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Knorr

Post-production and sound design for a recipe video series, where the right audio makes cooking look as easy as it actually is.

Post-production Sound design Audio mix
Series
Multiple recipe videos produced with consistent audio quality
Broadcast
Finished to professional broadcast specifications
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Post, sound design, and mix handled by Studio ZK
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The challenge

Food video audio that actually makes you hungry

Recipe videos live and die by sensory appeal. When Knorr set out to show how quick and easy it is to get a delicious meal on the table, the audio had to do as much heavy lifting as the cinematography. Weak post-production would flatten the whole thing, but the right sound design makes every sizzle, pour, and plate-up feel genuinely satisfying.

The approach

Sound design as appetite stimulant

We approached the Knorr series the way a food photographer approaches a shot: get every detail right, because the details are the point. The cooking sounds, water boiling, vegetables hitting the pan, the scrape of a spoon, were treated as a kind of music in their own right. The mix was built to feel clean and appetising, with the music bed sitting just low enough to keep the food front and centre.

The solution

Craft in every frame

Sound design

Foley-inspired kitchen sounds, sizzles, pours, chops, built up layer by layer to make every step feel tactile and satisfying.

Post-production

Full audio post from rough cut to delivery, synced to picture and finished for online and broadcast platforms.

Audio mix

A clean, balanced mix that puts food sound front and centre while supporting the overall pacing and energy of the edit.

Why it matters

Audio that makes people actually try the recipe

A recipe video that sounds right is a recipe video people finish watching. The Knorr series was built to hold attention from the first sizzle to the last plate.

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Of consumers find audio more memorable than visuals when combined
PHMG
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More effective than visuals alone at producing high-performing content
Ipsos, 2020
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More likely ads with clear sonic identity are to be high-performing
Ipsos, 2020
ClientKnorr
DisciplinePost-production, sound design, audio mix
StudioStudio ZK. Amsterdam