The premise of this piece is quite good, however, in my opinion it suffered some in the execution. The first minute and half was really marred by recording people's answers in very noisy environments where you can barely hear the answers clearly. While this may add atmosphere and an edgy feel, it would make it very frustrating to listen to in the car, (and we know how many of us only listen to radio in the car.) While other folks liked that fact that the question every one is answering is never actually asked, I think it would have been nice to verbalize it at least once.
The plus side is that people gave interesting answers, and many of them had to think very hard to do so.
I just happen to think that the piece would have benefited from some technical and editing improvements to make it more "Listener friendly"...Particularly for those of us ensconced in cars already surrounded by to munch ambient noise.
Review of How Would You Haunt?
jackie katz
Posted on October 21, 2008 at 11:49 AM
The premise of this piece is quite good, however, in my opinion it suffered some in the execution. The first minute and half was really marred by recording people's answers in very noisy environments where you can barely hear the answers clearly. While this may add atmosphere and an edgy feel, it would make it very frustrating to listen to in the car, (and we know how many of us only listen to radio in the car.) While other folks liked that fact that the question every one is answering is never actually asked, I think it would have been nice to verbalize it at least once.
The plus side is that people gave interesting answers, and many of them had to think very hard to do so.
I just happen to think that the piece would have benefited from some technical and editing improvements to make it more "Listener friendly"...Particularly for those of us ensconced in cars already surrounded by to munch ambient noise.