Homework number 1:
The podcast, "Held Hostage", narrated by Ira Glass who interviews Daniel Johnson tells the stories of people kidnapped in countries all over the world with high crime rates. In the beginning Johnson explains his work for ASI global- an organization that helps train people how to handle a kidnapping, raise awareness, explains what "kidnapping insurance is, and how to help victims. The podcast mainly focused on countries like Columbia and Mexico where the kidnapping rates are so high, people go missing for years but their families never lose faith.
In this podcast, they use many different kinds of audio. First, voice over. While interviewing Johnson, Ira had to pause the interview and insert a voice over in order to provide more information and context that listener may need to understand the next few clips. Second they used, ambient sounds. Throughout the video there was a calming, subtle song playing in the background and also music that gave cultural context (when referring to Columbia, columbian music was played as an introduction). Another type was interview clips. When an interview that was prerecorded was being added into the pod cast, it was done by using the clips that were edited and inserted. Lastly, natural sounds were in the background. When the clips used from Columbia were put in, you could hear the natural 'hustle and bustle' of the streets- people making small talk, dishes clinking, etc.
In this podcast, they used the idea of "non-knowledge..." because the interview starts of with an introduction, background info, basic facts, etc. to get the listeners on bored and give them a brief discerption of what will be talked about for the rest of the show. As said in the radio lab interview, part of humans are just so curious, so starting off the interview with basic info promotes that curiosity and may push people to continue on listening.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/409/transcript
The podcast, "Held Hostage", narrated by Ira Glass who interviews Daniel Johnson tells the stories of people kidnapped in countries all over the world with high crime rates. In the beginning Johnson explains his work for ASI global- an organization that helps train people how to handle a kidnapping, raise awareness, explains what "kidnapping insurance is, and how to help victims. The podcast mainly focused on countries like Columbia and Mexico where the kidnapping rates are so high, people go missing for years but their families never lose faith.
In this podcast, they use many different kinds of audio. First, voice over. While interviewing Johnson, Ira had to pause the interview and insert a voice over in order to provide more information and context that listener may need to understand the next few clips. Second they used, ambient sounds. Throughout the video there was a calming, subtle song playing in the background and also music that gave cultural context (when referring to Columbia, columbian music was played as an introduction). Another type was interview clips. When an interview that was prerecorded was being added into the pod cast, it was done by using the clips that were edited and inserted. Lastly, natural sounds were in the background. When the clips used from Columbia were put in, you could hear the natural 'hustle and bustle' of the streets- people making small talk, dishes clinking, etc.
In this podcast, they used the idea of "non-knowledge..." because the interview starts of with an introduction, background info, basic facts, etc. to get the listeners on bored and give them a brief discerption of what will be talked about for the rest of the show. As said in the radio lab interview, part of humans are just so curious, so starting off the interview with basic info promotes that curiosity and may push people to continue on listening.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/409/transcript
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