Production Report (1)

Below, I will show you a rough script for a section of my podcast and tell you about all the "cool" stuff I though about on how to make it.

***I chose to put a script on so that I can take criticism and use it when I actually do recordings.


Here is the section of my outline:

1. What's so bad about getting some more oil? 
• Earthquakes
• Increasing in frequency and magnitude since fracking began.
• Damage to infrastructure.  OK homes not built to withstand earthquakes, especially not those above 5.2.
• People's homes are beginning to have damages and repairs can be very expensive.

 

"Many may wonder how this could be detrimental.  It seems like a harmless way to get some more oil, one of our most precious resources, right?  Well, fracking carries more consequence that what initially meets the eye. 

***possible music soundbyte to transition into the explanation

The most noted consequence of fracking are the earthquakes it produces.  This is mostly due to the waste water that is generated from the fracking technique.  The oil companies have been taking the excess waste water created by fracking and injecting it at high pressures back into the earth, as water treatment or special storage cuts into their financial gains.  The only problem is that this extra water shifts the pressure between tectonic plates in the earth, and causes them to slip and slide, resulting in earthquakes. (PRI specifically talking about 2011 5.66 earthquake—1:09-1:45)

It’s important to remember that Oklahoma homes and buildings are not meant to withstand earthquakes.  Seeing how larger earthquakes have become a problem only recently, homes have not been built to the earthquake safety standards like those in California.  Just a 4.3 earthquake in the suburban town of Edmond, OK caused these damages to local residents (play News9 0:40-0:46  and 1:00-1:10  and 1:10-1:36 **describing damage to Edmond homes).  Structural damages such as these are costly to the people the affect, and are rather angering to residents as they feel problems such as fracking could potentially be fixed, or at least lessened.

What troubles Oklahoma citizens even more is that earthquakes have only been increasing in frequency.  And Oklahomans aren’t the only ones noticing; the US Geological Survey from 1973-2008 recorded that there was an average of 21 earthquakes per year with a magnitude of 3 or larger.  The rate shot up in 2009-2013 where is was 99 M3+ earthquakes per year.  And in 2015 alone, they recorded that Oklahoma experience 857 earthquakes of M3+.  That’s more than than every other state combined with the exclusion of Alaska!"

Audience Questions

1. How did you decide to use form to present your content in the raw material you’ve shared here? How did the conventions of your chosen genre influence your choices?
   •   In terms of form, I decided that I want there to be music that sort of leads the listener from the introductory paragraph into the explanation. It will be brief, but I want it to be there so that they have time to digest what the upcoming section is on before I elaborate.  Podcasts typically use this for similar reasons.  I also plan on using audio clips to intermittently supplement the podcast (yet another genre convention).  This will help break up the monotony of my voice.
   • I've also been trying to practice what I have in a steady and clear voice, in order for the information to be easily portrayed to the audience.
   
   
2. How did the production of this raw material go? What kinds of any hiccups, challenges, successes, creative epiphanies, etc. occurred during the process?
   • The production of the script of itself has not been too difficult.  I have been practicing speaking it anticipation for  recording.  Right now, I just want to have a second or third pair of eyes read over these sections to make sure they seem coherent and  completely answer all the questions.  
   • The hardest part has actually been finding a variety of audio sources.  At this point though, I will include the 4 or 5 that I have and supplement with written sources.  Most podcasts seem to draw from a wide variety of anyway.