Carlina's Panchetta Del Sausage !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Recently in class we were asked to produce/film an instructional three minute cooking program aimed at students.

I was paired into a group alongside James Harris, Ross Weir and Carlina Flood (Presenter).

Conditions of the film were that the program had to be...

• Three minutes long
• The food had to be healthy
• The food had to be cheap and student friendly  (i.e. not too advanced)

We left our filming to the last minute (which is never a good idea) and the film was edited by James later that evening.

• My experience/Technology

We used two cameras to complete the final piece, the first camera we used was  James' personal camera which is a Sony VX2000. The camera itself offers good image quality and is built with an autofocus, it has a lot of features like a foldout LCD monitor and  it is equiped with very smooth zooming features . James also filmed his footage with an add on Lens which magnified his footage/Subject and that's how the viewer could differentiate between the footage which was shot by the VX2000 camera and which was shot by the regular Panasonic Camera. I found that it was great to work with two cameras as we were able to complete the filming more rapidly than it would  have usually taken due to the recording different shots at different angles, James filmed his footage with the Sony VX200 handheld and the footage with the Panasonic was filmed using a Tripod

• Shot's That I thought worked well with our production

I felt that the opening shot of the title (the introduction) it thought worked well with the whole production. Given the time limit we didn't want to take up too much time and we wanted to get straight on with the filming itself. We also wanted to be creative when introducing the show and didn't want to appear basic by using just the basic credits so we wrote the actual title on a white piece of paper and then got carlina to introduce the show.

The shots which were sped up in motion using the fit-to fill feature on Final Cut I felt worked well with our final production as it helped us show capture the ascendance of time and also worked well with the soundtrack. For example the shots of Carlina preparing the food and the shot of the hands on the clock rotating for twenty minutes clock whilst the food was in the oven it also the fit to fill feature also helped us in reference to stay within the time limit as we were able to stick to the time limit.
The tracking shots which worked well with our production I felt it kind of gave the viewer a hands on experience as if they were actually in the room with her whilst she cooked the food

• What I have learned

We were lucky to have had someone with a large technical brain like James who had access to the most sophisticated video editorial software and had filmed various videos before and therefore had great foresight But if I were to do it again I wouldn't rely on James if he wasn't in our group I would plan every detail due to organisation


I am very happy with our final edit enjoy.

 
Cookery Instructional Video from James Harris on Vimeo.