The Four Kinds of Audio
Podcasts have always been something I wanted to learn more about and explore but I never took the time to sit down and listen to them. Podcasts are great to listen to anywhere at anytime, but I've never given them much thought. Initially I was taken by surprise when I saw the several types of podcasts that Radio Lab had to offer. I was even more surprised when I read the article, "10 Tips for Using Audio More Effectively in Multimedia Stories". Whenever I watch a video or film, I'm automatically drawn to the lighting, scenery, pictures and all of the visual aspects that makes it up. After reading this article, I realized I've never really taken the audio into detail as much as I do with the visuals and I'm eager to pay attention to that as I continue to watch videos in the future.
The four finds of audio that were mentioned in the article were interview clips, voice-overs, natural sounds, and ambient sounds. After reading the four kinds of audio, I was ready to listen to my first podcast going into it with a much more clear idea of what to pay attention and listen to. I chose a podcast from The Radio Lab called "More or Less Human". I was intrigued by the title and chose the Radio Lab due to the enthusiasm they give off on any given topic. At 1:01 they mention that they have previously made a show 7 years ago that was called Talking to Machines. They explain how so much has happened since that show with advancements in technology since the years so they wanted to make another show that is more recent with the advanced technology society now has.
They brought in writer, Brian Christian, who sparked their show and he explained to them at 2:00 that a "Chatbot" is a computer program that chooses to mimic and impersonate a human's traits and characteristics. Later in the podcast, Brian reveals to the audience that they had brought in the latest version of a chatbot. They decided to run some tests on a lady in the audience where she would interact with the pandorabot (latest version of a chatbot) and Brian himself. She was going to chat with both of them but wouldn't know who was who. In the end of the podcast, around 14:03, they tricked the lady in the audience and the result suggested how advanced the technology has been coming over the years and how our human communication is becoming more machine-like.
Radio Lab: Four Kinds of Audio
In the beginning of the podcast, they demonstrated "interview clips" when they brought in Brian Christian and asked him several questions and had him give the audience some information like who he is, what he does for a living, and other general questions so the audience and listeners could both gain knowledge on who he is. This allowed the listeners to create a picture of him in their minds and what he was like as a person. Prior to the Radio Lab bringing Brian onto the show, it began with a "voice-over" of them introducing their show and what they would be discussing today. This gave the listeners and insight as to what they would be listening to and gave room for imagination as to what was to come. Throughout the podcast there were "ambient sounds" very frequently when the audience was engaged and laughing in the background. The ambient sounds allowed the listeners to imagine what the scene might look like and the type of audience that was on the show listening. Lastly, there were "natural sounds" in between breaks where the audience was all participating in the experiment and they were silent. The natural sounds were made up of music and beats that were calming in a way and made the listener pay more attention and wonder what was maybe happening at that time.
Radio Lab Arc
In the Radio Lab interview with Stephen Colbert, Stephen asked the hosts several questions, one of them being how they typically plan and think out their shows. This is where they described their method of the "arc". In the interview, Jad and Robert explained at 1:32 how they like to tell and explain their stories in a different way than most. They went into detail about how they prefer to choose complicated subjects that they sometimes don't understand and try to make sense of them. This is when the "arc" came in to the discussion. The "arc" is when you know no knowledge, to a little bit of knowledge, then "ehh".
In the Radio Lab podcast that I listened to it was initially hard to follow along simply because I couldn't see what was going on, I could only imagine in. There was very brief detail mentioned in the beginning of the podcast. As the show went on the audience and listeners were given more knowledge about the updated technology and how it has advanced over the years. As the podcast slowly came to an end there were so many concepts being thrown around that it almost took you for a turn and suddenly all the knowledge you thought you had was gone in the blink of an eye.
Podcasts have always been something I wanted to learn more about and explore but I never took the time to sit down and listen to them. Podcasts are great to listen to anywhere at anytime, but I've never given them much thought. Initially I was taken by surprise when I saw the several types of podcasts that Radio Lab had to offer. I was even more surprised when I read the article, "10 Tips for Using Audio More Effectively in Multimedia Stories". Whenever I watch a video or film, I'm automatically drawn to the lighting, scenery, pictures and all of the visual aspects that makes it up. After reading this article, I realized I've never really taken the audio into detail as much as I do with the visuals and I'm eager to pay attention to that as I continue to watch videos in the future.
The four finds of audio that were mentioned in the article were interview clips, voice-overs, natural sounds, and ambient sounds. After reading the four kinds of audio, I was ready to listen to my first podcast going into it with a much more clear idea of what to pay attention and listen to. I chose a podcast from The Radio Lab called "More or Less Human". I was intrigued by the title and chose the Radio Lab due to the enthusiasm they give off on any given topic. At 1:01 they mention that they have previously made a show 7 years ago that was called Talking to Machines. They explain how so much has happened since that show with advancements in technology since the years so they wanted to make another show that is more recent with the advanced technology society now has.
They brought in writer, Brian Christian, who sparked their show and he explained to them at 2:00 that a "Chatbot" is a computer program that chooses to mimic and impersonate a human's traits and characteristics. Later in the podcast, Brian reveals to the audience that they had brought in the latest version of a chatbot. They decided to run some tests on a lady in the audience where she would interact with the pandorabot (latest version of a chatbot) and Brian himself. She was going to chat with both of them but wouldn't know who was who. In the end of the podcast, around 14:03, they tricked the lady in the audience and the result suggested how advanced the technology has been coming over the years and how our human communication is becoming more machine-like.
Radio Lab: Four Kinds of Audio
In the beginning of the podcast, they demonstrated "interview clips" when they brought in Brian Christian and asked him several questions and had him give the audience some information like who he is, what he does for a living, and other general questions so the audience and listeners could both gain knowledge on who he is. This allowed the listeners to create a picture of him in their minds and what he was like as a person. Prior to the Radio Lab bringing Brian onto the show, it began with a "voice-over" of them introducing their show and what they would be discussing today. This gave the listeners and insight as to what they would be listening to and gave room for imagination as to what was to come. Throughout the podcast there were "ambient sounds" very frequently when the audience was engaged and laughing in the background. The ambient sounds allowed the listeners to imagine what the scene might look like and the type of audience that was on the show listening. Lastly, there were "natural sounds" in between breaks where the audience was all participating in the experiment and they were silent. The natural sounds were made up of music and beats that were calming in a way and made the listener pay more attention and wonder what was maybe happening at that time.
Radio Lab Arc
In the Radio Lab interview with Stephen Colbert, Stephen asked the hosts several questions, one of them being how they typically plan and think out their shows. This is where they described their method of the "arc". In the interview, Jad and Robert explained at 1:32 how they like to tell and explain their stories in a different way than most. They went into detail about how they prefer to choose complicated subjects that they sometimes don't understand and try to make sense of them. This is when the "arc" came in to the discussion. The "arc" is when you know no knowledge, to a little bit of knowledge, then "ehh".
In the Radio Lab podcast that I listened to it was initially hard to follow along simply because I couldn't see what was going on, I could only imagine in. There was very brief detail mentioned in the beginning of the podcast. As the show went on the audience and listeners were given more knowledge about the updated technology and how it has advanced over the years. As the podcast slowly came to an end there were so many concepts being thrown around that it almost took you for a turn and suddenly all the knowledge you thought you had was gone in the blink of an eye.
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