Blog 4

Podcasts:

The podcast that we listened to today talked about many things and raised some questions.  The podcast from the assignment I thought talked a lot about expectations and your idea of expectations.  Also about how different people and groups have different expectations.  I also think a big part of it was how the different experiences we have gone through affect our expectations.  The first podcast I listened to was Notes on Camp by This American Life then I listened to How to become Batman by NPR.  I believe that both of the podcast gave us a look into what we are going to be doing for the next project.  The podcast used a combination of stories from the groups of people, some interview questions and responses, and clips.  The two groups being interviewed where the main source of information for the podcast.  They used the speakers as the people who where asking the questions.  Much of the podcast are the speakers using the questions they asked and having them answered by the group.  When asking questions I think it help you see what it is really like along with get the attention of the audience.  The podcast by NPR is organized by topics and in each of the new segments it leads back to the topics talked about previously.  By going back to the main ideas it helps remind the listeners what the main topic is and how the new topic relates to the old one.  The podcast by This American Life bounced around more and didn’t really have a main point that it helps going back to.  It was more out there.  Both of the podcast did a good job on showing what we will be doing for the next project.  I think that the idea of expectations was very prevalent in the two podcast.  I believe that by the two different podcast you can see total different experiences and how the expectations affect those expiries.  They also talked a lot about the groups and what love was to them and how little things could affect the expectations of the people.  These two different podcast where great examples of what we will be doing for our next project.

Free-write:

I have thought of two different groups I could potentially study.  The first would be the less fortunate and the ones that live in poverty.  For this I think something like going to the homeless shelter or people city mission would be a good fit.  By going and seeing how they live there daily lives and some of the struggles they go through, I think would help answer my critical question.  Also by just seeing if the people there can find joy in anything else other then money.  I do think that this option could potentially be a difficult one just because you do not want to invade their space.  I also think that it would be tough to ask them questions especially considering mine is a lot about money and that would put me in an awkward spot.  I do think I could make this work but think I could also make something work with a different group or person.  My other idea is on the opposite side of the spectrum.  I think that doing the extremely fortunate or rich would be a good option.  Just by watching what they do with there daily lives and how they handle their money could make for a good piece.  Asking them a few questions about what they think about money or how it affects them if it does at all would be good.  I think also just seeing what there job is like and seeing if they enjoy what they do daily and have less problems because they are wealthier.   I think that either of these could be a good option and will provide an answer to my question.  They could provide totally different answers to my question depending on what their daily life is like and how they interact with money and happiness.  I am leaning more toward doing the wealthier person just because I think it will be easier to ask them questions about there money and there happiness.