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How to make an awesome Food Tube video | Jamie Oliver & Uncle Ben’s


hello you lovely food tubers okay I’m
doing a little video to support the
competition to search a new food tube
star with Uncle Ben’s so very exciting
hopefully you guys are gonna be sending
in your videos we’re looking for anyone
male female child adult from any country
in the world if you’re passionate about
food you don’t have to be a chef you
could be a cook or just a king sort of
food lover if you can get your passion
over to us of foodtube we are going to
love you and get you on the channel and
give you loads of support so the whole
idea of this video is that I give you
some of my tips and little kind of hints
about how you can make a great cooking
video I’ve had a lot of experience but
at the same time there’s no right and
there’s no wrong okay if it’s brilliant
and passionate and if the food makes you
want to eat it then you’ve succeeded and
you could even be much much better than
me so just go for it so one of the
things that makes food look gorgeous
and just really sumptuous and really
natural is natural daylight okay but it
kind of comes with a warning if you just
look outside there right you’ve got
direct sunlight out there which is
horrible hard like direct sunlight
literally is your worst enemy it’ll just
wash all colour out people in the Sun
are uncomfortable and hot in this way
it’s not good if you’re doing it indoors
doing it near ambient light is really
really helpful you don’t need to do it
in a massive room here I’m right next to
natural light and the colors are looking
really really good if I took that into
direct sunlight it would look awful if I
put it under fluorescent bulbs or spots
it would also look awful
second up when it comes to kitchen if
you you know look like I said there’s no
right or wrong but if you’ve got a
really cluttered messy kitchen TVs and
piggy banks and kind of like just like
you know your front rooms just grown
into your kitchen just try and clean it
up a little bit clean it up make it
clear because it’s got all be about you
and the food okay you don’t want stuff
distracting your implements I try and
get rid of any clutter so stuff like
this this is all the kind of stuff but I
know I’m gonna need to use spatulas
tongs you know tasting spoons stuff like
that they’re all sort of that quick grab
on my left you know here I have my
seasonings and oils
there that’s pretty much standard for me
it changes up a little bit
things like chopping boards get a wet
cloth underneath it so it doesn’t move
around and then it stays nice and still
you don’t want like stuff moving around
you know washing your hands at the right
time is important if you don’t wash your
hands at the right time when you’re
handling chicken or pork or meat and
fish cook me and cook me like people
whether it’s YouTube or TV they will be
online saying you’re rubbish you’re do
not do not fight with the health and
safety people they even though it’s
YouTube they’re still there and watching
they’ll close you down man props are
really really important what I mean by
props the first thing that you serve
your food on I call it hungry colors if
it’s completely white y-you know cameras
digital cameras especially hate white
and the contrast of whatever’s on it is
a fit right even on film was a bit of a
pain in the backside to off whites are
really nice here’s a green that’s a
pastel green right and that’s really
really nice so I’d say that is a hungry
color whatever you use whatever you use
it doesn’t matter if there’s a bit of
decoration on the outside but you don’t
want the actual area where the food is
going to have too much rubbish on it
okay now other thing is things things
like boards nice rustic boards are
really really good simple very
affordable cheap sort of boards to serve
stuff on this is very very cool so even
if you’ve got a awful veneer falling
apart kitchen you can get yourself a
nice board and as far as the camera is
concerned that’s plating up world and
it’s just a really nice place you know
whether you’re taking Steel’s
doing thumbnails for your work or
shooting plating up you know if it’s
happening in quite a nice clear neutral
space that’s good because at the end
it’s not about being pretentious and
sort of Chevy and finicky it’s about
having a clear place to really show off
the food so you can understand
the food the most important thing guys
is it you know an especially on YouTube
and food too but stuff that works is
just just you being you like having a
laugh or being serious if that’s your
personality but at the end of the day
the best ingredient that you can throw
into your videos is you being
comfortable a great dish that isn’t
super complicated and just loads of fun
and energy and your job and your only
job is to convince complete strangers in
many countries around the world that
they gotta go out buy that stuff and
cook your dish and if you can do that
then you’re a genius happy cooking happy
videos I’ll be looking forward to seeing
all of your amazing work lots of love
okay
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