How's the noise from the fan? Is it a problem with your current setup?

Hi how are the modifiers doing sofar? Are they still your favourites since this video

I feel you on travel jobs are not vacations, but work, sometimes even more work due to the nature of traveling. When I traveled to Cuba it was go-go-go filming. 😅

Did you bail on the Zoom F6?

Thanks for sharing. I would have liked real exemples of what you filmed with these.

Nice video, different from the usual but way better than most of the people reviewing gear that clearly havent used the stuff they show

Hi there, Joel: Thanks for the video. BTW, are you using a Tascam DR-10L to record the audio for this video? Your lav mic looks familiar.

Great looking background and lighting! Now, I have to buy the Mini Snoot and the CX100. I might even pick up a few of the straps you recommended. Thank you!

Nice Joel!! how much did you charge for that job?

Joel. I see the Flex Stack Pack system in your garage. Would the larger drawer/container units fit your 600/1200 Aputure Units and control modules? Seems like with a divider between it would do the trick. Would love to make this investment as they look highly functional and mobile.

Fan noise from smallrig 220b pro is loud. I can hear it already here in Video. When you’re standing under the light. You will get problems later in the post with the sound.

Was about to comment about safety chain! Glad you mentioned it should be used. A 4.5” grip head bites the menace arm ear a lot better than a 2.5” btw. I’ve done a 1200d menace arm before, but most menace arms should be a 2 person job. Hope you get an assistant or something on this shoot. For solo work, I use an Avenger junior boom arm on a combo. 20lbs counterweight bolted on and can ratchet strap down to the stand if needed. Might be something to look into having on the van. Comes in clutch a lot. Great vid!

I'm always on the fence with making a rate card. Sometimes they have more money than your rate. I also share and markup passthrough rentals and contract labor as they may want me to produce the job as well. I just have 3 pricepoints in my head and usually quote the bottom or top range and figure it out after they make a commitment.

Do you have a link to the Matthew's kid?

have you a reference fort the big light stand ? thank you❤

I have to do the mockup shoot like that. Both with the aputure 90 lantern and Godox F600Bi with a lantern. Planning it for long time already, but my living room is occupied 99% of the time :D. And if someone has deep eye sockets you need to lit him/her anyway with additional light in the front. This might be challenging with 5 people :D.

Thanks for the video. Booming overhead is one thing that scares me... a lot!!!

Round table overhead lighting can be tough! Great solution you have there! Now we need an even bigger dome to hit the market!

It's good practice to practice set ups before the shoot!

Have you ever used some kind of crossbar setup for this? Seems like a safe way to hang multiple lights if needed. I know it works for stage lighting, but it’s a bigger scale.

In one of my earlier vlogs, I boomed a 200x over talent with a lightweight impact boom stand. Now I look at it and can’t believe I did something so dangerous! Awesome insight. Thanks for sharing this.

Good video man you're one of my favorite youtubers for this type of work 👏👏 I think depending on the table size and color at the actual shoot the bounced light from the table could also help give some lift to them and look a bit less dramatic too 👏

Man I love KZbin. This is awesome content and so valuable!

Great stuff. Only thing I would do different is use a lollipop instead of the C stand gobo

I love your stuff! Thank you for sharing the menace arm! I try to stay away from the menace arm when I go solo. It scares me... lol.

Thanks for showing this. I have to do a podcast next month and I was wondering about using the large lantern for lighting with a menace arm in a small space. This came in clutch.

Well Ive used this method, but now im naked

very very smart! I own the light bank so I may create something similar.

thanks for sharing the set up! what would you say the difference is between the inkee and and ulanzi 20w??

good job! Thanks for your share.

Rome footage looks great!

An amazing project and inspiring shots 🙌🏻 Would have been great to bump into you, I’m in Cambridge! Do you use your own lut for monitoring?

Oh boy, I remember shoots that started out like this and led to me saying "Never again". A whole week across the UK, of course the airline lost my camera gear bag so I was stuck with just a camera, scratch audio and one lens, we were expected to shoot like 14 hours a day and then spend the night in the cheapest hotel that was literally right above a disco playing techno music until 6 a.m., and while we worked our asses off to make it a halfway usable film, the production guys back home sat in their comfy chairs and denied our request to get expenses paid for dinner, because it wasn't in the budget...

Love this, looks like an amazing project. I worked on international missions trips through my 20's, more in the third world countries than Europe. But our benefactor was very wealthy and we traveled with him, documenting. Everything you're talking about reminded me about those years. Smallest kit you can get away with always. My first trip we went to Egypt with shoulder cams in 2008, never again. Too big, too much attention. Lots of years walking through airports with a heavy backpack full of batteries and 2 cameras, hard drives, etc. Trying not to knock people in the head with it getting in the airplane bins. Air India was one of the only ones I ran into that weighed carry ons, that was frustrating. I got tried of people telling me they were so jealous I got to go on all these trips, not realizing how much work it was and how much it wore me out. Or how you kind of miss some of the magic cause you're seeing it all through the camera. (Still awesome though) Always need a bit of local currency because yeah, if you stay in weathlier places and you can't carry your bag and then you've got to pay someone else to do it... Can't bring large bags into places so you have to strip the kit down even more and you're left wondering why I even bothered bringing the DSLR shoulder rig, etc.

Thanks for sharing! Looks like a great experience to be on a project like that.

At the end I see a massive brick on your desk that you are charging stuff on. What is that? 6 port high power usb charger?

4 hours till flight leaves and still home my german ass is furious (we are always like 4-5 Hours before our flight leaves at the airport)

Dude I’m so stoked for you! Congrats on the long standing relationship that led to this opportunity and for taking the time to vlog this. It’s not easy on these run n gun shoots. Cant wait to here more of how this job develops now that you have a better understanding of what is needed. You sound exhausted 😂

Thanks for sharing this, Do you need to obtain a shooting permission to this locations?

Did you use IBIS for all the hand held , if so just standard ? yeah having to change hotels a lot is really a killer physically and also mentally , so much better when you can set up "home " in one room , and start downloading straight away , and all your stuff set up . Tipping money you should get from production , I had to do this all the time as an AC , also in the US. In NY they wouldn't even let me use the trolly ,just to load up the van when we had to leave on time , they were chained up ! and you had to wait from some one to be available ! very aggressive bell guys ! if a coach came in they would go for the bigger pay off, and leave me stranded .

What kind of back pack was that? Pretty slick.

Very interesting. I bet it was nice experience. How many batteries do you have for FX3 for such shoots? And for the tentacle sync. Have you used the timecode also to sync it in post?

This is really cool man! I would love to know more about the audio kit for the Tentacle sync system.

How did you manage wrangling data? I know you mentioned that you brought extra SD cards, however, were you backing up data throughout the trip to a server, or just backing data up each night locally, or something different?

I’m glad you made a vlog of the trip! I went to Italy this summer for vacation and I know what you mean about security being really tight at all the sights. Even with extra access through a tour guide I would have had so much anxiety at each location if I had been you bringing in gear. Did you find the ibis in the Fx3 to be enough for handholding during those on the spot talking segments?

What a job opportunity man 🫨 Its unfortunate that you didn't get to experience it fully beyond work but still a cool experience nonetheless! Btw do you think they'd allow you to use one of those quick-setup monopods instead of a tripod? Maybe the ones even with the small three feet to support, not sure if that would then be considered a tripod as well 🤔 lol I've wondered for these types of on the move shots if a heavy duty quick-setup monopod and a quick release plate could help with stability and being able to quickly move.

I just picked up the 20-40 and love it. For me its more useful then a 16-35!

The first full minute of this video gave me anxiety…$$$$🫠 Great video, though. I never considered the cons of traveling.

Hi Joel, my name is Nathan, and I have a video production company in Fortaleza, in the northeast of Brazil. Congratulations on having the courage to share the behind-the-scenes of a project like this, especially the impostor syndrome part. It's something that all of us who work in the audiovisual industry go through, and it's important to talk about it because it's a reality. Good job and keep moving forward!

Hey Joel! What kind of clear zipper pouches are you using in the cases? Great video btw! Thanks!