The podcast I chose was Homecoming, Season One: Episode One – fictional, podcast series.
This is the first time that I’ve listened to the podcast, especially for this kind of psychological thriller scenario. I was amazed by the multi-dimensional, detailed, and impressed style of its unique narration.
Although I didn’t understand what’s actually going on, I do feel like I’m navigating in the whole storyline by recognizing the intro, the outro, and its transitions. For example, I heard classical music and sirens in the beginning. A loud beeping noise always appears in the transition to imply the scene change.
Then there are some detailed things. From the tone of the characters, I may manage to figure out the relationship between them and how the attitudes may change from time to time. When the background sound covers the conversation, the audience may have a feeling of isolation and distance.
In a podcast, visual art is totally unnecessary. We only need to pay attention to the audio. However, we may find that even if we can not watch the various scenes or special effects like what we often do when watching an exciting movie, the audio Itself can be as captivating and engaging as the visual art. Generally speaking, the audio plays a really important role in helping us get the information as much as possible by showing its transitions, the strong and weak switches and the relationship between the subject and the environment etc. Audio is an enjoyable art.