Hello and welcome back\nto my blog about Court Junkie. The last post covered the first two episodes of\nCourt Junkie and the narrative features of the podcast. Both episodes focused\non the Melissa Calusinski case, which you can learn more about if you read my\nlast post. Each episode focuses on a new case unless an old case that was\ncovered has an update that was not discussed in the original podcast. The two\nepisodes I have listened to since my first post covered two new cases about two\ndifferent families. Even though the stories for each podcast are different,\nthey all contain very similar narrative choices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The two new episodes were about different families, one about a\nyoung couple going through a divorce where their child goes missing and one\nabout a family who adopts their niece and claims to send her away to her\nnon-existent grandmother. Both families neglect the missing child before their\ndisappearance causing them to be main suspects. Similar to the Melissa\nCalusinski case both cases reach a conclusion, but these results are questionable.\nIn the case where Gabriel Johnson goes missing during his parents\u2019 divorce, the\nfather blames the mother because of her neglect and threatening comments she\nmade during their relationship. The last phone call between the father and\nmother ended with the mother saying she was going to hurt Gabriel and he was\nnever seen again. Later, she claims to have given him up for a secret adoption\nto a family that does not exist, but swears she did not harm the child. This\nleads to the arrest of the mother, but the father does not feel justice has\nbeen served. In the second case about Erica Parsons we hear a story about a young\ngirl who was reported missing two years later by her adoptive brother. The\nadoptive mother claims she went to live with her grandma, who police say does\nnot exist. Stories of abuse then began to come out and the adoptive parents were\narrested, but they tried to fight that no true proof came out to charge them\nwith the sentence they had been given. These cases may be very different and\ndiffer from the Melissa Calusinski case, but they all focus on the idea that\njustice is not always served how it should be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
To show the injustice that comes from the legal system, narrator\nJillian continues to use personal interviews, review court documents and\ntransition with sad music. Jillian typically begins by summarizing the case for\nthe viewers then brings in personal interviews and facts about the case to\neducate and connect wither her listeners. This seems to be a consistent trend\nin all of her episodes and I enjoy the consistency. When she summarizes in the\nbeginning she always addresses information directly from the case, which makes\nit more believable and trustworthy. In Erica\u2019s case she directly quoted the\njudge, which made helped connect me to the story. The only difference between\nthe structure of the narration is that sometimes personal interviews and phone\ncalls are harder to get for some cases than others. In Erica\u2019s case her\nadoptive sister spoke on the phone with Jillian, but in Gabriel\u2019s case\nvoicemails and recordings were played instead. These elements always remind me\nthat these cases actually happened to people and some of them are still\nstruggling for the answers they deserve. The music is still consistent\nthroughout all episodes because it helps to set the tone and to continue to\nshow the readers that the mood is sad because injustice is involved. I enjoy\nhow the music typically stays the same because now I have a connection to the\nsong and it always reminds me that I am not listening to a story, but something\nthat actually happened to someone. My favorite part of the court junkie podcast\nis Jillian\u2019s ability to make her audience feel several emotions each episode. I\noften find myself feeling genuine sadness or confusion about the cases\npresented and it helps to keep me focused to want to listen more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Court Junkie inspires me to want to create more emotion in my podcast because I don’t want my audience to feel bored and disconnected. Next podcast I want to make sure to use better music and more emotion like Jillian to connect with my viewers. To do this I want to use less of a script so that I don\u2019t sound like I am directly reading off the page. Thanks to Jillian and Court Junkie I will be using these techniques in the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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