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[Pre - production] EDITING - HOW TO SHOOT AND EDIT A COOKING MONTAGE

Updated: Apr 10, 2024

Following the event, we have written a brand new script for our short movie "The Graveyard," in the script, there is a scene that requires a cooking montage of Pho. As the director of the film, it is my job to research more about this cooking filming field: what to record, which angle I want, and what kind of shot I need. And as an editor, I also need to know how to edit a nice cooking montage. That's the reason why I carried out this research.

The way I will research is to look for references and inspiration from famous cooking content creators and also look for guidelines online.

 

INSPIRATION/REFERENCE:

Joshua Weissman:

  • Joshua is one of my favorite YouTubers when talking about cooking content creators because of his excellent skills, knowledge, and humor.

  • In every video, he ends with a B-roll, which is similar to a montage, and I think I can learn from his B-roll for my cooking montage.

  • He has two videos of him cooking Pho: this video and this video.

  • Here is some of his B-roll:



Nick DiGiovanni:

  • He is another famous YouTuber that I like; he got into the final round of the American's Master Chef

  • His YouTube Shorts have a lot of fast-cut scenes of cooking with many angles and a wide variety of shot

  • However, the only problem is that YouTube Shorts are mostly in phone-screen size and are vertical (portrait), while my movie is horizontal. I will also need to watch and get inspiration from his whole video.

  • He gave a video of him cooking Pho

  • Here are some of his content:


Samseats:

  • Another famous YouTuber about cooking that I enjoy watching

  • He has a lot of YouTube Shorts with cooking scenes fast cut in a very satisfying way, and I can learn from it

  • He gave a short that he cooks Pho


 

FURTHER ANALYSIS/RESEARCH

Cooking B-roll:

  • I see that B-roll kind of video is what I am looking toward; that's why I am doing research about some examples of that kind of videos

  • Here are some that I found pretty interesting:


 

CONCLUSION (how this research will help)

After researching carefully, I conclude that I will choose the B-roll style for my cooking montage; the editing guidelines will be discussed further in another blog post.




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