So let’s see how many hits I will get on this blog post with “porn” in the title…

Last weekend my friends Gloria and Ricardo had some friends over for a little soiree with food and wine tasting. It was sponsored by Mastro and San Danielle gourmet foods and they prepared four different appetizers with Prosciutto, Pancetta and Boccaccini. They were all delicious, but my favourites were the Prosciutto Sushi with melon and the Pancetta Ceasar Cups.

We’ve decided to enter a contest and had to produce a 2 minute video of people enjoying the food, so I took my Canon T2i, the 50mm 1.4, the 28mm 1.8 and the Manfrotto monopod and started shooting all the steps of preparing the food. I ended up with a lot of shots with shallow depth of field, focus pulls, slider shots… way too much to fit into 2 minutes.

My first rough cut was 12 minutes, then I cut that down to 4 minutes with an average of 15 frames per shot, but it was still double the length I needed it to be. So I used 2 editing techniques to cut the video down even more: The first was jump cuts and the second was split screen. This is definitely the video with the most edits in such a short time that I’ve edited and really feels like it’s perfect for today’s short attention spanned youth.

I probably would edit much slower, but in the end I actually really like the pace.

If you like the video, please “like” my facebook page and “like” the video again there to increase our chances of winning a $1,000 espresso machine: http://www.facebook.com/redgeckoproductions

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Jan Keck | 1 Comment | Cinematography, Toronto