Spring 2023

The Breathing Spaces podcast is a weekly podcast for everyday people who face different types of stress, whether it is at work, school, or home. It is meant for anyone to quickly listen anywhere at anytime and be able to reduce whatever stress they might be going through at that particular time in order to enable them successfully end the day on a good note. Workers might choose to listen on their lunch break to empower them throughout the rest of their work day. Every episode plays different sounds that transports listeners to different locations with different postures/stretches to do. This episode puts listeners next to a waterfall while they comfortably seat down and close their eyes or focus on a point.

This podcast contains a sound effect, speakers voice, and a soothing ambient sound. The included sound effect of a bell was used to launch the podcast as a way to bring listeners to a calm level. Then the ambient sound of waterfall was used throughout to keep listeners relaxed all through the podcast while they listen. As the sound of the bell is about to end, the ambient sound of the waterfall starts playing with the volume gradually increasing. It is then reduced to a subtle level once I started to speak, and left to run in the background to augment my voice and achieve the goal of providing tranquility to listeners while they meditate.

Audio Credits

• “Temple Bell” by Mike Koenig licensed under Attribution 3.0
• “Small waterfall in mountain forest.WAV” by BonnyOrbit licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Photo Credit

• “West Virginia waterfalls in a National Geographic Contest!” by Forest Wander is licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0)

My hypothetical podcast is a personal book review podcast about romance novels of all types. I am a quick and argumentative romance reader, and my coworkers at the library joke that I should have a podcast about the books I read, so it was easy to land on this idea even though I don’t listen to podcasts. Each episode would be between twenty and thirty-five minutes, and go through my impressions of a romance novel or two. 

In this sample, I used my own narration combined with the sound of pages flipping, to introduce the book-based idea of the podcast; a quick burst of metal music, to jokingly emphasize that not all of my romance novel opinions are particularly nice; and the ambient sounds of an ice hockey rink, to play off of the book this podcast episode discusses. Transcript and credits below.

TRANSCRIPT: (pages riffling) Welcome back to Ripping Through Romance, where I lovingly and enthusiastically talk about romance novels. Unfortunately, in the proud tradition of regency romance readers everywhere, I may be kind of a stickler and occasionally even an edgelord. (guitar riff)

This episode, we’ll be thinking about Icebreaker, (background sounds of an ice rink) by R. A. Graziadei, a recent YA or perhaps new adult novel. It’s a rivalry romance between two college freshmen who are both projected to go at the top of the next NHL draft. To my enduring chagrin, I am in fact a hockey fan….

CREDITS:
Assorted color-filling book lot, by Robert Anasch; free under the Unsplash license.
Guitar Riff Heavy, by Mrthenoronha. CC BY-NC 4.0.
Pages Flipping, by lucaslara. Public domain/CC 0.
skating rink outdoor teenagers play hockey bang boards2 better skaters +people banging sticks at end, by kyles. Public domain/CC 0.

Audio Credits:

For this imagined podcast it would be a weekly video game update. What news happened this week or what games were featured in stories this week. Featuring new releases or updates from companies. This podcast would be a comedic or light hearted one focusing more on a more personal narrative of what elements stood out for that given week. For the sounds I wanted a quick but fun intro that sort of faded into the voices without being a long drawn out introduction. If it was a real full length podcast it would probably go for about 10ish seconds. “Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod was the best match that I was able to find that gave me the right vibe. For the sound effect I wanted something comedic but not too distracting. I think if it was a full length podcast there would be hardly any sound effects if any at all since that can be cheesy and give more shock jock vibes than podcast.

“Blippy Trance”

Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Sad Trombone » remix of Benboncan__Sad_Trombone_more_wah_bright&de-clicked.wav

This work is licensed under the Noncommercial 4.0 License.

by Timbre

“Just Beet It” is a weekly fantasy baseball podcast that showcases the league members of the “Schrute Fantasy Baseball League”. If you did not know, the “Schrute” name and “Beets” are references to the television show called “The Office” with the quirky character Dwight Schrute as a main character and who is also the owner of a beet farm. Every week a new episode is released featuring league member player profiles, Major League Baseball news, Fantasy Baseball matchup analysis, and a “Hard Talk” segment with one of the league managers. The managers are interviewed and asked about recent team management moves and their thoughts on other league news. Break out your headphones as you journey into mystery and listen to one of the most entertaining fantasy baseball podcasts around.

“Just Beet It – A Schrute Farms Experience – Season 2 – Episode 1” by David Baker is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.

This podcast makes use of sound effects, voice overs, and music. I used the “Highlight Reel Short” from iMovie as the introduction music as it was fitting for a sports related podcast. We gave our hosts Kevin “The Commish” and “Statman” Grant a round of light applause from our studio audience using “Clapping Crowd Studio 01” from iMovie. After fading the applause, our host Kevin “the Commish” opens with a greeting and introduction for “Statman” Grant as the guys get ready to talk about the upcoming weeks fantasy baseball action.

Audio Credits:

• “Clapping Crowd Studio 01” by Apple Sound Effects is licensed under iMovie Software License Agreement.

• “Highlight Reel Short” by Apple Sound Effects is licensed under iMovie Software License Agreement.

Photo Credit:

• “Schrute Farms Beets” by Chiot’s Run is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.