0:01 hello there and welcome back to the
0:03 closet historian and back to my series
0:04 side hustling where I show you a little
0:06 bit more about the behind the scenes
0:08 whether that's more personal or actually
0:10 behind the scenes of set making prop
0:13 making making these videos my writing
0:14 process even sometimes though it's been
0:16 a few years but kind of a more behind
0:19 the curtain look at my work in general
0:20 and the process behind it and today I
0:22 wanted to show how I made the set for my
0:24 video last Thursday called Le Bat in
0:26 Rouge this is of course named after a
0:29 shop in the New Orleans square area of
0:30 Disneyland park in Disneyland California
0:33 I did grow up in Southern California in
0:34 San Diego and so driving up to
0:36 Disneyland was like a rare treat that I
0:37 always looked forward to so I do have a
0:39 certain Nostalgia for Disneyland and New
0:40 Orleans Square was always my favorite
0:41 part of Disneyland because you got your
0:43 Pirates ride excellent got the Haunted
0:46 Mansion excellent throwing a beignet and
0:47 it really is the best part of the park
0:49 for me there is of course now an entire
0:51 Star Wars themed area of the park but I
0:52 have not been back since that opened so
0:54 that could become my new favorite but
0:56 it'll have to wait and see but yes there
0:57 was a shop in New Orleans Square called
0:59 Le Baton Rouge until recently of course
1:01 a play on Baton Rouge Louisiana because
1:03 this area is supposed to be sort of a
1:06 Louisiana themed area and it was more of
1:09 a kind of Hot Topic store at least when
1:10 I was younger in the sense that it had
1:11 all The Nightmare Before Christmas
1:13 merchandise and kind of villains and
1:15 darker Gothic themed merchandise in this
1:17 shop so it was always a favorite of mine
1:18 as a kid when I visited so in the same
1:21 way as my last happy haunt video that I
1:22 did last year I can put a card up to
1:24 that lookbook from last year if you want
1:26 even more Halloween spooky Vibes but
1:27 just as a happy haunt was slightly based
1:28 on the Haunted Mansion I wanted to
1:30 continue the same sort of area because
1:32 the Haunted Mansion truly is like the
1:33 top Halloween destination for me I wish
1:35 I wish I could be there today I am
1:37 filming this on Halloween itself here
1:39 talking to you but this year I wanted to
1:40 go ahead and do a proper transformation
1:42 of my set last year I did kind of have
1:43 to throw things together after I got
1:44 back from that big road trip but this
1:46 year I had plenty of time to prepare and
1:48 gather materials so I'll show you the
1:50 process of turning my usual backdrop set
1:52 into this more exterior looking back of
1:55 the graveyard sort of idea so I put down
1:57 new flooring I have real bricks and fake
1:59 plants and real plants and I have
2:02 finishing on the walls and real moss on
2:03 the walls so let's go ahead and dive
2:05 back in time and I'll show you how I
2:06 pulled this set together
2:09 all right Pals we have mulch
2:11 we have tarps we have flooring we have a lamp
2:13 lamp
2:16 we have fake brick and we have our set oh
2:22 here you can kind of get an idea
2:23 Where We Are
2:26 and I'm gonna move my lovely new table I
2:27 bought at the Antique Mall this month
2:31 and although I did pick up some germs at
2:34 the antique mall so came with a bonus
2:37 um and then my lovely pumpkin friends my
2:39 dead flower arrangement move all this
2:42 stuff offset and it's time to transform this
2:43 this
2:45 into an exterior
2:48 like imagine if you've ever been to
2:49 Disneyland and you're waiting in line
2:50 for the Haunted Mansion
2:54 sort of the yard or like the windy path
2:56 before the Haunted Mansion sort of is
2:58 the vibe we're going for we'll see how
3:00 this goes
3:02 all right so here we are back on the
3:04 real camera as opposed to my handheld
3:06 iPhone camera situation so that I can
3:07 remove everything that's already on set
3:10 this is my 12 by 7 by four and a half
3:14 set here in the basement where I film a
3:16 lot of my like reveals of my projects
3:18 when they're finished or lookbooks Etc
3:21 and I'm going to start today's set by
3:22 putting down this tarp I have this
3:25 folded so it's two layers between the
3:26 old faux wooden flooring and the new
3:28 flooring I'm putting down and this is
3:30 some like flooring that's meant for your
3:33 gym or your garage it's recycled rubber
3:35 flooring but I thought it gave a good
3:38 asphalt or like pavement sort of look
3:39 um and hopefully you won't be able to
3:41 tell that it's like this Lego kind of
3:43 thing that snaps together very much from
3:45 far away unfortunately this material
3:47 because it is recycled material which is
3:49 a good thing is not consistent in the
3:51 color so I had this nice darker gray
3:54 kind of pavement color going on and I
3:55 was able to get three boxes of that but
3:58 the fourth box I picked up sadly is a
3:59 slight color variation I went back to
4:01 the same store
4:02 um I originally bought two boxes of this
4:03 thinking that would cover everything
4:04 turns out I don't really understand
4:08 square foot uh what that means and how
4:09 to do the math for it but I had to go
4:11 get some more of this stuff so instead
4:12 of two boxes I actually needed four
4:15 boxes and this is quite expensive so
4:18 just this flooring alone will cost me
4:21 about two to three times what this video
4:22 will make in about a year if the last
4:24 Halloween lookbook is anything to go by
4:25 so these videos really are only possible
4:27 because of patreon as I'm always saying
4:29 and we'll say again in this video you
4:30 can see that color variation here in the
4:34 stripes on either side sadly luckily my
4:35 faux wood chip situation is going to
4:36 cover that in a moment here for this set
4:38 but for my next set where I intend to
4:40 also use this flooring I will have to
4:43 figure out a solution but I'm setting up
4:45 some real bricks these are like 50 cents
4:46 each at the hardware store with some
4:49 fake iron fencing here that luckily
4:50 stands up pretty well on its own next to
4:52 those bricks so this is plastic iron
4:54 fencing that I got in the garden area at
4:55 the hardware store while I was picking
4:57 up the bricks and then these are again
4:59 recycled rubber wood chips this time so
5:00 instead of having real wood chips
5:01 because I didn't want to have a very
5:03 splintery situation down here I have
5:05 rubber wood chips we'll see if they're
5:08 any easier to pick up and clean up we'll
5:09 see how it goes but I'm laying down a
5:11 nice thick layer of those so I can stick
5:13 some fake Halloween tombstones into that
5:15 and use the wood chips kind of to hold
5:17 those up and I'm going to put a few of
5:19 these on either side the idea of putting
5:20 them up against the brick wall is like
5:22 if you ever go to very old graveyards
5:24 Sometimes some of the gravestones have
5:25 like fallen down or been removed over
5:26 the years and they usually line them up
5:30 along the walls of the graveyard so
5:31 that's something I've seen done before
5:33 and so I had that kind of idea here that
5:35 this maybe was a graveyard that has been
5:37 turned partially into a park or
5:38 something like that so some of the
5:39 gravestones are put up against the walls
5:41 and I wanted to start seeing what it was
5:42 going to look like if I put some
5:43 pumpkins on set as well so I'm moving
5:46 some pumpkins on to get an idea of how
5:48 this was going I of course ran out of
5:49 bricks as you can see on the right hand
5:51 side I need a few more bricks but I have
5:52 to go back to the hardware store for
5:55 that I wanted to test what we had so far
5:56 how it was going
5:58 um so I've got my Spotlight on some blue
6:01 light on I'm here in my Star Wars shirt
6:03 and jeans set building clothes you know
6:05 and here's the next day where i'm in
6:07 pajamas instead even more casual and you
6:09 can see while I was at the Home Depot
6:11 getting some more wood chips and more
6:14 bricks I picked up a very on sale plant
6:15 as well to put here on the right hand
6:17 side because all the plants of course
6:19 are dying it's the end of the season so
6:21 they're all very cheap at the hardware
6:23 store and then I grabbed some leaves
6:24 from outside we needed to break under
6:25 our trees anyhow
6:27 um so I grabbed a bunch of fall leaves
6:29 that had fallen from our trees and put
6:30 those in all all the areas where they
6:33 might accumulate via the wind so I was
6:34 kind of just throwing them around
6:36 randomly but also just making sure all
6:38 the corners and nooks and crannies were
6:39 full of leaves like they would be from
6:41 the wind blowing them around and then I
6:43 could put my pumpkins back over here I
6:44 was kind of doing things out of order
6:46 because I should have painted this
6:48 backdrop first as you can see I'm
6:50 starting to do here but due to like
6:51 start having certain materials and
6:54 needing help on cutting this brick board
6:56 from my dad who controls the saw much
6:58 better than I can
7:00 um I had to like do some things out of
7:02 order but what I have here is a bottle
7:04 like a cleaner bottle that I emptied out
7:06 and rinsed out and now I have half water
7:08 half green paint in here just a green
7:10 acrylic craft paint and I'm using this
7:13 watered down paint to spray my
7:15 tombstones the brick the wall and I do
7:17 just have some paper towels in my hand
7:19 that I'm using to kind of blot that out
7:21 catch any drips or anything where it's
7:23 too much but I'm just spraying this
7:25 paint mixture onto my wall and onto
7:26 everything and the bricks and everything
7:29 to give it a kind of greenish tinge like
7:31 there's been some moss growing like this
7:33 is a very humid and damp environment
7:36 that this area is in I of course live in
7:37 Colorado where things are extremely dry
7:40 and Moss is sadly rare but I assume in
7:43 New Orleans or Baton Rouge there's a bit
7:45 more of a moisture situation going on so
7:47 things might have a bit of a moss
7:49 covered effect or at least in my version
7:51 it does so I'm just spraying some green
7:53 on things to give it a bit of a green
7:55 tinge to start with I will have to amp
7:57 this up a little bit later and one way
8:00 to get a moss effect is to just buy a
8:03 bag of moss so this is a bag of reindeer
8:05 Moss from the craft store that I'm going
8:07 to shove a little piece of this in
8:08 between each brick so it looks like it's
8:10 growing out of the bricks I have some of
8:11 it stuffed underneath the pumpkins so it
8:12 looks like the pumpkins have been there
8:14 a while and Moss has grown around them
8:16 nooks and crannies again anywhere that
8:18 it looks like too much moisture would
8:20 collect and Moss could grow freely I'm
8:22 sticking some moss in there because the
8:24 best way to get a moss effect is to just
8:26 use real moss and I will start gluing
8:28 this onto my bricks eventually as well
8:30 but before that I want to give them a
8:31 little bit of a faux finish with some
8:33 paint before I actually bring the real
8:35 moss into play so for now I'm just
8:37 sprinkling that around and then kind of
8:39 putting some more broken leaves on top
8:40 of that so it looks like again the
8:41 leaves been blowing around and the Moss
8:43 has been growing here a while but for my
8:45 bricks here in the back you can see on
8:46 the left hand side there are two boards
8:48 that are pretty well lined up and then
8:50 on the right hand side the bricks didn't
8:52 line up there so I needed to cut that
8:54 board down a little bit more but I need
8:56 my my handyman assistance for that part
8:59 so I could work on other things while I
9:00 was waiting for that to happen so again
9:03 I have some olive and green paints on a
9:05 palette here and a really old like
9:07 busted sad brush a chip brush would work
9:09 well for this as well and I have a
9:11 little bit of water mixed into that to
9:13 make like a bit of a green paint slurry
9:15 and I'm just brushing that on like kind
9:16 of dry brushing the bricks and then
9:19 smooshing the paint into the grout lines
9:21 trying to make this variegated and
9:23 natural looking as I possibly can um
9:24 just giving everything a little bit more
9:26 of a green wash down here where I wanted
9:29 the bricks to be mossiest down nearer
9:31 the ground quote unquote as it were
9:33 where things would stay quite moist but
9:35 just smooshing paint around this does
9:36 not do perfect of course because my
9:37 camera is going to be quite far away
9:39 from this area and with the lighting of
9:42 course on the effect it takes on a
9:44 different look than when I have full
9:46 light luckily the final video won't be
9:48 in like 4K either so I'm not too worried
9:50 about it I will show you how I glued the
9:52 Moss onto the wall later on but for now
9:54 let me jump ahead and start drawing the
9:56 cracks and broken bits onto the top half
9:58 of my wall here I'm imagining this is
10:01 like a stucco covered portion of the
10:03 wall and so some of that stucco or
10:05 rendering is falling away and so I
10:06 wanted to draw some cracks here on the
10:08 wall I'm going to focus these just kind
10:10 of around my head and around the center
10:12 of the set because where I'll be
10:14 standing uh it'll be in the middle of
10:16 the set so everything is kind of drawn
10:18 or designed in a way to make the center
10:20 of the set the focal point where I will
10:22 of course be standing in my outfits in
10:23 the end but I'm looking at reference
10:25 pictures of cracked walls on my phone
10:28 here and drawing some larger cracks and
10:30 like Falling Away sections onto the wall
10:31 with a sharpie that I can go over with
10:34 paint in a moment this gray area is the
10:36 normal part of my set
10:37 um so my regular set now has these
10:39 cracks painted on and is slightly green
10:41 that's okay because I have the next that
10:43 I want to do involves a lot more pieces
10:46 covering up my normal walls again anyhow
10:47 so I'm not too worried about it I'm not
10:49 too worried about having cracked plaster
10:53 walls on my interior set either so here
10:54 I am painting these on in a rather
10:55 permanent fashion I could always go over
10:58 with a little more gray paint and make
11:00 them blend back in if I needed to but it
11:01 was time to start painting in my cracks
11:03 and what I did was I just filled in the
11:05 shapes I drawn on with Sharpie with
11:07 black paint to start so this is just
11:09 black acrylic craft paint
11:11 um really cheap acrylic craft paint that
11:13 I'm using to paint in the entire section
11:15 where I want these cracks and sections
11:17 to be I'm going to do this in a
11:20 multi-layer process to faux finish and
11:24 Trump oil Trump Loy however it said this
11:27 entire like wall to look chipped so I'm
11:28 painting in everything black first and
11:30 then I'll show you you the next layer
11:32 really starts to make it come to life
11:33 already I was very worried actually
11:36 about painting these cracks I was
11:37 concerned because I never done anything
11:39 like this before I've never done or like
11:40 been trained in any way in like Scenic
11:42 painting I used to paint a lot when I
11:44 was younger I wanted to be a painter but
11:47 not wall size things or like murals or
11:49 faux painting like this so all the
11:51 focpointing I do on set is just kind of
11:52 flying by the seat of one's pants and
11:55 hoping for the best so I didn't exactly
11:56 know how to go about this I didn't
11:58 really look it up I just was look again
12:00 looking at reference pictures to try and
12:01 get an idea of how I could do this
12:03 quickly and again it doesn't need to
12:05 look uh photo realistic up close like
12:07 this because the camera will be farther
12:09 away the lighting will be dim so I'm
12:11 doing my best here we'll see how it goes
12:14 and where these two theater Flats I have
12:17 three my set is three theater Flats wide
12:18 look up theater Flats if you like to
12:20 build a set like this or check out this
12:22 sign hustle and video where I originally
12:24 built this set with my dad a couple of
12:26 years ago but there is a seam in this
12:28 wall there's two seams in this wall and
12:32 it's covered with some filler and then
12:33 many many layers of paint at this point
12:35 but where that seam was I decided to
12:37 make it look like some of the cracks are
12:38 really coming away from that vertical
12:40 line so that's kind of the idea there
12:42 but now I've mixed up some of the gray
12:44 paint that this wall is which is
12:46 actually a house paint um it's called so
12:50 Sublime from Glidden Glidden from Home
12:51 Depot so if you like this gray color
12:54 it's called so Sublime but I'm using
12:55 some of that mixed with some brown paint
12:57 a slightly darker shade and just filling
12:59 in these cracks that I just painted
13:02 black all over again everything except
13:04 for the very outer left edge of all the
13:07 cracks I'm leaving a line of black there
13:09 like a shadow I'm going to have
13:10 Moonlight coming in from the left here
13:13 so like a blue light coming in from the
13:15 left that would be throwing shadow on
13:17 the left hand side of the crack like
13:18 that so I'm trying to keep that in mind
13:20 as I go around and fill all these back
13:22 in and again I think it already looks
13:24 like a layer of render has peeled off so
13:26 I was pleasantly surprised even just
13:28 after this step about what was going on
13:29 and we still have two more steps to go
13:31 so next I mixed a little bit of black
13:33 paint into that gray I was using to
13:34 create a more shadowy color and I'm
13:36 going to dry brush in some like craggedy
13:39 stones in between in the larger areas
13:41 where the render has fallen away and
13:42 then I'm going to just use this as a
13:44 blending Shadow color between the black
13:46 and the gray that I had put on here so
13:48 that's what I'm doing here and like as
13:50 the paint wears off my brush is how I'm
13:52 kind of dry brushing the stone in
13:54 between so this looks like some sort of
13:56 plaster that has chipped away from a
13:58 stone wall that was kind of the idea
14:00 that was going on here again I'm new to
14:01 this sort of thing I wish I had taken
14:03 Scenic painting I think I would really
14:05 enjoy it actually fall back career
14:08 number 73 I would love to do set
14:09 painting in theater and stuff like that
14:10 which is basically what this is
14:13 especially because I again have the
14:15 camera far away and it doesn't have to
14:17 be perfect it just has to give the
14:19 illusion we're after so this is the last
14:21 step on this uh well for now I'm going
14:22 to use a little bit of green later to
14:24 add some more Mossy effects but for now
14:26 I'm just going to highlight on the right
14:28 hand side of all the cracks on the left
14:29 hand side I left it black here I'm
14:31 highlighting with a lighter gray all of
14:33 the right hand sides of things so it
14:34 looks like again the light is coming
14:37 down from the left hand side onto these
14:39 cracks and I'm just using my finger and
14:40 a little bit of paint smudged on that to
14:42 really highlight the cobblestones
14:44 underneath but this is the part where it
14:45 really makes it come alive which is
14:47 quite fun so really it's just you know
14:49 black and white and then whatever mid
14:51 color you're using you can mix different
14:53 shades of that to get this sort of
14:54 effect and I was thinking let's see how
14:56 this looks with lighting I stop a lot
14:58 while I'm building a set like this and
15:00 see how the lighting is looking
15:02 especially because the lighting the top
15:04 down like pot lighting like recessed
15:05 lighting down here in this basement is
15:07 not the best for getting a deal with the
15:08 set actually is going to look like with
15:10 my lights on it so I have my studio
15:12 photography lights turned on to get an
15:14 idea of what this is looking like and I
15:16 decided since I had so much green going
15:17 on in the lower half of the set that I
15:19 wanted to bring some more green up into
15:21 the top so I've actually got again some
15:23 watered down Green Craft paint and I'm
15:25 just going to again dry brush this on
15:28 and kind of highlight again where water
15:30 would have been dripping down on this
15:32 render where water would have collected
15:33 and Moss would have grown so I wanted to
15:35 exaggerate that a lot more especially
15:37 because again the camera is far away the
15:39 lighting is weird I can really make it a
15:41 quite bold look and then tone it back if
15:44 needed so I just have a sponge a sea
15:47 sponge with some of the gray so Sublime
15:49 color the main color of the wall here
15:51 watered down to stamp over where I've
15:52 gone too hard with the green I probably
15:54 could have left it as is honestly with
15:55 the amount of lighting I had going on
15:57 but I just toned it down back down a
15:58 little bit more here so it wasn't too
16:00 saturated compared to everything else
16:01 and I started wiping some more green
16:03 onto my bricks as well but once I had
16:06 that right hand side brick board cut so
16:07 that at least the bricks lined up for
16:09 the most part I started gluing on some
16:11 more Moss to my wall so again roughly
16:13 painted the some of the bricks green and
16:15 in between the grout lines kind of green
16:17 and then I'm just taking tacky glue
16:20 which is like a thick white school glue
16:22 PVA glue you could use wood glue as well
16:24 would work quite well I'm just going to
16:25 put that on the grout lines and then
16:28 take little tiny pieces of my real moss
16:32 which is called reindeer Moss I assume
16:34 reindeer must eat it somewhere perhaps
16:37 and I'm gluing that into the crack so it
16:38 looks like moss is growing out of the
16:40 cracks in the brick this was again just
16:42 based off of reference images I was
16:44 looking at of Mossy brick I thought this
16:47 would be a fun idea this stuff I don't
16:49 know if it's colored green extra by the
16:51 company that makes it or packages it but
16:54 or grows it I guess but it does stain
16:56 your fingers quite green it will stain
16:57 your fingernails green so maybe use
16:59 gloves if you do this I did not and I
17:01 ended up having to paint my nails for
17:02 the lookbook because my nails were
17:04 stained quite Green from doing this and
17:06 my fingertips even though I wash my
17:08 hands quite a lot everything was stained
17:10 a bit Green from touching this Moss so I
17:12 don't know if it's extra color on this
17:13 Moss or if that's just how this Moss is
17:17 I don't encounter Moss much myself in my
17:19 actual life because a that's usually
17:22 outside and B again here in the Western
17:23 United States it's more of a deserty
17:25 situation until you get to the Pacific
17:27 Northwest I was a little bit worried at
17:29 this point because the bottom third of
17:31 the scent is got a lot of visual detail
17:33 going on we have the leaves we have the
17:34 different colors going on with the
17:37 pumpkins and the like layered different
17:38 items from the foreground to the
17:40 background and I know I really needed to
17:41 bring more detail up into the top half
17:43 of the set so what I have here are
17:46 lengths of fake Ivy I bought two
17:48 packages of this fake Ivy which was
17:52 enough for my 12 uh foot wide section
17:54 here I did spray paint these a little
17:55 bit with some gray spray paint just to
17:57 tone them down a tad because they were
17:59 you know all very consistent color of
18:01 green and I wanted some variation in
18:02 these so I used a little bit of gray
18:05 spray paint and Rusty kind of spray
18:07 paint that I had laying around just to
18:09 give these a little bit of a dusting I
18:11 tried to keep the ends of the strands a
18:13 little bit rustier and then the rest of
18:16 it kind of agree with green with a dash
18:18 of gray but again I hung these with care
18:21 concerning having the center portion
18:24 where I was going to stand as the like
18:26 clear area and then having it drip down
18:29 on the sides again just trying to make
18:30 the focal point to the center of the set
18:32 where I was going to stand and you can
18:34 see I have installed my outdoor lamp I
18:35 just bought the cheapest outdoor lamp
18:38 they had at the hardware store because I
18:39 was going to make one out of cardboard
18:41 and like Plexi and stuff but then I
18:43 realized the time savings and just
18:45 buying a real lamp I was gonna go in on
18:47 that so so I ended up buying the
18:49 cheapest outdoor lamp and I put a fake
18:51 candle in here it is not wired of course
18:53 because electrical is something I
18:54 haven't learned yet but we'll get there
18:56 and then it was time to start playing
18:58 with the lighting um so I have again the
19:00 fake candles going on and all of the
19:02 pumpkins and around set here I'm setting
19:04 the different colors and intensity uh
19:06 that I want for all of that plus all my
19:07 different Studio lighting that I have on
19:10 down here I have green light coming in
19:12 from the right and then I have with a
19:13 soft box and with a couple of like
19:17 outdoor floodlights then I have a bar
19:20 LED light with my soft Aqua Moonlight
19:21 coming in from the left and then I have
19:24 a more Royal or purpley blue colored
19:26 softbox on the right hand side up closer
19:28 to the camera then behind the camera I
19:29 have my ring light so I want white light
19:31 to fill in I have that and then I had an
19:33 additional softbox that I borrowed from
19:35 my brother with white light for the end
19:37 part of the lookbook where I wanted to
19:38 have a different lighting scheme where
19:39 things were a bit brighter so you could
19:40 really see the details of what I was
19:42 wearing better but I actually didn't get
19:44 to play with and finalize the lighting
19:45 until the day of the shoot so it's kind
19:47 of doing a hair and makeup test on set
19:49 at the same time being able to test the
19:51 lighting with holding the clothes far
19:53 away and up close to see what it was
19:55 doing to the colors in the clothes and
19:56 my hair and makeup so I was really
19:58 cutting it close to the wire doing the
19:59 lighting schemes which took about an
20:00 hour and a half two hours maybe to
20:03 decide on the lighting the day of the
20:05 shoot last time I did this I
20:07 accidentally covered the microphone with
20:09 my hand and it made the sound extra
20:11 awful so here's hoping I'm doing a
20:13 little bit better this time and here I
20:16 am in front of set in the last white
20:18 ghostly gown with the ring light off so
20:20 I really do have my two color lighting
20:22 here we went with green and blue today
20:26 but I just wanted to show you
20:28 what the lighting setup looked like in
20:30 the end
20:34 um you know behind
20:37 softbox ring light
20:40 green light in a soft box
20:43 and over here we have a blue light
20:47 I have my fancy light like stage light
20:51 doing a spotlight through this tree to
20:53 get like a modeled Spotlight then I have
20:54 my bar
20:56 a blue light over here which is a
20:57 different color blue because two
20:59 different colors of blue
21:00 are better than one and you know everything
21:01 everything
21:04 how can I frame this shot so I'm only on
21:07 set no I can't well I have to get real
21:09 close to make that happen sadly we have
21:11 our tarp we have our fake pavement we
21:13 have bricks we have
21:16 fake Earth lots of real leaves fake
21:19 tombstones our pumpkins
21:22 lots of fake ivy
21:24 and this is what the
21:26 Halloween set looks like this year
21:28 I hope my entire Garden looks like this
21:31 next year but we'll see now I mean how
21:33 am I going to clean all this up it's an
21:35 excellent question I'm going to leave it
21:37 here for a while because why not it's
21:39 fun it's a fun backdrop and I actually
21:41 had a suggestion that I should just
21:42 leave this up take the pumpkins away
21:45 maybe and dust it in fake snow so it
21:47 looks like it has snowed and it's winter
21:49 in the graveyard and I kind of love that
21:51 idea so I might try and make that happen
21:53 for a couple of videos here in November
21:54 but then I will need to clean all this
21:56 up because I have a different set
21:57 entirely the only thing that will be
21:59 staying from this will be the faux
22:02 pavement flooring for my next idea it
22:04 will be entirely transformed once again
22:06 to a very different vibe but I am
22:08 excited about that video as well and
22:10 you'll see what I mean later on in the
22:12 year again a huge huge thank you to my
22:14 patrons who make projects like this
22:16 possible this was a very expensive video
22:18 to make and it's never going to make
22:20 that money back as I've said
22:21 um this video in particular at least
22:23 will not but it's I consider it an
22:25 investment in my channel in my branding
22:28 as it were in some way days that's like
22:29 the most annoying and like businessy way
22:32 of putting it really I just love pulling
22:34 together this kind of a thing like I
22:36 love making sets and doing the lighting
22:38 and really designing the whole thing to
22:39 be captured in camera as much as I
22:41 possibly can I said before I quite like
22:43 trying to figure out how to do things
22:45 practically how to capture it all in
22:47 camera if possible
22:49 and so I really enjoyed the creative
22:51 process of putting together an image
22:53 like all the way from the ground up
22:55 between my outfit my makeup choosing
22:56 like everything about it other than
22:58 myself but I'm the only model I have to
23:01 work with so uh and I work for free kind
23:03 of but yes a video like this although it
23:04 allows me to really stretch my creative
23:06 muscles and that's what I enjoy most
23:07 about them I'm doing these lookbooks in
23:10 general it's also never something that
23:12 does wildly well on the channel and so
23:13 I've come to accept that over the years
23:15 but I think that the people who like who
23:17 watch and like these videos those are
23:19 like my people on like a different kind
23:20 of level almost it's not just about
23:23 sewing it's about like appreciation of a
23:25 certain kind of Aesthetics and I don't
23:27 know it's like a little bit silly I'm
23:29 never taking these things too seriously
23:31 but they're my versions of doing a
23:32 fashion show I went to school for
23:34 fashion design and this is as close to
23:36 as I get to putting on a fashion show as
23:38 I would have perhaps dreamed of doing
23:39 when I was younger and wanted to be a
23:41 fashion designer instead but I guess
23:42 because this is a side hustle and video
23:44 I should update you on other things
23:46 including YouTube itself because I am
23:48 quite close now or getting quite close
23:51 to 100 000 subscribers which was my goal
23:53 for the year and I'm thinking it might
23:54 happen so if you're watching this and
23:56 you haven't subscribed uh go ahead and
23:58 help me out it seems highly unlikely
23:59 that you'd be watching a side hustle and
24:01 video which are my more Vlog style and
24:04 Casual not really I don't know exciting
24:06 informative videos anyhow that you'd be
24:07 watching this and if you weren't
24:09 subscribed but just in case go ahead and
24:13 hit that Bell or something I am excited
24:15 to see if it makes any difference more
24:16 than anything
24:19 um just because my videos I've had a
24:21 couple that have done quite well but
24:23 it's very um not like a viral kind of a
24:24 thing where it happens overnight it's
24:26 always been like an older video just
24:30 steadily has grown uh mostly from SEO if
24:31 anything like people Googling how to
24:34 make a 20s dress my 1920s one hour dress
24:36 video has quite a few views now but it
24:37 wasn't like a viral video I didn't get
24:39 those within a week it took several
24:41 years and also that's my worst video in
24:43 my opinion
24:45 um because I'm a rambling mess even more
24:46 than usual in that video and it is so
24:49 long that of all the videos for YouTube
24:51 to try and introduce my channel to
24:52 people with
24:54 I would not have chosen that one but oh
24:56 well the algorithm does what it wants
24:58 but I am excited to see if the algorithm
25:01 pushes a like larger Channel or like a
25:03 verified checked Channel more than a
25:06 non-one so I'm excited to see just from
25:09 a like a research perspective if it
25:11 makes any difference at all
25:14 um I do Wonder like because uh my
25:16 patreon is the reason that I can do this
25:18 as a job the income that I make from
25:20 YouTube itself I could not live off of
25:22 uh not even close to live off if it
25:24 wouldn't be half as much as I need it's
25:26 one-fifth of my total income basically
25:27 is what I make through YouTube itself
25:30 and I am interested to see if the
25:32 channel like what what size your channel
25:34 has to be to actually earn income enough
25:36 from YouTube itself like I could not
25:38 keep doing this without patreon and I
25:41 wonder how people do it without patreon
25:42 um I assume it's because they work with
25:43 sponsors and it's just something that
25:45 I'm not interested in and I have of
25:46 course I've mentioned before I've had
25:49 like management teams or like companies
25:50 reach out to me that want to work with me
25:51 me
25:53 um and I'm just not interested in
25:57 selling most things or like I don't know
25:59 like I If you need a website you'll
26:01 figure out how to build one if you want
26:03 to learn a skill I recommend YouTube uh
26:05 so I'm just not the best
26:07 shill uh and I know that about myself
26:08 it's not something I want to have to do
26:10 the only reason I can turn down
26:13 sponsorship opportunities is because a I
26:15 am in this privileged position of still
26:16 living at home and not actually paying
26:18 rent yet I'm saving for a house but I
26:20 actually don't have to pay rent month to
26:21 month and that's the only reason I've
26:22 been able to build my career here on
26:24 YouTube at all in general as I've
26:25 mentioned on this series before go back
26:28 several years and watch me on this
26:30 series talk about that more but also
26:31 because of patreon but I don't have to
26:34 think about what changes I need to make
26:36 to my work life balance
26:38 um over the next like year uh over this
26:39 next couple of months and try and figure
26:40 out a new plan for next year because
26:42 what I tried this year was
26:43 semi-successful at the beginning of the
26:45 year and then really fell apart on me no
26:46 surprise there fell back into some old
26:49 patterns that are not new for me but I
26:50 need to have a better plan moving
26:53 forward as usual I need to try an even
26:55 more radical strategy I feel so we'll
26:56 see if I can come up with a new creative
26:58 solution for that one
27:00 thank you as always for watching today
27:01 and I'll be back here with more sewing
27:03 vintage fashion costuming and crafting
27:07 real soon so I'll see you then bye with
27:09 special thanks to my current and former
27:12 conservator level patrons Alice Amy Anna
27:18 Audra Beatrice Brienne Che Karina Denise
27:22 Ellen eloquent silence Fern Jay lucky
27:28 Carol Kelly Lacey Laney lilit Linda Lynn
27:31 Hamilton Lynn Olsen Margaret Myrna
27:36 Michaela Nancy Natalie Rachel Rachel
27:40 Miss Renee Ronda Samantha swingularity
27:44 Thea Tom Tracy and zuzana and thank you
27:46 to all of my patrons for your support
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