Very random question.. *guesses CNToAN might know*
IL Ruffino
31-12-2006, 19:10
I've been watching the Food Network for the past few hours, because the remote is 15 feet away from me, which is 15 feet too far for me to move. Well I think I'm noticing a trend in the shows; the sounds.
Is there any reason why a cooking show would want to.. um.. emphasize the sound of.. measuring spoons bouncing off each other, the sound of something frying in a pan, liquid being poured into a measuring cup, a bag crinkling?
Am I making sense? Or do I really need to get some rest?
It's to make the veiwers hungry. The sounds of cooking will make you subconsciously expect food. The sound can actually affect the taste. There was a chef on The Panel(a panel show on Irish television), the guy who invented egg and bacon flavoured ice cream. When people ate this ice cream with the sound of bacon being cooked, it tasted more bacon-y. When they played the sound of chickens clucking(or something like that) it tasted more egg-y.
IL Ruffino
31-12-2006, 19:24
It's to make the veiwers hungry. The sounds of cooking will make you subconsciously expect food. The sound can actually affect the taste. There was a chef on The Panel(a panel show on Irish television), the guy who invented egg and bacon flavoured ice cream. When people ate this ice cream with the sound of bacon being cooked, it tasted more bacon-y. When they played the sound of chickens clucking(or something like that) it tasted more egg-y.
:eek:
That's.. awesome.
New Domici
31-12-2006, 19:28
:eek:
That's.. awesome.
No epiphany is worth a world that is home to bacon-and-eggs flavored ice cream. I thought I had just recovered from the stomach flu.
:eek:
That's.. awesome.
Indeed, there's more to flavour than just taste.
Cannot think of a name
31-12-2006, 19:51
What was said, and the far less cool-
The chefs or cooks are often wearing lapel mics on their chests just behind their shirt as well as being boom miced. The boom mic is above them aimed down also at their chest, but is a very powerful and very directional microphone, so it picks up anything in that direct cone, which is also picked up by the label mic since often they turn that up so that it will pick up the person they are talking to as well in order to get a fuller and more sure sound. In shows like that, do overs are a pain in the ass and will slag the day of shooting so you do as much 'safety' as possible.
In addition to that the sound recordist will follow the actions of the chef with the boom because that's what they do, they capture as much of the sound of what's happening as possible because an image without sound isn't as dynamic. Sometimes we'll (I'm slowly moving into sound, so I'm optomistically going to say we) will even do a specific take just to get some sounds, usually walking or door shutting or the like. I spent a day once when I was doing picture cars driving around, starting, stopping and honking the cars for the recorder.
Neo Undelia
31-12-2006, 20:04
It's to make the veiwers hungry. The sounds of cooking will make you subconsciously expect food. The sound can actually affect the taste. There was a chef on The Panel(a panel show on Irish television), the guy who invented egg and bacon flavoured ice cream. When people ate this ice cream with the sound of bacon being cooked, it tasted more bacon-y. When they played the sound of chickens clucking(or something like that) it tasted more egg-y.
It couldn’t have been chickens clucking. Chickens clucking makes me think of a dirty bird, not food.