At the beginning of our workshop Brian gave us an example of a audio essay and what it included. I thought this was helpful because at first I thought that this audio essay would just be us talking from a script straight and not really include other sounds. When doing this in our group we want to move away from just reading out a essay and include different voices/opinions about it to make it more conversational like the example he showed us.
What I noticed in this audio essay example about sleep:
- different voices, conversational type
- sound effects in the background
- examples of different sounds what he is talking about
- making audiences image of what he is talking about (talking to give them a visual example)
- Rhetorical questions to help audiences visualise
- Humour to create a tone