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.