After watching Jad Abumrad’s video, I find myself in agreement with what he is saying. Radio broadcasts are pretty special compared to what we use now to view stories(computers, television, etc.). Stories are shown to us using images, sounds, props, and characters, but for a radio broadcast we have to imagine the story for ourselves and empathize with the speaker. Being able to use your imagination while the broadcaster is telling a story lets you create a unique story of unique characters just for you and the broadcaster.

Abumrad described this as co-imagining and it’s something that you just won’t see anywhere else. He mentions assisting the listener by giving them certain phrases or describing a scene in a certain way as an example of co-imagining. This term  reminds me of how storytelling was before people used TVs to find stories or played video games for the stories. The times where you used to sit on someone’s knee and listen to them tell you stories about times before you were born. The time before Digital Storytelling  was more popular.

In order to have co-imagining to really work, the listener needs to have an imagination. They need to be able to build the stories that they hear in their minds since they don’t have a television or video to help them. To put it one way, one’s imagination is the video and the radio broadcaster’s story is the audio and when you mesh them together, you get a unique story with both “video” and audio by using your imagination.

Abumrad’s video should be watched by anyone who needs help with storytelling. This video is definitely going to help me in the future because I know now that co-imagining is what makes audio storytelling special. It’s a practice that separates audio from video and it should be used whenever it can