with like a
13:43 shinier dark mustard color and then the
13:45 walls are that so Sublime my favorite
13:47 color of Glidden paint which is actually
13:49 what the set behind is painted as well
13:51 in this same color of dark gray and then
13:53 of course there's a lot of even darker gray
13:54 gray
13:55 faux finishing on here unfortunately I
13:57 didn't get footage of the faux finishing
13:59 this time but you just kind of wipe dark
14:02 paint anywhere you want it to be and you
14:03 can clean some of it off I just like
14:06 keep a sponge loaded with dark paint in
14:07 one hand and a paper towel on the other
14:09 and I just kind of put dark on and then
14:11 take it away where I feel I need to so
14:14 it's not a very precise process actually
14:16 in the end because it's supposed to look
14:18 dirty and random so you don't have to be
14:21 super particular about it now this mural
14:23 here you saw me paint that
14:26 this again is inspired by a graphic that
14:28 one of the artists that worked on the
14:30 game made I think as a t-shirt design
14:33 but I inverted the colors and then did
14:35 that here on the background using the
14:37 projector to put that on there Never
14:39 Fade Away of course one of the songs
14:41 from the game and like big lines from
14:43 the game so that's on here TCH a couple
14:45 times me learning how to do graffiti a
14:48 couple of cheap signs from Again Home
14:50 Depot and then I have my open sign which
14:52 you can change the colors of and change
14:54 it to flash or not flash Ubuntu and this
14:56 skull fake neon is actually from
14:58 Target's Halloween section
15:01 and then we have a storage bin which is
15:02 currently empty but I'm sure I'll use it
15:05 when packing and moving next year
15:07 um some Jerry cans some random ducting materials
15:09 materials
15:11 um and lots of trash and and uh like
15:13 junk mail that I've been saving it's
15:15 like plastic bags and these are like
15:18 inflatable bags to like protect stuff
15:19 and bubble wrap and all that kind of
15:21 crap I could have just been saving that
15:23 and sticking it under these
15:24 um these are a couple of soda cans that
15:26 I wrapped with a Nikola
15:27 wrapper that I just put it off on the
15:28 computer so that they're a little bit
15:31 more cyberpunk themed but here's what
15:33 the the street looks like this is
15:35 actually a fog juice for the fog machine
15:37 we have the cinder block here you can
15:38 see there's another one over here
15:40 because there's two pieces of PVC that
15:41 are holding up
15:43 this piece of plastic which is like kind
15:44 of serving
15:46 as a bit of an awning here
15:48 um it's like a piece of plastic that
15:49 comes out here and this is actually a
15:50 window well cover for a basement window
15:53 then I have my ducting again that just
15:54 goes across the top of here
15:56 sort of looks like a lot of uh cyberpunk
15:59 buildings in cyberpunk design and this
16:00 is all really inspired by Blade Runner
16:02 has a lot of the duct work and
16:04 infrastructure added on to the external
16:06 side of the building that's how they
16:07 transformed the back lot for the Blade
16:09 Runner set if you've ever watched the
16:11 behind the scenes of how they made the
16:13 first Blade Runner film they used like a
16:14 city backdrop set I think it was
16:15 supposed to be like New York City or LA
16:18 on one of the back lots and they
16:20 transformed it by sticking a ton of neon
16:22 and air conditioning units and ducting
16:22 and all that kind of stuff on the
16:24 outside so this course is inspired by
16:27 that same kind of idea but this is this
16:29 side of the set here with our nice glowy
16:32 lights some crates and more trash that
16:34 I've been collecting you know save your
16:35 trash you never know what's going to
16:38 come in handy white screen that was kind
16:41 of displaying ads as if it were an LCD
16:43 screen or LED screen like they have in
16:45 the game but this is actually just a
16:47 piece of white or a piece of foam that I
16:48 painted white and this is actually black
16:51 Gaff tape that's around the edges of
16:53 this because I didn't have time to paint
16:54 it nicely so I just used black Gaff tape
16:56 to make it look like it had a bit of a
16:59 rim but this I was projecting those
17:01 images onto that screen so this isn't a
17:03 screen that has projection from behind I
17:05 was using a projector to project onto
17:07 that screen and here are the behind the
17:09 scenes scenes of that this is a table
17:11 with some boxes
17:15 and on top of the boxes an old projector
17:17 this is still a very nice projector
17:19 actually but my dad likes to have a
17:21 projector on the wall to watch the NFL
17:23 games as large as possible
17:25 um and this is his old projection I said
17:28 hey can we use that and he said yeah so
17:29 that's how I did the projection for both
17:32 painting the mural and then also for
17:34 those ads on the wall
17:35 you can see all my other props and things
17:36 things
17:38 just offset here because this is a
17:41 Backlot and a props Department Etc this
17:43 is a what in film would be called a flag
17:45 really I think this is a black like
17:46 Garden trash bag hang from the ceiling
17:49 to block some of the light from this led
17:51 buddy that I can change the color of
17:52 which is nice
17:54 um to block some of that light so that I
17:55 can have a stronger projection up on
17:58 this buddy because this was you know the
18:00 more other light I have on the set the
18:01 less crisp this projection up here it's
18:03 going to be so you can tell when I have
18:06 the lights on this is much uh more faded
18:07 the projection that's on there of course
18:09 it's not turned on right now at all but
18:10 um in general that's what's going on
18:11 there if I had done like a green screen
18:14 I could have done this in like a green
18:16 or a different color and then keyed it
18:17 out but I've never done anything like
18:18 that before I didn't have time to figure
18:21 out how to do so I have the spotlight
18:23 going on that I could change sometimes I
18:25 had lines on set sometimes I just do a
18:27 spotlight sometimes I had those dots
18:29 then I have my LED strip light here that
18:32 can do different colors and intensities
18:34 of those colors over here onset I had
18:35 one practical light here that I didn't
18:37 end up really liking so I turn it off
18:38 for most of the video then we have of
18:40 course our open sign and this buddy and
18:42 then we have these strip LED color
18:44 changing lights again and there's one
18:46 actually behind this pile of trash
18:47 that's kind of projecting up onto the
18:49 wall so I could change the colors of
18:51 those as well um or to them off and on
18:52 depending on what I wanted for a
18:54 particular scene then other than that I
18:56 just have my typical soft boxes there's
18:58 another one over here
19:00 um just to light up close to my face and
19:01 then right here where we're standing
19:03 currently is where the camera and also
19:04 my ring light are and I had the ring
19:07 light set to about like five dialed up
19:10 to about like a five setting halfway for
19:11 most of the video just to provide a
19:13 little bit of white light and then for
19:14 the end part of the video of course I
19:16 turned that up to like 10 or 12 notches
19:18 so we have more light on the situation
19:19 you can see more of the natural color of
19:21 the clothing that I'm trying to show you
19:22 here in the wardrobe Department things
19:26 are just a total mess because I haven't
19:28 done anything since I finished filming
19:30 the video so everything's just kind of
19:33 in a jumble and laying about because I
19:35 have not fixed everything since filming
19:37 the video but I'll just highlight light
19:38 some of the shoes I wore because I know
19:40 some of you are shoe lovers like me out
19:42 there these were the Nine West kind of
19:44 patent pumps they're black patent on one
19:48 side and then they are clear transparent stuff
19:49 stuff
19:53 so that's very a very fun I love these I
19:55 love the shape of this heel too I mean
19:56 that heel is very tall there's no
19:57 platform up here so they're quite
19:59 uncomfortable but
20:01 they're very pretty and then speaking of
20:05 very pretty these are holographic
20:09 iridescent patent looking heels from Sam
20:10 Edelman that I'm just in love with and
20:13 they match my blue holographic pencil
20:16 skirt perfectly so super excited about
20:19 these Buddies and then the last like
20:22 fancy pair were these Steve Madden
20:25 transparent buddies I have a very
20:28 stilettoy heel oh but they're just like clear
20:29 clear
20:31 slightly I don't know like beige colored plastic
20:32 plastic
20:33 um it is a slingback they're actually
20:35 quite comfortable the the plastic is
20:37 weirdly enough but
20:39 slingbacks in my heels don't get along
20:40 super super well so probably better
20:42 better if I wasn't wearing nylons
20:43 actually but
20:45 some of the the fun shoes that I wore
20:48 for this video but in general I'm quite
20:50 happy with how the set came together
20:51 it's a little you know it's busy
20:53 compared to a lot of the sets I do and use
20:54 use
20:57 um so usually I have a less busy
20:58 backdrop which I guess the last set was
20:59 pretty busy as well
21:01 but there's a lot of different colors
21:03 going on there's contrast going on so it
21:04 did take me a minute to get used to that
21:06 almost in the edit and it kind of takes
21:08 you know Focus away from the clothes but
21:10 it is fun to do something this bold and
21:13 trashy and weird
21:14 um I think I'm going to be scaling this
21:16 back a little bit instead of using it as
21:19 like my everyday backdrop for the next
21:21 upcoming videos I need to film for
21:23 starting the next year so I think I will
21:26 scale back some of my graffiti and maybe
21:27 make this a little bit cleaner part of
21:29 the city I will take this down actually
21:31 and then I have an idea to maybe do
21:33 almost a
21:35 um like green wall kind of inspired
21:37 thing where I do like plants on the wall
21:39 and like bring the planter from Verity
21:41 back over here and kind of do a more
21:44 concrete and then Greenery sort of idea
21:47 over here on this cyberpunkish set I
21:48 think I'll paint the duct I'm going to
21:50 keep it but I think I'll paint it uh
21:52 gray a little so it'll just dial it down
21:53 a little bit make the background a
21:55 little bit more neutral for some of the
21:56 ideas I have coming up
21:59 so here's again raw footage of the
22:01 outfit That Time Forgot uh here on set
22:03 with the darker lighting color scheme
22:05 here but I'm shooting on a neutral
22:07 profile on my camera which means this is
22:09 not very contrasty actually
22:11 um so when I drop the footage into
22:13 Premiere I like to do a lumetri color
22:15 effect which you can see here so this is
22:18 with the contrast bumped up with a
22:20 vignette put on the footage so this has
22:22 a black vignette around the edges that
22:25 makes the edges of the image darker than
22:27 the rest and a couple other like color
22:29 changes basically just like Minor
22:31 Adjustments to the contrast the lights
22:33 in the darks and then of course the
22:35 sides are still you know the basement so
22:37 I need to put some sort of a frame on
22:39 this to extend the set so I kind of
22:41 invent a little Photoshop frame to stick
22:43 on top of this that hopefully you won't
22:46 focus on when I'm modeling hopefully
22:47 you're looking at the clothes you know
22:49 and not the little mistakes I make or
22:51 things I have to change to make things
22:53 work and adding the frame like this
22:54 around the image just kind of finishes
22:57 it off and makes it so you can't see a
22:59 basement and you can only see this one
23:01 little corner of night City instead
23:03 hopefully and our open sign is making
23:05 the lights flicker here which is a shame
23:07 but LEDs and frame rates always have
23:09 surprises for me which is about
23:11 bummer we have a nice Tiger Claws logo
23:13 up on the screen here as well that is a
23:16 logo from the game not a cool tiger
23:19 graffiti that I made but in general that
23:20 was how I put together this set for the
23:22 cyberpunk lookbook which I ended up
23:24 calling synapse and this video is called
23:25 synapse burnout because that is one of
23:27 the quick hacks in the game I have
23:29 actually played the game I'm surprised I
23:31 didn't get that question more often this
23:33 video has only hit like my audience all
23:36 of you so you all know that I wouldn't
23:37 like make something that I didn't know
23:39 much about but I was afraid that you
23:40 know if this hit any wider audience
23:42 they'd be like you know hit me with some
23:44 fake gamer girl stuff where it's like
23:45 you don't even know anything about
23:47 cyberpunk and it's like not about the
23:48 board game but I have played the video
23:51 game twice so uh sit-ups burnout is one
23:52 of the quick hacks in the game like a
23:54 way to deal damage to your enemies and
23:56 it's also um you know I kind of burnt
23:59 myself out making synapse so really it
24:01 all kind of makes sense I was trying to
24:03 for those of you who are my patrons
24:04 who've been listening to me ramble about
24:06 this on the podcast for the past couple
24:07 months I've been trying to get it so
24:09 that I could take December off um and
24:10 just catch up on a lot of cleaning I
24:12 need to do around the house
24:14 um reading I'd like to do and also do
24:15 some writing because I haven't done any
24:17 writing in a very long time or at least
24:19 dedicated taking time to do writing I
24:20 haven't done in a long time so I was
24:22 trying to take December off it is now
24:25 December what is it today
24:29 12th it's December 12th and I'm not off
24:31 yet but I'm planning to at least take a
24:32 cup uh two weeks off like around
24:34 Christmas to again yeah straighten up a
24:36 lot of things in the house and get my
24:38 brain in order as well
24:40 um so hopefully I can manage to do that
24:42 I've been taking pockets of break here
24:43 just after filming the video and getting
24:44 that out because
24:46 um to actually compile the edit for this
24:49 video uh it took me about three or four
24:53 days of editing probably I filmed the
24:55 first four looks first four or five
24:57 looks on one day and then the rest on
24:58 another day so you'll notice like my
25:01 makeup improves after those like I did
25:02 the makeup again and the second time it
25:03 came out better I had some clip-in
25:04 extensions in the first part of the
25:06 video that I just ended up not liking
25:08 because like my hair is quite blonde
25:09 right now as opposed to White and the
25:10 extensions were white and it just wasn't
25:13 meshing very well and I had them like
25:14 perfectly combed in my hair and then as
25:15 soon as I got on set they were like
25:17 looking really choppy and bad so took
25:19 those extensions out so I changed a few
25:21 things from that like first day of
25:22 filming when I was hoping to get like
25:25 eight or ten looks films I only ended up
25:28 getting thing uh yeah five looks in the
25:30 can that day so I was like oh my God and
25:32 I filmed all day so I really
25:36 was having trouble keeping my usually
25:37 when I do the quick changes for The
25:40 Outfits I try and film like maybe tops
25:44 you know 12 13 minutes of footage per
25:45 outfit because otherwise I'll be there
25:48 all day and this day I was filming 30 40
25:50 minutes per outfit just because I was
25:52 like do I have it do I have it uh
25:53 because I can't watch my footage back
25:55 immediately I'm always just like well
25:56 I'll do one more take to make sure that
25:58 I have something I can use and I second
26:00 guess myself a lot um sometimes when I'm
26:01 on set because I don't really know how
26:03 to model I don't know what I'm doing I'm
26:05 making it up so
26:07 um I was having a really hard time that
26:08 first day of shooting
26:10 so I changed a few things for the second
26:12 day I actually set a timer on my phone
26:14 the second day which the first time I've
26:16 done this while doing lookbook like this
26:17 where I just set it for 10 minutes and
26:19 you know I would try and get what I need
26:21 to get done in that 10 minutes and then
26:23 really try and keep myself on a tighter schedule
26:24 schedule
26:26 um that's like the director side of the
26:28 doing because I'm doing like all the
26:30 film jobs what I'm doing it look look
26:32 like this so I have you know as in
26:34 addition to modeling or acting or
26:35 whatever we're calling what I'm doing on
26:37 camera here I'm also having to like
26:39 remember continuity what I need to do
26:42 for between shots uh with the lighting
26:43 because in this video is the first time
26:45 again for a lookbook where I've changed
26:47 the lighting like dramatically several
26:48 times for different segments doing
26:50 different colors of lighting and then
26:52 doing the both like the darker lighting
26:53 that I do for the beginning of the video
26:54 and the brighter lighting that I do for
26:56 the end of the video skipping all that
26:57 lighting stuff it's direct for
27:00 photography like DP and grip kind of
27:02 stuff going on there and then you know
27:04 props department is me modeling makeup
27:06 touch-ups all these things
27:08 um trying to keep it all going and then
27:10 like film and have it not take 12 hours
27:12 is a unique task um I'm usually
27:14 absolutely dead after a shoot so I did a
27:16 second day of the shoot where I filmed
27:17 the other
27:19 10 looks or whatever it was this ended
27:21 up being like a 15 16 look video I try
27:24 to keep it to 10 usually because I know
27:26 how these massive shoes destroy me so I
27:28 do try and keep it down but I just had
27:29 so many looks I wanted to play with and
27:32 share because I really love this genre
27:34 and like theme so I really went overboard
27:35 overboard
27:37 um so that's a shame but after I filmed
27:38 the first day I actually did drop that
27:40 footage into my video I had done the music
27:42 music
27:44 uh first so I did I found all the music
27:47 first when I had a a bit of time earlier
27:49 in the month so I did all the found the
27:50 music edited all that together and I
27:52 wanted to throw that up onto YouTube to
27:54 make sure like unlisted to make sure it
27:56 wasn't going to get flagged for having
27:58 copyright music because although all the
28:00 music music is from epidemic sound I do
28:01 have some sound effects from the video
28:03 games our punk I have a little bit of
28:06 song footage from cyberpunk in the audio
28:07 track so I wanted to make sure it wasn't
28:08 going to get flagged for copyright for that
28:09 that
28:12 um so I have unlisted music first then I
28:13 did that first day of filming edited
28:15 that footage together for the beginning
28:16 part of the video
28:17 um and learned a few things I want to do
28:19 differently filmed the rest of the video
28:21 and then I put that in there so it was
28:23 about two days of editing before I even
28:25 filmed the three quarters of the video
28:27 and then I did about a day of editing
28:30 that first portion of the video it has
28:32 so many cuts and so many
28:34 um you know effects layered on to those
28:36 Transitions and stuff a lot of that
28:38 stuff is from videoblocks by the way
28:40 which I can link them below um they're a
28:42 it's like epidemic sound where you pay
28:45 to get either stock footage or effects
28:47 and presets and stuff like that you can
28:48 layer in some of the effects I did
28:49 myself in Premiere and some of the
28:51 effects I just dragged and dropped which
28:53 is very useful um
28:53 um
28:55 but you know that first half of the
28:57 video it took three days and then the
28:58 second half of the video takes three
29:01 hours so it's kind of like you know the
29:03 first three minutes are what's taking
29:05 days and days and days of time but I did
29:07 a day of editing where I like let myself
29:09 go to bed at a proper hour and then the
29:11 next day was the Wednesday before it
29:13 came out so I stayed up till 4am
29:15 finishing the edit for this one which is
29:17 how that one look escaped getting talked
29:19 about which is a shame because I really
29:21 like that look but you know these things
29:23 happen when you set yourself deadlines
29:24 and for some reason I have this feeling
29:25 that my videos need to come out on
29:27 Thursdays even though it's up to me as
29:29 we know so I could technically release
29:31 it on Friday and I might have let myself
29:32 have a couple of hours on Thursday like
29:34 in the first half of Thursday and put
29:36 the video out late on Thursday if I had
29:37 that Thursday available but I actually
29:40 had a tattoo appointment that day to get
29:42 my new chrysanthemums shaded in so I
29:44 have plastic on underneath here over my
29:47 mom's because I had those shaded
29:49 um on that Thursday so I wasn't even
29:51 home while that video was like I like
29:53 published the video and then I left to
29:54 drive across town down to get tattoo
29:56 finish so I was not even home that day
29:58 so I couldn't finish it on Thursday I
30:00 had to get it done on Wednesday and then
30:01 I only got like four hours of sleep
30:03 before I went to a full day tattoo
30:04 session where I got stabbed all day
30:06 which was fine although you do lay in
30:08 funny positions so my neck has been out
30:10 of whack since so it was again a bit of
30:12 a rush to the Finish Line I guess is
30:14 what I'm trying to say trying to explain
30:15 these things well again yes I am a
30:16 little bit
30:19 a little jumbled still I actually took a
30:21 minute to clean the sewing room because
30:23 I just couldn't do anything like this is
30:24 my office as well my computer's right
30:25 here and then the sewing room was next
30:27 to us
30:28 um I like couldn't do anything in here
30:30 because I needed to vacuum before I
30:33 could even be in here anymore so I
30:34 vacuumed the floor I picked up all the
30:37 Lost sad bent pins I reorganized my
30:38 fabric a little bit I've been around
30:40 some like errant patterns that were all
30:42 over the place so it feels much better
30:43 to be in here now I still have some work
30:45 to do in here but I'm instead of trying
30:47 to do things all at once which clearly is
30:47 is
30:50 something I tend to do I'm trying to do
30:52 like okay one bookcase at a time one
30:54 pile at a time going through my scraps yesterday
30:56 yesterday
30:57 um things like that so I'm trying to
30:59 take it a little bit easier to get all
31:00 the things I want to get done but
31:02 perhaps not all at once or in the
31:03 timeline I originally envisioned so I'm
31:04 really glad that there are some of you
31:07 who are enjoyed the video I guess
31:07 um I knew there was gonna be some people
31:09 I was gonna lose some people with this
31:10 one just because
31:13 um it's so different it's like mostly
31:15 futuristic and a tiny bit vintage
31:17 um just in the sense that like there's
31:20 1980s influence on cyberpunk as a genre
31:22 in general and then when it's me I'm
31:24 gonna try and figure out how to make it
31:25 red lipstick and a little bit more 50s
31:27 or a little bit more 40s but thank you
31:28 so much for the support on the video
31:29 thank you for watching this video
31:31 because I know the side hustling videos
31:33 are very different from the rest of
31:34 things I do and I will have the sewing
31:35 videos coming up soon for many of the
31:38 projects involved in the video in
31:39 general and of course thank you so much
31:41 to my patrons who make videos like this
31:43 possible who make my work in general
31:45 possible who make my career possible
31:47 um again more like behind the scenes
31:50 sort of things I never thought that
31:52 under a hundred thousand subscribers
31:53 although we were getting really close
31:55 now so by the time I make my update
31:57 video for the year I might be able to
31:58 say that we have 100 000 subscribers
31:59 here on the channel
32:02 um which would be you know a huge goal
32:04 hit for me uh just in this uh
32:05 sustainability of my channel more so
32:07 it's not like I want to have a gigantic
32:10 Channel I just want to feel secure in my
32:12 job and that's something I never thought
32:14 I would hit until I got to 100 000
32:15 subscribers but I've been feeling like
32:18 that this whole year felt secure in my
32:19 work uh like the rug wasn't gonna
32:21 completely get ripped out from under me
32:23 because of patreon
32:24 um so patreon has afforded me the
32:27 stability to make this my job and the
32:30 amount of like mental comfort
32:32 having that
32:35 support there it's you know YouTube can
32:36 do whatever they want as a platform you
32:38 never know when a social media platform
32:40 you know might weird things happen with
32:42 social media platforms
32:44 um but and like the same is true with
32:45 patreon in some ways but like the
32:47 individual patrons
32:50 all of you together make this something
32:52 that I can do as my job and afford me
32:55 the stability that I need to make it a
32:57 career and also just to feel less
33:00 anxious so thank you for helping not
33:03 only like my financial stability but
33:05 also my mental stability in that way
33:07 because it although I have a lot of I'm
33:09 sure like most people
33:11 um in this position have a lot of I
33:12 don't know guilt around having such an
33:16 amazing job and also uh imposter
33:17 syndrome couldn't remember the name for
33:19 imposter syndrome um where it's like why
33:22 like are you sure me like I'm not like
33:23 cool enough to
33:26 for this uh but um
33:28 yeah all in all I'm just so lucky and I
33:31 know I know that and thank you I guess
33:33 is what I'm trying to say but once again
33:37 my brain is just scrambled eggs uh this
33:38 is your brain on drugs this is your
33:41 brain on work for me because I just I
33:43 love my work so you can't get me to stop
33:45 as I always say but I'll talk about all
33:47 this more in my wrap-up of the year I'm
33:49 gonna have my uh annual end of the year
33:51 side hustle and video coming up soon
33:52 here over the new year period and then I
33:54 will make some goals for next year which
33:57 is going to maybe maybe be a very weird
33:58 um and strange year for me so we'll see
34:00 how that goes I'll talk about that more
34:01 in the future if you're interested in
34:02 more behind the scenes and personal
34:04 stuff for me you can see those videos
34:06 over the new year period but again thank
34:07 you so much for watching today and I'll
34:09 be back with more sewing vintage fashion
34:12 costuming and crafting real soon so I'll
34:15 see you then bye extra special thanks to
34:20 Amy Alicia Anna Audra Che Karina Denise
34:25 Ellen eloquent silence Fern Heidi J
34:29 Lucky Lane Lilith Linda Lynn Hamilton
34:33 and Lynn Olsen Margaret Myrna Nancy
34:37 Natalie rachemus Rhonda swingularity
34:42 Thea Tracy Oola Zara and zuzana and
34:43 thank you to all of my patrons and of