Podcast – Music and Effects alter Meaning

• Instructional Need / Objective: Your company wants employees to start creating podcasts and enhance them with music and effects. The learning goal is to show how music and effects alter the meaning and the atmosphere of the podcast in order to create better podcasts. 

• Learning Activity audience: Novices to Podcasts (they know already how to record a podcast)
• URL for audio file: https://griffl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Storyboard-Podcast-Music-and-Effects-alter-Meaning.mp3
• Reflection: The podcasts is a technical study on how music and effects can change the meaning of the spoken text and alter the atmosphere and listener experience. There are 4 parts
  • Record voice with high quality audio 
  • Use appropriate music to improve podcasts and adjust sound levels of different audio tracks (starts at minute 0:48)
  • Use music and effects to improve podcasts. The example effect here is an echo of the reader`s voice (starts at minute 1:38)
  • Different music alters meaning of podcasts (starts at minute 2:38)
  • Determine inappropriate music that decreases the quality of the podcast (starts at minute 3:39)

Visuals/Media Types: (all media is, unless specified otherwise, licensed under CC BY)

1. Podcast: https://griffl.org/podcast-music-and-effects-alter-meaning/
2. Text from Seth Lloyd, Programming the Universe, Prologue
3. Music Tracks (all from Free Music Archive)
   1. Artist: Chad Crouch, Track: Organisms, Album: Arps, Link: https://files.freemusicarchive.org/storage-freemusicarchive-org/music/ccCommunity/Chad_Crouch/Arps/Chad_Crouch_-_Organisms.mp3 (Organisms by Chad Crouch is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License. )
   2. Artist: Simon Mathewson, Track: The Rine, Link: https://files.freemusicarchive.org/storage-freemusicarchive-org/music/WFMU/Simon_Mathewson/Moonshine/Simon_Mathewson_-_03_-_The_Rhine.mp3 (The Rhine by Simon Mathewson is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. )
   3. Artist: Scott Holmes, Track: Stomps and Claps, Link: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/Inspiring__Upbeat_Music/Scott_Holmes_-_Stomps_and_Claps (Stomps and Claps by Scott Holmes is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License. )