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Geeks on Drama

• Episode One: A New Hope
o Introduction
• Name
• What podcast do we like
• What we like about them
• Why we view them as digital drama
o Summary

• Episode Two: The Importance of Being Earnest
o Scripted nature
• Similarities and difference between "traditional" view of drama and podcasts
o Theatricality
• Aspects of drama, performance and the theatricality of it all in podcasts
o Conversation
• the idea that in pod cast it is a conversation with in it, like a round table

• Episode Three: Back to the Future
o History of Podcast
• How podcast came to be
• The people behind it
• Cameron Reilly
o The Podcast Network
• Kevin Rose
o Revision 3
o The current state of podcasting
• How to make podcast

• Episode Four: Being John Malkovich
o Specific Audience
• Unlike Television you don't need to cater to the whole family but to specific people be it techies or history enthusiasts
o Personal Experience
• unlike drama and television it is something you will for the most part watch it alone
o Show and Tell syndrome
• The fact that is something that you are usually going to be watching alone one will usually show the podcast to a friend who will find it interesting
o Conversation
• It is a more of a conversation between you and the podcast

• Episode Five: The School of Rock
o Educational and Informational Nature
• As with drama podcasts are majorly to educate and inform while entertaining at the same time
• iTunes U
o Easy making
• Podcast are easy to make

• Episode Six: The Last Crusade
o We don't have this episode set as well as the other because we are making this one about our finding.
• We know we want to make this one a video but it depends on a lot of things.