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¶ … Crash For this project, I decided to shoot a video about how to make pancakes. I chose pancakes because it is a pretty simple, but delicious meal to make. While pancakes are most often eaten at breakfast, they can really be eaten at any time of the day and they are filling as well as good for you (depending on what kind of toppings you use, of course). There are many different recipes for pancakes, but I decided to use a pretty simplistic one for this project.

The main ingredients are flour (which can be white or whole wheat flour), eggs, milk, baking powder, vegetable oil, and butter. There are optional ingredients that you can add to pancakes -- such as blueberries or even chocolate chips, but for this video I will be showing how to make plain pancakes. The first thing I had to do was find a friend who would be in the video. Once I found her, I went to Whole Foods to find my ingredients.

This shot of Whole Foods was done in a wide screen shot, moving into close-up. Then in a medium close-up frame I recorded the image all the different ingredients -- the eggs, milk, butter, and flour. The next thing I did was give some information on the importance of washing your hands before cooking so you don't spread germs in your cooking. The next part of the video is the process of mixing the ingredients. The first step in making pancakes is to crack the eggs into a bowl.

In a medium close-up frame I showed how to melt the butter using the stovetop. You don't need a lot of butter, just a bit. Then using a spatula, I had my friend move the butter around the pan so that the pan was completely coated in butter so that they pancakes would not stick. Next, I had my friend add all of the ingredients -- flour, milk, baking powder, and vegetable oil -- into the bowl with the cracked eggs.

Then she mixed the ingredients gently with a whisk making sure not to leave any small clumps of dry ingredients. This, as mentioned, should be done fairly gently, but still with enough pressure to make sure all the dry parts are mixed together. If you don't do this, you will end up with dry chunks of flour in your pancakes. All of these cooking shots were done in a medium close-up.

For the actual cooking part of the video, I started with a close-up on the pan with the melted butter. I moved to extreme close-up as my friend turned the heat to a medium low flame for cooking. She used a spatula to move the butter around the pan a bit more. Using a ladle, my friend put the pancake batter into the pan. Then, in a medium close-up shot I showed the pancake cooking to a golden brown. This takes about two minutes.

When it is not runny on the top, the pancake can be flipped. As mentioned, this takes just a couple of minutes if it is on a medium heat. If the pancake is on a high heat, the underside will burn and the top will still be runny, so you want to make sure that the heat is.