5 Tips on Choosing Cooking Show Producers
Cooking shows are quickly gaining popularity online as more and more people seek ways to eat healthier, cook more meals at home, and learn more about culinary arts. But producing a cooking show isn’t as easy as setting up your camera and tripod, and starting off in the kitchen with your recipe. So much more goes into the production of a live stream or otherwise broadcasted cooking show and cooking show producers are your guide to success.
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1. Start with a Review of Past Projects
Producing a cooking segment is something that few film crews will truly specialize in. Now, that doesn’t mean you’ll struggle to find someone to produce your cooking show!
It just means that you’ll need to research a bit more thoroughly before you begin further analyzing the various cooking show producers that are capable and competent to work with for your project.
Check past projects for each of the professionals that you find. Watch the cooking shows or segments that they have produced. YES, this will be time-consuming – NO it will NOT be a waste of time!
You’ll gain a lot of insight into the capabilities and professional production skills by watching the shows that a cooking show producer is behind.
2. Interview the Production Crew for Compatibility
Just because you’ve found the right cooking show producers for your project, doesn’t necessarily mean your work is done. You’ve got to interview the production crew and make sure that they are compatible with your own crew.
Producing a cooking show means you’ll be with each other for several days or more while working on the film set. Compatibility is imperative!
3. Seek Referrals from Other Successful Cooking Shows
If you find a particular cooking show online or a cooking segment that you particularly like, you should ask who produced it. Don’t be afraid to talk around and to ask for referrals from others that are already succeeding with the same style of content.
In fact, even if it’s not a cooking show, but a particular commercial or some other style of video that you find which stands out to you, it can’t hurt to find out who produced and to follow-up for information on whether the producer has a background in culinary segments.
You might get a nice surprise!
4. Connect with the Local Film Commission
Basically every major city has a local film commission, additionally, many larger cities have niche specific groups that network together.
You might be able to find cooking show producers that are actively engaged in a particular culinary group or who network within the local film commission.
Both options are a great starting point in finding producers that you might be able to work with for your own production.
5. Ask Industry-Specific Questions
As you narrow down your options and start to get closer towards finding and choosing cooking show producers that could be the right choice for your own culinary segment, consider interviewing the producers you’re most interested in.
This is an opportunity to ask industry specific questions that will help you to gain insight into how skilled and knowledgeable they are in the industry. This is important! Take your time!