Instructional Video

Project breif:

Was to make a 3 minute short self contained instructional video, that focases on cheap heathy food for students.

Our group decided on making a vegetable curry, the ingredients cost us £5.80 and we managed to feed four us and could easily of stretched to five decent sized meals. The idea for the curry came from one of sainsburys feed four five recipes the food was healthy, tasty and cheap to buy. We adapted the ingredients a little as some of the vegetables were not to our liking.

I watched several cooking programs on you tube and television, to get an idea of how they set out the cameras and what camera angles they used. From the hairy bikers to master chief they all seem to use a variety of angles. Using celtex we broke down the stages of the recipe and sketched out each shot needed to explain the process.

We decided to use two cameras to film, one to take the wide angle shots and the other for the close ups. We nominated Rachel as the presenter a good choice as she took to role instantly, and kept us all highly entertained with her Australian student role.

Technically we had a few hiccups one camera filmed in 16 by 9 and the other 4 by 3 which is going to cause us problems in post production. The lesson to be learned there is ALWAYS check and make sure both cameras are set the same. We also didn't take into account the short time limit of three minutes and may have to use a voice over to explain each stage when we come to edit it all together.

Finished

We finally edited and finished the demonstration video. It took us a couple of hours to record the voice over and finish the editing, we had a few headaches with file formats and FCP, which resulted in having to render the film as a quick time movie, import it into Adobes Premier editing suite and add the audio, it seems that Premier is compatible with WMA audio format.

This was a fun and productive task, it made us think about camera angles and shots. Was I to take on a task like this again I would consider the time factor and work the shots and narrative around the time, rather than record the piece and then try to cut it later. We got around the problem by recording a voice over afterwards , which worked out quiet well in the end.