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Project Proposal | Audio Interview

1. Overview

What is the subject of your interview?

Our chosen subject is crime and how it effects people involved and its history.

Why did you choose this subject?

My group have concluded with picking the theme of crime; more specifically Nottingham’s top 3 committed crime which is ASB robbery and

What were your sources of inspiration? In what ways did they inspire you?

We decided on the topic of crime as a group we all had an interest in it, some of us got inspired by documentaries we had watched that focused on the subject of crime others who had seen fictional TV programs about crime and wanted to see crimes real life perspective. We mainly got inspired by the documentaries we had watched and the research we then did on Nottingham’s crime and finding what crime was most commonly committed then as a collective we decided it would a good topic to do as it is informative as well as exciting meaning we would be able to pitch it at a big audience with lots of mini different types of people who would be interested in listening to a pod cast on this subject.

Who is your target audience for this interview? Why would they be interested in this subject?

2. Plans

Plan A:

Who will you be interviewing?

Local police officer

What will be the scope of your interview? What are you aiming to find out?

Our main aim is to entertain our audience with our found knowledge and inform on them on crime and the people involved with its perspective; specifically the side of the police officer who has to experience the crime and

What specific questions have you already agreed on?

As a group we have decided on the following question to ask the local police officer, firstly what the risks to their job are and if they actually enjoy doing their job. We are also planning to find out if possible what the most dangerous situation they’ve been in because of their job and if the job effects their family. Adding to that we also keen to find out what is the worst crime they’ve seen whilst in their job and if they are aware to how crime differs outside of Nottingham.

Plan B (compulsory):

Who will you be interviewing?

Previously convicted criminal (not of a serious crime)

What will be the scope of your interview? What are you aiming to find out?

We aim to achieve finding out how someone who committed the crime personally found the experience of the crime and the aftermath of been charged with the crime.

What specific questions have you already agreed on?

We decided to ask the previously convicted what the process of being convicted was like and if they could possibly tell us what they had been convicted for. Adding to that we were interested in asking how they got caught and if they would commit the crime again. Family would also be an interesting topic to ask about, for example how did their family feel about crime? Also we were particular interested in finding what exactly they were thinking exactly before they committed the crime.

Plan C (recommended):

Who will you be interviewing?

History teacher or an expert form galleries of justice

What will be the scope of your interview? What are you aiming to find out?

We are trying to find out more of an informative side of crime and informational side that can show a clear comparison past, present and possibly future crime.

What specific questions have you already agreed on?

Firstly we are interested in hearing their opinion on crime evolution and how/if it has changed. We were also interested on their opinion on law and order and if it’s progressed as crime has. Future crime is also is also a curious topic and what they thinking future crimes will be. Another important question we are going to ask is what do you think has changed to prevent crime from happening? Then finally we are curious to see what their opinion on societies role of preventing crime and if it’s doing enough?

3. Roles and Responsibilities

Who will be responsible for the following roles? What will they need to ensure that they do?

· Interviewer/presenter

· Researcher

· Audio Engineer/Producer

Our chosen interviewers and presenters are Mya and Danni. Their job (interviewer) is to make sure the interviewee is comfortable in the setting and feels open to answer all the questions being asked. It is also their job to make sure the interview runs smoothly. Then the main role of the presenter is to entertain and inform the listeners, it is also their job to make sure the interview flows well.

Sophie is our researcher and it is important that our chosen topic is researched thoroughly so that our whole teams knows everything about the chosen topic, This means researching relevant people who could possibly be interviewed, researching the topic as a whole and finding key information relevant to our chosen topic. Finally it is her job to analyse the information and make sure it is all reliable and if it isn’t then to find a possible outcome to make it reliable.

Then Abbie is our selected Audio Engineer/producer, it is her job to work with the aspects of sound during the processes of recording and editing the final project. It is also her role to plan and coordinate the project meaning she has to make sure everyone is doing their job and to direct the podcast so that everything is set up, including the equipment as well as the people involved.

4. Action Plan

What times and dates will you be available to interview your guest?

Tuesdays ,Thursdays, Fridays

When will each of the following be completed by?

Task:

Who is responsible for this?

Date completed by:

Finish research

Sophie Houlden

15th Nov

Finish all interview questions

Danni Harrison

15th Nov

Confirm interview guest, time and date

Abbie Urbina

12th Nov

Conduct and record interview

Abbie Urbina, Maya Williams

14th Nov

Edit audio

Maya Williams

15th Nov

Upload final interview to Soundcloud

Maya Williams

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sophiehouldencrashcourse · 8 years ago

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Abbie’s podcast notes

The Paranormal Podcast

Presentation style:

· Formal

· Calm

Interview style:

· Discussion

· Open questions

· Friendly

Structure:

· Summary of the podcast

· Introduction of first interviewee

· Sponsor

· Introduction to second interviewee

· Outro + conclusion

Music:

· Music is subtle

· Fills short pauses

· Helps when transitioning to a new point in the discussion

Good parts:

· The style of questions kept the podcast interesting

· The sponsor was relevant

· Good interviewees

Bad parts:

· The quality wasn’t great as the interviewee was on the phone

· The introductions are too long

· The music doesn’t match the theme of the podcast

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http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ugstudy/courses/sociologyandsocialpolicy/criminology-ba.aspx

Nottingham University Website for criminology

Location

Contact info

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Nottingham Maid Marion Way Police Website

https://www.nottinghamshire.police.uk/contact

Police contact page

Contact information for Maid Marion way

Bullwell police contact info

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sophiehouldencrashcourse · 8 years ago

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Questions for podcast

How do you feel about the supernatural? Is it something that you believe in? Have you ever experienced anything paranormal and if so, has it changed your views towards the supernatural? What is your opinion on ghosts, do you think that they are maybe misunderstood or do you think that they are accurately represented in history and media? Do you have any conspiracies relating to the supernatural?

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Paranormal research

http://punggolwaterway.com/hdb-flat-mystery-what-is-causing-the-marble-dropping-sound-from-above/

HDB flats are designed based on prevailing building codes. Hence, the acoustic properties for flats are no different from other residential buildings. To date, we have not received any feedback on the sound of dropping marbles where there has not been any attributable cause. HDB Sengkang Branch Office, which manages the flats at Punggol Town, has not received any feedback about the sound of dropping marbles in the area.

Some speculated that the go li (marble balls) are placed between the floors for the supernaturals to play so they will not disturb the occupants.

However, the acoustics in HDB is such that, if someone were to really play marbles on the level above yours, you will not be able to hear anything (much). Or it will not be as loud. Because when real marble balls hit the floor and by the time it reaches the level below, it will not be very audible.

http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/the-reality-ghosts-explaining-our-fascination-the-supernatural

(Paranormal is now more mainstream)

And the second reason is that the paranormal right now has gone really mainstream and that's captured by an experience where I went to a supermarket in Wales with my two sisters and there I am at the checkout and alongside Cosmopolitan I can buy Spirit and Destiny and several other psychic magazines aimed at me as a woman. So that shows me that the paranormal's gone mainstream and you can buy it with your milk, bread and eggs, so that was the second reason.

(History of paranormal)

When I was reading this I kept thinking "no it can't be as popular as that, no, no". I came across your surveys showing a steady rise in belief in the paranormal since the '70s, including a rise following the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

The "phantom economy "has certainly been growing in the last few years, you can see it if you look at the back pages of any women's magazine, with all the tarot lines and this kind of thing.

Well I have a feeling that in the 19th Century audiences went along in a slightly more sceptical spirit than audiences do now to shows by psychic mediums. I think that the 19th Century audience for a spirit show - somebody like the Davenport brothers with their spirit cabinet where voices came from the inside, musical instruments were played mysteriously - I think that, by and large, they went along in order to say well how is this done, there's some enigma here to be solved.

https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/the-victorian-supernatural

While we might still accept the broad brush strokes of this story, the Victorian period is also of course a period of deep and sustained religious revival. There was an evangelical revival in the Christian church but also a host of dissenting, heterodox and millenarian cults. It was a golden age of belief in supernatural forces and energies, ghost stories, weird transmissions and spooky phenomena. For a long time historians ignored these beliefs as embarrassing errors or eccentricities, signs of the perturbations produced by the speed of cultural change.

https://www.m.webmd.boots.com/a-to-z-guides/sleep-paralysis

Sleep paralysis is a feeling of being conscious but unable to move. It occurs when a person passes between stages of wakefulness and sleep. During these transitions, you may be unable to move or speak for a few seconds up to a few minutes.

Sleep paralysis is a feeling of being conscious but unable to move. It occurs when a person passes between stages of wakefulness and sleep. During these transitions, you may be unable to move or speak for a few seconds up to a few minutes. Some people may also feel pressure or a sense of choking. Sleep paralysis may accompany other sleep disorders such as narcolepsy. Narcolepsy is an overpowering.

Sleep researchers say that in most cases, sleep paralysis is simply a sign that your body is not moving smoothly through the stages of sleep. Rarely is sleep paralysis linked to underlying psychiatric problems.

Sleep paralysis usually occurs at one of two times. If it occurs while you are falling asleep, it's called hypnagogic or predormital sleep paralysis. If it happens as you are waking up, it's called hypnopompic or postdormital sleep paralysis.

Who develops sleep paralysis?

Up to as many as four out of every 10 people may have sleep paralysis. This common condition is often first noticed in the teenage years. But men and women of any age can have it. Sleep paralysis may run in families. Other factors that may be linked to sleep paralysis include:

· A lack of sleep

· A sleep routine that changes

· Mental health conditions such as stress or bipolar disorder

· Sleeping on the back

· Other sleep problems such as narcolepsy or night-time leg cramps

· Use of certain medications

· Substance abuse

Suicide forest

Aokigahara, also known as the Suicide Forest or Sea of Trees, is a forest on the northwestern flank of Japan's Mount Fuji thriving on 30 square kilometers of hardened lava laid down by the last major eruption of Mount Fuji in 864 CE.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aokigahara

The forest has a historical reputation as a home to "yūrei" or ghosts of the dead in Japanese mythology. In recent years, Aokigahara has become internationally known as one of the world's most popular destinations for suicide.

In 2003, 105 bodies were found in the forest, exceeding the previous record of 78 in 2002.[12] In 2010, the police recorded more than 200 people having attempted suicide in the forest, of whom 54 completed the act.[13] Suicides are said to increase during March, the end of the fiscal year in Japan.[14] As of 2011, the most common means of suicide in the forest were hanging or drug overdose.[13] In recent years, local officials have stopped publicizing the numbers in an attempt to decrease Aokigahara's association with suicide.

The rate of suicide has led officials to place a sign at the forest's entry, written in Japanese, urging suicidal visitors to seek help and not take their own lives. Annual body searches have been conducted by police, volunteers, and attendant journalists since 1970.

The site's popularity has been attributed to Seichō Matsumoto's 1961 novel Nami no Tō (Tower of Waves). [19] [20] However, the history of suicide in Aokigahara predates the novel's publication, and the place has long been associated with death; ubasute may have been practiced there into the nineteenth century, and the forest is reputedly haunted by the yūrei of those left to die.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/73288/15-eerie-things-about-japans-suicide-forest

But it's the Japanese landmark's horrific history that made the woods a fitting location for the spooky horror film The Forest.

AOKIGAHARA IS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR SUICIDE DESTINATIONS IN THE WORLD.

Part of these measures included posting security cameras at the entrance of the Suicide Forest and increasing patrols. Suicide counselors and police have also posted signs on various paths throughout the forest that offer messages like "Think carefully about your children, your family" and "Your life is a precious gift from your parents."

Because of its location at the base of a mountain, the ground is uneven, rocky, and perforated with hundreds of caves. But more jarring than its tricky terrain is the feeling of isolation created from the stillness; the trees are too tightly packed for winds to whip through and the wildlife is sparse. One visitor described the silence as "chasms of emptiness." She added, "I cannot emphasize enough the absence of sound. My breath sounded like a roar."

Goatmans Bridge

http://wedentondoit.com/blog/2013/10/18/back-in-the-day-goatmans-bridge

Built in 1884 as a busy thoroughfare, have long reported frightening encounters and ghostly experiences with supernatural creatures that have made it a legendary spot for Texas ghost hunters and a topic for numerous books.

According to the most circulated version, an African-American entrepreneur named Oscar Washburn and his family tended a farmstead goat herd near the bridge that was renowned for quality meat, milk, cheeses and hides. When the popular businessman proudly hung a sign on the Old Alton Bridge directing “This way to the Goatman,” it infuriated local Ku Klux Klansmen who plotted violence. On a dark night in the late 1930s, a lynch mob of Kluxers stormed Washburn’s shack and dragged the screaming Goatman to their noose waiting on the bridge, tightened the rope around the begging Oscar’s neck, then mercilessly flung him over the side. But when the Night Riders stumbled down to the dark river’s edge to confirm their murderous handiwork, they were shocked to find only an inexplicably empty noose dangling over undisturbed waters.

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sophiehouldencrashcourse · 8 years ago

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HQ Media

Email and reply to HQ Media, who do media coverage on crime. Unfortunately do to time schedule were unable to give us an interview.

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Galleries of justice Museum

Contact information, made a phone call to enquiry if they could possibly do an interview, currently lead up to a follow up email.

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sophiehouldencrashcourse · 8 years ago

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Danni’s podcast

Finding Sarah and Philip Introduces her name Introduces the people talking Self promo at the start Disclaimer at the start Audio recording of the mother Terry knight mother In 2003 14 year old Sarah and 11 year old Philip were murdered by their father Manuel Guerring The parents were divorced and in the middle of a custody dispute The two children were spending the 4th of July with their father in conquer New Hampshire Instead of returning the children to their mother at the end of the trip, Manuel Guerring shot them and crossed several states before burying their bodies He was arrested one week later in California He began to try to help investigators find the bodies but he didn’t appear to know where he had buried them Law enforcement transported him in a van across the mid-west And Guerring tried to describe visual markers, however, he only really knew that they were somewhere along the Ohio turnpike. The search was unsuccessful and Manuel Guerring killed himself awaiting trial, terry knight continued searching for the bodies of Sarah and Phillip. She drove 660 miles on Midwestern roads. She would plead with the public along the way to help her. Anyway they could do it e.g. psychic, pour over maps, and drive that route. She would take any help that she could get. Introduces the next person talking and explains a little bit about her life story Creates a visual image Music in the background Use of rhetorical questions Reintroduces her name and the name of the podcast Use of facts Opinions Explains in the story or the point of view from the speaker Interview seems friendly Explains how she found the body due to the help of her dog Rico Interval and then creates a mother visual on the spoken subject After 5 and half months of searching Stefanie had somehow managed to find the body When everybody else had been trying for the past two and a half years . She had found the remains of Sarah and Philip Explains how she felt what the future is like since Terry knight came to Ohio to meet Stefanie does a summary at the end of the podcast Says where the podcast is recorded

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Danni’s Podcast notes

Podcast the X podcast disturbing exchanges part 1+2 Use of creepy music Rhetorical question Talks in 3rd person Mysterious Radio hauntings in Japan Disclaimer at the beginning Introduction from presenter Explains what they are going to be talking about Suicide forest Self-promotion Cuts to Music Recorded phone conversation Creepy music interlude Shout outs Music interlude again Talks about the person they are going to be interviewing Introduces the person and thanks them for being here today Goes straight into the questions

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The War on drugs

- How is the War on Drugs typically framed in mainstream media?

Typically The War on Drugs is famed in mainstream media as effecting young people, people that come from rough backgrounds. Youths that are obsessed with drugs, any drugs they can find, as if they don’t care about anything else. The mainstream media doesn’t typically report on what lead them to drugs and why they do drugs instead it focus on them actually doing the drugs and the bad consequences that follow.

How does "The House I Live In" frame it?

This documentary shows The War on Drugs in a different light to what is normally shown. One of the main differences is that this style of documentary makes the individual people that do or supply the drugs more personal and doesn’t alienate them as other forms of media may; it makes them seem like normal people just living life and doing their best to survive. An example of the way that it makes it more personal is by showing individual everyday life and then them expressing the opinion on The War on Drugs and what they really think is happening.

- How does the media influence our perception of drugs?

Think about how drug usage and law is typically presented. Again, use examples.

The media influences people to tell them that drugs are bad. The only way that drugs are ever justified is when their prescribed medically. For example there is lots of positive coverage on marijuana when it’s helping people with Parkinson’s reduce pain or when it’s given to cancer patients. However a soon as they see young people doing it on the street or dealing it on the street they make them out to be criminals, there’s typically no coverage on why they are selling it or why they people are buying it.

- In your view, is The War on Drugs racist? Explain your answer.

stereo typically the war on drugs is most definitely racist towards the War on Drugs. Typically you'll see more reports on non white people getting bad press for the war on drugs, in reverse you'll see more white people killing or prosecuting those involved with drugs which doesn't always show a respectable light on either people involved. At this point its easy to assume The War on Drugs is racist, major outlooks reporting drugs cases may favour in those who ethnically are not white. Its definitely by no means just non white people who take drugs recreationally, there is plenty of white people who take drugs or supply them, if not possibly more. Therefor I think its a naïve thing to post blame for the War on Drugs all on one race. As for my own opinion on whether the war the War on drugs is racist I am unsure, and don't think I can really decide one way or another. I don't live in America where the war on drugs is happening, neither have I seen it first hand as I've never been to the states. I can only do so much research on different stories online to make a judgment and I'm still undecided. I can only base my judgment by the stereotype and what gets passed from the states to the Uk and I don't believe that's enough to make a certain descion.

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Black fish review

From the documentary BlackFish I have learned many facts about killer whales in captivity which I wasn’t originally aware off, I felt that this observational documentary conveyed the information in a very good way as it showed the facts and evidence in multiple styles of Medias. For example they went to cutaways and showed newspaper clippings of headlines of when the killer whales had attacked trainers, they then had interviews showing primary evidence of people who had previously worked at Sea World with the killer whales. Adding to that my favourite way that they displayed information in the documentary was through the use of B roll where it featured archive footage of wear trainers had been videoed whilst an attack had happened. A fact that I found interesting was about Tilkum the killer whale; I found out this information whilst watching the interview part on one of his trainers, He told the Black Fish documentary team about when Tilikum disobeyed a command and as a result of this they would feed him because they concentrated on using positive reinforcement. The positive reinforcement was where if the animal did something correctly they would be reworded with something such as food where as if they disobeyed or did the command wrong they would receive no reword, therefor trying to persuade the killer whale to do the correct action. I enjoyed this fact because of the way it was told, you could see the guilt and injustice that the trainer personally felt towards Tilikum which made it seem more real because of the personal level.

Sea world trainers were often mislead or lied to in their job, for example when at different parks trainers got attacked people from other parks weren’t informed on it to prevent possible future risks or even just to say that the attack happened, instead they often only knew as much as the general public on the incidents and found the same way they would through the use of the media.

The main reason I could find the documentary misleading as a whole was due to the fact that it didn’t feature much positivity on the subject, in contrast it heavily focused of the negative impacts that Sea World portrayed and offered.

If I could tell the people who made BlackFish any ideas I had to improve the documentary I would tell them I’d like to see more perspectives on the positive side of Sea World, for example if Sea World helps keeps rare species going so it would make it easier to compare the two sides.

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Notes and pictures for podcasting equipment