An hour before the lecture I met with Jak and Matthew to work out what roles we would each take on and what we would each do in writing our proposal and actually doing the dissertation. Matthew took on the issue of feminism and gender in the target audiences of cooking shows, Jak handling looking at cooking shows in general and I would be handling the production values, looking at what shots, lighting, sound, camerawork, etc were frequently used in shows and what we could re-adapt for our own show. We also decided to do a series of shows, each one looking at a different recipe. I spent most of the previous week watching as many cooking shows as I could get my hands on, Ready Steady Cook, The Naked Chef, Come Dine With Me, River Cottage, Delia Smith and even Man VS Food, an American show aimed at a mostly male audience.
I’m also planning to try and work out what recipes we should do and what we should use, finding as many as possible and trying them out myself at home, hopefully I can find recipes that’re simply, interesting, can be done within the time frame of the show and would make viewers want to copy them. So far this week I’ve tried sautéed chicken and a pasta sauce, sadly neither could be done in the half-hour time slot, my search for good recipes continues but I’m confident I can find good ones we can use as well as write my part of our 5,000 word proposal for our dissertation. The main problem I’ve been finding in my research is most cooking shows that at least try to make dishes the viewers can follow along with are an hour long, not 30 minutes and I’m having doubt as to whether we can do any good dishes that will take less than the 30 minutes we’ve given for each episode of the show, I’ll mention this to Jak and Matthew the next time we meet up
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