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This pod­cast was very in­ter­est­ing. There was an intro that gave names, a brand and idea of what the pod­cast is about by play­ing dif­fer­ent but re­lated sound clips. In my opin­ion, this pod­cast is di­rected to­wards peo­ple who are con­fused about liv­ing in a city and try­ing to de­cide if to stay there or move. The pod­cast is a con­ver­sa­tion be­tween the host and co-host of the pod­cast that seems to have reg­u­lar shows. Even though it was a con­ver­sa­tion be­tween two, the sound clips made it sound like a table con­ver­sa­tion with many guests which felt very en­gag­ing. The clips were in­serted based on the con­text of the con­ver­sa­tion and seemed to have a rhythm. The sound ef­fects, I think were well placed to set a mood based on what they were talk­ing about.

Based on this pod­cast, I think re­searched data and its source should be high­lighted at that point where data is given. At some point, they men­tioned scrap-book­ing with the lady and I thought that this pod­cast is kind of like a scrap­book where sound clips were mixed based on the topic. Same with scrap-book­ing, scraps are in­serted based on a cat­e­gory. One strat­egy for in­sert­ing sound clips is de­vel­op­ing a topic, a con­ver­sa­tion, find sound clips re­lated to the topic and mix them in based on the con­text of the con­ver­sa­tion. Sound ef­fects should be in­serted also based on the con­text of the con­ver­sa­tion and the sound clip to set a mood like in hor­ror movies. I think set­ting moods make the lis­tener more en­gaged.

This pod­cast by Ra­di­o­lab called”cities” used sounds, re­search and a for­mat of the dis­cus­sion in a way that seemed rather bizarre to me at first. Maybe this is be­cause I haven’t lis­tened to many pod­casts in my life but its still sounded a lit­tle strange to me, but in a good way. Firstly the hosts in­cluded back­ground noise in cer­tain sit­u­a­tion to give me lis­tener a men­tal image of what they were dis­cussing. For ex­am­ple, when they were dis­cussing na­ture they put sounds that are com­monly re­lated to na­ture. I find this tech­nique fas­ci­nat­ing be­cause it paints a men­tal image for the lis­tener. Also they used re­search as a part of their sounds by in­clud­ing pre­re­corded con­ver­sa­tion and in­ter­views by the physi­cists and doc­tors to make it seem as if these “guests” were ac­tu­ally in the room with them and hav­ing an in per­son con­ver­sa­tion with the hosts. Each of the sounds and pre­re­corded voices were strate­gi­cally placed to match the con­text of the con­ver­sa­tion they were hav­ing or the point they were try­ing to get across. The dis­cus­sion be­tween the host and co-host was for­mat­ted in such a way that made it seem as if it was an in­ter­view, but through cleaver edit­ing, they were they only ones talk­ing in the stu­dio and the “guests” were just past in­ter­view that these peo­ple did. Using all these tech­niques they were able to make a very en­joy­able pod­cast that you want to lis­ten to.

In re­la­tion to our class pod­casts we could sim­i­larly use back­ground noise to keep the lis­tener en­gaged. Al­though the use of the “guests” voices was bril­liant in Ra­di­o­lab’s pod­cast and was part of their re­search we could use peo­ple state­ments dif­fer­ently by quot­ing them and giv­ing them credit.

This pod­cast was about cities. Speak­ers were talk­ing bout dif­fer­ent cities from all over the world that how each city has its own unique style. They were using dif­fer­ent sounds to make pod­cast more in­ter­est­ing to their lis­ten­ers like if they are talk­ing about fog, wind or rain they uses dif­fer­ent music and sounds for it, so their lis­tener can feel that things with­out even see­ing it. They dis­cuss many things that make up any city. Which in­clude peo­ple who live there and their cul­ture. It was good lis­ten­ing to pod­cast, when they talk to peo­ple from dif­fer­ent cities around the world you feel like you are ac­tu­ally in that city. Peo­ple who never been to cities for them lis­ten­ing to this pod­cast will give them clear image of any city they want to visit, and they will get a idea how is any city look like with­out even going there. Be­cause they tell so much de­tails and use dif­fer­ent sounds to make peo­ple feel they are in the city.

This pod­cast pre­sents a very vast and in­ter­est­ing use of dif­fer­ent types of sounds. Every­day sounds that give a strong vi­su­al­iza­tion of the scenery as well as music that de­scribe the cur­rent mood or re­ac­tion. The use of re­search breaks down to ex­pe­ri­ence, ex­per­i­ments, ar­ti­cles, in­ter­views. There’s two hosts that pre­sent a topic being dis­cussed. Giv­ing in­sights and ask­ing ques­tions on it while the ex­perts and guests elab­o­rate and ex­plain each topic/subtopic. Ex­perts are ei­ther live with them or an audio record­ing is pre­sented that give a de­tail scope on a cer­tain sub­ject. The hosts would give a nar­ra­tive point of view when­ever they pre­sent a record­ing of an audio or an audio record­ing of a video.

• This reply was mod­i­fied 8 years, 4 months ago by Richard Lok.

I lis­tened to the ra­di­o­Lab “cities” pod­cast. In the pod­cast, there was dif­fer­ent type of sounds, such as music, busy streets, etc. I think this pod­cast was just to give peo­ple who never been to dif­fer­ent cities a view of what to ex­pect. And the sounds play an im­por­tant role in the pod­cast, be­cause by using dif­fer­ent sounds allow the lis­ten­ers to have a bet­ter pic­ture about the cities. also, the sounds make the pod­cast more in­ter­est­ing every time they dis­cuss a dif­fer­ent point. It gives me an idea how to cap­ture the lis­ten­ers at­ten­tion for our class pod­casts.

The use of sound ef­fects through­out the pod­cast re­ally added a sort of am­biance to the over­all dis­cus­sion. I could hear the sound of the big city and the com­mon noises you would nor­mally hear while walk­ing down the streets of a city of Man­hat­tan. The in­cor­po­ra­tion of funny noises like the sound of the cow moo­ing added some lev­ity and humor to their dis­cus­sion. When the re­lax­ing music began it made me feel quite com­fort­able and also al­lowed me to keep on pay­ing at­ten­tion. It was the same as when our pro­fes­sor put on music in order to keep us fo­cused on our re­search. Using sound ef­fects and music in our group pro­jects may ac­tu­ally keep us re­laxed and help us speak calmly and allow us to col­lec­tively gather our thoughts. It also helps to have sounds that add to the ac­tual pod­cast. Over­all it was pretty lis­ten­ing to the var­i­ous sound ef­fects in the pod­cast.

The pod­cast was about cities and the sounds found in them along with com­men­tary. It’s in­ter­est­ing to me be­cause I’ve never re­ally heard this type of pod­cast and I’ve heard many over the course of my life. They talked about how cities are medi­ums and how they are in con­stant growth. They also spoke about other var­i­ous top­ics like un­der­ground tun­nels and water.