I’m making a big bet…

Moving into a new office and studio in NYC: seventy square feet, three white walls and a floor that needed scrubbing. This is how I got here and what the space is for.

Key takeaways

• The bottleneck is setup time. Getting the equipment ready to shoot even a single shot of video takes between thirty minutes and an hour.
• Multiply that by the fifteen to twenty-five new videos I need for LearnGit.io, the Git knowledge base and course I’ve been building, and the lost time stops being acceptable.
• I’m treating the space as a temporary three to four month investment. If LearnGit.io does well I might keep it.
• The plan for the room: plants and a lamp on the background wall, a feature wall of small wooden tiles, a hair light and a fill light, and shelving for interest behind me.
• I brought about fifty of the wooden tiles to test the look before committing to the whole wall. It worked.
• The hardest part is fighting the perfectionist urge to keep tinkering with a space that’s meant to be temporary.

Going further

The project the studio is for is LearnGit.io, the Git knowledge base and course those videos are being made for.