The Podcast assignment was fairly easy. For me, I had experienced a similar style of writing a paper and recorded it to other people. So, this ‘new’ medium was not new for me. Back in high school, through my honors and AP(s) classes, I dabbled in recording and talking with a group about different topics from books to papers. The only difficulties I had with this project was how I was going to connect my narrative to my partner’s . So going in, was a little nervous wracking but I kind of had an idea of the end product. In the podcast, I found a way to talk about my messages and purpose from my narrative but figuring out how to easy flow descriptive languages into the podcast was a little hard. In my narrative, I found ways to provide those descriptive languages to certain experience in my life but trying to figure out a way to say them in the podcast was different.
For this assignment, I found it to be relatively different. Due to the fact of recording about the narrative paper and trying to talk about it to another person. I tried to add new stuff that wasn’t on my narrative into the podcast and also take a few thing from each section of my narrative into the podcast. For instance, when I talked about middle school, I tried to purposely ask question that I experienced of the smells in the hallway and see if my podcast partner went through a similar experienced. In the podcast, I choose to briefly talk about elementary school because in the narrative I wrote the majority of my paper about elementary and briefly talk about high school from the point of view of how I remember it . For elementary school, I choose to mention about my friend that I lost but did not elaborate on it but I felt at that moment it was something I felt did not need to be further talked about. Even though in my narrative, I mention how it went fast and how I didn’t remember much of it, I choose to add some details some senior year that at that moment felt needed to be said that influenced me. So I talked about my friend group going ‘crazy’ senior year and how I personally didn’t feel comfortable with me .I continue to elaborate on it by saying that from my friend group‘s action of drinking and stuff ,I learned that I didn’t like those things and continue that dislike into college. The difficulties of the podcast project was the time length of it .I hope for more interaction from my podcast partner for stuff like his take on things and more questions. I found it hard to ask question for something that I had never experienced before or anything remotely close to it, so trying to find common ground of his narrative was hard. The thing I found interesting was some of the questions asked from my partner because I told a story from my recent experience, that I had over the summer, but in reality I had a hard time trying to connect my experience to his. |
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