Cookery show - finished! a bit late, I know.

Student Survival Guide to Food - Creating our Succulent Student Stir-Fry

While I realise this is a bit belatedly put up, I thought I'd share our finished group task to create a cookery show that showed how to cook healthy, cheap and student-friendly food. My last post about it was about the filming, which took a disproportionately long time (4 hours for 3 minutes!) and therefore made the editing and post-production process longer as well.

Post-Production:

After filming, we all met up to do the editing process and, after many problems logging and capturing, were finally able to edit it down all the footage to the three-minute limit. After this we had to find up-beat music that we had free access to, which we were able to find from a friend of James Harris named ... We then needed to add a voice over, which Chloe and I did together using a Snowball USB Microphone from Blue Microphones, seen below.







Looking back at it, I think we could have done better on several things:

• not rush through the voice over too much - this was a result of realising after editing that we didn't have enough time to explain how to cook it as we would have liked, so we had to cut out all the non-essentials and speak as quickly as possible to be able to have it go with the visuals. The effect of this is that we didn't have time to make any comments or have fun with it, so it ended up sounding rushed and, to be honest, a bit boring and not as exciting as we would have liked it to be.
• Left more time for the post-production - because of conflicting schedules and having to find a time when we could all be there to edit as well as the problems we had with logging and capturing, we were pushing the deadline and rushing to get it done in time.
  

Overall, we did enjoy doing it and it was good experience in how to create a practical film aimed at a set target audience and with a specific purpose. We learned from it and definitely enjoyed eating the stir fry after we made it! Here is the finished result:

Cookery Show Finished from Esther Ridings on Vimeo.