{"id":391,"date":"2019-10-28T21:26:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T04:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattpoland.net\/sherlockpod\/?p=391"},"modified":"2020-10-10T17:20:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T00:20:22","slug":"criminal-post-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattpoland.net\/sherlockpod\/2019\/10\/28\/criminal-post-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminal – Post 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\nCriminal is back with some great podcasts this week. As I highlighted in my last post, Criminal is a podcast focusing on the interesting quirks and tidbits relating to law and the justice system. For this blog post I listened to the next few episodes of Criminal, starting with episode 5, Dropping like Flies. <\/em>
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    Dropping like Flies focused on the crazy black market that is centered around the Venus Flytrap plant. The narrative for this story is very clearly laid out in the beginning, somewhat like an opening or thesis statement. The host explains how there are three big factors contributing to this black market, and subsequently highlights these aspects in more defined terms. These factors are the criminals that are illegally picking Venus Flytraps, the greenhouses that specialize in carnivorous plants, and the big buyer, or whoever is keeping the market afloat by purchasing the plants. 
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    The second episode that I listened to for this week specifically mentioned narrative multiple times. This episode, entitled We Lost Them, <\/em>focuses on the tragedy that was the Overland Park Jewish Community Center shooting, mainly on 14 year old victim Reat and his grandfather William who both died that day. A very large focus of this episode was on how you must control the narrative of a story. The son of William and the uncle of Reat was heavily featured on this episode, providing his accounts of the event, and explaining stories of witnesses. He mentions multiple times how he wanted to control the story after the massacre, and let the world see Reat and William how they deserved to be seen. Being able to control the narrative like that allowed the entire family to feel more at ease with this tragedy, as they took the agency to focus on the positive. 
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    Something I mentioned in my last blog post was the absolute importance of the music for a podcast. Without visual cues like TV or movies, the listener is tasked with inferring mood via the tone of the voice or in the music. In another episode I listened to for this post I noticed instantly how I was taken to a more joyful mood, which compared drastically from the last episode about the shooting. This episode focused on a zany victim, who got abused by the modern justice system. The episode had a more playful and relaxed vibe, cued fantastically at the start by a jazzy little melody. At first I did not realize exactly what was giving me this vibe, and that is why I think Criminal did such a great job. It is extremely difficult to convey certain moods and aesthetics solely by audio, and to produce content that consistently does that takes tremendous amounts of work.
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The three podcast episodes that I listened to for this week all differed greatly in their moods. The first story about the Venus Flytraps was truly a puzzle, and the music sets that mood instantly. With no true conclusive end to the story, the Criminal team made a fantastic choice with this music, as it tempts listeners to piece it together. The second story was very heavy, but was filled with hope. The music in this episode followed the narrative, starting very serious and grim, but leading to a hopeful and joyful melody to encapsulate the focus on the family\u2019s will to continue forward. The last episode as I mentioned above created an aloof playful vibe; one that tied extremely well to the character of the victim featured on the show. (Word Count 588)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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