Basement Studio Progress

 

The studio space I’m developing in my “fishing basement” has taken significant strides since I posted about it a few days back. In fact, instead of just having opened a place where I could have a consistent set and controlled environment for filming occasional intros and off-water videos, I suddenly have a space where I’m excited to film something.

The space is in an unfinished basement beneath a room addition. It had block walls and a cement floor and a pull-string light but no outlets. It is essentially a closet for outdoors junk, which admittedly is kind of a messs.

A few weeks ago it was a total mess, and I waded into a gradual reorganization project. Somewhere along the way I started wondering about carving out a corner for occasional off-the-water filming needs for my Fishing on Foot YouTube channel.

I indeed started with a corner and with a very nice green office chair a friend had wanted gone — which was perfect for what I had in mind. When I wrote the last post, a corner had been cleared and the chair moved to the basement, and I was considering using a big cooler as a table.

Since that time I’ve switched from the compressed corner to a longer wall space at my wife’s suggestion, painted that wall with some great “oops” paint she found at Lowe’s, added a bookshelf (for fishing gear — not books) that other friends were giving away, and moved a trunk from our porch as a table, which looks far better than the giant cooler.

I’ve also ordered a couple of battery-powered studio lights and added few wall photos and some stuff on the shelves. I still need mics, but I think I’m getting close to a decent little studio space. Of course I’m sure it will continue to evolve, but the base is in place, and I’m ready to put it to use.