Hey Flipplate, I'm here with our film production manager, Alfred, and we're going to take a little look behind the scenes
on the new ShortCircuit sets. Whoa!
Whoa, wait, that's so cool! This is my first time seeing all this.
I was hiding for months. I was avoiding the set for a few, like, five years.
Thank you for not keeping it. And now you guys need to see it. Wait, this is actually cool.
So what you're actually looking at is three different sets,
right? For ShortCircuit people, you guys are going to know the main kind of set is here.
We're planning to do, you know, our kitchen kind of products that we have over here.
So like our ice cream video, any kind of, like, drinks,
we're going to do over here. And behind you, Sammy, is we're going to do our monitors.
We'll probably pull another desk here. We can have our monitor views as well.
What are some things that are cool about this set? Well, we have a very cool window over here.
Oh, it's currently turned off, though. Hang on.
Oh, it's a TV? Yeah, this is a high-sense cameras TV.
So we can put on, like, loops of whatever outdoor show kind of thing we want from YouTube or wherever.
Did you make this? I didn't make the TV, I'm sorry. Oh, no, I meant the frame.
Yeah, we did the frame and the curtains and everything. Whoa.
So what was the inspiration for these three sets? I think that's more of an Alfred question.
Well, obviously, this one was for kitchen content, right?
The big one. And then, obviously, our regular tech kind of views over here.
But the inspiration actually came from our channel manager
Bell's favorite kind of colors. He really likes green.
That's why we went with a green motif here as well. And the complementary color to that was purple as well.
So we took that and we kind of put it lightly in the background so you can see that it's going to brighten things
up as well. A nice little touch. I don't know if you've noticed this, Sammy, but this tile
work that we have here. That's true.
Yeah, look at that. So a little hidden montage to ShortCircuit to give it that
kind of view and that vibe as well. So yeah, that was the kind of inspiration for this set.
Bell's kind of favorite colors. This one, we wanted to.
Wait, wait, wait, we got to see TV first. We got to see TV. The TV, yeah, we're in Alaska right now.
We built our cabin right next to the river. Wait, would it look like when it's closed?
Is it like translucent? No. Oh, I was hoping it was translucent.
That would have been cool. That cost extra.
When it costs less, because it's less material? Maybe.
You may have a point. And then we also have a computer hooked up to that so we can
do whatever we want to display on there if we need to as well. Besides the custom tile work, a lot of these things were
kind of sourced by Bell for decorating here as well.
So Bell's done a great job adding his kind of final touches.
He's doing his own kind of set deck. We'll have more over time, I'm sure, as well, and you'll
get more lived in. Exactly, and we're still doing touch-ups.
Look at that, everybody. We're still doing touch-ups. Faux counter that we're going to move right under the rail
so we can get it. And this goes up and down, as you know as well.
Kind of like our other kitchen set downstairs. We can elevate this to a taller host, lower it if we need to
as well for some of our shorter hosts as well.
Like Linus. What else you see?
You kind of see on here as well. We'll fix this for cameras. But the other upgrade that we have here, and a big shout out
to Aputure, if you notice, we got some new gear from them.
And if you even look up, we have some infinity bars as well.
That's kind of new tech. And the really cool thing about them is they got magnets.
Magnets. Again, I'm not tall enough, but I can just go up there and pop
them up there. Even Reese could probably do it as well. He's probably tall enough.
Wow, there's no magnets up there right now. Those are already secured. Do you want to see how perfect it fits as well?
Reese, can you grab me a ladder and we'll just do a demo? How long have you been working on this, Alfred?
It's been like months, right? Yeah, it's been probably about two months that we, when we
kind of first started. Right here, we'll just show as well.
So you'll see that this is a magnet. And the reason why we want with this is because we knew that
we had this drop ceiling. And we knew that it would be low profile.
Like as you can see, we still needed some big key lights. But if you look at this, what we really like about this is
just that we can just snap it anywhere. Look at that. Whoa.
That's a pretty cool feature as well. So we can turn them on.
We can all daisy chain them together with our wonderful
app, excuse me. And then we will have them up here to light the set as well.
Or give it a little accent color as well. That is so freaking cool.
And if you look behind you, those same bars is what
Jordan is talking about right now. So I know that a lot of the ShortCircuit people love that
TV in the background. We wanted to mimic this as well.
Same kind of effect with those infini bars. So those just open up.
I thought it would be like this big room. Exciting, right?
No, no, it's just like a foot worth of bump out basically. And we got some storage in there, basically.
No, the magic. Movie magic.
I've been waiting so long to see this. Oh my god.
Because we push this shoot like three times.
And I'll show you what else we got going on here as well. This one also has some lights besides the one in here.
We have these from Aputure. This is called the B7C.
And C stands for color as well. And they can be individually controlled.
And they'll match the color temperature or give it surprise. So you look in our fixtures.
The cool thing about these, they are wireless. Look, they're not even plugged in.
So they have their own battery. But if we have these fixtures, if you look up here, Sammy,
we can control them. And they're also charged at the same time.
Oh, those are the same ones? Yeah. So we got about a set of eight of them, I believe.
Well, that will do for RGB and everything. You betcha. So we'll be putting these around as well, even in here.
Our lamps. As well. And then we can look at that as well.
So that's another big feature. Another thing that you'll see in terms of upgrades
in Aputure as well, we have some spot lights up here.
So we can shine the light here, use gobos as well,
and give our hosts some separation from the background
as well, giving them a rim light as well, or a hair light with some of the storms that we have here.
All of it is going to be controlled by this, our last item on the set as well.
So our big panels that you see, the infinity bars,
our storms for hair lights, and even on the light fixtures,
all going to be controlled by this baby right here.
So this is an Aputure gift to us as well.
It's called Citus4. It's going to communicate, create a network for this set
and all the lights that are on here, so we can control them using an app.
And it's over here. We're still getting it all set up and synced up.
But what it looks like here, Sammy.
And sorry for the fingerprints. We're going to need a cleaner on here.
But yeah, we can look at all the fixtures, and we can just individually pump them up or not as well.
Oh, similar to the one that we have downstairs on. Yeah, similar to the one. But this is all branded from Aputure,
and this keeps it on the same network. Downstairs, it uses Wi-Fi, so there's
a lot of different kind of interference that we have. But this uses Wi-Fi and also Bluetooth, I believe.
Definitely Bluetooth for sure. For separate networks, it can do at the same time. And it's crazy.
It's way more than we need, but it's fantastic for this. You betcha.
And if you can see behind me, if you look. I don't know if Sammy, if this is,
you got the dynamic range, but we can control it here as well.
Turn it on, off, and we can group them all together if we need to as well.
So yeah. It's nice because it's all in one system rather than 12
ecosystems. Correct. Yeah. Everything's branded Aputure here.
Even our Amaran line, we don't have that here.
Everything here is Aputure as well. And pretty much, call it like 90% of the work
has been done just by LTT staff or LMG staff, I guess,
whatever you want to call it. Great incorporation. Lots of people volunteering to come and not
do their actual work for a couple hours and come help us out.
The kitchen install was all done by Reese and Nicole
and a bunch of other people. We'll have a panelist somewhere, I'm sure. Yeah, I saw some photos.
The only thing we really had help with was what painters and building the wall.
Yeah. So they did something. Yeah, this is new. Yeah.
This is two different tones. This one's just a little bit darker than here as well,
to give it a little bump out, a little separation. Yeah, and the wall over there for future expansion.
We've got ideas and plans for over there as well. Do you want to give us a sneak preview?
A sneak preview. Well, you have to look inside my mind.
But like this camera testing, might bring that to ShortCircuit.
And we'll probably do camera testing lengthwise along this wall as well.
So we'll get up. This deep kind of field to take a shot of.
There's been ideas about dartboards, foos table,
up to bells kind of decor. And we'll put it all there.
And it'll be consistent, so we can get a consistent rack focus or depth of field as well for camera testing
and lens testing. There's nobody upstairs to stomp on the floor above us
anymore. Yeah, I think that was the biggest issue with ShortCircuit.
Because at 12.30, it'd be the noisiest time. Yeah.
That shows. Yeah, so moving our set from downstairs to up here,
we eliminated that noise of people. And then also our HVAC and our air conditioning unit
that was right there as well. It used to hum like mad. It's still a little bit, but it's a lot less competition
for noise and noise pollution. So better that, I guess, finally ShortCircuit gets a home.
Finally, it's been, what, three years? A temporary home for three years.
And now they actually have a home as well for ShortCircuit. So we're glad to welcome Bell and all you ShortCircuit
people. And you can see these three different sets in the future,
I guess, for all the videos. Well, depart from here, and we can take a look at some
of the designs that we had. So I don't know if you guys know this,
but Jordan used to be, I guess, a draftsman.
And he actually did these designs on what program was it?
Fusion? Yeah, fusion. So this was the initial design.
As you can see, it's pretty close, right, Sammy? Basically, it is a one point replicate.
It just got purple-er. Yeah. So when we went to go and source our materials,
that's when we kind of introduced some more themes, right? At this point, there was no kind of color matching or branding.
So when we asked Bell what we thought, and definitely in our ShortCircuit logo,
we have seen some of this as well. So we pulled elements from that to put in here,
and with Bell's influence of colors as well. So matching the browns with the greens and the greens
with the purples. And this was, you know, we sourced a lot of stuff from Ikea,
and then we custom-made our custom tile from Dell Tile,
and then just put all these elements here. So each one wanted to give a different kind of motif and theme.
Definitely green over on the kitchen, as you can see.
Purple and that background that they have, we wanted to emulate that with our barn doors
slash kind of closet and our see-through. And Jordan did all that work right there.
That's his handiwork, not only just making our plans here
and drafting them up, but he actually- I'll call him Justin too.
You betcha. You should show you also Alfred's other ShortCircuit logo.
Wait, oh, that one there in the corner? Yeah.
It's hidden, man. You actually have to look for it. Yeah, so we wanted to make it subtle,
just in case we want to use this, you know, the set for other kind of purposes.
So we wanted to make it subtle enough that our true kind of insiders would know it was ShortCircuit.
But you'll notice that this shelf space as well. Oh, wait, I didn't see that!
Yeah, it's also another homage to ShortCircuit.
And we'll probably pump lights out of here as well, so you can kind of get that effect as well.
Now I'm looking out everywhere. So yeah, we have to save some things. We can't just show you everything right now.
So we got to save some things for LTT. This one going for more like a dark motif as well.
And this is supposed to kind of emulate, this is coming from a patio,
so we'll turn a light from this side as well. Pretending that this whole set is the new apartment,
I guess, for a ShortCircuit, right? You got your dining or now you got your nook or den, right?
Where you kind of work. You got your kind of dining area,
where your main kind of living room set, and then you got your kitchen.
So mimicking an apartment. And that's the fake kind of magic.
We need a hallway right there. Exactly, right? But look at this.
And hallway gone as well.
Do you plan on expanding more that way or is this kind of?
No, I think this is more sound separation. So as you know, we have a different set over there
for TechLinked. But this is more for sound separation as well.
Trying to dampen the noise that comes from over there. And people can still use the washroom.
But this area where the Pantone wall was or is,
we will probably use for storage, for ShortCircuit items as well.
So this wall will get cleared out as well. And this area will be kind of like a holding kind of area,
where we have items. Are you guys also going to decorate the downstairs
to the now lounge? Mm.
It's a hole in there. It's a hole in there. Come back a couple of months for that one.
He's going to have to do more drafting work. Oh, actually, off topic.
I heard about this story. Bell made an idea, first, on Sims.
I did not hear that, did you? I did not hear that either. Thank you, Flow Plane viewers, for coming for a little sneak
peak and advanced view of our ShortCircuit set.
And check out the LTT. We'll have a full set tour of Linus and Bell
going through everything. And stay tuned for more short circuits.
You bet.