FINAL PODCAST SELF REFLECTION

 

1. How do your products represent social groups or issues? 

What representations do you use? Why have you chosen these?

Do your representations conform or subvert traditional thinking?

Have you used stereotypes at all? Why?

Representation theory?

Social groups that we’ve chosen to be represented for our podcast were students, more specifically disobedient & naughty students for our first podcast, and basketball & athletic students for our second podcast. 

With our topic being red notes for the first episode, it really represents all of the bad experiences that students had in school, not only bad situations, which is what you would think if you heard of red notes, it could range from hilarious, to embarrassing and to regrettable, the red notes represented our stubborn little teenage heads very well whether it was in a good way or a bad way, here we included Raphael for our interviewee, he kind of had a name for himself being one of the most wild students in grade 12 so that’s why we featured him. For our second episode, we moved to basketball, this topic didn’t so much relates to Abizer as it did to Me and Sam, and what we know is that leaving the team can be one heck of a sad thing, that’s what we discussed on the final question when we interviewed Dyfan, where he told us about his story on why he might be leaving the school basketball team not only because of graduation but also because the principal might kick him due to his tardiness.

2. How do the elements of your production work together to create a sense of ‘branding’? 

What are the genre conventions of your product?

What are the audience's expectations?

Genre theory?

Our podcast started off as a broad idea of “true crime with humor” although we wanted it to be similar to the ‘buzz feed unsolved’ podcasts, which featured more true crime than humor, we got a little carried away and didn’t exactly follow the plan we were going for, the result is a true crime parody. Although it wasn’t what we planned for, it is surely a unique genre, and in my opinion it fits quite well within the genre. Audiences who like humorous and chill podcasts while we talk about a certain topic disguised as a true crime podcast should be the perfect audience for this.

3. How do your products engage with the audience? 

Do the audience have any chance for interaction?

New Media?

How will the audience receive your message?

The podcast offers a way to engage with the audience through social media. We promote our social media page on instagram on our podcast for the audience to have a chance to find extra content and also simultaneously can chat with us for any purposes. Proven by this, technology has really helped us in advertising and decreased the barrier between content creator and audience, we were allowed to advertise for easy and free, have a higher chance of getting seen and have a chance for interaction. 

4. How did your research inform your products and the way they use or challenge conventions?

What research did you undertake? 

Where did you find some inspiration?

What conventions did you conform/subvert in your particular genre?

There was little research done for the information of the product as they were all found in student experiences. Although there was other research regarding the podcast such as the survey we did during the beginning of our progress, we asked a few questions about what the podcast would be about, what it's tone would be etc. Our inspiration for the podcast was the existing youtube channel “Buzzfeed Unsolved” where they would talk about crime with the hosts adding in a bit of humor into it, so it’s not just full on horror from beginning to end. We changed the way we wanted this, instead of crime being the main aspect of the podcast it would be humor, as most of it was just us talking to each other.