The Last Blog

Based off of these NPR videos I feel like I have a fairly good start with my script and I think that it follows the NPR way pretty well.  The whole idea behind the NPR transcripts is that for the most part they sound like a type of essay format.  Being that they are mostly in essay format with quotes used to support what the narrator parts are saying.  For the introductions NPR usually starts by talking about some background information on the topic and gives a general idea about what the rest of the report will be about.  In the “body” of the report which seems essentially just like the body paragraphs of an informative essay, they start to talk about all of the ideas that have been put forth in the introduction.  Clips of interviews that pertain to what the narrator is talking about at that point in time are cut and edited in, in order to reinforce what the narrator is saying.  The narrator never says anything such as in this interview or has any of the questions that they asked the interviewee in the actual script.  They also just use some things from the audio interviews and not the entire interview.  If they used the entire interview it would start to become boring.  For the conclusion of the NPR stories, most of them end mostly like a regular typed informative essay.  NPR uses the conclusions to reiterate some of the ideas put forth in the rest of the essay and give a general recollection of what was spoken about.  There are a few things that I definitely need to elaborated on in my script which professor L helped me figure out today during workshop and I think that overall I am on the right track to finishing and producing a good audio essay.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2012/11/27/165677915/do-orchestras-really-need-conductors

http://www.npr.org/2012/11/28/166087459/propeller-planes-come-back-amid-high-fuel-prices