What should my videos sound like?

As part of my strategy blog post, I describe how I want my videos to sound like

YOUTUBE INSPIRATIONS

10/29/20231 min read

Voiceover definition

Sounds and feel light, hearty, cheerful

Relive the fun experience of making food

Sources of inspiration to sound like

  • Gordon Ramsay for food passion

    • Love for ingredients in awe of it beauty

    • Naturally excited about food

    • Alluring voice to describe steps

  • Adam Ragusea for radio vibes

    • Loud bright voice for factual analysis

    • Sounds like not reading off the script

Musical definition
  • Length: up to 5 minutes

  • Looping: yes

    • Video usually starts with a hook intro describing the key takeaway for 30 seconds followed by instructional or descriptive steps (where the music loops as background music), and abrupt end (music fades out)

  • Interactive: what does this mean?

  • High level:

    • young adult naturally excited about fresh delicious food, learning with curious experiments and honest mistakes along the quest to create fresh delicious food at home.

    • positive cheery vibes that it’s ok to make mistakes and learn and adapt from them

  • Low level:

    • modern home kitchen setting using modern cooking tools and traditional methods of preparing food (as opposed to industrial mass produced food)

  • Reference tracks:

    • Light pop

    • Chill and lofi

    • Funk

    • Jazz Bossa Nova

    • Orchestra? Jazz? Pop?

  • Must not have: corporate tunes

  • Must have: strings? I like strings

    • should be evergreen to fit in any type of scenes: action, discovery, failure, delight