Void Darc and Tod Hollow open up their real four-day week: a Mortal Kombat costume shoot, an all-night edit, a Minecraft video squeezed in between, and three pub sketches shot in under an hour.
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Big Idea
The argument in one line.
A two-person channel hits five short-form videos a week not by working harder every day, but by staging different production tasks (idea writing, costume shoots, editing, low-effort location shoots) on different days instead of finishing one video before starting the next.
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READ IF YOU ARE…
A short-form creator or duo who wants a realistic, timed production schedule to copy rather than another gear list.
Someone deciding whether a phone camera and a garden green screen are enough to shoot comedy sketches without a studio budget.
A creator curious how much of the week actually goes to editing versus filming.
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You want a step-by-step editing tutorial. The video shows the general chroma-key process, not exact settings or software instruction.
You're after high-end production advice. This is fast, budget, comedic BTS, not cinematic filmmaking.
TL;DR
The full version, fast.
Void Darc and Tod Hollow show the real four-day process behind five weekly shorts: Tuesday buying a camera and shooting a Mortal Kombat parody with Amazon costumes and a garden green screen, Wednesday editing that footage in After Effects while also shooting a quick Minecraft mod video, and Friday recording three pub-based hospitality sketches in about an hour before finishing the week with golf. The costume shoot took 90 minutes to film and far longer to edit, while the stripped-down single-location bits took 12 to 25 minutes each. The takeaway is to stage the week by task type, starting a new shoot before the previous edit is finished, and to save the highest-effort format for the day with the fewest other demands.
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Tuesday morning. The host picks up a newly ordered camera to document the week ahead.
00:33 – 01:39
02 · Planning the Mortal Kombat video
Cheap costumes have arrived off Amazon. The two hosts play the game and write a relatable sketch list before shooting anything.
01:39 – 02:48
03 · Costumes and the prop garage
A tour of the outfit and prop stash (masks, Nerf guns, old costumes) while sorting Raiden, Liu Kang and Johnny Cage looks.
02:48 – 04:41
04 · Setting up and shooting the green screen fight
A bigger green screen goes up specifically so two performers can fight in frame; the Mortal Kombat sketch is filmed in costume.
04:41 – 04:55
05 · Wrap on day one
Shoot finishes after about 90 minutes, host is out of breath and dreading the edit ahead.
04:55 – 06:03
06 · Wednesday: the edit begins
Trimming 45+ minutes of footage down to about 80 seconds, then keying the green screen in After Effects.
06:03 – 07:39
07 · Squeezing in a Minecraft shoot
Rather than finish editing first, they shoot a quick modded-Minecraft part two, picking extra mods from viewer comments on part one.
07:39 – 08:04
08 · Friday: heading to the pub
Coffee run, then arrival at the local pub the host calls his 'temple of content' to film several videos in one sitting.
08:04 – 10:32
09 · Three pub sketches in an hour
A recurring hospitality-worker bit gets filmed as three separate sketches back to back at the same table and bar setup.
10:32 – 11:00
10 · Week complete: five videos done
The pair confirm the week's quota of five shorts is filmed and shot in about an hour at the pub.
11:00 – 12:56
11 · Wind-down: a round of golf
A one-hole golf competition, filmed as a bonus segment now that all the week's production is finished.
12:56 – 13:16
12 · Sign-off
The hosts thank viewers for watching the BTS format and ask for comments if they want to see more of it.
Atomic Insights
Lines worth screenshotting.
Two creators produced five short-form videos across four working days, Tuesday to Friday, not seven.
The costume-and-fight video took about 90 minutes to film versus 12 to 25 minutes for the other two shorts made the same week.
Writing the script and brainstorming ideas for one sketch took about 45 minutes before either camera came out.
They shoot in the garden specifically because it has better natural light and less indoor echo than filming inside the house.
Chroma-keying and compositing the green-screen footage in After Effects was described as the single most time-consuming step of the whole week.
They started shooting a second video's footage before finishing the edit on the first, running the week as overlapping stages rather than one video at a time.
Viewer comments directly shape follow-up content: for a 'part two' video, they read the comments on part one to decide which extra details or mods to include.
Three separate pub sketches were filmed in about one hour at a single location, showing how much time reusing one setting for multiple ideas saves.
The single most expensive prop mentioned was a roughly 200 pound sheet of vinyl flooring, bought so muddy shoes would stop ruining the green screen backdrop.
A bigger green screen was needed specifically because the sketch required two performers moving and fighting in frame, not just standing and talking.
The editor described importing over 45 minutes of raw footage for a single short and trimming it down to roughly 1 minute 20 seconds before compositing.
The week's production content ends with a non-work segment, a golf competition, filmed as a bonus wind-down after the last shoot.
Takeaway
Stage your week by task, not by finishing one video first
WHAT TO LEARN
Five weekly shorts got made in four days by splitting the week into distinct stages, writing, shooting, editing, and low-effort shoots, and letting them overlap instead of finishing one video before starting the next.
02Planning the Mortal Kombat video
Spend real time writing before filming: 45 minutes of brainstorming and scripting happened before any camera came out.
Pick a familiar, played-with reference (a video game both hosts already know) so relatable beats come quickly.
04Setting up and shooting the green screen fight
Reserve your highest-effort format, costumes, choreography, a bigger green screen, for the day with the fewest other demands.
Upgrade equipment (a bigger green screen, a vinyl floor) only when the format specifically requires it, like two people fighting in frame.
06Wednesday: the edit begins
Budget for editing, not just filming. Compositing and chroma-key work on one sketch outlasted the entire shoot.
Trim aggressively first: 45+ minutes of raw footage was cut to about 80 seconds before any compositing began.
07Squeezing in a Minecraft shoot
Start the next shoot before the current edit is finished, rather than fully finishing one video before starting the next.
Read the comments on a video before making its sequel. Viewer requests directly decided the follow-up's content.
09Three pub sketches in an hour
Batch multiple ideas into a single location visit. Three separate sketches got filmed in about one hour at the same table and bar.
Pick shoot locations for practical reasons: recurring access to one venue beats scouting a new spot for every idea.
Glossary
Terms worth knowing.
Chroma key (keying)
The editing process of digitally removing a solid green or blue backdrop so a different background can be placed behind the subject.
Green screen
A solid-color backdrop, usually green, filmed behind a subject so editors can later swap it out for another scene in post-production.
Resources
Things they pointed at.
00:30toolDJI Osmo Pocket 3
03:11toolRode Wireless Go 3 microphones
00:33productAmazon costumes
Quotables
Lines you could clip.
04:53
“So now I've got to pack down all this shit and fucking spend a thousand years editing it.”
Blunt, relatable creator complaint right after a shoot wraps→ TikTok hook↗ Tweet quote
05:34
“Even though it seems crazy that we haven't finished this video and starting another video, it's kind of the way we do things.”
States the whole video's workflow lesson in one line→ IG reel cold open↗ Tweet quote
07:11
“It took us about 25 minutes to shoot that whole video compared to an hour and a half yesterday, so a bit different.”
Short sarcastic punchline after a green-screen mishap→ TikTok hook↗ Tweet quote
12:56
“If you wanna see more of this shit, just fucking say it.”
Direct, unfiltered call for engagement, good closing beat→ IG reel cold open↗ Tweet quote
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Let's go buy a camera. Right, so it's currently Tuesday morning. I'm about to go pick up a new camera so we can show you guys a behind -the -scenes look at how we make five shorts in a week for mine and Todd's channel.
And I know I say a week, but it's actually Tuesday to Friday, so four days. So it's even less time.
The camera has been acquired. Yay.
I have a package. Guess what video we're filming today? Mortal Kombat.
We're shooting Mortal Kombat. So we ordered a bunch of really cheap -looking outfits off of Amazon, which will look great, I'm sure. So the plan is to shoot a sibling Mortal Kombat nostalgia kind of video, like our Lego videos or our little Big Planet videos.
We're going to take you through the whole process from beginning to end. And how it always starts for us is basically just trying our best to think of something relatable. So...
What have we got? Yeah, I mean, that's the classic. Let me do two of those.
We can do one where it's like, come here. Yeah, you got this. Oh, fuck.
Ow. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Are we going to do it all from the side on camera or are we going to switch?
Because for those ones, it would look probably better if we do the swipe from the wide. So maybe we can even loop the footage. In brackets, leg swipe and nut punch as well.
Leg swipe. We'll do one where I go in to punch you. We'll do the block thing.
Unlucky. And then... I want to do the Kung Fu Panda reference here.
Right, 45 minutes later, the video has been written. Yay! So we've spent a bit of time playing the game, coming up with ideas, thinking of fun relatable stuff, and we've come up with a list of, kind of a mix between a list and a script, what we've got now.
But we'll go and shoot it now. It'll probably end up being, like, way too long, but we'll end up cutting really snappy because it's for a short. So we've got the full Scorpion and Sub -Zero outfits, but we need to make Raiden and...
Luke Kang. Luke Kang. And Johnny Cage.
And Johnny Cage. So for Raiden, I bought a bunch of scarves, white and blue, and the hat. I mean, there's a lot of different variations of...
characters but johnny cage is kind of just like a guy in an outfit he's got sunglasses too don't forget the sunglasses and for lu kang we've got the red scarves black trousers and the muscle suit this is where we keep all of our um props and outfits it's a little bit of a mess you can see we've got like lego batman oh yeah got a bunch of different guns halo and Nerf guns, all of our accessories.
Which Johnny Cage glasses do we need? There's a lot of different glasses for each game, but I think Aviator's kind of do the job. Do I look cool?
You actually do look pretty cool. Sick! And these are all of our costumes.
Muscle suit! This is where we film all the videos is in the garden. The only reason we do it is because it's got good lighting and the sound doesn't sound shit because when you film inside it sounds bad, the lighting's bad.
We just bought ourselves a new green screen. Where is it? Specifically for this video, we needed a bigger green screen because we normally shoot with the pop -out ones, but we need to be able to fight each other in this video.
Doesn't seem that big. It's not any use to us, is it? It's no bigger than the one we use.
It sounds the wrong one. It's not big enough. Okay, we've managed to compromise.
We've used our old green screen with the new poles. 80 quid well spent. Fuck!
See if that works. So we've set up the green screen. This is how we do it every single day.
We set up a green screen. Not always this one. We film everything on my iPhone.
We use the Rode Wireless Go 3s. Yeah. Yeah.
It normally takes anywhere from like 30 minutes to an hour and a half. Some videos like the Minecraft ones, we get those done in like 15 minutes. 12 minutes.
Yeah. Prepare to witness the videos being made. That's all I got.
Let's go. Finish him. Our battle will be legendary.
Ready to fight. And you're going to be here. Yeah.
Finish him? What does that mean? Shall we just watch a Fatality of Sub -Zero real quick so we can just get a look at what it is?
Oh my god, it's so gross. Punch through, grab my spine, snap it. Anyways.
Can't be allowed.
I'm just checking the move list. Nice. Now, we're going to have to get you to jump in a freeze frame when you get a good pose.
I got a good vertical leap on me there. I reckon I could double that height. You actually reckon you could double that height?
I don't know. I might have to do mine again. Terrible.
That was good. That was the same. That was the same.
It's all of Sub -Zero and Scorpion's parts filmed. Now, we've got to film Raiden, Liu Kang, and Johnny Cage. Do I look like Johnny Cage now?
Yeah. That's what it looks like, isn't it?
I'm out of breath from all the action, but we finished shooting. I'm a little bit out of practice with my karate. It took us an hour and a half.
So now I've got to pack down all this shit and fucking spend a thousand years editing it. It'll be good. All right.
See you afterwards. So last night I went home and started the edit on the video. It's quite a lot of work this one.
It was over 45 minutes of footage when I put it into the editor so that was heavy. I started off by basically going in and trimming it all down to short clips and eventually it's down to about 1 minute 20. Then I imported into After Effects and the first step I always do is just key the green screen which is quite simple, it's always the same process.
So I went through and keyed out all the footage and that's about as far as I got to last night because quite a lot of work and didn't have that much time to. So today we're just gonna like focus on getting the backgrounds into the footage, start compositing shadows and adding effects, all the fun stuff.
The other thing on today's agenda is maybe shooting a Minecraft video. Even though it seems crazy that we haven't finished this video and starting another video, it's kind of the way we do things. We just remembered that last month we did a modded Minecraft video and we're going to do a part two of that because apparently there's tons of mods that we didn't actually get to put in that first video.
With our part twos, we normally just look at the comments. There's normally hundreds of comments about like, you missed this one, you missed this one, which is really helpful to be honest with you, so don't stop doing that. So today's Wednesday, the Mortal Kombat video's going up on Friday.
We're thinking that if we shoot a Minecraft video today, then I can edit that tomorrow. as I finish this edit, and then I can post that on Monday, which leads us to Wednesday next time. So yeah, quite a lot of work, but it's fun.
You're the crazy one. Right, so let's start all over again. Where am I, where am I?
I'm over here. So we're back out in the garden. This is the normal green screen setup we do.
This one's for Minecraft. Very different, very different. We bought this floor for in the winter because our shoes were always muddy and it was making the green screen go bad.
Maybe the most expensive bit of kit we have in this whole setup. It was like £200 for this one piece of vinyl, I guess it is. Sad.
It's currently raining and sunny. Yeah, love. Classic.
Oh, man. I've installed loads of mods just like that. Oh mate, we've got loads of mods just like that.
It's like you're having a little robot friend. These little fluffy sweethearts can go on your shoulder and or in cages. You've moved the hamster to your shoulder.
He's dead! He's fucking dead! These fluffy little sweethearts can live on your shoulder or...
They say bastards. These fluffy little bastards. Yeah, nice, nice idea.
These fluffy little bastards can go on your shoulder and or in cages. Channel the perfect acting right... What?
Right. Why are you showing me this? What?
This is much quicker than filming the Mortal Kombat video. Yeah, I did. And the hamsters were great.
They were sweet. What have I been doing? And that is a wrap on that one.
It took us about 25 minutes to shoot that whole video compared to an hour and a half yesterday, so a bit different.
It's 8 .15. I'm heading to the pub right now to film pretty much a week's worth of content in about three hours. I'll grab a quick coffee before we start.
Maybe a little snack. 8 .45. We're on coffee number two.
Just walking up to the pub now. Here we are. My temple of content.
What an absolute beauty. Look at her. So I'm just waiting for Darcy to arrive.
He's going to be here in probably like 10 minutes or something. And then we're going to start filming. Normally it takes us a couple of hours to film three to four videos depending on how inspired we're feeling.
There he is. So we've come up with a video idea. We're going to shoot a video where Todd is a hospitality worker and we go out to a pub.
It's kind of 90 % of the videos we shoot anyway. Oh, this guy. It's basically us going to a pub and I'm just looking out for the staff that even though I'm not working there, it's not even the pub I work at, and I'm just like trying to help out, trying to make us order easy drinks, trying to direct people to the toilet.
But if you go straight like we've had really fancy espresso martini, right? Yes in my team Yeah, I'm like I'm like try not to be cool. You know, I think I'm a bit on the nose You don't you don't get it.
Yeah, that's come. You don't get it. Yeah, you know, right?
Okay, we're gonna have to drink I'm thinking maybe a cocktail like an espresso martini. Oh, yeah. I don't think so.
May what why not? It's really difficult to make the bar tossing kind of busy right now. Oh, it seems fine to me You wouldn't get it.
You're not hospitality guy, right? Get a couple of pints. Okay of water Hi, how are you?
Someone, like, make the noise in the pub, like, oh, hey, oh, I got to spill his drink everywhere. Oh, my God, where's the blue roll? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good.
I think you're, like, trying to do it. Yeah, that's good. Oh, that guy must have spilled his drink.
Oh, my God, where's the blue roll? What? Okay, do the sound effects.
Oh!
Guys, can you make sure you keep the noise down when you're leaving? It's a neighborhood park. Thanks so much.
Todd, what are you doing? I've been looking everywhere for you. Oh my God, I've been looking everywhere for you as well.
This is the only thing we have. Todd, what are you doing, man? I've been looking everywhere for you.
Oh my God, I've been looking everywhere for you. What were you doing? I was probably just standing here.
Sorry, you guys looking for the toilet? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I didn't get the promotion for work, man.
It's been really difficult. You guys looking for the toilet? Just through there to the right, guys.
I was saying, your dog's really well for me. He didn't say that. The dog's well.
Who are you talking to? My best, my mates. Hospitality tongue, you wouldn't get it.
It's a secret hospitality tongue, you wouldn't get it. It's a secret hospitality tongue, you wouldn't get it. Like, not even, like, saying words.
It's chatting to my brothers in arms. It's hospitality tongue, you wouldn't get it. Do a really stupid gag where you're at the thing.
I'm like, this round's on me, I'll get it. And then we pan to that and you pull that one over. Yeah, yeah, yeah, what can I get you, mate?
Right, I'll get the next round on me, mate. Legend. What can I get you, mate?
How? What?
Do we get one last pint before we head off? Absolutely, mate. Let's get it in plastics, though, yeah?
But the pub doesn't close in like 20 minutes. How dare you? Give them a break for pity's sake.
Give them a break for pity's sake. I mean, the pint tastes worse. Very Harry Potter delivery.
Not an ounce. God, how much for a pint? They don't set the prices.
Keep those thoughts to yourself. God, how much for a pint these days? They don't set the prices.
Keep those thoughts to yourself. I'm sorry, sir. I mean, it's probably enough, right?
It's got to be, right? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. I think we've got enough.
Right. Wrapped. Time to go golfing.
One hour, we managed to shoot three videos, so that's us done in the pub for this week. Five videos in one week. Are we the best?
Yes. No. No.
Do a cool transition to the car, ready? Wow. Wow.
Yeah. Wow. Woohoo.
I missed it completely. You didn't even film it. No, no, no.
Our week has ended of filming. We've got all our videos done. We've done everything we need to do.
So now we're playing fucking golf. We're doing a quick one hole competition. Half four, 300 yards.
Whoever wins this hole wins the competition to be the most handsome brother, I think it is. I've already got this one in the bag, mate. He hasn't.
I always hit a slice. So I'm going to aim over there.
I mean, you did hit a slice. That's fine. That's fine.
A bit too right. I'm just gonna try and hit it straight.
Good shot. Not bad. Really hard shot through the trees.
I think I'm gonna have to do a bit of a burner.
You made it through? Yeah. Yeah, nice, good.
It didn't hit the tree, but... Let's go. Oh, this is a banging shot.
You gotta play it where it lies. 103, did you say? Yeah.
Pitching wedge.
That might be kind of sick. I'm pretty lucky to bounce out of that tree. That's good.
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. Yes. Nice.
It's going to roll a little bit. It's good. It's good.
Okay, you're... My worst possible distance. He's going to shoot this over.
Ain't no way. Oh, not enough power on that at all. There goes my chance of power.
I'm going to lay up the bogey.
I caught the top of it. Look at that. Look at that.
Oh, it turned. Fuck. Fuck.
All right, putt yours for a bogey.
I've got to putt this to win for a bogey.
Nice game, mate. Nice. Nice game, mate.
Well, I hope you guys enjoyed watching this kind of weekly vlog kind of thing bit behind the scenes bit of fun We enjoyed making it. We did. If you wanna see more of this shit, just fucking say it.
Don't be a bitch. Don't be a bitch. We don't own the pub by the way.
Just a little side note, we do not own the pub. We don't own the pub. Peace and love.
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