The podcast begins with the sound of a campfire with no one talking for a bit until a really deep voice begins to narrate. This voice was a deep but at the same time, it was The podcast begins with the sound of a campfire with no one talking for a bit until a really deep voice begins to narrate. This voice was a deep but at the same time, it was electronically synthesized. This voice gives a brief introduction as to what the podcast is about and talking about how many people end disappearing without a trace, or at times there is and simply the person never ends up being found. After this brief introduction the narrator then takes over, the narrator used a deep voice, but at the same time, it seems as if they also used technology to deepen their voice through editing. After this, he then begins to talk about a film called “Scarface”, and how the narrator is a huge fan of the movie “Scarface”. He went on to say that he had seen it at least a hundred times and so forth, but the correlation of a person disappearing with the move “Scarface” is that one of the actresses that starred in the movie and it was because she was part of Hollywood is the reason she disappeared. Her name was Tami, what happened with Tami as she walked in on a highly illegal transaction going on, with the whole stereotypical illegal transaction was set up, with drugs, money, and guns all being present. They threatened her with death if any word of this got out, so she went with her days in fear for her life of a mistake she made at the wrong place at the wrong time. The narrator then also includes an event that had happened at the workplace on set for a film. There was a scene where a person pulled the trigger to a gun and anther actor who got shot in the scene, and when this scene occurred she had a mental background. She then consulted with her mother by asking her mother about what she would do if someone wanted to kill her, and her mom replied with “does someone want to kill you?” and the actress replied with “yes”. The actress would then have several mental breakdowns which would lead her into a mental institute. This is where she would then go missing, it seems as if she checked herself out, or someone picked her up, got dropped off in the midst of the day to never be seen again. At this point it then became simply a bunch of mumble jumble from the narrator, he makes assumptions left and right about what could have happened. The only concrete evidence he had was the fact that he lived in the same state as the actress did. He always brought up the fact that he was a native from Florida and that he knew the environment very well, because of this he mild wild assumptions that had no platform top even stand, but he would just throw it out there. He as well read almost like a script which made it quite difficult to keep up and very easily lose interest. This is a podcast I do not recommend.
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The podcast “The Disappeared” seems to be very different from “Bear Brook.” It’s interesting how in “The Disappeared” a different person than the narrator introduces the podcast and how an overview of the whole podcast is given at the beginning. This, in a sense, takes away the mystery of what the listener is going to learn but does prove to be a forward organizational technique. If this was done in “Bear Brook,” it would be ineffective because the “Bear Brook” podcast uses each successive episode to build on previous episodes while uncovering new details in the case — giving away the new details upfront, would possibly incentivize the listener to tune out or stop listening altogether.
Another place that the podcasts seem to differ is in the way the narrators relay facts. Martin explains how the narrator of “The Disappeared” uses a lot of ‘mumble jumble’ and ‘makes assumptions left and right about what could’ve happened’ to Tami. He speculates what could’ve happened instead of actually knowing. I feel that this is advantageous because speculating also gets the listener to speculate which could push their thinking outside the box and act as a brain exercise. This could be disadvantageous because, like what Martin said, it could make the listener disinterested because there aren’t many real facts. This contrasts greatly with “Bear Brook” because the narrator in “Bear Brook” almost only recounts facts that lead up to discovering clues and making progress in the case. I think that this is positive because it makes the podcast seem authentic and genuine. I find myself more engaged because it feels very real. “The Disappeared” could take note from “Bear Brook”’s use of interviews. I think hearing outside perspectives from other people could really improve the quality of this podcast.
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