Work: team of 2 students

Time: 3 weeks (150 minutes)

Objectives: Record a 3 to 4 minute long video in which one customer orders food from a menu at a restaurant.

Note: 20 POINTS WILL BE DEDUCTED FROM THE FINAL GRADE OF THE PROJECT IF THE VIDEO IS 5 OR MORE MINUTES LONGER, b)IF THERE ARE LONG PAUSES AND/OR LITTLE DIALOGUE, c)THE VIDEO IS LESS THAN 2 MINUTES LONG.

Instructions:

1.Pick a Spanish speaking country and do some research online about the typical food from that country.
2.Pretend that you open a restaurant in Richmond and you sell only food from that country. Give your restaurant a name related to the country –either the name of a place or a dish.
3.Prepare a menu for your restaurant. You may use the templates in Word or click here to use this template. Both students have to save the menu in their e-portfolio with the name Proyecto 2, or Menu (note: if you write the accent on the u, Blackboard may not display the word correctly). You can also save it as a picture and use it in your video.
4.Prepare a scene in which one of you is the owner/chef/waiter or waitress of the restaurant and the other is a new customer/food critic. The owner must welcome the customer, who wants to know more about the food and the country. The owner has to explain the ingredients of at least of the dishes on the menu to the customer. You have to include at least one close up of the menu. At the end, the customer has to order and eat (or pretend to eat) the food and pay for it. You may want to write a dialogue and rehearse it until it sounds natural.
5.Shoot the scene and edit the video. Or take pictures, record your dialogue at the Media Center and use Photo Story or iMovie to create your video.
6.Both of you have to save the video file in e-portfolio.

Suggestions:
Shoot the video in your kitchen, at the cafeteria, or an empty classroom. Use humor. Ask another classmate or friend to shoot the video or secure the camcorder on tripod or a flat surface.

OFF – Only For Fun:

Dress up and use and real food. You can use twinkies instead of tamales or empanadas, for example. When you have to talk about the ingredients you may show each one of the ingredients –drawn on a piece of paper, made out of plastic or playdough.

You may also prepare the actual dish and video the process step by step. Each step must be narrated in Spanish. When you edit the final video, you may voice over the entire process.