As the development of movie and TV series, people have slowly been reducing how much they heard this kind of audio without frames. So when I first heard this episode of the audio, I feel somehow uncomfortable because when you can’t see the picture you must be very focused because you don’t just need to listen but also to imagine the images in your head on your own. If you are just as careless as you watch a movie, you will miss a lot of content. So later I tried to focus on some sounds we often hear in our daily life but did not pay much attention to, such as the sound of the fish bubbling in the aquarium, or the clatter of plates in a noisy restaurant. These kinds of sound are what I think I recognize in the audio. At the same time, I was thinking about whether there will be someone else imagine the same picture as me. Perhaps different people have different personal experience and different insights towards the sound, so the images emerge in their head may not be the same.
I think audio still has its unique charming. Changes in pronunciation and intonation can show the speaker’s emotion and even the characteristics. Like Walter may be a little nervous while Colin is pushy, intense, and mansplainy. However, I am still not used to listen to the audio without other digital media. I think if the audio can be served with some visual effect, the audience will get a better experience. I know that homecoming also has a TV series, I think it will be a totally different feeling, the facial expressions and the real scene may help me understand the storyline better I think.