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so you might have noticed at some point over the last little pile here that that ugly wall that turns my skin orange in our videos is gone and it's been replaced by our new set but what you also might have noticed is that our new set is super dirty well our friends at Dyson noticed so they sent us over the brand-new Dyson cyclone v10 so that we can clean it up and take you guys for a little tour of our new space so look it's not how you're supposed to do that lock and load and come along for the ride we're gonna clean up and show you guys around pass sounds like a ray gun so let's start by meeting the v10 this right here is the design that made James Dyson look like like that James Dyson go to his team and say you know what guys all these other upright corded vacuums blown up we're not gonna develop corded vacuums anymore forget about it this is it this is the future I mean he's 70 and British so he probably didn't say it quite like that but this the sentiment is the same compared to their last gen it's got longer battery life up to 60 minutes of fade-free power and thanks to the new digital motor that spins at a whopping 125,000 rpm it even provides 20% more suction than the v8 making it their fastest vacuum cleaner motor to date and it accelerates to that in just half a second 40% more capacity in here it's got a one-piece cleanable filter so you just pop that out run it under the sink little kind of british looking faucets on there it's also easier to clean and you don't need much force to open it up and do their thing there yeah it's easy like that and of course it includes a bazillion and one accessories so let's get our tour started let's go in let's go in handheld mode here right let's start outside so out here you can actually see some hints of the old design not bad so behind me other than the green screen wall pretty much everything has changed actually even the green screen wall has changed if you look closely enough so this used to go about two three feet further that way but what we actually had to do was cut the wall off and then we took this wall right here and like by actually like kicking it over moved it about two to three feet this way so the other side of this one is what used to be that orange wall and is now the inner wall of the living room so we'll go in there in a minute but first I want to show you guys what we're doing with the outside so you can see right there we changed our minds about 12-foot high walls and then we ended up changing to 10-foot high walls so we have just kind of like a weird thing you can also see where the cable management comes in there's networking running right there in an armored conduit along the roof because that allows us to avoid the more complicated permitting process for permanent structures so the idea of doing exterior siding here which by the way vertical siding is a thing that people do was that if we wanted to do like a you know honey I'm home type of shot it wouldn't be immediately obvious as long as we move that orb that we are not in a real house look at all this dust also on the outside we've got a little bit of storage so some lighting equipment some you know pieces for videos that we happen to be working on right now and then in the longer term what we actually want to do is turn this into a somewhat convincing patio space so we'd love to put down like some artificial turf and maybe some kind of nicer looking concrete and then be able to kind of do shots like sitting outside on the patio there's a fair bit of work to be done lighting wise before we'd be able to do that though so for now what we generally do is you can see this diffuser right here and then we will just kind of blow enough light at them that will will blow them out and it'll kind of look like outdoors like you can see an example of this on the window with the blinds over there and the window with the plants over there which leads us to one of the other purposes out here so we created ourselves a little sort of forest back here so we could actually allow ourselves to see out into kind of a skybox like backdrop with plants in front of it uh since we're back here you can actually see a couple of examples of ways that we like the windows and then over on the other side we've got the color temperature of the light changed so that it looks more like evening Wow big choice wood no big deal so the living room was actually probably the most natural the easiest aspect of this project we actually ended up doing two different iterations of it now the original plan had been to take so this was the orange wall right here up where it's 12 feet tall and then this was the map wall which you guys will probably remember the original idea was to take these two walls and just convert them and then maybe expand a little bit over to where that spaceship thing was in the other corner so Yvonne set out to just do a makeover so we just changed the color we ripped the map off we got a couple shelves and it made such a difference to the feel of the videos that we kind of realized well this is what we got wrong we spent a bunch of money but ultimately we ended up with something that didn't look homey you know it didn't have pictures on the walls it didn't have you know plants and they're all things by the way plants and knickknacks lying around this one doesn't even have a pot what the heck happened to the pot you guys oh that is so cool look at this it's blue and red now it's purple anyway so what we realized was that you didn't have to do like a crazy set we just had to build something that felt more like a house so that was where the idea came from why don't we just treat our building like a giant sound stage and actually build a house inside it this backing had glitter so then there were just two main design goals here one was that we wanted the media center to look like cool and modern but also be really versatile so it didn't really matter what we put there and then number two was that we wanted this this sitting area hey fella go sit over there we wanted the sitting area to look like a place where you know people might actually be sitting and hanging out hello would hang out with me on his free time right yeah it should be noted that even stuff that's relatively simple can be complicated so check this out first I'm gonna clean this windowsill yeah babies so in order to avoid reflections on the glass in our windows they're actually installed to that on like a gimbal mount so there's a rotating post in the middle at the top and the bottom that lets us reposition them so that we can avoid reflections when we have the blinds open which we often don't just because like this looks a lot more convincing you got shadows and all that stuff then this so far especially with like extension cords running through our foliage here is this one on a gimbal too white yes it is now we we know the people that are living in the in the old studio house still and we know that they are planning a kitchen Renault so we seriously considered offering to buy all the hardware and cabinetry from the old kitchen set and install it here there were some things about the old kitchen that really didn't work that well so for example check this out now whoa look at that we actually modified an up desk so that we could have a height-adjustable island which is really great when we're shooting b-roll like honestly some of the stuff we did in the old kitchen like build guides was really really difficult because of the fixed height of this and then the other thing was that it doesn't have to be a real kitchen like this it's not a real sink which doesn't prevent people from dumping stuff down it which is why we have these buckets here because it's already happened a couple of times but it's not a real sink so we figured we could save some space in the kitchen by taking out stuff we don't need so like you might have noticed it doesn't have a fridge no fridge so then over on this side honestly like there wasn't much of a plan for the dining room and everything over here yeah like I think we've I think we've shot here a couple times but that's it this mostly just kind of collects dust because we can't really shoot out this door in spite of its cool magnetic closing mechanism just because we'd be going out into kind of ugly warehouse land and you know just looking at a double door that's closed over it doesn't look that amazing so if we were ever shooting you know out of the kitchen across here or something it wouldn't look stupid over there it would look like we were like we were in a house anyway one of the areas that we intended to use a lot more than the dining room was this over here so this was meant to be kind of like a reading nook it's little details like this that you'll never really notice in the videos but if you look close most of these pictures are LMG staff often me either dressed really funny like wrapped in cables or wearing you know VR headsets or dressed in drag so we've got colton and drag ed and drag is that Dennis that is a creepy ass picture anyway having something with death behind you this is something that I think people who are more familiar with filmmaking have probably always known but something that helps make stuff look more natural like a lot so this corner is one that we use a lot this one was intended for kind of the more professional or creative type products so things like you know a laptop or an all-in-one PC or whatever else it was meant to look like like a place where you might actually work or study but it's not the only desks that we have in the set it's definitely the dirtiest one because it gets the most use but that's okay we have a solution today yeah Davey this is not actually the ideal head for this but I guess it doesn't really matter picking everything up anyway now we're gonna finish our tour in what is perhaps the most over-engineered but well I think engineering is a bit of a stretch but whatever you get the point get get get in here so this is the bedroom and the idea here was again trying to maintain the ability to shoot in any direction and to do so we actually designed this rolling built-in bookcase so whether I'm sitting here next to this picture or lying in the bed you know hitting talking to a Google home or whatever else or grabbing this vacuum now with the tork brush bar head there's really dirty in here Wow the brush bar is actually doing a bang-up job on here I can walk around the entire room and it'll never feel unnatural this is also where we put our second desk the idea was that here is where we would do like gaming monitors and gaming systems and you know the more performance type stuff so it's the work over there and then game over here now something that you might notice in this room as someone who is watching a behind-the-scenes tour is that it doesn't really have a door this was intended to be the closet so this is one of those sliding style doors so behind it there's a couple of things one is there's an emergency exit in the event that someone is in here and that a hump that built-in bookcase is closed and two is actually access to the plant area that I showed you guys before so this is the way that we can get around behind the stage so to speak I love carpet like I love the feeling of carpet but the amount of just dust that it gathers is really horrible it's actually kind of impressive how light this thing is this is on minimum to like it picked up that giant chunk of chunk of stuff on the minimum power setting the main point Dyson's trying to make with this thing is that they don't really see the purpose in continuing to develop inconvenient corded vacuums when you can build something like this that does such a good job and is quick to just grab and go and run anywhere with whatever attachment you want like the fact that it converts from a full-size to a portable like that is absolutely incredible so they're just saying okay you know what forget it we're just not going to invest in those other vacuums anymore and I can totally see where they're coming from so guys you can check out the v10 at Dyson Canada dossier or Dyson com we're gonna have that linked in the video description and a huge shout out to you guys for watching I hope you enjoyed our tour of our new sets I hope you learned a little bit about the behind-the-scenes magic I know I actually did while we were doing this over a couple things I actually haven't noticed about with the sign until now and uh we will see you guys again don't forget to subscribe like all that good stuff check that okay how clean is the workshop floor now you could eat off it like a savage all right let's get this dust out of here check this out gently not by like you just press that button OOP done