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Color Your Podcast World with Govee's Accent Lights
Transform your studio space into a canvas of color and creativity with Govee lights—where personalization knows no bounds.
Discover how these vibrant lights can match even the most specific color palettes, like hex codes, to enhance your home theater or podcast studio.
Brooke Galligan and Dan Craft take you behind the scenes of our own experience with Govee lights, sharing stories of how we've brought color to the PodcastVideos.com studios.
Imagine being able to customize your lighting setup to perfectly align with your brand's identity, creating an environment that's not just professional but also uniquely yours.
Curious about practical applications?
Hear about our creative collaboration with Dad's Corner, where lighting is used to echo the thematic elements of their logo, offering a new dimension to their studio experience. We tackle the intriguing ways these lights have been employed, offering insights into their potential without the need for high-budget investments.
Govee lights promise affordability and accessibility for anyone looking to elevate their studio ambiance. Join us for an illuminating conversation that sheds light—literally—on how you can revolutionize your space with just a flick of a switch.
Welcome back everyone to Autofocus with PodcastVideoscom. I'm Dan Kraft.
Speaker 2:And I'm Brooke Galligan.
Speaker 1:Very good to see you again, brooke. Today we don't have any props on the front of the table because the props are actually kind of behind us.
Speaker 2:Well, we kind of do. I need this. This is my control panel, but yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but we're not talking about the control panel, we're talking about the lighting behind us. Yes, these are.
Speaker 2:They are Govee lights. So basically, it's like lights you can get for your home. So, like, if you have like a home theater or anything that that, um, you know that you have, like that you want to like have cool accent lights for, like, if you have a home theater, um, these are lights that are readily available anywhere.
Speaker 1:Okay, this is not a special order. Nope, or got to get it from one spot.
Speaker 2:Nope, these are actually made to fit in your home.
Speaker 1:Okay, and we've utilized them for our studio.
Speaker 2:We made them for our studio. Basically, we wanted to try to add some color to the darkness that is these studios. So we basically wanted to try to add stuff like basically lights that kind of accent the back of the TV and then lights that accent the back of the wall.
Speaker 1:So, and of course we Well, a lot of our clients here do have specific colors palettes even in their logos we went with a black and white that is more black. There's a white one on here somewhere, but yeah, that's fine so the biscuit is that we can adjust these lights here in the studio, there you go, to match the color theme, the color palette of of a show it's a way to customize, especially here, since you know, podcast videos.
Speaker 2:We like to have, you know, custom studios. Um, it's more of a standardized studio setup we're trying to customize. You know, like there's broadcast videos is a studio that is very standardized, but we wanted to add a couple extra things so people could come in and feel like they have customized it. The easiest thing to do is to switch your lights. You can switch your lights to be branded and so you can send us your logo and there's certain things that we can do. So it's like we can pick out color. You can pick out one color, two colors, whatever you want to do. And what's great about the Govee lights is you can get really specific and really catered in on, like what those colors are, and so you know, if you send us like a hex code, we can get really close to what that hex code is. So if you want like a mint green or something like that, we can pull that color up, when a lot of other you know lighting things that we saw you can't get as custom with the colors.
Speaker 1:And so that's why we pick with these, and what's the price point of them?
Speaker 2:I have absolutely no idea. I didn't buy them.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, none Me neither.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:They like them though.
Speaker 2:Yeah, whatever it is.
Speaker 1:I know they're not super high dollar, sure, exactly how? I have absolutely no idea. So we've seen people use them in a couple of different ways. Uh, I know one of our clients dad's corner is a. It's got their. Their logo is a very boxing ring style with red and blue and it's one side, the other, red corner, blue corner, and you actually use. But the blue side of the logo is there, red side logo is here and they use the blue light. It's a nice little.
Speaker 2:It balances the colors nicely no, we, we, we keep it the same because, like, and it's in the and it has the cartoon of the guy.
Speaker 1:If we can pull it, the, I didn't I didn't even think about pulling up the logo. We don't need to worry about it.
Speaker 2:but yeah, so like, because, like the one guy is sitting on the logo, he has the red side and then one guy is the blue side, and so so when they come into film they actually are on their certain sides and so like they sit that way.
Speaker 1:I've actually seen them take the lights opposite of the way the logo goes, so blue over there with the red light, red over here with the blue light for balance.
Speaker 2:Either way. Yeah, you can do it. That's what's great about these lights you can customize it. Yeah, that's what's great.
Speaker 1:The. The other thing you can do is turn them around, and we did that pretty much immediately. Yeah, yeah, those lights are actually facing backwards, toward the wall.
Speaker 2:They're facing backwards and we'll show you why.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:With the red one, of course, and there's the blue, and there's the blue Because now it looks like you have, now it looks like you have, lightsabers.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:In your video and they're very bright and we don't like that look.
Speaker 1:It's supposed to be an accent, not a distraction, and this is just too much.
Speaker 2:Yes, we are not, we're going to turn back. We're not lightsabering right now. You can't. They're actually pretty sturdy and you probably could use them as lightsabers we have, Maybe.
Speaker 1:I wasn't here that day Missed it. I don't know if we'll actually get to do a review on their ability as lightsabers, but they're very strong, yes Now, and we've got a little bit of backfill behind the TV as well. Our first version of that just plain didn't want to stick to the TVs very well. It would look great until it fell out in the middle of the film.
Speaker 2:Well, what happened is the adhesive, so the back, they would stick to the TV, um, which and the which is what they're actually like it tells you to do that, um, but the TV gets warm, and then the adhesive falls off, and so then we decided just to stick them to the wall.
Speaker 1:Whether you're using a Govee product or anything else trying to backlight with that, the TVs do get warm. Even these new flat screens and you can have blooper reel moments when that adhesive decides it wants to give up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, when adhesive gets warm, it doesn't hold so tight anymore. So, yeah, you turn it around and we actually, instead of sticking them to the wall, because that's going to ruin your paint, we Velcroed them to the wall with, like those little Velcro strips.
Speaker 1:And we'll talk more about velcro strips. We'll also talk uh, we'll also talk a little bit more about the big white lights they can't see that are actually lighting us right now, in another episode so uh, yeah, but these things they're, so it's easy to customize them.
Speaker 2:And one of the things I really like about govi is you can actually go in and you can create presets and, and so basically whoever we know is coming in if we want white lights, if it's like autofocus, so you can preset the lights and you can literally just hit a button and it changes.
Speaker 1:You're basically picking the template.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we did a holiday thing which is actually a different green than big talk about small business uses.
Speaker 1:Yes, just a little bit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, just a little bit, and then you know, and then also that one has red. That's why I know it's the holiday, but then it's just you know. Basically you can go in and you can really customize everything that you want. And that's what's great about these lights is that you can do the presets, you can do snapshots, you can really customize it, and that's what we really really liked about Govee over other brands.
Speaker 1:Okay. So they're great. Little action lights period For our use here in the studio, they've turned out to be pretty ideal.
Speaker 2:It's just a really easy way to customize and let people come in and brand their shows and it's super simple and it's scalable, which is what we are looking for, yep.
Speaker 1:All right. So the Govee lights for Accent, just probably don't turn them around, because they will blow out every bit of everything, including your retinas.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and no intense lightsaber battles. No intense lightsaber battles.
Speaker 1:Not while the camera's rolling anyway. So all right, that is our section on Xcent Lights, the GoVs that we use here in the studios For Autofocus. I'm Dan Craft.
Speaker 2:I'm Brooke Galligan.
Speaker 1:We'll see you next time.