Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Listening Journal #2: International News


Title: NPR Hourly News Summary
Producer: NPR
Length: 4:46


(massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile)

Newscaster Jack Spear started with the story of Chile’s 8.8 Magnitude earthquakes then the reporter (supposedly in Chile) talked about how strong the earthquake was. He then switched to a story about president Obama’s speech about home energy upgrades in Georgia, and part of the president’s speech was included as nat sound. Spear for the third story briefly introduced the topic, and then the reporter gave details about the story and introduced a Ford official before including a part of the interview with him. He then announced the change in stock market points. For the last part, the reporter talked about the story.

The newscast was interesting, because each story was presented in a different way. The newscaster presented the first story, and then the reporter presented the second one after a brief introduction by the newscaster. The third story was briefly introduced by Jack Spear but the reporter presented all the details including an interview.

The quality of sound was great throughout the story except for the reporter’s voice in the first story (it was probably a phone call). The quality of the announcer’s voice was good and he sounded conversational.

The use of nat sound wasn’t sufficient especially in the Chile earthquake story. The story was dry and needed nat sound of cars moving or anything indicating the rescue operations in action.
The length of the newscast was okay, it wasn’t too long or too short.

Generally the newscast was interesting, and the newscaster’s voice was clear, but nat sound could have been utilized more effectively.

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