Food Tasting
I decided to make my genre on something that I find very interesting… Videos. For my audience to be interested as well, I want to go in depth with my videos by watching food tasting. I am choosing this genre because I know my audience and myself will enjoy it. These videos are shared on YouTube by various accounts and are very popular amongst our world.
Videos range in length as I have seen some being as short as 2 minutes and others being as long as 17 minutes. To begin most of these videos, we get an understanding of who the people are that we are going to be amused by. While learning about the people, we also get to learn about their assumptions for what they are about to consume. To follow, we get to sit back, relax and enjoy the fun of watching people’s expectations change while they eat away at their food. I am very interested in videos of people tasting food from other countries. Here in America, people eat for example Chinese food expecting that to be how it tastes everywhere. Little do they know, food from other countries have totally different tastes back where they came from. For most meals, the “contestants” get to experience an appetizer, entrée and a dessert. One of the most enjoyable parts of these videos is the ending part after the eating is done. We get to experience a recap with a reflective interview that we can all enjoy.
These types of videos have many different purposes but the most important is for entertainment. All hundreds of food tasting videos I have watched, I thoroughly get to enjoy due to the relaxed, fun and humorous tones. Viewers get to experience critique but also enjoyment by the people involved in the videos.
Videos I will be using:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqYGGqTC_Us The Jewish Food Taste Test by BuzzFeedYellow. Being Jewish, I find this video to be very entertaining as people get to experience what I have eaten over time in my life.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo59LlkTDe4 Chinese People Try Panda Express For The First Time by BuzzFeedVideo. This is a video showing people from China getting the opportunity to experience the Chinese food that we here in America get to enjoy.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zl3ZVlt_Io Indian Food Taste Test by Elly Awesome. This page has many different tasting videos with much amusement throughout.