The Written Description of the Video Project

Purpose

I am the Women Club Coordinator at the Turkish Cultural Center in Westchester. The Turkish Cultural Center (TCC) is a nonprofit organization and has seven different locations in New York. The TCC organized different events such as Turkish coffee nights, annual friendship dinners, cooking classes, talks and more. The TCC also organizes trips to Turkey and I want to invite some professors, religious leaders and politicians from Westchester to this trip. To invite these people I need a presentation where I can show how the trip is organized. Therefore, I will prepare a video where I will show first who the TCC is and then pictures from previous Turkey trips. In summer 2010 the Senator Suzi Oppenheimer joined this trip with her husband and I will show pictures from this trip and other pictures of Turkey. I will also add a short video where Suzi Oppenheimer talks and explains that everybody should join the trip.

Audience

This video is for people who will be invited to the Turkey trip. Professors from the humanities, religious leaders, journalist and politicians might be eligible to join this trip for free. They have to pay only the plane ticket from the US to Turkey. My audience is well educated, from different ethnicities and religions. Therefore, I will choose pictures which show the diversity in Turkey.

Tools

To make this video I will use “Windows Movie Maker”. It is easy to use and I could find on YouTube different videos which explain how to use this program. I also will use YouTube-mp3.org which converts videos to mp3. It is very easy to use because you have to copy paste the YouTube URL and click to “Convert Video”.

Rhetorical Choices

The first part of my video will be a remix of different videos about the Turkish Cultural Center. This part will explain the work of the TCC and show some pictures from the events. I will use the original music and voice of these videos.

The second part will be a remix of pictures from Turkey, from the Turkey trip of the Senator Suzi Oppenheimer and also her video. I will chose pictures from Turkey which shows the important historical places in Turkey. Through these pictures I will point out how different Turkey is and how the modern and traditional life style goes hand in hand in Turkey. Therefore, I will try to find music in the background which has traditional Turkish sounds and also modern sounds.

Pictures from the Turkey Trip

Pictures from Turkey

Sound