Soba Noodle Salad: Behind the Scenes

There are days where my tongue decides to go on vacation and takes my brain with it.  The day we shot this Soba Noodle Salad episode was definitely one of them.  Oh sure I can laugh about it now, because in hindsight, it’s not a big deal.  But when I have an awful shooting day like this, I just want to throw my hands up in the air and run away, pure drama queen style.

It’s amazing to me what editing can do because that day, I was truly Mrs. Flustered Flusterson.  It seemed like everything made me distracted, from people laughing outside, to dogs running around in front my window, to Joe breathing.  

But the most shameful part of this scenario was that the recipe itself was SO EASY to make.  It was probably the quickest one we’ve filmed to date, and yet, it took us so long to get through because I couldn’t even form a sentence straight.  Now you know my secrets.

I guess that’s why I feel a little guilty when people tell me that I’m so “natural” in front of the camera.  Yeah, just come to our place on filming days and see if you still say the same thing.  Okay, I’m being tough on myself because there are days where things are smooth sailing.  But this time, I blame it on the fact that we tried to do too much all on one day.

Usually we will film our ingredients board and title page, you know that stop motion part of our video, the night before, in order to save ourselves the pain and stress of having to do it on the same day we need to shoot.  But because we decided to suddenly move our shoot date up a couple days, we ended up running out of time.  So we had to shoot on the same day.  That meant we didn’t even get to start filming the cooking part until late into the afternoon, which made us both exhausted and out of whack.

But you can hear me make more excuses and see some behind the scenes footage as well as some bloopers in our vlog below:

We took a walk last night and discussed that we think we’re both coming down with a case of “senioritis,” you know… like when you’re a senior in high school and you know you’re about to graduate soon, so your brain starts to check out and  you lose the motivation to keep working hard?  It’s no lie, we’re starting to run out of steam.

We promised 20 episodes for Season 1, and that’s kind of a lot.  And since I come up with my own recipes too, my brain is already overworked.  So there are some days where I can’t possibly think of something new to say.

But every time I watch back the footage, I realize it’s not that bad.  Sure I pause a lot or say a bunch of “umms” and “what do I say next?”  But you just edit that stuff out and it all works out in the end.  And if we stop to think about it’s  just ONE YOUTUBE VIDEO.  I guess I take my job seriously, Youtube or not… free recipe or not.  We always want to put out content that we’re proud of at the end of the day.

That’s why I like shooting these behind the scenes videos, so we can share with you how much we care and what goes into filming even one 10 minute video.  I hope you give this Soba Noodle Salad recipe a try.  Don’t worry… as long as you don’t have to speak in front of a camera, it’s completely quick and easy to make.