Dear Jocelyn,
I would love to see you write about personal experience with drug abuse in the form of an interview because I found the account that you touched on in your presentation extremely compelling. The interview medium speaks so loud to the audience because we can actually hear the despair in their voice and it pulls the listener/observer into the story. Even your brief account about your friend who is struggling with prescription drugs, via text message, was gripping and I couldn’t hear or see any of the messages. Personally, I have never talked with someone who is battling drug abuse but I can only imagine how captivating it would be through speaking with them and hearing of the adversities they live with every single day. As one of your audience members, I know listening to an interview with a prescription drug abuser would force me to become empathetic towards their situation which is exactly the purpose of the unessay.
The big difficulty with an interview is making it interesting. From a production point of view, the best way to do this is to have high quality audio and suspenseful breaks to let the listener digest the pieces of the story individually. You can’t go too fast in an interview, especially if it’s only audio, because it is very hard to follow. On the contrary, you can’t move so slow that it becomes boring and non-climactic. There is a trivial balance that you will have to find to create a dynamic interview that really draws the audience in. Combining a good production with an engaging interview will generate a passionate composition of what it is to live with prescription drug addiction.
- Dawson Matthews
I would love to see you write about personal experience with drug abuse in the form of an interview because I found the account that you touched on in your presentation extremely compelling. The interview medium speaks so loud to the audience because we can actually hear the despair in their voice and it pulls the listener/observer into the story. Even your brief account about your friend who is struggling with prescription drugs, via text message, was gripping and I couldn’t hear or see any of the messages. Personally, I have never talked with someone who is battling drug abuse but I can only imagine how captivating it would be through speaking with them and hearing of the adversities they live with every single day. As one of your audience members, I know listening to an interview with a prescription drug abuser would force me to become empathetic towards their situation which is exactly the purpose of the unessay.
The big difficulty with an interview is making it interesting. From a production point of view, the best way to do this is to have high quality audio and suspenseful breaks to let the listener digest the pieces of the story individually. You can’t go too fast in an interview, especially if it’s only audio, because it is very hard to follow. On the contrary, you can’t move so slow that it becomes boring and non-climactic. There is a trivial balance that you will have to find to create a dynamic interview that really draws the audience in. Combining a good production with an engaging interview will generate a passionate composition of what it is to live with prescription drug addiction.
- Dawson Matthews