What were some of its stylistic qualities? How was it organized?
Nina- Heyoon
This podcast started out with an advertisement, which is how the creators of the podcast make income. In the beginning, this man is talking to Roman Mars, the host, about a dream this woman he was seeing had. The dream was them walking through a field and they came across a spaceship and this is interesting because they use sound effects to help the audience to visualize the scene. The structure of this podcast is very constant, including audio clips from when he visited, an interview with the owner, and interviews with the host’s friends to get more insight.
Aldi- Kitty Genovese
The podcast title is called “You’re Wrong About,” which is a very funny and light-hearted title. The hosts Michael Hobles and Sarah Marshall introduce the topic of this episode and the misinformation of this story. Their conversation is very casual and humorous. Sarah Marshall is the story teller in this episode telling it to Michael. The structure of this podcast is very flowy and chronological but it just includes the two constant voices of the hosts back and forth.
Anthony- “Winnie the Pooh”
The podcast entitled ‘How Old Is Winnie the Pooh?’ goes on to navigate and explore the lore of Winnie the Pooh to discover the exact age of the old bear. The podcast is produced by Every Little Thing and their question began with a guest of theirs, Annie, discussing the debate her family has over the mystery. The podcast structures itself chronologically, which gives a story-esque structure to it as the host begins to put together their evidence. Her resources seem valid, as she went to reliable sources that have strong background knowledge on age, bears, and Pooh lore respectively.
Lauren – Serial “The Alibi”
Sarah Koenig starts off this episode of Serial with an anecdote about technicalities and the way she has been mulling over one kid for one whole year. She then goes into interviews with kids who were about the main subject’s age at the time.Sarah does a great job navigating through different people’s points of view and interviews with adults and some kids who went to school with them. She is calculated and precise in the way she goes about documenting this crime.
How did it tell its story?
Aldi
Sarah Marshall is pretty much telling the story the whole time and she is the one finding that facts and the story line on the internet. This podcast is about the story of Kitty Genovese, who was murdered outside of an apartment building in the middle of the night in 1964. The worst part is her body was laying on the floor for a week until someone finally called the police. Because of this horrid act made by regular community neighbors, the term “Bystander Effect” was created when those who are around or passing by someone or something bad happening, the presence of others discourages an individual from intervening in an emergency situation. They then segway into speaking on homosexuality, the sexual past of Kitty and certain motives of the murderer. They made it interesting by making very much a dialogue style. They just explain all of the events that happen in the story.
Nina
The man explains that it is a real place and the sound audio from the day makes it even more realistic. This man is Alex Goldman, who grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan and he was a misfit because he was bored of his small town. The only way you can get to Heyoon is if someone who knew about it took you there and to get there, you have to go over a fence that said “Turn back. This is private property. You are not welcome here for any reason. Please now turn back and leave in peace.” They went over the fence and you have to pass a white house owned by a man, who had many dark rumors surrounding him. There was a path behind the house covered in trees and beyond is a field with something “man made.” They discovered an oddly-shaped structure that had two different signs: one said to soak in the beauty of the structure and the other said to please leave because it is private property. They explain the myths behind the structure saying that it was made for the owner’s daughter, for weddings, stargazing, and many others. The Hayden’s, the owners, said there is no specific reason why it is there and that is just beautiful art.
Anthony
The host of the show began their search by interviewing Ben Ramey, a professional age guesser at a carnival. When the host revealed the subject in question he immediately jumped to around the age of 80 for Pooh simply based off of the bear’s voice. Next, they spoke to Rae Wynn-Grant, a carnivore ecologist who studies bears for a living. She gave great insights into Pooh’s appearance rather than his voice to give a sound opinion and she also assumed Pooh to be a rather older bear. Finally, the host interviewed Sarah Shea, who has written academic articles about Pooh Bear and is considered a Winnie the Pooh historian.
Lauren
The episode is about the murder of a high school student in Baltimore, Hae Min Lee, and how the murder was made out to be carried out by one boy, Adnen Syed, who’s been in prison ever since. He claims to have an alibi that puts him nowhere near Have Min, but was falsely accused and had his case thrown on purpose.
How did it use research?
Lauren
Sarah Koenig starts off this episode of Serial with an anecdote about technicalities and the way she has been mulling over one kid for one whole year. She then goes into interviews with kids who were about the main subject’s age at the time.
Anthony
Her knowledge on the subject matter ultimately led them to the answer they searched for, and she did so with textual evidence.
Aldi
Sarah Marshall is pretty much telling the story the whole time and she is the one finding that facts and the story line on the internet. She does fail to site where she grabbed the information, but because it was very casual and they were able to segway from one topic to another, it was not too noticeable.
Nina
The speaker in the podcast makes it sound like an anecdote. they didn’t use many resources and the only active research they did within the episode was finding the owners of the heyoon.
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