Learn to create engaging cooking videos without a film crew. Improve your production quality and captivate your audience with essential techniques.
This course is perfect for anyone looking to create awesome cooking videos on YouTube. It teaches you the essentials—like lighting, audio, and production quality—without the need for a big budget or crew, making your videos pop and engage your audience!
Make cooking videos that are so good your audience can't wait for your next video, even without a film crew
Cooking videos are extremely popular on YouTube. If you search, you'll find hundreds of thousands. Unfortunately, most don't look very good. Some are even painful to watch...
Don't think that you have to have thousands of dollars in professional equipment to produce decent quality cooking videos or a crew of people to help you. It's possible to produce quality cooking videos all by yourself as long as you understand what really matters when it comes to making them. Believe me. I've been producing 1 video a week for over 2 years now and have over 16,000 subscribers. My audience thinks I have a film background, but I don't!
Let me let you in on a little secret: it's not all about your equipment! You can have have the best equipment, but if you don't understand the fundamentals to making great cooking videos, you still won't produce great work.
Although lots of people will watch cooking videos with less than stellar quality, they actually do appreciate it when you take the time to learn what it takes (and implement it of course) to improve your production quality. Well, unless your personality is so amazing that they just want to hear you tell stories and jokes!
Production quality doesn't just mean that your video is pretty. It also means that your video is a superb teaching tool. There are many small details that matter when someone is preparing a dish. Make sure they can see them!
What's Included
The course is divided into 5 main sections and is composed primarily of video. Each video explains key concepts and shows you what they look like. There are also a few cheat sheets, templates and several lists of resources for reference.
Ingredients for an amazing cooking video
Tools of the Trade
Making Time
Pre-Production
Recording Audio Separately
Who is This Course for?
This course is for anyone who currently makes cooking videos on YouTube and for anyone who has been thinking about it for some time.
If you currently have a YouTube channel and want to take your cooking videos to the next level, this course is for you. You'll learn key concepts that will help you see your production process differently and what you need to focus on to improve your videos.
If you are thinking about making cooking videos and haven't yet gotten started, this is the perfect course for you. You'll get an idea of what's involved and find out what not only what equipment you'll need, but also key concepts that will make your first video look like it's not.
What's Not Included
This course does not teach you how to edit your cooking videos. That information is in a separate course, "How to Edit Professional Looking Cooking Videos in an Hour or Less."
I do briefly discuss how my pre-production process makes editing a breeze!
The importance of lighting and ways to get the best light for your video and thumbnail images
How to get the best audio for your video
The foundation to all great videos
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I started making cooking videos just a short while ago on YouTube in April 2012 - Vegan Cooking with Love. I quickly realized that I had a lot to learn in order to produce videos that met my standards. After months of studying and analyzing other videos, I discovered the keys to producing high quality cooking videos on YouTube as...
I learned so much from this course. Thank you! The information was clear enough for a beginner like myself to follow and yet filled with lots of extras that solved problems I've been experiencing in my own content creation journey. Well done!
I am loving this course. Michelle’s lectures and tips are straight to the point, informative, fast, and easy to focus on (extremely helpful as I have ADHD.) I read in the Q and A that she’s made a course in editing and I’m looking forward to taking that next!
It's a great starter course. Michelle Johnson gives you a few things to think about. However, some of the resources don't work or are outdated. (i.e Editorial calendar resources from 2016. I am writing this review on 2 October 2020).
Excellent lessons learned. Wonderful job, Michelle. Very professional and helpful.
I enjoyed this course, it was extremely helpful, I feel ready to have a go at producing my own cooking videos now
Absolutely Excellent... Thank You!
Great Tips and Examples...
Chef Laly
My expectations were higher. I only found useful 1 or 2 aspects from the whole course. Also it seems to be a little be outdated.
excellent course. simple enough and packed with great tips and resources. i would recommend this to someone who already is familiar with mac/apple softwares. she is fresh and nice to watch. thanks for sharing this with us.
I appreciated that Michelle was so personable and real in her teaching. She gave good ideas that I think will help me in making videos for my students.
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Dawn
Excellent practical information. It is an oldie (2011) but goodie. Thanks for the great content!