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Gyoza: Passion Project
Date:
2021
My Role:
Video Production (Storyboarding, Videographer, Video Editor)
Tools:
Adobe Premiere Pro
This video is a passion project collaboration with my fiancé. He is an aspiring chef who loves to cook for me. And as a supportive consumer, I wanted to promote his skills and passion by creating content for one of my favorite dishes he makes, Gyoza!
My Role and Challenges
When we were still living in Singapore, a lot of people were selling their homemade dishes to make amends during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since his Gyoza was the best ;) I helped out by promoting the product. We took photos and created video content to post on social media. And we sold Gyoza to our friends!
At that time, I was addicted to watching Daniel Schiffer on Youtube. His content is gold. One of his videos was about creating a B Roll 101 that inspired me to produce one for my husband’s Gyoza.
I listed out all the ingredients and objects used that will appear in the sequence. The idea here is to take the objects and associate them with an action. For example, a piece of garlic that we can roll, toss or chop. Then take those actions, and turn them into a sequence/shot list. This is not a fixed storyboard, so there is room for creativity and adjustments while shooting on location.
Shotlist / Sequence
Action Shotlist
To begin with, I didn’t have the fancy equipment. I own a Nikon D3000 (since college 2010. ancient lol!) and a 35mm lens. A GoPro Hero 7 and a couple of table lights. I tried to make it work.
Some of the shots I took:
The Outcome
The Gyoza business didn’t push through though. But people loved the photos and videos posted on social media. They commented it looked professionally made. 1 person even asked if he can apply to be a videographer (lol!). It was a fun passion project! I did learn a lot from the process. Maybe this can be applied to another business in the future. Stay tuned!