Control your light by making your own Grid for your key light - How to light a YouTube Studio

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It's finally here! It's time to take control of that keylight and make a GRID for the softbox, making sure the light doesn't spill anywhere we don't want it and controlling our environment for better lighting.
Good lighting is KEY for getting a nice looking image in your videos, no matter if you're a beginner filmmaker or youtuber starting out filming on your phone or using a "proper" camera. Being able to control the direction of the light coming out of your key light is the next step after adding deliberate lights to your set.
Adding a grid will enable you to limit the spread of light, and this is a key feature of any lighting setup for your TH-cam-video / TH-cam Studio, since it allows you more freedom to light your backgrounds with separate lights and not have everything bleed into everything else. The separation of a main key light and fill light on your subject (you) vs. how you light your background will enable you to be much more creative, adding colors or warm/cold lights to separate the background from yourself.
So no matter what content you make this is a valuable addition to your DIY setup, or if you prefer to buy a dedicated videolight with a grid the same applies - the grid will enhance your videos and control of your setup.
This grid is made entirely out of thick paper, so anybody can do this for free (or at least slightly cheaper than buying it). If you're a budding filmmaker and want some of that sweet, sweet controlled light shining on your face while you let those RGB-lights run amok in the background then this video is for you.
This is the follow-up video to the ... "ehm" ...*smash hit* :
How To Make a Cheap Softbox & Key Light for Video and Photos DIY - Making a TH-cam-channel (Part 1)
• How To Make a Cheap So...

[@RogerAVHansen]

Love these DIY videos ☺️ The grid worked really well 👏🏻 Nice job! 😊

[@AndreSjoberg]

Thanks :) Love building things, so especially fun when things actually work as intended as well ;) Still need to do a lot of testing and work on placement and angles and distance to the background and lighting that and figuring out those basic, so that’s another video coming in the not too far future, as well as the «can this be done by ‘normal’ people» where I’ll be trying to do some of the things people like Daniel Schiffer and Austen Paul do, but with the janky DIY gear and my phone, that’s gonna be the *real* test trying to get similar results, both raw material and post production work :)

[@jettreels]

Hell yeah! My subscription feed did show this video for me until now for some reason. Love the vid well done 👏

[@AndreSjoberg]

Thanks for watching, glad you liked it :) The followup will be combining this with fill and rim-light as well as *properly* doing some background lighting to at least *try* to make a «cohesive» look ;) TH-cam works in mysterious ways ;)

[@HomesickMac]

Yeah, great job! Just cutting out and putting together the grid tape…. Kudos!

[@AndreSjoberg]

It was … hell! Highly recommend *not* building a grid ;)

[@waynesleapyear]

Great job! Looks awesome and your video was super engaging! Great job on the edit (of what I imagine was hours of footage lol)

[@AndreSjoberg]

Hahaha, thanks man :) Yeah, there where some editing challenges in there :) I’ve been trying to only film part of the work, at key monents in the process to minimize the amount of stuff that needs to be looked at and just removed, keeping the end edit in mind, but the first rough cut was at 17-18 minutes, and what I though would be the final edit was at around 12-13. But I left it for a couple of hours and looked at it again, and cut out several chunks to keep the relevant bits, but shorter, and focused more on the speaking bits, limiting the timelaps/«b-roll»-seksjons to 4-8 bars of music at the max, and that helped getting it down to a more appropriate 8 minutes without much fluff :)
The end *should* have been re-recorded in all honesty due to the stupid Blackmagic Camera app putting input gain on the røde videomic go 2 to 100% gain every time I re-attach the mic causing the audio to blow out if I forget to set it down to 20% gain, which I’ve solved by putting the db-cut pad to «on» in the mic-settings app - and the end should have been cut down to about half the length at least, but I was already one day last 7 days since last video so out it went ;)