October is the season for wild mushrooms so we bought some in the Mercat de la Boqueria in Barcelona, Spain. I have no idea what kind of mushrooms these are and the son of the mushroom man only knew the names in Catalan so good luck. But they were delicious! I recommend them.
Also, thanks to Fred for helping with this video. It's tough to shoot yourself. Where you see both of my hands, he's holding the video.
Hey Elise, Great videos...just to let you know we had to find your youtube channel on youtube.com in order to see the Frying Wild Mushroom blog....because this link doesn't work????
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I want some mushrooms now!
I think the video would have been better if you had explained what you were cooking. At the beginning I hear the guy talking in a different language about the mushrooms (i assume) but then the rest of the video lacks information.
Think of your video viewer's brains as having two sides. A visual side and an informational side. You keep the whole brain happy by either overloading one side with quality ie. AMAZING visuals or AMAZING story. Put them both together and you have a perfect video.
Since we can't always have amazing visuals (in the real world) we have to tickle the other side of the brain with information or else that side falls asleep and gets bored.
The other way around is that when you don't have much information or your information is boring then you need to tickle the visual side of the brain with amazing visuals.
So basically what I am saying is that if you don't have the best visuals then you need to supplement your visuals with information.
In this situation since you only had a dark kitchen and one camera you could have made the video more interesting by adding information to the video.
You could say "here are the different mushrooms we got today." and then have tight shots of each mushroom and give a fun fact about that mushroom.
Other information:
-what kind of mushrooms are these?
-where are they grown?
-where did you buy them?
-how are you cooking them?
-why did you decide to cook them this way?
-recipe?
-will you try this again?
To visualize what I am talking about go into your YouTube account and somewhere you will see a button that says "Insight"
You can view the stats for each of your videos. One of the stats has a graph that runs alone with your video. As the video plays you can see the viewer interest in the video. It is interesting to see that when information is being given to the viewer the attention is higher and when there is a lull in information then people tend to click off because they aren't getting anything form the video.
A simple rule I follow: Is the viewer better for having watched this video?
If they walk away (or click away) without learning or experiencing something either informational or visual then it was a waste of their time.
Note this rule is for professionally created videos. I know you are doing these personal videos as a teaching exercise and so I don't want you to stop doing video because I said that :) Just know and understand that the viewer always has to learn or experience something more after they watch the video than they knew or experienced before.
A good test: Does the video give more information than a good still image and a 5-W caption? Often our videos fail that test :(