How do I film cooking or process videos?

The Diagnosis

Process content has a spatial job — viewers need to understand WHERE things are and HOW hands move — so the shot choice is the pedagogy. The overhead is your foundation: top-down shows the whole workspace in one plane, which is why cooking content standardized on it; there's no spatial guesswork about what's next to what. The over-the-shoulder is your teaching angle: viewers stand behind the doer, which reads as apprenticeship rather than presentation and fits how people actually learn procedures. POV is your detail weapon: first-person framing puts the viewer's eyes exactly where the doer's are for the fine-motor moments. The strongest process videos rotate through all three — overhead for orientation, OTS for the flow, POV for the money moves — and that rotation doubles as your attention refresh, so the format teaches AND retains.