Objectives

  • Cafe Babel Birthday
  • Show network faces
  • Show babelian places in Europe
  • Show multilingual aspects of network

Concept

In each city where cafebabel.com is present, we will produce a 3 minutes video casting the different members of local teams and asking them “Cafebabel.com is turning 7, but what makes cafebabel.com so different?”
Answers of babelians should be short and in English (slogan, statements) and should be made in illustrative babelian city places in Europe.
At the end, all Babelians will say in their language:

  • happy birthday cafebabel.com
  • In (my city), I read cafebabel.com in (my language)

The Montage will be a compilation of all the individuals’ interviews showing the faces and voices of members of cafebabel.com local teams. They will be put together and end up with the happy birthday or the “In Berlin, I read cafebabel.com in German” (we don’t know yet)

The montage will be made by Brussel’s team, and should be as dynamic as possible (with music if we find some!)

How to do your video?

You need:

  • Camera
  • Microphone (if possible separated)

Please do not use mobile phones (quality often sucks!)
Please send us the video in the avi or mpeg at 640x480 resolution!

Find a babelian place

a place where young people and Erasmus students go, not tourists, a place which is inspiring and well known in your city! But try to find a place which is not to noisy, especially from cars!

Examples

  • In Paris : place Beaubourg, in front of the the Museum of Modern Art (Pompidu)
  • In Berlin: Alexanderplatz
  • In Brussels: place du Luxembourg

It’s up to you to find the right place!

Get members of your network together
In every city gather members of your local team.
1 to 10 persons, it doesn’t matter. The more people you have, the funnier!
You can have people with different accents, it’s great! Girls and boys are welcome!
Ask each individual the following question and have him reply in 1 short statement in English

  • What makes cafebabel.com different?

Ask them to tell in their original language:

  • happy birthday cafebabel.com
  • In (my city), I read cafebabel.com in (my language)

Please think in advance about what you’re going to say. And try to be the most original! We will show the first name of the people and the name of the city!

Shoot the video and send it to Babel Bruxelles

Deadlines

Please try to do the shooting during the weekend!
We ask all teams to send us the video contribution until Tuesday 29th January at 10 am

We will do a selection of the best contributions for the video and show the final result on 1st February on coffeefactory!