1. Where do you think you’ve got the best pacing and articulation in a podcast you’ve done? Where is your pacing not that good? Where could the articulation be better? Be sure to explain why! Name the assignment and ID the rough time stamp for each good and not-so-good example. Be ready to share those excerpts with the class.

I think that I have the best pacing and articulation in my Audio Postcard Podcast. I think specifically in the middle of my audio postcard when I was actually walking through the trails and going on the “tour”.I left good chunks of time in between the nature sounds and the narration. At first I was unsure of how long the pauses were and thought maybe they were too long. But during critique a few of my classmates said they appreciated how long the pauses were between the sounds and the narration. I also feel that during the narration in the Into, outro and middle of the audio post card I had good articulation. You could hear my voice clearly, I wasn’t talking too fast, and my voice sounded calm. A time stamp that is an example of good pacing is 2:00- 2:14. This is when I stopped and stood still on the trail and you can hear the sounds of the birds. I think my pacing and articulation wasn’t the best in My soundscape #2 (Indoor). I did my soundscape at a UNE hockey game and recorded all of my sounds at the hockey game against Endicott. I feel that my narration in this soundscape is rushed and too loud in some places. Also I was missing an intro. A time stamp where I think my narration could have been better was 0:58 – 1:14. I think the sounds of the hockey game are competing with my voice and that I’m talking too fast.  

2. Feeling. Find your “best” moments of feeling in a podcast project you’ve done. Explain why it works so well, as you listen to it. Name the assignment and ID the rough time stamp.

My “best” moments of feeling are in my Soundscape #1. Throughout the whole podcast I have light music playing in the background and the sounds of the starbucks machines, drinks being shaken and poured and the usual customer interaction in the middle. During the critique my classmates said that they automatically knew that it was a coffee shop and some were even able to tell that it was a starbucks through the subtle hints like the drink size “grande”.  A time stamp example would be 0:20- 0:50. 

3. In Outlining and Ad Libbing, Mike Eiman is trying to help us be a bit more critical about the value of off-the-cuff narration. Research comes into play. You’re working on your scripted story projects. Spend 15 minutes identifying the kinds of information/research you’ll need to really explore these projects and pull together a story. You don’t need the outline or all the details. Questions are enough, if you also name where you might go for answers. OK. Now, try to put some of that material in some kind of order – introducing some bits, digging deeper into details, order of some possible details, etc.

Not entirely sure if I am comprehending the question but If I am understanding correctly I think this question is asking us to come up with a story and put in order aspects you might need to make the story make sense. My story would be the small cemetery that is located on the UNE campus. Questions I might ask would be 1.) How long has the cemetery been there?2.) How many people were buried there.3.)Who was buried there 4.) Why were they buried there? 5.) Why did the university decide to keep the cemetery there? 6.) Why don’t more people know about the cemetery? To find more information I would go to the library and I would research historical articles about the campus. If I were to tell this as a story I would introduce the people who were buried there (find out everything about them that I could) then I would tell a little bit about their lives, how they died and how they ended up in that cemetery. If I couldn’t find a lot of that information I would make the story focus on how the cemetery remains somewhat of a mystery.