What does an average week for me look like at LMG? I decided to vlog my week and we'll start up in the morning, which is Monday, where
I come in and I say hi to our probationary social employee and then from there we talk
about how our videos went over the weekend and we're probably going to go into a meeting
now discuss some scripts and have a meeting about what kind of things we're looking to
post this week. Honestly, Mondays are kind of just like getting prepped for the week.
I think that's standard probably for most people and then yeah and then later today we have a shoot with Linus and then probably going to do editing most of the day.
So after our meetings, I usually look at our release calendar for the weekend to see which
videos we're releasing. So right now, we're in the ninth right now and then I usually have it filled a month
in advance, which it is as you see here, but these videos aren't even filmed yet and I'm
missing one right here. So I have to fill that in because everything I shifted up by one basically, which is tough
because this is a stat holiday and I am not here this day.
So sometimes when I need Linus time, I come to this man right here, Andrew Muir.
What's that? I need Linus time. It doesn't exist.
Sorry. So when I come to Andrew for time for Linus, he pulls up this schedule and tells me there's
no time for Linus and then I say please and then he fits in something for me.
So where can you fit me in buddy? Oh, maybe there's like a little crack right here.
Right, there's perfect. And then I have to fill it out.
I'll give you a short to put in there sometime. Yeah, good luck. I might cancel it though.
No. It's kind of my thing.
And the short shoot got moved to Thursday with Linus, so we're going to shoot that then.
I'm probably going to actually work till 2.30 and then probably going to head home and
work home the rest of the day because the things I have to do now is prepping for my
Wednesday shoot with David and prepping for the Pankrat shoot tomorrow.
The company that she used to work from home when you want, I don't know if that's normal
thing with the companies, but it's the thing we just have and obviously you make up the
time you didn't do the rest of the day.
Before we go though, Ariana's actually going to help me with my car tire because I don't
know how to fix a low tire pressure. Thanks Ariana for helping me.
This tire is low PSI.
What do you need? I thought this was the driver's side. JDM phone.
Ariana said this is a dire.
Yeah. Yeah, Sammy was telling me, oh, hey, should I fill up my tire pressure because I know
the physics and stuff might not warrant it.
It was like five, so it's gone down since. It's gone down since.
Oh. Yeah. Oh, it went down?
Yeah. Yeah. We'll figure it out.
You have a leak. No, no, no, no, no. Well, for it to go down to 22, you have a leak.
No, no, no. Okay, listen, we'll fill it up now and then see what happens, you know.
Yeah, see if it's a low leak or if it's great.
I pray to God. Oh, it's a little flat. Well, when was it 25?
It was, it looks a little flat. No, no, when was it 25? Yesterday.
Oh, and now it's 22? Yeah. Oh, okay.
Okay. Ariana's a big car person. Okay.
The car is on. Oh, okay. I was like, what am I?
That's a nice fail.
She said don't drive on low PSI guys or your car will go boom.
So I'm driving and I forgot to bring my wallet.
So now Ariana's going to spot me for my gas and my food.
Sorry. We forgot his wallet at work.
I was like, having in my, like my pocket, I was like, where's my, where's my wallet?
Keep in mind, this is STEM-y treating theme for helping with this, with this tire.
Now I got to pay for his gas too. Looks like my tire is now fixed.
Hopefully. It was at 34, so I don't know why it's saying 35, but it's close enough.
Yeah. We got the food. Ariana spilled on her jeans.
Yeah, I opened the lid up and the fry was somehow.
Oh, I don't know where it, it's not there anymore. Yeah, yeah, the fry got launched.
Oh. They opened it and I guess the way that the fry was positioned, it flung out.
So now I got a poutine stain on my jeans, but that's fine.
Oh, so, oh, there it is. Number three, I have to open this.
Today, it's a very simple day. One main thing I have to do is shoot with David Pankratz for his meet the teams.
I've always wanted to try something new for meet the teams. I think it's been getting pretty stale as a series.
I always want to try having like a PC build while doing a meet the teams.
And shockingly, I need a PC built.
So because I'm losing basically half a day filming at David's, so I need to make sure
I'm being productive today and get at least two full planes done.
I'm carrying my PC and Reece helping me move my PC now.
Before we shoot David's video, we have to actually make the thumbnail first for the B-Sod competition.
When I try to make thumbnails for a full plane, I try to make it relatively simple because...
Yes. What? He's watching me.
When I try to make thumbnails for a full plane, I make them relatively simple. At the end of the day, it's not tied to an algorithm or anything.
Let's do this thumbnail and then we'll go set up for David's shoot.
With this. Yes.
Because I'm case-swapping all the hardware stuff for you, right? Yeah.
I'm going to be up and moving around a whole bunch. Oh, should we just lap you up then?
Probably. OK, sorry.
Well, can we move all the cases over on that table?
It would be easier to do it over here in the extra space.
OK. Then I need a cameraman.
You? No, I have to be doing other s**t.
Well, I have to be doing other s**t with a cameraman now. Uh-oh.
So is it impossible to do it on that set? You still can.
It would be possible. Yeah. It's going to be crowded, but it would be possible.
Like, realistically, what I'm going to have to do is pull the parts from this one first.
And then swap it into the other one after. Is that OK?
I mean, it's fine by me. OK, I'm cool with that. How long do you expect this to take?
An hour. It will be longer than an hour. How much longer an hour?
That's fine. It will probably be...
Well, I mean, it just depends on how clean you want everything to be, too.
As long as the front looks good, I don't care about the back. Like, I could probably get it done in less than two hours.
OK. I mean, this is the only thing I have really scheduled.
So I'm cool with that. Are you the only person that it affects? Yeah. There's a lot of meetings all day.
So we had to move down here because... No space.
Yeah, no space. And it's better for David to work on the PC.
So now Glenn is setting up the top-down cam.
And to save also more time. We're going to have David take apart the PC before the shoot starts.
So it saves a little bit more time. What don't you like about this?
I mean, I've got questions. Like... Like, it's still got peel up here.
Oh, yeah. And there's something making...
Yeah, I don't know what that is. Something making some noise. I think it's either this fan or it's...
I think it's this fan here. And then you got whatever that is floating in behind there.
All right. That's the screen. That's the whole screen. No, the...
Oh, yeah. So this is the mod, the Y60 mod, which was having this screen on it, was what inspired the Y70.
And so I modded it like this. I guess you don't need to wear pants to work in.
No. You're hiding it all the time, right? I was fixing my computer.
And then I got lazy to put it back on. So I just kind of left it like that.
And then I forgot to bring it. Usually this is where I get a bunch of editing done.
So what I have to do is I have to edit this video.
And we have to editing a Floatplane that's going up on G-Clips, as well as doing one tech link short that was out from yesterday.
And then from there it'll be a bunch of editing rest of the day and probably just doing some random admin stuff.
So David's shoot tomorrow and technically I can take home the camera gear for today
so that I could just need to go to David's house first thing tomorrow morning.
So what I do is I always make sure I'm packing the right gear.
So all my camera gear is there, not in place neatly,
because Glenn takes my camera gear. Sure.
Sure. Totally not my fault. Take this and take a little bit of...
Where's my road mic? Take this road mic here.
It's probably not charged, so I gotta charge it probably before I leave. And this is where all the batteries are.
So I just take about three of these. I usually don't need all three,
but I want to piss off Glenn a little bit, so I'm taking three. Oh my goodness, I forgot.
The cord. I made a huge mess. Oh, God. Oh, Lord.
So this is where I keep all my cords and this is where my audio splitter is.
And then I like to set up my camera with the cage.
So you gotta pop this off, which is annoying. You gotta pop this off, which is also annoying.
And then you have this nice little cage.
Oh my God, look at that. The lens cover.
Are you supposed to? Yeah. Everyone's cringing at me right now.
The whole... Everyone who's a camera geek is cringing at me right now.
They're just internally cringing. Maybe this is why there's always at least a feather or two.
A feather or two. A little lint or two.
Geez. Anyways, that's fine. It's fine.
It's your camera, not ours. So if you see any issues with David's tech update where they now video,
you know why. And then the light goes there.
The audio goes there. And that's it. And then I shoot videos.
I have clean lens. I misspelled lens.
I have a lot of instructions here on clean lens,
because I keep cleaning my lens sometimes. And then I have some just basic things I can just remember off.
I'm going to rush. So that's basically my setup.
Yeah, I'm going to have a lens cap while you clean the lens, because I've got two points for it.
And yeah, that's officially the day. And now let's head to...
Today we're going to go shoot at David's place for tech upgrades.
Where are they now? But where are they now videos tend to take a little longer, just because the amount of footage there is.
And you know, obviously the travel time is a large portion of it.
So I like to make sure that I have at least three weeks to edit them prior to release.
Sometimes they take more than that, sometimes less. But on average is about three weeks.
After this year, we're going to head back to the office and then just focus on editing for the rest of the day.
Because I have a sponsor short to send out when people ask me what I do at work.
It's always like, you know, it is very simple.
But the things I do, it's very granular, I guess is better.
I don't know what to say. But it's like, I do things where it's nothing complicated,
but it part of all of my focus and attention to get something done.
Honestly, I feel like, oh my God. Honestly, I feel like Thursday's going to be a more entertaining day for you guys.
Not because of the things I'm doing, but I guess more insider info of, like...
Of meeting, I guess? I don't know. I don't know. Maybe meetings are interesting for you guys.
Maybe they are. I don't know, man. It's your personal or is it just a monetary value?
This is the most monetary valuable one. I got that just a couple of years ago.
So I don't have that much of a solid for the game, but that's been one of the ones that... We just finished recording David's tech upgrade where they now.
Yep. I'm here. This is where I am.
And now I'm going to head back to the office. Another long drive ahead of me.
I hope you've got released early, actually, today. If you've already saw it, Eli buying a phone for no reason.
It looks like it was a junior accident by the editor. So what I am going to do now, because Eli is away on an offsite shoot,
is I'm going to merge it. And I can show you guys what it looks like, kind of.
In the script here, kind of scroll all the way down here.
And then you'll see titles right here.
I'm going to take this one here because it looks like the bullet. So it's probably the right one.
Usually, titles don't matter too much for full playing,
but might as well get the one that was highlighted.
Paste it right there. And then I probably watch the video and figure out what to write in the description.
I don't know if you guys read the description a lot, but I try to keep at least a sentence or two and then put the link of the video they called out.
So my tire was leaking. Supposed to have some air in it, and I think I put a bit too much in there.
Um, oops. Well.
Thursdays aren't usually my meeting days where I just take meetings all day.
Uh, so that's why I usually tend to work from home.
The company gives us two days to work from home. Um, kind of like no questions asked kind of thing.
I thought it'd be more interesting for the video if I were to go in office.
So I'm going to go in office now. I would be using about four to five meetings on Thursdays.
Sometimes it's more as some meetings are bi-weekly or monthly basis.
They don't usually take that long. They usually just like sync up with other departments and, you know,
um, strategize some other things. Most of them I can't live out though.
Like I have a, for example, uh, I required a one-on-one meeting with James.
You know, just talk about, you know, how I'm doing, um, any issues and stuff.
I'm very late for my meeting. I should get 10 o'clock, but it's 10 o' eight right now.
Let's just go up to the meeting room and quietly apologize for being late.
I'm late. I know. I know you are.
Listen, I, um, we were like, the cool thing is like I have a 10, I have a 10 AM meeting
with Sammy. It was like 10.05. We're like, I mean, you should have a message like I'll be there for 10.15.
Yeah. 10.10. 10.10.
I said 10.10. Hey guys, here's a Floatplane exclusive talking about Floatplane.
I really wish more of you guys would subscribe. They are subscribed.
I know. I'm recording myself. Uh, what I do in a week at LMG.
Oh, do you actually? Yeah. A whole week?
Yeah. I'm late. I'm late.
We're meeting to talk about Floatplane. We want to give you guys more things. I just finished my meeting.
Um, pretty productive. There's a lot of just directions.
There's not a lot of active things going on right now. It's just a lot of talking about what we have planned and how we're going to get those,
um, achieved. So now I'm going to head back to studio.
Uh, and I don't know what I have. So I think I have, I think a little bit of time before my next meeting.
I think my next meeting is at one and it's 10.45 right now.
So yeah. So on Thursdays as well, I also do admin stuff like data tracking for Floatplane.
As you see here, anytime a video is uploaded, I, you know, link it, uh, and, and this is
our internal dashboard that we see how well it is performing to the views, uh, try to
figure out what the categories are, the video, and then obviously the likes is where, uh,
we determine how good a video is and if you want to continue making those videos.
So make sure to like those videos that you want to keep seeing because obviously they determine if we make those kinds of videos.
Like for example, uh, the create sponsor videos, you guys didn't really enjoy that video.
So we're not going to do this ever again. Uh, but things like obviously why, when late people, like people like those videos.
So we're going to continue doing them. So we're doing a social shoot with the lines right now.
I'll turn this normal paste, um, and finish towards version because I know we did one
long time ago. This is what it looks like by the writer's come.
Hi, Linus. Thanks for doing this short. It's a really short.
I'm just, I'm just vlogging. Oh, you're vlogging. Yeah.
Is that anything? Is it a plain vlog? Yeah.
So you don't only do it on Fridays now? No, I'm doing it. Well, what my week at MG looks like.
Oh, interesting. What does your week look like? Well, I mean, it's not going to be what your week looks like unless it's POV.
Well, now I'm going to record here and now I'll record you recording me recording you. Oh my God, we got record sections.
So my day looks like me walking around film stuff and I'm like, yeah, I'm working.
And then I cut the camera and then I go do nothing for 20 minutes after.
I don't actually believe you. I think you worked pretty hard. No, I don't.
It's, it's the illusion working hard. Nice.
Anyways, hey, that got me where I am today.
As I mentioned, we do have a new short person starting at the company and usually I am
on set to help out, but one, I'm a little backed up with some other projects.
So I only want to focus on that and two, I just trust the guy. So I am more upset.
Hey, you know what? Do the shorts yourself.
If you need me, let me know, but I trust you that you'll get it done on Thursdays as well.
I actually also try to figure out shoot times that involve Linus.
Those are obviously a little more complicated as Linus has a very complicated schedule.
Sometimes I talked to Andrew Mir who's a rain supervisor and Vance who is the executive
assistant for Linus. You guys really love the blue screen death, full-point video.
So I'm like, why don't we do a PC? So I know that Jordan, Eli, and David Pankrat is also, they're really good at building PCs
and then have Linus in the shoe, which I think will make a very interesting video.
So I'm trying to get that sorted with them. Are you confident it can be done before or for?
What? TechLinked. Like the script is ready for you.
The script is ready before. We'll probably have a shot by four, but yeah, Wednesday at 4 p.m. sounds good.
For you, Sammy, because you're recording, I'll do anything.
So that means I got to keep recording every time. Anything.
God. So I do a quick little pickup for the next-to-go webcam for sponsors short.
So this is how usually a pickup top-down happens.
So you turn the light on here, which I've already done.
Turn this on and this switch should turn on at some point.
There it is. So you see this here is right there.
So I can vaguely see how it's going to position and then you hit record there and then you
just do the thing you're looking to do. Pretty simple, right?
Wow. All right. So I just finished my one-on-one with my manager.
He's fired. No! One-on-ones, basically, you just try to talk about, you know, what you're doing at work.
Try to turn the lights off in this tairing room.
You just talk about what's going on with your life, updates, any updates you need to bring
up to manager. It's like half an hour meeting, roughly.
So it's nice. And that's probably my last meeting for a day.
And now I'm going to probably just work. More editing.
That's it. I'm always editing. Or I'm prepping shoots.
It's one of the two. But yeah, that's basically my Thursdays, you know?
Unless something else happens, I'll see you guys.
It's Wednesday. It's also Friday, which means probably, I don't know, it's the busiest time.
I should know. I think Fridays for me are kind of just sporadic.
Anything that happens, maybe I do shoot all day, or maybe I edit all day, or maybe I have
just random administrative stuff to do. Like, the one thing that's consistent always Friday is writing the, uh, when announcement
on a Floatplane. Yeah, I think that's honestly, I think today will be a pretty chill day, other than obviously
why is Winelay. Um, line is going to be remoting in, so it's going to be late for sure.
I think we got it at first 6 p.m. start time. I think that's what we said.
It doesn't want to be a shorter day, honestly, which is kind of surprising, but...
I'm recording why is Winelay right now. Um, let's look.
You're recording? You recording? Yeah.
Someone trying to record something.
Yeah. Wow. It's BTS of a BTS.
And that means someone else recording this, recording me recording Winelay or recording
the show. This is meta.
I'm recording what I do in a week at the company for Floatplane.
Oh, okay. Yeah. So, now...
Okay, now I'm... I don't know.
Anyways, um, yeah, um, line is...
Oh, I'm so cool.
Um, yeah, uh, lines has to restart its computer, so we're just waiting.
Don't think lines will be calling us anytime soon, so I'm going to leave.
Goodbye. Okay, bye. Enjoy your WAN shows.
Thank you. Bye. Happy Friday 13th.
Yeah. Goodbye. Bye.
Have a good weekend.
Alright. And then when WAN ends, I immediately go and adjust the footage.
She gets, I always freaking lose footage if I don't adjust it right away.
So... So that's really it for what I do at MG for a week.
Uh, I just spend a little editing all Friday.
I haven't really done much. Uh, hopefully that was interesting.
I don't know. I hope this video was interesting.
Uh, if it's so, please leave a like. Uh, so I know how to do more of these.
And... I don't have a video to call it, but I'll probably link some in the description.
Anyways, bye guys.