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What food or food tradition did each maker explore?
What materials did they use to explore these foods and ideas?
Is their creation a sculpture? A website? A library? An installation? A performance?
How would their work have been different if they chose different materials or forms?
What if the sculptor had made an online library? What might their library look like?
Did you explore those links? Go back to Step 1 and click on those links!!!!
Then come back to Step 2.
Make a list of 5 foods or food traditions of your own.
This will be the food or food tradition that you will focus on for the rest of
Time Traveling Through Food.
If you can, prepare or purchase your food!
Now you are going to make a short (15 seconds - 10 minutes) video about your food. The video can be in the style of a “how-to” cooking show, a commercial, an infomercial, a FaceTime with a friend, etc.
Here is an example (click the photo to follow the link):
In this example, the chosen food is pancakes. The filming style is a casual “how-to” cooking show.
Click on the images below to watch a few other examples.
In this example, the chosen food is loubia. The video style is a “how-to” cooking show.
In this example, the chosen food tradition is the practice of food waste. The video style is interactive, edited archival footage.
(Once you click the image above, scroll down to click “Enter Project” to watch the video/experience the artwork.)
(Once you click the image above, scroll down to click “Enter Project” to watch the video/experience the artwork.)
In this example, the chosen food tradition is journaling foods while traveling. The video style is a video diary.
Before you begin filming, take a moment to think.
Write down what style of video fits best with your food or food tradition.
Commercials and infomercials generally have a script. A cooking show may have a script or some guiding notes. A FaceTime with a friend does not have a script.
If necessary, write down your script or guiding notes.
What materials do you need to gather for your video?
If you weren’t able to prepare or purchase your food, how will you show it in your video? Will you draw it? Show pictures of it? Describe it in vivid detail?
Gather your necessary materials.
Film your video!
You can use a phone or computer camera app to record your video in one take, or you can use a video editing/sharing app to film a few scenes and combine them into one video. You can also find footage online that you want to collage into your video.
Share your food with a friend or family member.
Share your work from this section (Section 1) on the Time Traveling Through Food Aggie.
What is Aggie??? Watch tutorials here and here.
You can do this by adding an illustration of your process, a still/screenshot from your video, a written note about your food tradition, or any other way of sharing what you’ve done and thought about.
Email your video to joya.assael@gmail.com.
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