Welcome to Nate's Take!
Today we are gonna go in to the kitchen and I'm gonna show you how to film a cooking video.
Ok so first you gotta look at the kitchen that you're filming and decide how you want
to set it up.
Notice that I got a bright window in the back the there against the wall and I've got another
source of light.
A whole bunch of light coming in on this wall and so what I've done over here, is I set
up two soft boxes but I've actually got all five light bulbs turned on.
I got another video that can talk to you about the best type of soft boxes.
You'll see the very best ones have five different switches so you can control one light or three
lights or five.
So I've done a pretty good job of lighting up the kitchen now the lens that I have on
my cannon 80D here is a prime lens and I don't know if you can see this, it says 1.4.
This is a lens that can get a real wide aperture and really blur the background.
That makes a kitchen shot looks so good.
Notice right here I'm filming with my iPhone.
Let me turn it on here.
Switch it to video.
So I'm gonna have one shot aiming at me with that camera and then another shot filming
at the same time.
Filming what I'm doing on the counter top.
Up above I got the microphone a separate audio.
Now, I'm gonna be recording audio from all three places so this camera would normally
have a microphone right up here but I'm using it on the camera that I've been filming with
right now.
I'll definitely be recording audio right from my iPhone.
It doesn't have to be high quality audio but then I've got the third audio up there to
get real high quality audio.
Alright now we're filming on my cannon 80D with that
24mm lens it's set to the widest aperture so it can blur the background even thought
there's a lot of stuff going on back there, it's blurred in a kinda like looks cool.
I love that look, it a real professional look now I got my rode mic recording there.
The audio that you hear now is that mic.
Now I'll switch over to the mic just right here it's my zoom mic.
This is gonna pick up a much higher quality audio but I have audio recording from both
so I can sync them together.
Alright, now I got another camera that's aiming down at these products here that I'm gonna
use to make this gourmet cereal.
I love healthy food.
A few years ago, I gave up sugary cereal and I grew up on those so I needed some type of
replacement.
So I'm gonna show you how to make a sugar free cereal.
Now not healthy sugar free, but free of refined sugars.
We're gonna just take some quick oats.
These are not quick oats I mean, rolled oats.
This is Puffed Kamut.
It's just a puffed grain that's the only ingredient and kamut is like an older version of wheat.
They say it's one of those ancient grains or whatever but it's got about 50% more protein
than regular wheat.
So I'm gonna put that, pour some of that in there.
and then I like coconut. this is just a shred of coconut it's not sweetened.
just gonna throw in a couple spoon fulls of that.
then I'm going to take some raw peanut butter. was it raw? it's just not what they call it?
Natural! that's the word that I'm looking for!
I'm like what to we call a peanut butter? just without the sugar added in right?
natural peanut butter.
A good size scoop.
Just according to preference.
So then you just start stirring it all in.
So I'm just mixing it up to get that peanut butter basically coated on everything.
My kids like to add raw honey.
But I'm not gonna do that I'm just gonna use raisins to make the cereal delicious and sweet.
When you got that all mixed up then you just add raisins
and then pour on your favorite milk.
I like to use almond milk versus a dairy milk.
So that's how you make a sugar free cereal that taste absolutely delicious.
Ok so now let's talk about what we did to film that video.
We had two cameras rolling and you notice that it's switched back and forth between
looking at me and looking down directly at the food that I was preparing.
You can mix those back together you can also zoom in or zoom out just to add extra transition.
Because our minds are trained to have a lot of things happening when I watch a show in
television, or a movie, or something the camera angle or the shot can change every few seconds
so our minds really need to see that to stay entertained.
So you can use lots of different strategy to keep people entertained and it makes it
really easy.
Specially when you got two different cameras.
Ok back to this camera.
Let me show what I was actually looking at.
So there's the big bowl of cereal that I made and gotta need the lighting to adjust there.
but there's the microphone that was right above me and then my iPhone and the camera
I'm trying to adjust here for lighting there we go but there's the 80D that I was looking
into and you notice I've got the flip screen open so I can see myself.
Every time you film in a kitchen, things are gonna be different but if you focus on three
things, it will make sure that your videos are a lot higher quality.
One is lighting.
Now I had so much lighting in the time of day that I'm filming right now and I put two
soft boxes over there to balance it out. and then I know how to control the lighting settings
on my camera to get a good quality shot on my face.
Now the second thing is audio.
You know, I've got every camera records audio and I had a better audio that was as close
as I can get it to myself without it being in the shot.
And then the third thing is to have a really good lens that can blur the background.
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