of tomatoes and chillis and olives and basil it but that's actually not the

real reason that

I'm doing this video. This video is about how can we get you guys

to enter your recipes into the Food Tube

search for food tube star competition with Uncle Ben's

There's tips from myself and the rest the gang on how you can be the best

kinda maker of food videos this one we're going to just cook

and it's just kinf of little tips on kind of what the camera sees and how you can work with the camera.

we can come here come

come. the camrtsis your camera. also we're talking to you at home.

Some of the filming tips I think of when I'm cooking

you with me ok let's begin. So when you're ready to film

get your stuff ready, get organized. I've got all my ingredients out.

I've got my water boiling, i've got my pan ready and raring to go

anything that you need to see you know you got to sort of

make sure you do see. Even if you're filming it yourself. Hold it up

or if you're using a camera cam like we are, or a friend you know just

favor up it up to them so spaghetti goes in I'm going to twist it up like that, and it goes into the pan

always season our water.

It's your job and we're talking technical now to sort of explain

you know what you have around you or what you're excited about so

you know, I've grown these so I'm really excited about that also is quite nice to

talk about the fact that there's so many different variations of tomato is not just

a standard red

boring one. This one's a Guernsey milk one,

so Guernsey milk is really buttery. I think close ups are really important now

whether you're filming it yourself

on an iPhone or something you can get it down and literally I just put my iPhone

there like that filming what I'm doing it doesn't matter that you can't see me in

actual fact I prefer it at and we're gonna get right in there

and get as close as he can I'll bring the tomatoe to the same place every

time

so get those close-ups because remembers it's the close-ups

that are telling the story of food I mean the end of the day the most important

ingredient you can put in

is your passion and a good simple recipe

things that are dynamic, things that make grilling, things

pan fry, things they get tossed and shaved and beaten and pounded

that's very very sort of visual and people understand that

think about the dish you gonna choose for your audience

and and I think if you can do something that's fast and tasty

you're on to a winner

if you making a video to be put up on FoodTube or YouTube its up to you as the cook

to ask the cameraman you know to kind of follow it in the way you want it

okay also nice that when I'm slicing I'm slicing favoring

the cameraman. If I chop it like this you can see nothing

yeah if chop it like this right you can see everything

okay so when you're you know for the cooks you know there's no point in you

kind of spooning stuff towards you

becuase all you do is get the back of a spoon, you have to slightly oddly

spoon away from you. Pan hot, olive oil is gone in and

I'm gonna go in my fragrant things here it's really nice to get the camera in

there

the close ups but also sometimes it's really nice to toss that

right in the cameras faces as well

smell and taste you can't get so describing what's happening

right like the garlic's getting really crisp it smells amazing those herbs

are really really beautiful I'm gonna pick up these tomatoes now

I'm going to offer it up to the camera and then take it down south

I might squeeze in a little lemon juice and that in the oil

and a pinch of salt will be gorgeous

gorgeous moist delicious pork clean and juicy inside but now is here

it's gnarly!So if there's any important tips

you know like the stuff that you don't mention but you know about so you know

you don't drain the pasta

it's the pasta water you know and the oil that kinda makes the sort of pasta sort of

silky and

gorgeous so you can't forget to tell 'em so I we're just gonna toss this out

absolutely gorgeous with like you haven't got to be a chef

to be valid you know as a sort of authority

you just have to be passionate and look like you've made it a thousand times and

you should've

you know so like if you're sort of struggling to do anything that looks really weak

if your rubbish and you're just like clank clank like I don't care

That's chool you know it's just go with it he

I'm going to plate this dish up here if you go a little background like this

you can just plate that up like that. A nice beautiful platter

of summer spaghetti with

greenhouse tomatoes and all the trimmings simplicity itself

and at this stage guys its worth kind of

thinking about you from your thumbnail. The thumbnail that you're going to put up on FoodTube that

represents the dish it could be you holding some raw ingredients like this

You know, you can use a screen grab

from filming but often they're not great so always get still as well

and good luck remember good close-ups remember work to the camera

alright guys lotsa love and good luck and if you want to look for any the

details for the find new food tube

talent competition with Uncle Ben's click in the details below

and there's a whole load of other videos as well that will help you hopefully

be the very best that you can be. Take care