Monday, April 4, 2016

Advance Broadcasting (2001)












Wine Tasting Event



I will never forget it was the spring semester of 2001 at Manchester Community College (MCC) I was taking Advanced Broadcasting and our professor had us into groups and I was in a group that was all about wanting to do our advertising group project in Culinary Arts. You want to talk about someone who was eager to do Culinary Arts? You didn't have to ask me twice, lol. Well, we had a chance to meet the professor who was over the Culinary Arts department. I knew that I wouldn't have a problem with Culinary Arts because I went to all of my friend’s graduation 2 years ago for Food Service in Culinary Arts. Our job was to film all that went on as the students were preparing to bake delicious chocolate covered strawberries & different fruit tarts (yummy). A really friendly female Food Service worker showed us all of the prepared desserts. What we would do as a group, we would all keep in touch via telephone on the days or evenings we could all meet on campus to prepare for a good 10 minute advertising slogan that would sell not only to all of our classmates but to our professor who taught Advanced Broadcasting as well.


Meanwhile, coming up were events at MCC where Food Service would cater to the different functions like a wine tasting party for example. Me & my group had to be really careful because there were wine tasters and wine drinkers. Wine tasters were the ones who could keep their cool. However, the wine drinkers tend to get out of hand a little. For example, we filmed a woman who was dancing like crazy after so many drinks (to music that didn't require dancing to it). The desserts were prepared by the trays and the students & professors prepared them by simply using flour, eggs, sugar, milk, fresh fruit, etc., to help make the wine tasting party fun! Me and my group made sure to keep our distance from the wine drinkers while we were filming because we didn't want our audience to be turned off by our slogan (just being smart). I think what made it so much fun doing our project is that we felt like we were in class and thinking about how we wished we could make good food like this. Culinary Arts is like a class where everyone works together as a team. I heard the term "you can help yourself" repeatedly to the point I almost wanted the professors in Culinary Arts to say okay "Here's y'all trays of desserts" but it wouldn't matter because I met a blonde hair woman who was a wine drinker (you wouldn't have believed it by the way she acted) told me to try some of the tarts.


I responded, "Oh, I'm alright."


The woman answered, "But you have been working so hard filming take a load off."


I replied, "It’s okay." (Chuckling)


The woman replied, "Now you are going to try these tarts and I don't want to hear another word."


I replied, "But Miss I'm full." (All smiles)


The woman said, "You have been working hard and I've been to wine tasting parties at schools like yours where students have worked hard like you do, most of them not as nearly as hard as you and they all act the same way, so you have these tarts as a snack!”


The woman was making so much sense to me so I didn't argue with her and took tarts for the road while I waited for my ride (my mom) to come and get me. Me and my group all met at school the next day and took what we all filmed on camera and edited it down to 10 minutes and our theme was entitled, "Eat It" because that's what everyone in Food Service did, it was what our group did, and what the people who came to the wine tasting party did to those delicious tarts & chocolate covered strawberries. My group got an A for our project and a standing ovation for a job well done!









































Chocolate covered strawberries











































Tarts
























"Eat It!"