The funny thing about filming a cooking show is that you feel like you’re living in the future. We have to “celebrate” holidays early and work around factors like ingredients not being available, or the weather outside not matching what it should be by the time we release the video. This was our 4th of July episode that we had to film way before stores were selling any patriotic decorations. So I had to make do with what I already had and what I could find…and then of course, I go to Target a few weeks later and see their $1 section FILLED with red white and blue things! But it’s okay, I think I made it work and the pictures still came out really cute.
I also would’ve preferred to film this episode outside on our grill, but we were dealing with months of construction work around our complex and they told us to not store anything on our decks. We buried our grill somewhere in the garage and it was too much of a nuisance to go dig it out of there. But oh well… we just made it work with our little indoor grill pan.
It was pretty hot and muggy that day, but lucky for us, this was a really easy recipe and a shorter shoot in general. I’ve been saying that a lot lately huh? In fact, the shoot went so smoothly that at first I thought I’d have no bloopers to share with you… until we reached the end…haha! So don’t worry because I guess you can say, in the end, we delivered!
Our Banh Mi Hot Dogs recipe video will be out THIS FRIDAY, JUNE 26TH, but you can catch a glimpse of it now. Watch how everything went for us this day in our Behind the Scenes video below:
WATCH OUR BEHIND THE SCENES VIDEO HERE:
The photoshoot at the end was pretty tough. We try to have nice pictures for the blog, but our kitchen doesn’t always get the best sunlight.
The day of our shoot was pretty cloudy so we had to do a few contortions and tricks to get the right shots. I would say, this part of shooting our videos is always the most exhausting. This is when Joe goes into extreme serious mode and doesn’t even talk to me. I guess it’s because the pressure is mostly on him.
I just style the food and then try to assist to do whatever it takes to get the right lighting and composition. But if the photoshoot is the only real challenging part of our day, then I’d say it was a pretty good day.
We had a little difficulty trying to do our last scene because our rhythm was off, but we’re starting to learn how to just laugh at ourselves and keep going. Hey, at least we have good bloopers! Hope you enjoyed coming behind the scenes with us. We always love to share our process with you. Stay tuned for our recipe video coming out next!
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