{"id":1231,"date":"2017-03-21T17:13:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T22:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2017-03-21T17:13:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T22:13:17","slug":"callies-mentor-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/2017\/03\/21\/callies-mentor-text\/","title":{"rendered":"Callie&#8217;s Mentor Text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TWSOiZrs3oA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0An unconventional piece of writing, Buzzfeed\u2019s YouTube video \u201cMexican People Try Taco Bell for the First Time\u201d depicts a few Mexican families trying United States fast-food giant and \u201cMexican\u201d chain, Taco Bell. \u00a0The short is set up interview-style, with two to four people in each section. \u00a0The video begins with a question asked to all of the participants before they try the food: what do they expect? After each person gave their answer, the tasting process began. \u00a0Each dish was presented to the audience and was followed by the reviews, in which each set of people conversed about how they felt about the food: its taste, how authentic it was, and whether they would eat it again. \u00a0The interviews were wrapped up with a follow-up question about their newfound thoughts regarding Taco Bell. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The video contains bright and clear visuals, easy-to-read subtitles for the audio in Spanish, and a coherent flow between each dish and set of people. \u00a0This video falls under the broad genre of food reviews, but defined narrowly, it is a filmed series of critiques with a humorous undertone. \u00a0This texts functions primarily for entertainment: it is short enough to keep the audience\u2019s attention, funny enough to make the audience appreciate it, and relates to an establishment many audiences will be familiar with. \u00a0It additionally functions to provide feedback about Taco Bell\u2019s dishes, but this is not the only purpose: after all, most of the audience have tried these foods before, they just want to hear what the interviewees have to say about it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think this text represents a good example of the genre of video food reviews because it serves both the normal purpose of a food review, to inform an audience about what the authors think of a particular restaurant; and a different purpose, to entertain an audience for a short period of time, a task which I think is greatly influenced by the video\u2019s distribution via YouTube. \u00a0This text should serve as a mentor for my own writing because it was extremely successful (currently, it has nearly 13 million views), the content is both funny and insightful, and the quality is extremely high in terms of audio-visual production. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMexican People Try Taco Bell for the First Time.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Youtube<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, uploaded by Buzzfeed, 8 March <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2015,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TWSOiZrs3oA\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TWSOiZrs3oA<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0An unconventional piece of writing, Buzzfeed\u2019s YouTube video \u201cMexican People Try Taco Bell for the First Time\u201d depicts a few Mexican families trying United States fast-food giant and \u201cMexican\u201d chain, Taco Bell. \u00a0The short is set up interview-style, with two to four people in each section. \u00a0The video begins with a question asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":329,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1234,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/1234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}