December 8, 2010
As you may have noticed, I’m fueled by creating and connecting. So, last Wednesday (12/1/10) about broke the needle on my Joy-O-Meter when an idea conceived in October came to life. We filmed our first Kids Cook with Local Chefs show!
Local Chef, Laurey Masterton, generously and enthusiastically donated her time. Eight local elementary age students gathered to help Laurey create 3 Winter recipes: Squash Soup, Applesauce, and Apple Tarts.
A highlight of the cooking show was an unexpected lesson in Bees. Laurey reminded us that we owe these little winged-wonders much: most of our fruits, vegetables, and nuts are pollinated by bees; a worker bee spends its entire life making less than a teaspoon of honey; many life-lessons gleaned from bees apply directly to our own lives.
Jennifer Brewer, on behalf of Earthfare, graciously provided space for us to film, recipe ingredients, aprons, comic books, and coupons! Others at Earthfare helped with transporting equipment and baking squash and tarts.
As if it wasn’t great enough, members of the Reynolds Rocket Review came to film a segment for their upcoming December show. This was the first time that they were able to run cameras themselves; they will be editing the segment as well. Sarah Nichols, one of the Reynolds Rocket Review sponsors was a tremendous help in this multi-camera shoot!
Working with 3 cameras, lighting trees, and mixed audio was also exciting for us. Previously, we had only used 2 cameras at once. To prepare for this show, we watched a number of cooking shows online and on tv to study the camera shots, angles, and editing.
The audio was a challenge since the last person to use one of the cameras had disabled the audio and we never did find a way to restore the sound in that camera. (We're very grateful to use equipment from the Western North Carolina Community Media Center, but hope to have our own equipment someday soon!)
It’s been a week since the filming and I’m still pretty jazzed about it. The tapes are encoded and the footage looks great. Let the editing begin! Live Well; “Bee” Well!
Terra
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