Tips to Making a Relaxing Recipe Video
During quarantine, I found that cooking and baking can be quite relaxing. I’ve watched so many Peaceful Cuisine’s videos on YouTube and decided to try making a video myself! I posted this one on National Bubble Tea Day.
Making the video:
Wow, this was a journey. I used a portable table and an induction burner so no one would need to see my dirty stove. I filmed next to large windows with lots of light white curtains to diffuse the light. I tried to eliminate all additional sounds because I didn’t have a microphone to get just the cooking sounds. However, you can still hear my clock ticking throughout the video. A huge struggle for me was that my camera ran out of batteries multiple times and my SD card ran out of memory. Oh, and editing was a struggle on DaVinci Resolve. It froze partway and I never hit save T_T
Tips for making a video in this style:
prepare ingredients and all other materials
make sure you can keep your camera plugged into an outlet so battery is not an issue
remove anything that would make unwanted noise (clock, fan, etc). sorry, no filming when it rains outside.
film in a location with lots of diffused and indirect light if you don’t have lighting equipment
practice how you will pour things without the ingredients. you don’t want to accidentally cover the camera with your arm
use a tripod! shaky videos are not relaxing
check that you have enough memory on your SD card
save your video edits often
search soundcloud and youtube for no copyright music and credit appropriately