Peer Review for Rhiannon Bauer

I have now gone to a student in a different section and done a peer review of their project 2. I'll be talking about the comment I left on her project during this here blog post. (kinda hoping you read that in a southern accent...)

Peer review for who? And what did I talk about?

This peer review was for someone not in our section, so I did it for Rhiannon Bauer, who is in the 11:00 section. Her podcast can be found by following this link.

The activity I chose to do for the review of her project was on Form. I talked about how effectively it uses the appropriate genre conventions.

How do I think I helped?

Since I talked about the form of her project, and how well it followed the genre conventions of a podcast, I think it probably helped a ton. Form is one of the main points of these projects that we've been doing, so it would be a shame for people to miss out on points based on something that is more simple to fix than a problem with the actual content of the project.

What did I apply, and how did I apply it?

I applied everything we've been talking about when it comes to the genre conventions of a podcast. We've gone over it multiple times in class, and every time it is discussed, it is made obvious that catchy music should be played at the beginning and the end. Rhiannon's rough draft didn't have this, so I brought it up to her in order to assist her in complying with all of the genre conventions.

What did I admire?

There were a TON of things I admired about Rhiannon's project. It was entertaining and informative all at the same time, and she used a great voice for the entire thing. I think that was probably what I took from it the most. Keeping the audience entertained is a huge part of writing, and she did that extremely well. I hope the voice I use in my podcast is as entertaining.

Peer Review for Mariana Chacon

Now that we've done the rough drafts of our projects, we can review our colleagues' work and leave suggestions on them. I've done so and will be talking about the review I did.

What did I review, and what did I review it on?

I reviewed Mariana Chacon's podcast. The activity I chose to complete while reviewing Mariana's work was a suggestion about the form of her project. I talked about how creatively she presented her content.

How do I think I helped?

I hope I helped give Mariana a perspective from the audience of how her project is being perceived. I think I helped her at least to see where she could use some variety to make her project more interesting. She can now make something more enjoyable for the audience.

What did I incorporate and how did I incorporate it?
I went the Rules for Writers book (that we had to get at the beginning of the semester but have only used like once -_-) and found chapter 15, which is on variety. It talks about changing up your sentences to create variety and interest. I felt Mariana could use this.

What about the project did I admire?

I greatly admired the background music that Mariana had playing during her podcast. I thought it made things slightly more entertaining. I told her so in the comment I left on her rough draft blog post. It was a good idea and led me to spicing up my podcast with different pieces of music and sound effects.

Reflection on Post Production for Project Dos

Whale....project two is done *fanfare*. So now I can talk about this last week of working on it. I'm gonna be completely honest for the entirety though...so buckle up.

What were the successes?

Good idea.. start with the good news. I actually am very proud of the sound effects I put into my project. That, and the music. I was able to find music that I liked as the intro and as the background noise, so that was a huge plus. I really liked messing with the audio to make it sound the way I wanted it to. I didn't think that part was boring at all, which is nice.

What were the challenges?

Alas, I am still struggling with time management. I had all of my recordings done of my voice, but I didn't have any other audio until the night before it was due, and I found some sound effects only the morning of the due date. I literally am the worst in the world with time management. I do this every. single. time. And it's stupid. I really should be better at getting on top of things and doing them, but every part of my being is just so stressed out that it shuts down. On top of that, I wasn't doing very well at taking care of myself health wise....so that was swell. I just need to be better at getting on top of homework and doing it a little at a time so I don't have to freak out and set aside an entire day for homework and shut myself out from the world.

How do I think next week will go?

Well, I honestly think next week I'm going to procrastinate and do all of my work at the last minute....again. I really shouldn't, and if I really have learned anything, I won't. But I don't think I'm capable of turning around and getting on top of stuff next week. Any other week, sure. But I have a final next week (it's true, my math course is accelerated so we finish on Friday, YAY) and two huge projects due for Theatre as well.

How do I feel about the project?

To be completely honest, I think I followed all the conventions, and I made my podcast interesting ( I hope), but the only thing I'm worried about is the actual content at this point. I'm not sure it's exactly what we were supposed to be doing, but I followed what I perceived the instructions to be. Let's just hope my understanding wasn't skewed. *crosses fingers*
I just wish I had set aside more time to do things. Definitely my character flaw.

Content Outline

Now that we're starting to create our actual content for Project 2, we are working on creating a project outline. I'm going to create mine, but it might be confusing to other people as I'm writing it mostly to myself. I don't want to waste time defining things that I already know when I'm writing to myself. Make sense?

 

Content Outline

 

Opening

• Open with a catchy tune that brings the listener to the edge of their figurative seat and leaves them asking “what is this magical project that has piqued the interest of the sound receptor cells in my ears?”
• Speak in a voice that is not completely my voice because mine is boring. (no accents though, unfortunately) and start by bringing up the topic. i.e. : People are constantly writing. Simply walking down the street exposes you to countless examples of writing: Company advertisements. Street signs. Newspapers. Candy wrappers. But if you’re in the world of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, what makes those types of writing examples unique? What kinds of things would you be writing?

First type

• Introduce first type of writing genre
• Maybe start with clinical write-ups?
• Give an example:
• Maybe have a mock clinical examination
• Introduce myself as a doctor and do a speech exercise with the unlucky roommate i rope into this
• Then compose a write-up verbally for the podcast
• Maybe have a song playing in the background of the clinical examination just to clarify that it’s not a real examination.

(can’t decide if I make this funny or serious. Definitely entertaining, but what level of comedy? Mocking or just funny? Have to experiment with roommates who are most definitely not actors. Should be interesting. If it turns out to be more boring than fun, scratch the whole thing.)

• Lots of sound effects

• Introduce the interview with Dr. Norrix
• Talk about her template
• Maybe have a roommate describe how they see the template

Second type

• Introduce another example
• Possibly the research articles
• Have a roommate read one
• Ask them what they saw (describe it)
• Maybe use an announcer voice to spice it up. Not another interview since I’m already playing clips of those.
• Ask them if they learned anything
• If needed, insert the part of the interview with Dr. Norrix when she talked about her research articles

Third type

• Introduce third genre example
• Possibly the movies created by Ms. Wymer? (still debating on this one. But for outline purposes, we’ll go with it)
• Insert a clip of those (at least vocals)
• Discuss how she went about it and the rhetorical strategies she used.
• Possibly comment on the lulling voice she used
• Throw in a joke about being a new parent,
• *cricket noises, because the joke isn’t funny*
• Talk about the structure of the videos
• Touch on the fact that she has a written script included so you can read it if you are deaf or hard of hearing. (and bonus points go to ...the speech pathologist!)

Other third type (the one that would replace the movies if that doesn’t really flow)

• Introduce third genre example
• Exercises and activities for kids
• Have roommates participate in the exercises i find to see how they work and entertain what’s left of the audience we’ve kept listening up to this point. (I’ll be going home for spring break, so having my siblings and maybe some of the neighbor kids participate and record them speaking and interacting with me wouldn’t be such a bad idea, rather than having my audience have to listen to me interacting with my roommates the whole time)
• Discuss the exercises and ask people if they think they’re effective
• Describe the process that goes into making them and talk about more of the structure.

Closing

• Touch back on the examples we looked at
• Discuss the differences between the two and what would go into making them
• Finishing sentence that leaves the audience both satisfied but slightly wanting more. Like a good movie that you enjoyed and didn’t leave you at a cliffhanger, but you would totally watch it again.
• Catchy tune plays the podcast out.