- What does it mean to create a “narrative?”
- What constitutes a “good” narrative?
- Where do we see examples of compelling narratives?
- News pods specifically:
- What news podcasts do you like to listen to?
- Why do you like to listen to these podcasts, what makes them compelling?
- Pitching a narrative:
- So we have an idea for a topic…now what?
- What makes this topic relevant right now?
- What makes this topic relevant to us (U-M community)?
- Who on campus knows a lot about this topic?
- Who on campus is (most) affected by this topic?
- Whose voice should be heard when discussing this topic?
- Storyboarding
- Now that we have a sense of who is involved and why it matters, how can we create a story?
- Here is where we can think about the types of questions we want to ask (interviews, field audio) and the things we want to emphasize (host script, order)
- Beginning
- How do we grab the listener's attention?
- How do we introduce our topic? What’s our framing?
- What themes are we interested in conveying to our listeners?
- Middle
- Now that we have our topics set up, how can we explain them
- End
- How do we wrap it all up?
- Something new…writing together!
- We’re going to try brainstorming questions and scripts together during our meetings so we can have a more cohesive episode
- We are also going to have a doc where once you are done with your questions you’ll input them
- This will be especially helpful for writing the host script & editing
Interviewing
Field Audio
Host Script
- Editing:
- Step 1: Refer to our episode template, look at what the purpose of the interview is supposed to be
- Step 2: Listen to the entire interview! (It can be on 2x speed, but do it!)
- Step 3: Now, knowing what the key themes of the interview are and everything that’s said, decide on what’s most important/worth keeping
- Ask yourself when deciding whether a response is worth including:
- How does this help advance our story?
- How is this response related to our key themes?
- Does this response highlight the experiences of an underrepresented group?
- Is this response clear? Could anyone listening to the pod understand their points?
- Step 4: Make your cuts!
- New policy: Write a quick and easy bullet about the sections you cut (i.e. I cut ramblings about chester the cheeto because it was very odd and not relevant)
- Step 2: