There are 2 podcasts that I want to base my own on. that Being Distractible by Markiplier and Inform, Educate, Entertain by “award-loosing comedian” Sam Wilkinson.
The first podcast Distractible, produced by wood elf, features 3 people, Mark, Bob ad Wade, all 3 of them having youtube channels and being friends. The podcast features One person being the host and choosing a topic for the other 2 to speak about and whoever can make the funniest story about the subject wins the episode and becomes host in the next episode. The style is a panel show, with three people, one as host and the others as contestants. The episodes all start with an introductory Jingle and then the 3 people introduce themselves and what the podcast is about. The podcasts format is a comedic conversational interview podcast, which is evident of the more laid back conversational content of the podcast.
Inform Educate Entertain is a Game show hosted by comedian Sam Wilkinson and he has 3 different comedians on to play against each other. The contestants will play for fake roles of the broadcasting company Sam Wilkinson made up , points are assigned on how much the host, Sam Wilkinson, finds something Informative, Educating or Informative. Each episode contains 3 different rounds, round one sees the contestants link one thing to another, round two has each contestant preform a radio play and round 3 features a quick fire questions. The episodes are supposed to resemble an interview, all be it much more comedic. I have the extremely lucky opportunity to interview the creator of IEE as my mother knows the creator Sam Wilkinson and has been on the first episode of IEE. IEE’s format is a comedic conversational, educational interview, with it being a game show, those formats fit the podcast the best.
Dungeons and Daddies is the third podcast I’ve listened to and it’s influencing me a lot.The podcast is hosted by Anthony Burch as the Dungeon Master (the guy that tells everyone what to do) and the 4 players/dads are Matt Arnold, Will Campos, Beth May and Freddie Wong. The podcast is a D&D campaign of 4 dads trying to find their stolen children after passing through a vortex to a world like D&D. This podcast is slightly more explicit than the other two podcasts in terms of language and imagery. The format for this podcast is a comedic podcast theater interview with it being 5 different people in the podcast telling a story, through a Dungeons and Dragons campaign.
podcast idea brainstorm, Inspiration, Distractible, would be entertaining but would be difficult to set up. IEE, would be interesting however there will be time problems. Dungeons and Daddies, would be extremely fun and entertaining however might be short of time and people.
D&D seems like it would be really fun to make and hopefully entertaining to the people listening however I’d need to find extra people to join the recording which might be difficult. another problem would be timing since setting up the story and characters ect. would require more time than 10 mins.
A podcast that takes inspiration from IEE or Distractible would be best for the amount of people. IO think if i where to take inspiration from any part of IEE would be the 2nd round with the story. It would also fit the 10 minute time slot that we have.
Despite having multiple ideas and plans for the D&D podcast I’m unfortunately having to scrap the idea, I simply don’t have enough time or people do do what I want successfully.
Distractible: The target demographic is people aged 25-34 year olds since that’s one fo the main demographics for the creators channel. The gender of the listener is irrelevant, although since most of the creators audience is Male, 63.09%, it could be argued that’s the target.
Dungeons and daddies research: The demographic of this podcast is for people aged 18-25 as it’s a more adult podcast as well as having those ages be the typical D&D players. It could also be argued that another demographic would be fathers as that’s one massive focus of the Podcast.
IEE research: I was able to interview the creator of the podcast. I asked questions that I thought would help me as well as some that I was just curious about. Me=J Sam=S
J” What made or inspired you to start IEE?” S”A mix of things, I guess! I’ve always loved radio comedy and since I went into stand up I’ve thought the big goal would be to do a radio show, so it’s always been in the back of my mind.
” J “Was there something specific that made you start it?” S “When Lockdown came in and every other comedian did a podcast I was a bit slow off the mark, but I remembered at one point an idea I’d had pre-comedy when some mates and I were going to do a podcast. That idea was the format for round 1 of IEE but my mates weren’t up for it so it never happened. I remembered that idea and thought I’d do that with comedy mates but I felt like they wouldn’t all be up for doing 3 of those an episode, so it spun out into the other two rounds, So I think it was Lockdown and everyone else doing podcasts that made me realise I could do a radio panel show of my own without waiting for Radio 4”
J “How different is the production of IEE now compared to when it started?” S “It’s slicker! I did the first few episodes on Zoom just using a gaming headset and playing in the audio off Apple Music, which worked but was a bit faffy. I hadn’t done much audio editing before so I was teaching myself as I went. Now I use a decent mic (Samson Q2U), I’ve got a Zoom Podtrak recorder which also works as my soundboard so the actual recording goes smoother. And I’ve learnt a lot of the basics of editing (just stuff like keyboard shortcuts and bits like that) so the edit is faster – I’d say it used to take 40 hours per ep, down now to about 16, I think I’ve learned to be a bit better with my presenter’s scripts too but that’s an ongoing battle”
J “How did you come up with the dead studio audience idea?” S “I don’t really know to be honest! I realised I needed something easy to break the ice for the pre-show chit chat, and at some point the fact that the fact that nobody would be listening occurred to me as a pun on ‘live studio audience’ .Probably because QI and all those other shows have a bit of audience interaction in them, Audience getting points for shouting out answers and stuff.”
J “I really enjoyed it when I first listened to it, however I did listen to some of the recants and noticed that they’re just called an audience now, is there a reason for that?” S “So it went from dead studio audience in series 1, fictional studio audience in 2 and series 3 has a joke of a studio audience. All jokes about how nobody’s really listening, but a slight twist each time. I think to be honest dead was the best, I might stick with that for future series, I can’t think of a unique one each time!”
J “So how long do the recordings usually take?” S “Somewhere around 2 hours – normally including about 20 minutes at the start for a bit of chit chat and fixing tech problems, Some go longer, depending on how much mucking about the guests do”
J “How long do the edits take?” S “Nowadays I get them done across a weekend, so probably in the region of 16 hours”
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