Production Report 2

This is the second of the production report blogs. This blog will follow up on the progress of the production of project 2, which will be a podcast. Last time I chose to share one of the major interview sections, which has now been shrunk down quite a lot to fit into the podcast. This update will focus on a different area of the project.

I will talk about the introduction section of my podcast and why it is radically different from other types of introductions. Not only do I try to introduce the interviewees, I also talk about my genre types and make a thesis statement. This introduction begins with a personal introduction, dictated by the fact that this entire project is done through auditory needs, thus many things need to be explained that would otherwise be visually explained. Thus the form of explaining the background of myself and my interviewees helps set up the legitimacy of the genres that I was forced to create. Having a professor and a professional civil engineer back up my ideas on genres gives the introduction a powerful legitimacy.

The production of this material went fairly smoothly. I did however need to do two takes of the introduction because originally I misspoke and had organized my entire podcast the wrong way. The second take also had to be shorter due to time constraints yet include more information than before. I also was battling a dry throat the entire time and I needed to try to keep myself from coughing the entire time I was recording.

Here is my introduction.