Blog 5

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/457/what-i-did-for-love- wasn't able to listen to the whole thing since it was over an hour long, but I listens to enough to understand the point.

Before we had this discussion I really had not heard of audio documentary.  However, I find it to be really entertaining to listen and let my mind fill in the images that my imagination can create.  Through music, sound, and good questioning/interviewing I think that and audio recording can entertain someone just as much as most media entertainment.
It is very interesting to hear part of an audio documentary to critique it in a way to realize the different elements that make it so compelling.  In this audio recording there was a main narrator who did the interviews and asked certain questions that helped bring out the personality of the individual that was being interviewed.  Therefore I came to the conclusion that one of the key elements to a good audio documentary is good questions.  If the interviewer asks direct, interesting and clear questions than the audience can see how rounded some of those people are that have been interviewed.  It also helps to create suspense and drama throughout the recording that we typically can find on talk shows without the video image.  For example, in this audio recording it talked about what people have done to prove their love for people.  In one particular example in the audio recording it talks about a couple and their reasons for not getting married.  The couple had been together for years and had done everything that couples do in a marriage (except for have kids), but they still wouldn't get married.  The interviewer then asked them a very straight forward question to help bring out the personality of the man he was interviewing.  "why didn't you two get married" is what he asked and it was received then responded with the fact that the man wanted to get married, but the girl  wanted to sleep with other people first. Because of good questions we can see the personalities of certain individuals and better understand how rounded some people can be.  It also creates a sense of suspense which can draw any audience to listen in and be entertained.