{"id":325,"date":"2019-10-28T11:15:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T18:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattpoland.net\/sherlockpod\/?p=325"},"modified":"2020-10-10T17:20:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T00:20:57","slug":"the-habitat-2nd-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattpoland.net\/sherlockpod\/2019\/10\/28\/the-habitat-2nd-post\/","title":{"rendered":"The Habitat (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the next two episodes of Gimlet Media\u2019s\npodcast <em>The Habitat, <\/em>Lynn, the host, explores the first few months into\nthe lives of the six crew members of the HI-SEAS experiment. Like expected, it\nis not the easy life for these people. And Lynn uses specific narrative techniques\nto vividly draw out the life in The Habitat for her listeners. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First of all, in order to create an\neffective way of organizing her episodes, she assigns a topic to each of her\nepisodes and digs into specific happenings inside the dome that relate to the\ntopic. In this way, Lynn is able to come up with a unique, compelling story in\neach of her episodes yet still be able link each of them with one common idea of\nlooking at the effect confinement and isolation has on humans prior to sending\nhumans to other planets like Mars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout the entire podcast (and not just\nthis episode), Lynn utilizes the voice recordings the crew made for her podcast\nto create a consistent identity and to help depict her narrative instead of her\njust going on and on with her narration. Specifically for her second episode,\nLynn focuses on how the crew adapts to their new year-long home and family. In\ndescribing the dome, which is critical for the audience to visualize and get a\nclear image of in order to empathize with the situation the crew members are\nput into, she uses various recordings made by various crew members. For\nexample, she depicts how large the entire dome is with the recording a crew\nmember made of walking across the diameter of the dome and counting the number\nof steps it takes to do that. Lynn lets us listen to the entire number of steps\nit takes for the crew member who counts out loud his steps as he takes each one\nfrom one all the way to thirty three. With each count, she combines it with a mysterious\nbeat as well. This intensifies suspense and such emotion allows the listeners\nto engage with the story as it enhances the experience for the listeners with\nthe combination of many different sensory descriptions. Then, she goes on depicting\nvarious daily activities these members do from eating only powdered, dry food,\npowdered turkey, powdered peaches, using a compositable toilet with no sewer\nsystem, to having 30 second ice cold showers that leave the members blue and\nred by the end of their shower. And Lynn focuses heavily on visual and auditory\ndescriptions for all of these experiences to construct her narrative. She lets\nus listen to how a juicy peach sounds like biting into a cracker and describes\nhow the powdered turkey when added and baked with water looks like brown mushy\napplesauce. Afterwards, she finishes the episode with the same recording of the\nsteps one of the members took across the diameter of the dome with the same\nimpounding beat. This ending was effective as it recaps the theme of the\nepisode and hooks the audience to the next episode by giving an air of suspense.\nIn such ways, Lynn builds her podcast narrative in a compelling, mystifying form.\n(527)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the next two episodes of Gimlet Media\u2019s podcast The Habitat, Lynn, the host, explores the first few months into the lives of the six crew members of the HI-SEAS experiment. 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