This week’s project: filming a cheesecake disaster. 🙈 Yep, the cake was disgusting, but the video turned out pretty decent. Here’s what I learned from my latest videography challenge.
You may or may not know: I’m currently enrolled in a videography course through SyntraPXL. I always wanted to deepen my videography skills, but I’m the type of person that learns faster from experts than on my own. So with some free time on my hands right now, I thought this was the perfect opportunity to start the course I had my eye on since 2020.
@anneleenvaes Ik maakte een cheesecake met een recept van Pinterest en het was (zoals verwacht) too good to be true 🙈 #foodie #foodvideography #cheesecake ♬ origineel geluid - Anneleen Vaes
And in the spirit of continuous learning, I like to challenge myself to a videography project from time to time to directly apply what I learned during the course. That’s exactly how this video came about: it’s a combination of the framing, lighting and editing skills (in Premiere Pro btw) we just learned in the course. Of course, as I’m passionate about food photography/videography, I decided to shoot a recipe. And being the content creator I am, I also tried out some best practices for content and storytelling.
Oh, and I wouldn’t be my perfectionist self if there weren’t things I want to improve upon next time: the first being the white balance. We actually learned about white balance for video after I filmed this. The sound of the VO also isn’t completely up to my standard. On top of that, I’ll film vertically next time. For food, as I like to do a lot of close-ups, I don’t think filming horizontal, when I eventually need it to be vertical, works. But hey, that’s what practice is for. 😉
Want to read more about my projects? Check out my personal rebranding project from this summer.
