Individual Research- Jess Kelsey
Pass it on Podcast Research. Before we started our project, we needed to research how an informative but enjoyable podcast should sound. As we wanted to get a good balance between both we listened to a lot of podcasts and read a lot of articles on practical skills and how people learned these and if they have passed these skills on. This would help us with content for the show and see if there was a lot of people out there who had passed on skills. First I found article about learning a practical skill.
Learning Practical Skills
This article is from the Belfast Telegraph named “From darning socks to making chutney, how traditional skills are dying out in family home”. Although our podcast will be about passing on skills, this article talks about the lack of skills being passed down from mothers to children now. As you can google everything to find out how to do it there is less and less skills being passed down from parent to child, “it seems that wealth of everyday know-how is either being lost because it’s not relevant to modern life, or found on the internet, instead of being passed down”. I chose this article because I wanted to question this and see if it was true. It states that 1 in 10 children are googling over asking their parents how to do something. So, for our podcast I want to see what skills people have learned from their family members whether it be sewing or cooking skills or how to change a lightbulb and change a tire. This is useful to me as it will want me to find out where different generations of people have learned their skills from. “O’Leary suggests the most important skills to pass on to children these days are how to be a good role model, how to be a good listener, how to express yourself, how to give back, how to multi-task, how to self-soothe, and how to motivate yourself”. With this being said a lot of young people are seen to be entitled and think they do not need these sorts of lessons and skills in their lives. I would like to find out how many people have had these skills passed on by their families to see if they has had time to teach them and interview them on the show and see if they feel the same was as this article.
Learning Creative Skills
Creative skills are not seen as important as being able to change a tire or cook a lasagne even in schools the arts are always put down and not taken as seriously as maths and English. “Creativity and problem solving are among the basic skills that everyone is required to have, whether they have to deal with an everyday problem at home or a work related challenge. But to think outside the box and come up with innovative ideas, we need to use our imagination and see things beyond reality”. It has been proven that for children to grown and learn they need to learn creative skills as it can be a way to express yourself, from creative writing, drama and art. You learn how to Problem solve, confidence, perseverance, focus and creativity. I was interested to see if people were still interested in creative skills and valued them as much as practical skills.
http://www.1stplace.uk.com/the-importance-of-imagination-and-creativity-in-childrens-development/
“Many people today are rediscovering the pleasures of telling stories, after their culture has lost most of its traditional storytelling, yet cannot easily find out much about the countless millennia of oral traditions with all their wisdom and techniques”. Story telling in African is something that is passed down from the elders, they use it to tell tales of their past. “many old traditions storytelling is synonymous with song, chant, music, or epic poetry, especially in the bardic traditions”. I wondered if people in our country had the same value of storytelling and creating stories so I would like to interview someone who is into creative writing and see if they wish to pass it down too.
http://www.timsheppard.co.uk/story/dir/traditions/africa.html
Podcast Website
As we have only done radio dramas and live shows, we needed to listen some podcasts to get an insight into what makes an interesting podcast. I found the website Podomatic where 1000’s of podcasts music and talk are uploaded daily. PodOmatic is a free service, that does also offer PRO services for those people who want to take their podcasts to the next level with featured placements, PRO design tools, and expanded storage and bandwidth. You can upload your own or listen to the many which are available online there is many different lengths of shows on here and as ours will be around an hour long it would fit but if not we wanted to put them into 10-15 minute seconds so we could split them up If necessary. The podcast we will make will be informative with an interview that we will then talk about and chat.
https://www.podomatic.com/discovery
Podcast
I found a podcast named The Brayton Birth Method with Dr. Laura Brayton Beyond Your Wildest Genes. “Dr. Laura Brayton is a holistic chiropractor, author, and speaker, passionate about supporting the health and wellness of families. Dr. Brayton writes regularly on health-related topics and is a lecturer for various holistic groups, including at yoga studios, childbirth education centres, and new moms’ groups. She also continues to stay up-to-date and current in her field with frequent post-graduate seminars in functional medicine, nutrition, allergy elimination, paediatrics, and maternity. In addition, Dr. Brayton has received certifications in Chiropractic Paediatrics, Webster Technique for breech presentation, Sacro-Occipital Technique (S.O.T.) and is an advanced level practitioner of Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Technique (NAET). Dr . Brayton is a Bioenergetic Practitioner utilizing Applied Kinesiology (manual muscle testing) to “eavesdrop” into the body and determine its current needs for health”. She mentions that she was influenced by her father who was a chiropractor and it was very logical to him and he loved everything it represented so she wanted to do this more because of the environment she was in and form how her dad inspired her. They give their facts and then they have a discussion about it which is how I would like our show to sound like. Over all the podcast is 43:44 this is also close to how long we aim for ours to be. You can tell that it is not scripted and it is just free flow we would want ours to sound like that where we get our thoughts and feelings on the subject we are talking about. She gives her background and how she got to where she is and talks a lot about how she was raised and the influences she had from not using medication and going to a chiropractor to cure her problems from hangovers to falling off her bike.