This week is almost over and you know what I am a little sad about that but not too much because that just means a new week is starting up. This whole I have been sick and it was very difficult for me to do my audio like my bumper. Which was the most difficult since I didn’t want to sound like a race horse in the process. With all of that said I think this week was interesting because I did my favorite thing which was listening I love listening to music that is my pass time. I like to hear things multiple times and listen to what I missed before I think it is fun. So when we had to listen this week I thought that it would be easy as pie. Boy was I wrong I did not realize that there are things people put in things such as radio shows which I think  is nothing but they put it in there for a specific reason. This week was fine the only thing I would complain about would be I hope I am not still sick because that really messed me up all week either I could not hear well or I was too sick to even move. I honestly think something is wrong with me every single week. But that is okay cause I will just keep striving through everything.

I made a blog for the Ira Glass’ Series on storytelling (Part 1 and Part 2) and Jad Abumrad on “How Radio Creates Empathy” so I am going to make some more key points that I saw and sum it all together. In the Ira Glass Series I think that he makes a really good point that every story needs a reason or it does not mean any thing. When he was explaining he reasons I was completely one hundred percent with him because I think that a lot of people think and tell stories like they are still in high school with there topic sentences in the first line. I never did that when I was growing up I told my teachers I do not want them to read one sentence and get the topic I want them to read the whole story and understand what I am saying. I want to make the reader or listener feel what I feel at the end not just in one sentence. In some cases a topic is longer than just one sentence anyways. This brings me to what Jad Abumrad was saying on how radio creates empathy. The reason radio will never die is because people think when listening to a radio the person is only taking to them and no one else, like Jad Abumrad said it is an partnership and an intimacy between the speaker and listener.

Before I listened to the radio story I really did not know what I was looking at so I listened to:

While reading the comments on it from cogdog. It was very helpful I must have listened to it atleast 3 times hearing all the little details of the radio. I also listened to Dissecting Joanne Rosser, Papermaker they were both very helpful I personally liked the dissecting one because he breaks it down and shows the difference between the 3 types of recordings: active tape, talking interview, and just action. I like how he talked about how these 3 went into one radio show. With both of these examples in mind I went to listen to my fist ever radio story I found it very interesting I picked the Episide 484: Dopplegangers. I love love loved this radio show it was two parts to it the first part they were investigating how Bung which is pig intestines could be artificial calamari. I love calamari and listening to this made me a little sick to my stomach. The second part of this was about PTSD post traumatic stress disorder. It talked about two different people having a similar reactions to this disorder one that run the streets and another that came back from the war. Some techniques that they used was talking over each other have a recording inside of a recording, background music to set the mood, and sound effects.

The radio show my first experience with it was not the greatest but I think next week will be better. I did though heard a lot of things that I would have normally missed like the bumper, background music, and recording interview inside of the recording.

My Bumper and My Five sound story were the funnest I did so far.

My daily creates that I did was first up is my sound one and I hummed my little sick self as best as I could. I did London bridge because that was the one and only musical memory I had growing up.

I also did the Create an acrostic poem that includes item of clothing that you are currently wearing and I did a Crop Top and as I am writing this I just realized I did it wrong but I think it still fits the bill. I also retitled a movie poster Hansel and Gretel.

I just saw this movie and it honestly scared  me for life and I thought a little change would make huge difference.

My comments this week were very helpful I learned to add more links and summarize things just in case some people do not know what I am talking about I do hope this week was better. Looking at other people’s blogs I learned that being myself is a good thing it makes people stand out from the rest. I understand some people like adding more pictures to things while others just like to make a picture with more words and I appreciate the differences between everyone’s blogs.