Almost forgot...Inspiration!

One thing I forgot to post about is the inspiration that I had for my instructional video.
Having to make it really quickly I didn't have much time to do a deep research, but luckily youtube is full of this kind of video references, and one of the funniest persons I've found online is Charlie Mcdonnell, because aside of his natural charisma (damn you Charlie) and a good sense of humor, he has loads of experience on making home-made videos.
Even though they might be about random subjects, his skills on editing and way he plans and composes most of his scenes is what has been pushing up his videos' quality.

Now, even better than just having to look and american doing he's videos, is nice to know that we have a talented and funny person in our course that has good skills in making personal videos.
Sadly for me, I'm not made to be on the screen and even less, to talk in front of a camera, but that only gives me more time to focus on other aspects of my potential future films.

Instructional Video

The first part of the module for Digital Film Production we had the assignment of making an instructional video that lasted about 1 min and could be about ANYTHING. While working in a Mexican restaurant for over a year in the UK I've seen so many atrocities on the way people eat mexican street food, so I decided to make a video of it.

The planing was easy: ask my friends from home to describe me their process of eating a taco.

I got load of great ideas, some of them might sound funny or even silly, but I've done them all in more than one occation. 

I always knew mexican food was unique, but never thought that even the way of eating had it's own tradition. 

For the storyboard part I thought I was doing well by showing the gesture that I wanted and having a balance in the sequences between the speaker and the food shots.
This is what I came out with:

While filming I realised many MANY things that I didn't took in consideration:
- timings for each shot and the speed on the speech
- lighting (started filming when the sun was going down, so some shots are brighter than the others)
- scenario (I knew I could use the restaurant but didn't really thought of where exactly)
- audio (it was hard to capture the voice due to loads of noise in the kitchen)
In general, I honestly think I underestimate the planning process behind any project. Lesson learned!
Thankfully, my friend was really kind to help me out and he helped a lot with his patience.
This is the final output of the video:

At the end, my boss absolutely loved it and decided to put it on the restaurant's website (lol) so it will be publicly shown soon at www.pinchepinche.com