CYSTM: A Quiet Place - Director's Commentary (LIVE)

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music oh hello there hi hello welcome back to the director's commentary live stream for koji shot movies season two as usual we're your hosts eric langley eric tell them about yourself i'm the visual effects supervisor and dp of could you thrive movie season two jake and season one correct uh oh jake that's me hi i am jake roper i am the creator producer host uh co-writer and director of could you survive the movies season two and season one what a treat boy oh boy do we have some action packed for you today we're gonna talk about could you survive a quiet place more gravitas and that's called directing there you go welcome to our master class um yeah we're gonna talk about a quiet place uh if you haven't seen the full episode yet because it wasn't sent to your subscription feed which none of them are it's a nice quirk of youtube originals um there's a link to the full episode down in the description so if you want to watch it without us talking or after without us talking that's there for you and guess what everyone we'll get into some questions and some hellos in just a moment but tomorrow at 9 00 a. m pacific standard time could you survive harry potter comes up big cast big cast in that one we went all out a lot of fun a lot of tears a lot of laughs a lot of sad ness that is my superpower all right what's going up in the chat everybody i did drop oh yeah he is also a beautiful person you know it's like michelangelo chiseled him out of marble did you use that one last time that was the i said the greek gods olympus on olympus did it this is just michelangelo now it's just even man somehow was able to capture his beauty and they did a wonderful job thanks jake he's a living statue come to life and he's built like one very strong very muscular uh there we go what's up hi from your europe hello europe hi europe good to see you i'm jake this is eric europe pleasure spin kitty oh spin kitties here it's so nice to see a lot of the folks from the discord and the twitch in the chat um oh lavi second movie you've watched for the first time because of system you hear that movie studios keep working with us because we're driving traffic to your movies spin kitty how am i doing i'm doing swell how are you doing spin oh jeff's here too what's up everybody hi from russia hello russia hi from an indian hello we have a florida man sam good to see you sam how's florida still human yes still very human um next movie a noisy place that's for the spin-off yeah i like that we'll do a noisy place instead of die hard we'll do die soft we can finally do jumanji instead of what else that was a good 10 15 minutes it was time to say that harry potter bald potter there's the options are endless it is yeah home alone home with guests it's a little not as tense as home alone don't need as many traps because the house is just full of people you know that's the thing if they just if you meet home alone now at the internet he just like invite friends over true except braz yeah did he have no friends that's actually a good point like there was no neighbor kids within yeah they're all on vacation yeah everything everyone just took off for a week i don't know about that um come to brazil i feel like someone asked that last time and i believe we said yes i'm not gonna give you a time frame but at some point in your life we will be there we will be in brazil

for when we do uh fast and furious are they in brazil everywhere they're i think the one with the bank vol oh there i believe is in brazil don't quote me on that because all the fast beers just blur together as one large fever dream we could do the movie which is brazil no one would um oh and greece jurassic park that's a good one ah jill hi from the other mom oh jill francis hi bill francis hey jill francis jill you also look like you were chiseled from marble um let's see what else we got please do jaws i would love to you know what i would prefer doing because jaws is actually fairly realistic not like in how sharp because sharks aren't like murderous beasts that will hunt your family line down like we saw from jaws one to jaws four so yes there's four yeah this draws one jaws two which still has the sheriff yeah jaws three is the 3d one um which and then draws for the revenge or something with michael kane and there's the famous michael kane quote where they're like why were you in this terrible movie yeah well i've never seen the movie but i have seen the house that it paid for um good probably quite accurate yeah but deep blue sea i would love to do deeply well because nothing makes sense like they can swim backwards now it's like how because of a bigger brain i was saying weren't they like breeding them to have bigger brains yeah it's like how did the anyway but i would love to do deep blue sea because there's also a lot of just fun physics in there yeah we can talk about water pressure in a fun way um i could get my arm ripped off by a shark maybe samuel jackson could be in we could we'd only need him for a little bit yeah short time's out no spoilers no spoilers we don't do spoilers here um all right let's uh let's get in to a quiet place shall we we're going to start and if you're new to this format there's going to be a lot of eric and i talking and a lot of us pausing yeah but let's begin with could you survive the movies a quiet place transition hold on wait hold on eric had a good point okay let's get into survival movies a quiet place transition what trend transit transition monster come here our good friend the leaf blower yeah that shot took about half an hour to get correct for some reason the door is open that's okay i notice i should add a digital door fun story about this set it's about oh yeah two feet wide and that is it that is all there is to it actually this is a let's just let's go hold on transition first boss we made 32 seconds that's pretty good i think that's longer than last time so this set so here's the thing and i've said this numerous times but we have limited uh resources when making this show i know it looks very expensive but we generally only can have one location so you know we have two days generally to film each narrative element per episode so we have two days to film this and we don't have time or money to go to different locations to film different parts so we have to find locations that are catch-all that could just be everything for us and this one was pretty good one of the biggest issues i would say with this location was not only was it very small and we're dealing with covet here so a lot of the sets when we're inside yeah was a real difficult thing to film because eric would be there shooting and maybe one other person like the sound person and then myself and whoever i'm speaking with and if we need to change the lens someone would have to leave ac would come in with a new lens swap the lens and they would leave then the other person would come back in but the other thing was that this for an episode called a quiet place we were literally right next to the road so there was a lot of cars that would drive by and we would just have to wait for a moment a brief moment where we could actually speak with no background noise because that would defeat the whole purpose of a quiet place if you just hear cars going off in the background so there we go i know you can't see my face i apologize i didn't think i'd be talking for so long oh wait hold on okay now let's go back to the episode transition first oh this was a nice young man named abner very talented very sweet kid his mother and him are very nice so this is probably the smallest set that we filmed this is a little

literally the size of the house so that's why we guilty big from the outside but it's just it's just this yeah before being trapped in a world without that's why actually outside i decided to put myself in one of my favorite monster films a quiet place to find out hey could you be quiet back there you don't want to die like the kid in the movie did huh horribly horrible death see look at that reaction pretty loud but i found him wandering around decided maybe it'd help him find his family well i look for my missing and this is how we got kevin family because kevin uh couldn't fly out here so this is how we got him in the shower as long as we don't make a lot of sound i think we should be okay which got me thinking hey kid come on what is sound what exactly does it mean to hear yeah the alien says could you survive a quiet place oh no partner all right and transition it worked there uh lavi do you get donations in twitch right now i don't know am i live on twitch right now i shouldn't be i'm not sure uh so let's talk about that intro for a moment which part of it but mainly when we get to that little pond um so that wasn't what it was supposed to be like if i recall that wasn't originally what eric and i had envisioned a few things happen when you work with child actors you can only have them for a very short amount of time i believe it's about five hours i believe so usually for adults we can be on set for 10 12 hours that's fine if you have a child actor they can only be on set for five hours that's the max so we were filming that whole scene next to the pond we had all these shots this i believe at some point the alien was actually supposed to come out of the water right they come through the water come behind him and grab the kid uh but we uh mishandled our time yeah and we realized that we thought we had an hour left with a kid turns out we didn't yeah we had about 20 minutes yeah and we hadn't filmed the ending yet which the kid is also in dabner's also so eric did a great job everyone did a great we were like running we got enough shots to finish that intro as you know bare minimum shots because we were talking about like do we haven't i think we got it like we have enough to make something yeah and we just had to all run to where we filmed the outro of the episode and just film the ending real quick but we could only film abner's part we didn't film my scenes in the ending until the following day which is why jake and admiral never shares yeah we're never together in the end on a separate day because it was filmed entirely separate so that was one thing another thing that happened a lot in this episode was uh so here's a fun thing you might not think about this but for this show in particular we have a lot of lawyers who work on this thing because we don't want to get sued into the ground because we're obviously mimicking other people's ip yeah and this episode in particular which actually surprised me we had the most issues with fair use i thought harry potter was going to be the biggest one but it turned out it wasn't this one did so the way it works is kind of my fault too no it's not they're just oh yeah it's my fault because i'm too good at making graphics ah but the script has to be sent to fair use lawyers after we write it and then they'll give us notes and i have to make changes and then once the video is finished they also have to then approve it right so we'll start with the latter here what happened at the end they were like the alien looks too good it looks too much like the alien from the movie either completely redo it or show less of it yeah i spent about a month making it and breaking it and designing it um so remaking it from scratch was not really an option yeah so we had to cut i think about a minute yeah it was kind of a joke we could have about a minute of the alien out which was a real bummer because eric like there's some really good close-up shots yeah that i watched i was like that that's real that looks like we actually had an animatronic thing someone says uh tech prone or not tech i'm sorry tech bro yo sid so isn't that why twins sometimes play the same character that is exactly what yeah switch because if you get twins you can have a full day of shooting with the same actor yeah um we did not have that ability but yeah so what eric was saying with the hopefully maybe in a future live stream eric can bring in some of the vfx work so you can actually see how it was created what it looked like and maybe we'll be able to show more of the alien and i won't get sued but that was an issue the other big issue that we ran into was um this one was weird how the alien dies so in the movie they use sound to expose

their fleshy heads and that then allows them to shoot them or stab them whatever they want to do yeah listen we were told we couldn't do that because that would be too specific to the movie and could get us in trouble so in this version we changed it to the sound is actually what does kill them and that isn't because we didn't know how it is in the movie that was so uh we didn't get sued by a very large movie studio with lots more money than we have and jake and a shotgun doesn't really yeah educational that's another thing we're trying to make an educational show that can be played in schools and i didn't want to just be like and let's just shoot things with guns for no reason i was fine making that concession because i was like whatever it's okay uh but there we go can you please speak a tad faster how dare you bran this is how i speak quickly have you ever watched my videos eric do you have your own channel or a social media that you post your work on uh yeah i do have a youtube channel it has one video on it and it was about how i made the graphics for one of our older videos could you no it wasn't could you survive what was it oh it was um 80s themed one oh it was uh what if the world ended whatever i think yeah so check out eric um how much time did you guys spend to make the alien and which software did you use uh it was about a month because we were also shooting at the same time so when we weren't shooting i was working on that it was about a month to make it because there's a lot of components that alien i bought a base model off of turbosquid and i brought it into zbrush and built it out the um quietly i think they have a name i forgot what it was so um see i took quite a bit of time to get it to look close because i'm not a creature artist like it's not something i do i just know how to do it so he was modeled in zbrush and i brought him to cinema 4d where i rigged his panels and he has like a meshy inside so there's a lot of different letters so cinema well it looks good eric thanks looks very good uh what up big caz all right let's get we're two minutes in we still got like 20 hours to go so let's get back into that was close the kid oh he should be fine also this is a wrestlemania and speaking of which sound is really a series of longitudinal pressure waves that travel through a medium like air so this wasn't this science i think it's actually a lot of solid objects we went into detail about how microphones and those vibrations are translated into electrical pulses in the middle and inner ear which then travel to the auditory cortex and the brain the mechanical energy of sound turns into electrical energy which is also how microphones and speakers work and speaking of microphones this little device contains one and it uses it to measure the intensity of sound signals could be pretty useful in figuring out whether we're being loud enough to get eaten by one of those horrific monsters that's making my life health yeah lobby cutting material is sometimes difficult oh you're still alive it's also this thing where like you know you obviously love everything i really thought i lost you out there but sometimes you know what on a script it works now together it doesn't don't do it look at that 8k resolution yeah talk about that hold on let me allow me would you like to transition no i could just talk about it no you should just train so that's uh they call it a vertigo shot because it was used for the first time in the movie vertigo by alfred hitchcock but uh this is a bit different because usually you do it on a rail system and we did not have time nope more money for that so it was a freehand vertigo shot where it's basically just me with a handheld rig running towards jake while our ac um zoom down and rack focus at the same time which is very difficult to have that free movement because we didn't we had certain stop points but we didn't have them like super defined but it looks great here let's watch shout out holly yeah good job holly you crushed it yeah so this is our poor man's vertigo shot so i'm running towards jake let's go this is in reverse actually it's the other way i'm close and i'm running yeah you're running back yeah zooming in at the same time which pulls the background compressively um to give you this effect

and it's pretty good like i'm losing a little soft there but pretty much sharp the whole way through which is super impressive um episode yeah and uh i got a stick stuck in the bottom of my foot what is and a piece of glass quiet can we imagine it in our minds it's kind of a difficult concept to understand because have you ever really experienced it this was filmed like two months after we filmed the episode because usually kobe got us locations for a lot less because no one was using chamber for the anaconda chamber we were going to use they were going to give it to us so we had planned on filming there but then with kova they're like listen we're not comfortable with anyone being here anymore we're here so sorry guys yeah so we couldn't actually go the nfl because that's the real one leaving you with um that was a bummer but you know we were able to moving in the room with our sound designer recreate what you would hear so like what you're about to hear in a little bit all these chambers and i'll shut up in a second but all these uh you're in there more amplified sounds of your body that's actually real i'm gonna do my best right now those aren't fake so let's listen to it you know what let's get rid of the air conditioning noise all right that's better and also the hum of the lights you know what let's just get rid of all ambient noise around me and now it's just my voice but even the microphone that's picking up my voice is making noise it's other sounds so let's isolate my voice okay now it's just you and me but we can still hear sound coming from right here so let's get rid of that too when we remove all external noise what we're left with is internal noise that is the sounds of our body the blood pumping through your veins your eyes blinking the fabric on your clothes when you move we are always surrounded by sound so here on earth there is no true quiet that is a place cause that's like literally what you hear exactly chamber is you start hearing your body operating which i think is so wild that would be pretty useful right now that was a pretty cool demonstration right kid amazing how similar you can move two months later well he's probably small uh he's faster than me that is a bodily sound to a degree if you're talking like tinnitus things like that also we talked about in the episode but every time you hear a ringing in your ears just naturally like you weren't listening a lot of music that is a frequency dying and you will never hear that frequency ever again so enjoy it while you hear it die hugs and kisses jake robert that was a close one oh now we get to the most enjoyable part of this episode are both ricky twelvetown because this episode is such a nightmare walking around and ricky was so good yes yeah sorry okay that's my bed so i'm um looking for a little kid and he he's pretty loud aliens are pretty diabolical so i've just been no i don't think they followed me at all it's called face acting hey what are you doing oh thank you sweet bread of milk let jeff bezos know that he's welcome for us giving him money to go to space this is an empty cabin yep which is right next to yourself safe here from the monster's house okay so oh i'm gonna i think i got something to talk about in a second i'll wait for this scene then yeah in addition to reading lips another way deaf people can experience sound is sorry ricky i'm gonna interrupt you i apologize so one thing transition that i want to talk about is uh this episode to me was probably the most stressful one while filming to make i would think because i think eric and i got a little overeager with how many shots we think we could do it's only like 75. yeah it was a lot of shots and like we talked about in a previous live stream the more shots you have the longer it takes because a different shot literally means changing the setup so it takes a break yeah you gotta move camera maybe it doesn't like people on set too so like to get everyone and we did a lot in this one a lot of we tried to do a

lot of shots and that was just it was literally non-stop for when we got there i think it was like 6am 7am until when are we finished filming like 8 or 9 p. m it was non-stop we only stopped for lunch and that was it was always filming we had to get things done it was so stressful i actually really felt bad for ricky and 12 to him because one thing that's really fun about this show is we get to hang out with our creator friends we don't get to see that often and i literally got no time to spend with either of them outside of when we were filming scenes yeah it was not stuff because i was going to photoshoot like okay we got to run over here to buy ricky and then we'd run and go somewhere else and film something it was uh this one was uh a real nightmare well in each location where it was all in one location which was really nice like this entire episode is one location but they're distance apart so moving camera people and everything takes time and it wasn't as easy just hop in a car because a lot of this was on dirt roads so we had to get what we call gators which are like uh utvs yeah utvs like very nice golf carts not nice i shouldn't say that um golf carts that can go on terrain yeah that isn't just a golf course but they go slow and they can only carry four people including a driver and then equipment so it was just a huge this one was a real um it was difficult a real difficult task but we did it and that's this we got all of our shots we didn't get well outside of the intro from the outro enough to make the episode and the glass which we'll talk about and some other things besides all that stuff we did get everything we got the things that we needed to make an actual narrative episode uh which scene was your favorite to film when you're asked in this episode i know what you're gonna say what am i either when i get covered in alien goo or the vertigo chef virgo shot was fun just because it was something we haven't really done before and it was surprising that we actually got it um i actually kind of like this cabin scene the most because when we got in there the sun rays that were coming through there were not us that was just coming through the windows in like a really cool way like those moments are always really nice when you get like a free lighting as they call it from the sun thanks son yeah thanks son um yeah i would say mine was probably uh is it a player i don't remember oh you know what i actually i really enjoyed when we did the uh trading plate and um the oobleck oh yeah that was really fun to do um i mean the time where you weren't on camera yeah and i was like i really enjoyed it dom slink asks it's a zombie movie an actual movie or is just the genre so we'll talk about that more in a zombie movie but it's just generic zombie movie we cover a bunch of them because the issue that i ran into when writing that one was what is like the one zombie movie what's the defining zombie movie i think everyone has their own favorite zombie movie so i wanted to celebrate all of them uh but anyway let's get back into this shall we can you make an infinity fork working on it big boy i've been working on it for the past two years i thought that was her name no the name's not big boy this is big cass but i went for big boy anyway transition senses are densely interconnected and since sound exists as a physical vibration it's not surprising that our senses of hearing and touch are connected research suggests that our brains are wired from birth to incorporate information mark asks how does someone become a vsauce ooh sums here too what up son ooh radha how long did it take to make this video i mean here's what we did we started filming i mean we started writing in april of last year um we started filming in january of this year we finished filming finger tips the vibrations what did we finish filming i guess end of march was that when i did the blue angels thing right that was the last thing so i guess we finished filming end of march and then we finished everything editing in may yeah so i mean it took over a year in total to make this difference to help show the physical vibrations generated do you usually reach out to creators do they reach out to you i usually reach out because they're all my friends so i'll just shoot them a text and be like hey dude you want to be in our show and they usually say yes which is awesome and a solid depending on the amount of force exerted on awesome don't go to sleep let's drop the base we got a party going on here out section the sand is sitting atop a chladni plate we're gonna like just turns into a piece of metal that restricts sound actually tom scott has a video about

allowing us to see the standing wave pattern associated with different frequencies now each frequency causes the plate to vibrate in a different way in the same way between you guys and the microphones of those vibrations we're all friends vibrations so you are actually seeing this no the music that you're hearing is not the music the peaks and valleys of the oobleck are the anti-nodes and the flat areas are the notes why don't you guys be live on twitch reaper standing when i have time to be on twitter called faraday waves that looks so cool the sand in the oobleck make them normally invisible plus it just looks really cool that's sped on phantom footage actually yep the real [ __ ] it's like not moving you know you can come with me if you want be great we should really talk about the scream i think the scream is deserving of a transition i will safety first ricky i can't believe how good that was so why don't you tell us about the scream eric okay well while we were shooting this our show runner dave brown which he will deny but i'm going to say he 100 said this he told jake not discreet because his face looks weird when he screams so jake just kind of made a face pretending to scream um which is a funny face to begin with and then in post we added what if jake's like an adr screen like a fake one and it was the worst thing i've ever seen in my life i can re-enact it for you it's not a little bit like this i think this is like you paired it up with that shot and it's just it was i think he laughed for quite a while it was scorch is she actually deaf she is ricky wonderful creator and she is a deaf uh deaf person a deaf activist and it was very important to me to have this character portrayed by someone who actually was deaf i didn't want to have to fake it because like there is such a wonderful and vibrant deaf community on youtube it just made sense to me to reach into that community and i've known ricky for six years now so yeah i've always been trying to figure out something i can put her in and it pairs so well with this episode oh yeah um parmesan pista why are you wearing airpods max with a cable just get better monitors well here's the thing we can't do we have to wear headphones because if we didn't you would hear the audio coming out of our speakers back into the microphone uh the second thing is i have a headphone splitter i don't trust using bluetooth for something like this i want it to be wired so both of our headphones are plugged in yeah through a headphone splitter delays because the bluetooth is delay it can just drop out and then you lose audio and i don't have to troubleshoot yeah there you go did i really step on that nail i did but it was a fake nail and it just went through the floor yeah i just went to the floorboards now part of this set forever this is where you got the glass yeah this is me actually limping because there was glass in my foot oh do you want to talk about how you do nighttime shots because this is actually kind of cool i think this is kind of cool yeah so our one of our genie guys delete uh came up with this rig which is pretty cool it's uh it's a scissors lift with like i think he had like 10 just tubes of light strung up to it and raised it up like maybe 20 30 feet in the air and just blasted the forest with and it i mean it put out enough light to light up this entire forest yeah it's really cool so this is actually that but yeah we just have a scissor lift with lights shooting it over yeah there was a road like right up on the left of jake there so it was already high to begin with so he just blasted a ton of light yep just really smart so that's the thing like to me one of my favorite movie tropes is night time in movies because if you've ever been outside in the woods at night you can't see anything the moon isn't some beacon of hope that just illuminates everything yeah so like even in this like it's also funny key light oh yeah here is on the other side there's two moons um really bright so someone asks how does the nail work so it's just a fake nail i believe this rubber and so when i put the pressure of my foot on it just went fully down into the board and if it was just on the ground that he's foot would have just crushed it um there was another good one that i saw oh how much control cameron asks how much control do you have over directing

cinematography uh complete control i would say for both of us yes you know when because the thing is no one can interject when we're directing or doing the cinematography they interject during the scripting phase while they give notes on the script but once we're actually on set filming i mean we confer with our departments yeah like best way to do stuff like delete and jeff are great gaffers so that's why they came up with the rig for this nighttime shot here because normally if you're doing like a higher budget thing you have a balloon that floats in the air and it like creates this amazingly soft light but as you said this is not a very high budget show so it's a great solution for that and actually here's a good one um where was it oh why didn't you so casually asked why did you use a dolly zoom or why don't you use a drone like the dji mavic 2 zoom for the dolly zoom and this actually means an interesting thing when you're doing productions of this level there's a lot of things that have to happen if you have a drone it's not just like if you're supposed to have a drone we were but it costs a lot because you have to have a licensed drone operator yeah like eric and i we own drones we can fly them but we're not licensed drone operators you have to have a licensed drone operator which costs more money and insurance they also because we have nice rooms we have the inspire like a really nice one but our inspire isn't registered to the drone operator so the drone operator can only use the drones that they use so it's just a huge expense and it's a and also logistical thing location you're not allowed to fly drones like so yes one of the reasons we couldn't fly here as well this was an area where you literally cannot fly around yeah we couldn't fly drones here same thing with harry potter yeah we couldn't fly drones there so you have to actually follow the law it's not just like you going out and playing with your drone in a field at for fun when it's actually for a production yeah you get a lot of stuff yeah there's a lot of flyability um these things so there you go all right back to the show with a transition that's just somebody throwing leaves [ __ ] jake jumping off a ladder yeah that's me eric added some digital leaves in there let's see oh we got 12 tone hey jake 12 10 did a great job yeah they were really good 12 tone hey man it's nice to see the trap door works yeah and i'm totally fine as well hey 12 tone this is also very important down here don't you know there's aliens running around up there they've got superhuman here sean newton national park oh yes thank you sean is our wonderful line producer and uh executive in charge for the show sean nugent loves miami dolphins but yeah we couldn't fly a drone because it was a national park but couldn't it also be a weakness are you using gels for that redstone no that's um these two they're what are the asteroids is that what we were using yeah the asteroids didn't change any color it's like just as a refresher hurts is a unit of cycles per second so a 20 hertz sounds any heated arguments or intense situations i would say the intense situation is just the entire situation of filming the show in two days that's what's interesting like eric and i generally agree on everything which is why we like working together unless it's this actually but it was just like it would have been just three minutes of their night talking like this existed this was on set just digitally add a smaller screen it is 45 kilohertz which is well above the human brain lobby why are you hearing donation sounds in the background someone must be donating on twitter to defeat the aliens well people have come up with a lot of interesting ways of weaponizing sound you've probably heard of that thing where an opera singer blast with just the power of their voice how did you get on tv so let's pause there for a second let's talk about breaking class using sounds transition thank you we actually did it practically yeah we were able it took a lot of time but we're able to actually get a glass breaking with sound we even got it in phantom slow motion but the way a phantom camera works if you've never used one a phantom camera doesn't have a hard drive inside of it doesn't have like an sd card that you put in the phantom records to ram the same ram that you have on your computer and it can store things for a little bit but it can't save it permanently and if the camera shuts off it just gets

erased so you have to save it from the phantom it's directly plugged into an ethernet cord to a computer saved on a computer what happened here was the phantom shutdown and we lost the footage and we didn't have enough time to try and film it again so i reached out to my friend diana and she let us use a clip of her breaking a glass with her voice so thank you diana that was very nice of you we very much appreciate that you saved our butts the two hours lifting to tone with a glass in front of it for nothing um so there you go transition breaking a glass with sound is very cool but probably not powerful a quiet place they use a high frequency sound weapon so this is us and we can't call it what it actually is it is actually very similar to what the military and the police use to disperse crowds to discover the power like it's literally the same principle so this is a sonic sound weapon we just distanced from the weapon legally could not call it that oh this clear camera real quick flear we love flurry we use through a lot yeah i remember talking to them because i was like hey can one of your sorry let's just transition transit i was like hey i know that your cameras can see thermal you have different sensors and filters to see gas do you have a camera that can see sound waves which if there's one company to ask it would be and they said we literally just made a camera that can see sound the si124 and this is it so it can show you where noise is coming from similar to a decibel meter but with a visual representation yeah i think their main use they said this was for looking for sound leaks and like studios and stuff like that but it worked really well for our versus showing you know where the sound is coming from well someone asked cameron asked a good question what was the biggest struggle throughout filming um i would say time always not just on set time but also once we're in post like eric doing all of the effects if he had more time his life would probably be easier um if we had more time to film the episode it's probably easier so time is our biggest you know with me we're trying to make something i would say pretty grandiose freedom what we're doing so like time is always our biggest constraint because we want to make it the best possible show we can like you just a little italian the best a possible show that's like i don't know who that was like mario drunk mario you're like a princess i'll save you after this a beer is that your jamaican accent too it's also fake i'm a man of the people yeah okay and uh transition oh wait actually nevermind jail and asked what is something that went wrong on set this episode was it yeah this episode everything uh losing time with abner was a big was yeah because it kind of made our day so much harder well that's the thing that like so when it comes to crazy problem solving like how do we discuss with abner yeah we just filmed his stuff yeah and then the next day we filmed my stuff so trying to match it just to make it look the same so it i don't think if i never told you that if you were to watch the end scene with abner and i you would think we were both in the same room actually talking to each other and once we let abner within like two minutes we were kind of locked into that lighting style for the whole scene so that was real fun well yeah just a lot of uh i'm getting sued by nintendo bring it on actually don't sue me please i don't have nintendo money all right and transition it's connected to a frequency generator that will provide the sound which will be shot at me oh what did you think of the actual movie i really like the quiet place this sound generated is incredibly annoying so this one was and we don't want a subject so please enjoy this was and i feel bad because my reaction isn't like i'm not crying or anything but it was really really painful 130 deaths about like i cannot express enough engine taking off how unenjoyable this was i was improving for a little bit it was really nice it won't incapacitate like i remember while we were doing this for a brief moment of time i just couldn't hear anymore i couldn't hear anything i felt physically nauseous yeah and as eric did like dave our showrunner tried it out and most people yeah felt nauseous afterwards when cells in the inner ear are damaged like parmesan frequency

thank you for the offer release a chemical that activates the audience we make another one of these which in turn signals you live in los angeles are in extreme pain although this really hurts were there any filming struggles restrictions due to pandemic yes everything let's you know what we talked about this last time a little bit but let's just talk about the pandemic made things difficult because uh it costs a lot it turns out to make sure that you have a safe set testing so three times a week every single person as a part of this production which was like 60 some odd people had to get a covet test three times a week every person uh when you got to set you had to get your temperature read do a cobot test sign paperwork that says that you don't have it all this stuff and then every time i remember specifically in this one when i get the sound weapon at the end whenever we would finish filming a take or we'd have to reset i'd have to give it to the props people and they would wipe it down and they would wear gloves and then they would give it back to me yeah and every set has to be cleaned everything before and after yep it's just uh it's very difficult and you can only have so many people on set like one thing we ran into a lot especially in zombies and in uh titanic was that we could only have we were only allowed like six i think was six extras oh yeah the extras yeah i forgot about so we only have six extras couldn't have any more and they couldn't be near each other yeah making a zombie horde with uh six extras um so that was difficult yeah all right here we go let's get that's being closed yeah locations being closed is difficult but on some cases like universal studios or the queen mary for titanic they're like no one is here we're literally a tourist business we have no tourists just please use us all right transit it felt like there was this viscous liquid how much did it hurt i would say by the time i was like three meters away uh i don't know was it two meters away volume um i put it at like a 90 out of 100 it would not kill the enemy you're not supposed to spend more than what like 15 seconds in front of you yeah 15 seconds is the max that you're allowed to stand in front of it before it causes permanent hearing damage like this i love this sound cam that is perfect it's actually pretty simple as you can see uh was the machine safety megaphone if you used it within the parameters if you didn't go over 130 db if you only did it for 15 seconds then it was relatively simple it'd be very helpful in trying to find my vsauce family and maybe even that i think the most dangerous thing we did this season was probably the hypothermia demo in titanic really do you need some backup i could come with you really not fun doing it yeah that would be great and you get some fresh air you know that might be good for you yeah plus you know what they say two heads are better than one so if we work together i'm sure we can find your says so fun to show the power of good collaboration i mean you take some scientific rigors so here's where the wizardry of eric langley comes from canon okay volume that could destroy these aliens that a real shadow yeah that's jeff oh nice good job joe that was a real hit did you add hold on did you add that puff yeah i'm smoking it comes up because that thing weighed like i don't know like nothing else hold on let's watch that again let's all pay attention to when that metal piece falls after i hit the cabinet there it is fake dust yeah so this is all cut down yeah there was a lot more like that shot sped up like his movement there was a nice close-up i remember that because you have this beautiful close-up of the panel moving like slowly moving up and then it goes so each one of those panels has a rig attached to it so i can control how they move which is really it's pretty cool it's like one of the most more sophisticated rigs i've ever made for a character i can move those panels in any direction distance which one's open which one's close yeah it's really fun and that slime inside of his mouth is just some ropes dangling they're just going around with clear texture yeah it's very sophisticated creature and he has six legs too which is not fun animating six different legs you're a very sophisticated manager the kids looking at nothing that was so that whole scene was extended more there was more tension yeah and like oh is the kid gonna die oh is jake gonna die but we had to trim a lot of that out for legal reasons um that was much longer that was much that's yes it was but we just had to

oh that's improvise that's a 3d move too isn't it yeah it's a projection okay so let's actually go back i wish i had some let's go back to that so this is completely a 3d movie yeah none of this is real right yeah we had a photo of the stairs where 12 don't get pulled out it was just a photo so there's a technique called camera projection it's basically you project the photo onto a 3d object and you can move around it in space so it's like kind of fake 3d but it looks pretty but that's what i just really want to emphasize here that obviously the aliens aren't real but the door the doorknob every that is all not real that is all cg yeah this whole entire shot is fake which is it was supposed to be a drone shot and you see a bunch of the aliens running through the forest but we couldn't find first of all good drone shot of a forest yeah and something to connect it with the house because we didn't have the house either um so this was a this is a good solution i think js are there going to be extended versions of the episodes uh if youtube wants to fund director's cuts happy to do so you know get it trending roper ropercut on twitter like it let's do it again must be tough to cut material cj that eric made two uh extremely tough for me because i spent a very long time making things all right but we're almost done guys yeah should we finish it and as always thanks for watching no i don't know oh harry potter zombies let's make me happy to realize i don't think you're gonna survive this one all right that's right emotionally we didn't all right and transition so uh yeah what are what other questions you guys have what big influence does youtube have on the production malfix asks um well any network or studio that you're working with unless you're stephen spielberg has generally a lot of say in what you do youtube's very nice because ultimately they generally let us do a lot of what we want they're very involved in the scripting process so whenever we read a script we send it to them they send us notes we revise we send back and the same thing in the edit they'll send notes but they're very agreeable if you know if i disagree with something that they've said they're usually pretty open to it and we usually find a middle ground that's the beauty of collaboration yeah because filmmaking is collaboration and there's sometimes they'll suggest something that i don't i'm like ah i don't really like that but you know what it just gave me an idea for something else yeah like literally the reason that we have the arrows on screen pointing was because of a note that we got when we made the pilot mad at max where they were like we're confused could you explain this better and i was like i'll just literally draw it on screen yeah and that became a part of the show yeah um and it's fun you know it's yeah became like a style of the show so it's helpful i'm never upset when i get notes because if anything they just lead to new creative solutions which i really enjoy which is filmmaking like that's part of filmmaking oh marion what is ample so this show is a co-production between ample which is a production company and then vsauce um so we both make the show uh when finding a collab with do you need to reach out or are people waiting on the doorstep um usually i reach out and then i find out after reaching out they're like oh my gosh i would love to be in it i was hoping you would talk to me um is usually how it works yeah oh lobby thank you it's very nice of you what is the biggest issue in getting youtubers um well this year was copen yeah was the hardest part because generally you know most people are happy to fly here be in the show but we have a lot of difficulty we'll talk about this more actually with uh the harry potter one but you know with kovid they would have to fly here then they'd have to quarantine for like five days yeah and then they could be in the show and that's a lot to ask somebody yeah you know to be like hey basically give us a week of your life for only one day of filming like people like harris was totally for it so he flew in from utah he quarantined himself in an airbnb and then came to set that was very generous of him but obviously not everyone can do that because of their schedules yeah so that was the hardest part when it comes to talent this time around did you plan on talking about the grain tower that would have been awesome um yeah there's a lot of things in all these episodes that we want to talk about like when we write the scripts it's just pie in the sky as eric always gets scared of when he reads the scripts he's like how are we doing this yeah the um

the uh what does it say what's the process before you write the script like oh like when you're talking about ideas about what we need to do each episode they start talking about crazy things that i'm like how am i going to make that work yep yeah um so there's a lot but it also just comes down to we'll talk about much more this um next week when we do harry potter live stream but you have to make altercations depending on what environment you actually get so every skip script changes from like this is our idealized version to oh this is the actual location how do we get everything that we want fit into this location so you make changes yeah um what are some things in the script that eric has shot down due to practicality good question spin kitty i'm trying to think of any i usually can make most of the work i think the flying one jurassic park i was like no yeah jake and his dad were supposed to get picked up by uh the flying dinosaurs and it was like good i don't know if i could make that work ricky poynter's here hearts and chat for ricky everybody ricky you're a lovely person hearts in the chat for ricky flying on brooms oh yeah thanks dave brown yeah that was a no for me as we'll find out next week oh and dave brown's here uh any additional questions what is your favorite type of science to teach and study about um i really enjoy i would say i guess it's not technically a science but philosophy i really enjoy and then for talking to science specifically physics is really fun um but philosophy is my overall number one because it's just so fun it just messes with your brain which i find to be enjoyable which is why there's a lot of parents do you have instagram yes uh what can you help me with my science homework gamerboy for 20 million dollars i will do your science homework for you can pay me a dogecoin where does that number come from yeah that's just my price okay you know someone's gonna pay it one day please hopefully um but i think that's uh that's all we got yeah for today few things tomorrow could you survive harry potter comes out it's a really fun episode a lot of great people in it um our biggest cast yet i would say in the amount of people that we have in an episode yeah so harry potter comes out tomorrow 9 9am uh there will also be a behind the scenes that comes out at 9am tomorrow and then for the livestream next week i will be gone on wednesday i apologize i know i'm a terrible person i decided to take three days off uh because i haven't taken time off in so long i don't deserve it i don't deserve anything yes so oh thank you eric so next week's live stream will be on thursday at 1 pm pst instead of wednesday at 1 pm uh so that's when we'll see you next and we got harry potter coming out tomorrow next week i think is zombie which i really love that's a great episode zombie comes out next week as well and uh someone asks if i have help on the effects yes i do i have another vfx artist i work with jason miller who's awesome he's a good lad yes a nice boy kind eyes even though i found out that he's older so he can't have kind eyes no he's not a nice boy he's a nice man yes you know the student becomes the teacher as the padawan becomes the jedi as they say you know what i mean apparently we talk to each other like we're a couple who said that dave brown silver to uh all right well gang thanks again for your time thanks for watching it was a lot of fun we'll see you tomorrow for harry potter and then we'll see you next week for the harry potter live stream and as always thanks for watching i'm so close you're so close but it wasn't right and a transition to the end um

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