Instructional video Inspiration

I took a few inspirations for my instructional video, most notably, Stuart Ashens.

Stuart Ashens does video reviews of old or fake electronic games and equipment, almost all of his videos take place in a first person perspective, with his hands coming from the sides of the camera. He narrates over each review, giving a funny commentary for each fake toy or game. I have taken a lot of inspiration from Ashens, such as wearing a suit for the video, having some first person perspective shots and utilizing a similar sense of humour.

I also took a lot of inspiration from 5-Seconds films.

5-Second films make a 5-second video every weekday, collected all of that week's videos into a collection on the weekend. Occasionally they produce and short film. I think the videos they produce are very funny and are a constant source of entertainment, they influenced my sense of humour for the video and the small title cards for the video.

How to Make an Egg! & Making of

This is my instructional video for how to fry an egg. I have tried to keep to the storyboard I created as much as possible, though there have been some changes and problems. I am very happy with the black and white scenes, which came out a lot longer than expected as I wanted to keep it to the music. There are certain scenes which I feel could of been improved on. Such as the egg smash and the recording of the actual frying of the egg. I originally recorded the audio at my house, but some of the recording didn't turn out as well as I thought they would. I ended up recording it in College, which turned out much better than my house recording.

I also recorded myself going to the field scene and setting up for the video with my other camera.

Individual film ideas & storyboard

For our first task we had to create a one minute instructional video. This could be done in any style and be about anything we wanted. Immediately I started to sketch some ideas.

 

I decided I wanted to do an instructional video for something very simple (How to fry and egg) and make it very melodramatic. I also wanted to make it funny so I would juxtapose the very serious scenes with more comedic scenes.

After I fleshed out some ideas for my film I created a storyboard for the key frames of the video.

I planned to make the serious scenes black and white, taking place in a field. It would then cut to the actual instructional part of the video in full colour and in the kitchen. All of the scenes in the video would only require a crew of one, with the use of a tripod.