Home Brewing Beer.

[rabidbadger]

Few years ago my friends and I made a video podcast about making beer at home. I put them up on archive.org, seeing as we stopped when the host who's place we filmed in got a total kitchen makeover, and then he had a baby. We wanna restart it up. But need advice on how to improve it for "season two" this winter. Let me know.

Linkages: www.archive.org/details/SwillburgBreweryTwo

Watch in this order:
BasicBrewing One
BasicBrewing Two
Basic Bottling (even though that was the first one filmed, and shows)
Fausto Brews, one, two, three.

[danhauk]

Downloading now. Will get back to you

[rabidbadger]

Did you ever watch, Dan?

[danhauk]

Originally Posted by rabidbadger

Did you ever watch, Dan?

I did indeed, sir. Sorry I didn't reply.

I dig it. It was very educational into the brewing process because I had no idea how it was made before I watched it. I liked watching them pretty much experiment with their recipe by following a traditional recipe and then just tweaking it at random (at your random suggestions). More of that would be interesting to see, experimenting and seeing what works, what doesn't, etc. and then give a review of what they brewed and what they think could make it better.

As far as production quality goes, mics would be good if you can get them. Sometimes it's a little harder to hear over some of the background noise of water running, etc.

I also liked the steady, wide shots that were incorporated. Maybe, if possible, you could have one camera set up as a steady camera to get wide shots if they're explaining things at the counter, and another camera to get closeups, alternate angles, or anything else. But I also like the less formal, chatting format, so it's not necessary.

The ask Fausto thing at the end is a good idea too. He seems like a huge knowledge base of information about home brewing.

[rabidbadger]

Thanks for the feedback, Dan.

It's hard to believe that I started that almost four years ago. Back then I was inspired by what was the top vidpodcasts of the time. Diggnation, crashtestkitchen, and other home made casts. Back then that was when podcasts were supposed to be by and for the regular guy. Not networks recycling tv bits, npr just repackaging their shows, etc.

Rev3 was an inspiration, two guys on a couch and a mediochre camera/mic. They upped the game, and now the expectations of "network" style quality has sadly become the norm. Now "regular" folks making fun stuff is seen as "not good enough"

Of course, I always tried to do the best job I could with the stuff I had, but unless it was making money somehow, i wasn't gonna blow cash on expensive cameras, lights, etc.

We did do a trial Spin-off, called "eating beer" (cooking with our homemade beer) and used two cameras, one of which was high def. It did look better, but editing two defs, two vids, two sounds, soundtrack, and the fact that it was a full half hour, was a bitch. (especially in iMovie, I really pushed iMovie to it's limits with that one.)

To be honest though, when we start "season 2" soon, I'll be using the exact same equiptment I used back then, unless I come into a bunch of money first.

You can get "Eating Beer" here.