The process I have chosen is making crème brulee. There will be two sets of instructions, one for “advanced” cooks and one for “novice” cooks. The advanced version will entail an elaborate from-scratch recipe and will include high level cooking technique terminology. The novice version will be very simple, using (possibly) an instant crème brulee mix or at least a very easy homemade one.
Crème brulee can be a difficult food item to make (correctly); the execution of making this would benefit greatly from systematic instructions (as do most dessert items). Plus, it tastes good and people can use this to impress their significant other...if they choose. I, of course, have made this several times and thus deem myself credible (not sure what else to say about this).
Advanced audience:
- Will likely cook on a regular basis
- Have made desserts before
- Have experience with custards
- Looking to expand upon the traditional recipe
Novice audience:
- Little to no cooking experience
- May not have all equipment required for “advanced” version
- Do not wish to take the time to try the “advanced” version
- Have never had proper crème brulee
For the graphics, I intend to include photos of this process as I do it myself. If we are allowed to, I may include video of certain steps that are somewhat elusive if only viewed in a photo. I also intend to be very Alton Brown about this, using cartoonish representations of things to drive home certain aspects of the process, mostly to ensure that the audience understands their importance-people often try to “shortcut” some parts of a recipe but often fail in the end.
Instructor Feedback: HiggsBoson
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It looks like you have a start here. You establish your topic, its legitimacy, and your credibility on this subject. I would like to direct your attention to two issues. The first is that when you differentiate your audiences you mostly position the novice only as a deficient expert. It is vitally important that you treat your two audiences as distinct entities with distinct needs, expectations, and values. You don't want your two instructions sets to differ only in degree (i.e., the expert set is just a cut-down version of the novice set); you want them to differ in kind (i.e., the expert set is qualitatively different from the novice set).
The second issue has to do with format. It isn't clear from the proposal what medium you intend to use (online video?). You are free to use any format that is appropriate to this topic (that is a design decision), but I can't quite get a sense of your intentions from this proposal.