Hello you lovely Food Tubers okay I'm doing a little video to support the
competition to search
a new Food Tube star with Uncle Ben's so very exciting
hopefully you guys are going to be sending in your videos. We're looking for anyone
male, female, child, adultt from any country in the world
if you're passionate about food you don't have to be a chef you could be a
cook
Or just a keen sort of food lover if you can get your passion
over to us at Food Tube we are going to love you
and get you on the channel and gives you loads of support so the whole idea of this video is that I give you
some of my tips
and little kind of hints about how you can make a great cooking video
erm I've had a lot of experience but at the same time
there's no right and there's no wrong okay if it's brilliant and passionate and if
the food makes you want to eat it then you've succeded
and and you could even be much much better than me so just go for it so one
of the things that makes food look gorgeous
and just really sumptuous and really natural is natural daylight OK?
But it kind of comes with a warning if you just look outside
by you got direct sunlight out there, which is horrible
hard, like direct sunlight literally is your worst
enemy and it will just wash all colour out people in the Sun
are uncomfortable, hot and sweaty. I't snot good. If you're doing it indoors
doing it near ambient light is really really helpful
you don't need to do in a massive room here I'm right next to
natural light and the colors are looking really really good
if I took direct sunlight it would look awful put it under fluorescent bulbs or spots
it would also look awful. Second up when it comes to kitchen
if you you know, like I said there's no while wrongs but
if you go really cluttered messy kitchen
TVs and piggy banks and kind of like, just like you know your front room has just
grown into your kitchen
just trying cleaning up a little bit clean it up, make it clear
Erm because it's got to be all about you and the food. You don't want distractions
Right, implements. I'm trying to get rid of any clutter stuff like this this is all
the kinda stuff
I know I'm gonna need to use spatualas, tongs
you know spoons. they're all a quick grab on my left
you know here I have my seasonings, oils there that's pretty much standard for me
it changes up a little bit. Things like chopping boards get a wet cloth underneath
it so it doesn't move around
and then it stays nice and still you don't want stuff moving around
you know washing hands at the right time is important if you don't wash your
hands at the right time
when your handling chicken or pork or meat and fish. Cooked meat
un cooked meat but people whether it's You Tube or TV they will be
online saying your rubbish, you're do not
do not fight with the health and safety
people. Even though it's You Tube they're still there and watching
They'll close you down man. Props are really, really important
what do I mean by props? the thing that you serve your food on
I call it hungry colors if it's completely white why
you know cameras, digital camera's especially hate white and the contrast
whatever's on it even on film's a bit fo a pain in the backside. So off white's a really nice
here's a green, now that's pastel green right and that's
really, really nice so I'd say that is a hungry colour. Now whatever you use
it doesn't matter if there's decoration on the outside
but you don't want the actual area where the food is going
to have too much rubbish on it. Okay? Now other things is
things, things like Boards. nice rustic board's a really really good
simple very affordable cheap sort of boards
to serve stuff on this is very very cool so even if you got
an awful veneer falling apart kitchen you can get yourself a nice board
and as far as the camera is concerned that's plating up well and it's just a
really nice place
you know when you takin still stills, doing thumbnails for your work or shootin'
the plating up. know if it's patterning quite nice here
neutral space and that's good because at the end, it's not about being pretentious
and sort of cheffy and finnicky
It's about having a clear place to really show off the food so you can understand
what the food is. The most important thing guys is, you know on You Tube
the stuff that works
is just just you being you like having a laugh
or being seriousif that's your personality. At the end of the day the best
ingredients
you can throw into your videos is you being comfortable
a great dish that isn't super complicated. Erm
and just loads of fun and energy and your job, your only job is to convince
complete strangers in many countries around the world
that they've got to go out, but that stuff and cook your
dish you can do that when you're a genius. Happy cooking
happy videos. I'll be looking forward to seeing all of
your amazing work. Lots of love. Take care.