Word up Food Tubers. Okay very exciting we're going to cook a beautiful summer spaghetti
of tomatoes and chillis and olives and basil it but that's actually not the
real reason that
I'm doing this video. This video is about how can we get you guys
to enter your recipes into the Food Tube
search for food tube star competition with Uncle Ben's
There's tips from myself and the rest the gang on how you can be the best
kinda maker of food videos this one we're going to just cook
and it's just kinf of little tips on kind of what the camera sees and how you can work with the camera.
we can come here come
come. the camrtsis your camera. also we're talking to you at home.
Some of the filming tips I think of when I'm cooking
you with me ok let's begin. So when you're ready to film
get your stuff ready, get organized. I've got all my ingredients out.
I've got my water boiling, i've got my pan ready and raring to go
anything that you need to see you know you got to sort of
make sure you do see. Even if you're filming it yourself. Hold it up
or if you're using a camera cam like we are, or a friend you know just
favor up it up to them so spaghetti goes in I'm going to twist it up like that, and it goes into the pan
always season our water.
It's your job and we're talking technical now to sort of explain
you know what you have around you or what you're excited about so
you know, I've grown these so I'm really excited about that also is quite nice to
talk about the fact that there's so many different variations of tomato is not just
a standard red
boring one. This one's a Guernsey milk one,
so Guernsey milk is really buttery. I think close ups are really important now
whether you're filming it yourself
on an iPhone or something you can get it down and literally I just put my iPhone
there like that filming what I'm doing it doesn't matter that you can't see me in
actual fact I prefer it at and we're gonna get right in there
and get as close as he can I'll bring the tomatoe to the same place every
time
so get those close-ups because remembers it's the close-ups
that are telling the story of food I mean the end of the day the most important
ingredient you can put in
is your passion and a good simple recipe
things that are dynamic, things that make grilling, things
pan fry, things they get tossed and shaved and beaten and pounded
that's very very sort of visual and people understand that
think about the dish you gonna choose for your audience
and and I think if you can do something that's fast and tasty
you're on to a winner
if you making a video to be put up on FoodTube or YouTube its up to you as the cook
to ask the cameraman you know to kind of follow it in the way you want it
okay also nice that when I'm slicing I'm slicing favoring
the cameraman. If I chop it like this you can see nothing
yeah if chop it like this right you can see everything
okay so when you're you know for the cooks you know there's no point in you
kind of spooning stuff towards you
becuase all you do is get the back of a spoon, you have to slightly oddly
spoon away from you. Pan hot, olive oil is gone in and
I'm gonna go in my fragrant things here it's really nice to get the camera in
there
the close ups but also sometimes it's really nice to toss that
right in the cameras faces as well
smell and taste you can't get so describing what's happening
right like the garlic's getting really crisp it smells amazing those herbs
are really really beautiful I'm gonna pick up these tomatoes now
I'm going to offer it up to the camera and then take it down south
I might squeeze in a little lemon juice and that in the oil
and a pinch of salt will be gorgeous
gorgeous moist delicious pork clean and juicy inside but now is here
it's gnarly!So if there's any important tips
you know like the stuff that you don't mention but you know about so you know
you don't drain the pasta
it's the pasta water you know and the oil that kinda makes the sort of pasta sort of
silky and
gorgeous so you can't forget to tell 'em so I we're just gonna toss this out
absolutely gorgeous with like you haven't got to be a chef
to be valid you know as a sort of authority
you just have to be passionate and look like you've made it a thousand times and
you should've
you know so like if you're sort of struggling to do anything that looks really weak
if your rubbish and you're just like clank clank like I don't care
That's chool you know it's just go with it he
I'm going to plate this dish up here if you go a little background like this
you can just plate that up like that. A nice beautiful platter
of summer spaghetti with
greenhouse tomatoes and all the trimmings simplicity itself
and at this stage guys its worth kind of
thinking about you from your thumbnail. The thumbnail that you're going to put up on FoodTube that
represents the dish it could be you holding some raw ingredients like this
You know, you can use a screen grab
from filming but often they're not great so always get still as well
and good luck remember good close-ups remember work to the camera
alright guys lotsa love and good luck and if you want to look for any the
details for the find new food tube
talent competition with Uncle Ben's click in the details below
and there's a whole load of other videos as well that will help you hopefully
be the very best that you can be. Take care