I just finished two days of shooting about 56 recipe demos and cooking techniques for Chefs.com at the Kitchen Academy in Hollywood. We shot using the Canon XL2 in 24p.
In two days we covered 56 vignettes. Do the math… two 10 hour days, that’s 28 vignettes per day, divided by 10 hours… approximately 3 recipes per hour or 20 minutes each! Seems like a lot of time, but it’s isn’t when you consider you have to shoot every step, get coverage, hope for no major mistakes, and, as usual, all on a limited budget.
We had four assistants helping one chef prep and finish most all of the recipes. That’s a lot of cooking with little time to take a respite. But it got done (barely). We set up lights for the chef’s station and a tabletop for the finished plate.
The demos should be online soon – I’ll post when they’re up.
Chef Michael cuts an orange for garnish at our demo station.
My favorite chopsticks – when the plated food went to our tabletop set, I used the chopsticks to fix the arrangement of the food. They’re great for picking up small items on the plate and moving them around without affecting the surrounding food items.
Frame-grab of fried calamari with cocktail sauce on our presentation table.
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