{"id":239,"date":"2019-10-07T23:26:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T06:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattpoland.net\/sherlockpod\/?p=239"},"modified":"2020-10-10T17:20:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T00:20:57","slug":"the-habitat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattpoland.net\/sherlockpod\/2019\/10\/07\/the-habitat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Habitat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In Gimlet Media\u2019s podcast <em>The Habitat, <\/em>it\nfollows six people who participated in an experiment by NASA that is focused on\ngetting humans on Mars. The real-life experiment stimulated the colonization of\nMars on plant Earth, and this was done by caging the six people in a small dome\nnamed The Habitat located on a volcano in Hawaii for one year. For that entire\nyear, these six people, who but just a few days before the start of the experiment\nwere complete strangers, lived squeezed next to each other in isolation and with\nno contact with the outside world. They were given a small audio recorder by the\nshow\u2019s host, Lynn Levy, and the rest of the podcast explores what happens to\nthese six people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first episode of <em>The Habitat <\/em>begins with much sensory details. The host Lynn uses strong imagery with her descriptions and sound effects to stimulate her audience\u2019s attention. She starts off with the sound of a truck driving through coarse, dusty rocks and asks one of the participants of the experiment to describe the scene in front of them to which he replies \u201cUm.. Black, jagged rocks, and there is just piles and piles and piles of them, extending as far as you can see\u2026\u201d Then Lynn goes on to describe what she feels seeing this simulation of Mars on a volcano of Hawaii saying, \u201cThis is\u2026 absolutely the weirdest landscape I\u2019ve ever seen\u2026 It\u2019s cold\u2026 it\u2019s actually cold\u2026 and all I can see is rock. And the other thing I can see besides the rocks is a dome\u201d. By giving such a description surrounded by suspenseful music, she creates an atmosphere of curiosity for her ears of her podcast. Then, she continues on with what the audience will expect throughout the course of this podcast series. It is straightforward and explains the stimulation by NASA and follows through with what these six participants will expect. By starting off with this direct yet detailed synopsis of the experiment, the host makes her story compelling and gains the curiosity and interest of the listeners. She introduces the audience to the six guinea pigs of this experiment and gives us an insight into what each of them are like and what kind of person they are. To do so, she uses interview clips of each of the members of the research experiment. All of these features combined works to build a sense of intriguingness because it shows how these six members are just regular humans like the any of the audience are but they are soon off to a year-long isolation in a small dome with five other strangers. The audience will want to know how everything plays out in the end. Furthermore, eluded above, music enhances the quality of the audience\u2019s engagement by playing such that help amplify the emotions they feel through the narration going on. Towards the end, she plays a wonderous, floating, interstellar type of music that leaves listener\u2019s also wonderous and prepped for the next episode. In this way, by the utilization of various techniques like imagery, sound effects, straightforwardness, and music, the podcaster captures the ears of her audience and pulls them through all the way to the end of the session. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(541)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Gimlet Media\u2019s podcast The Habitat, it follows six people who participated in an experiment by NASA that is focused on getting humans on Mars. 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