I'm going to use episode #733 of This American Life: Warriors in the Garden published on 5 March 2021 to explore what makes a great episode that uses an episodic structure. Namely
1. A good overarching question
2. Focus on people.
3. Bring out the journey of change.
Episode link: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/733/warriors-in-the-garden
PRODUCTION NOTES
Recording Mic: Zoom LMF-2 Lavalier mic (I didn't secure this properly hence the scratching sounds. Arrrrrgh!!!!!! Sorry. )
Recording device : Zoom F2 32 bit float Field Recorder
Recording location: Dining table, seated, no pillow-fort.
Recording format: WAV (32 bit float mono)
Editing app (and EQ) : Adobe Audition
Sound Treatment: Auphonic Productions at Auphonic.com
Auphonic.com settings [to output as a 16bit mono WAV file]: Adaptive Leveler (on), Loudness Normalization (Loudness Target -19 LUFS ), Filtering (on), Noise and Hum Reduction (Reduction Amount: Auto), Sample rate: 44.1kHz
I uploaded the resulting WAV file to Anchor.fm to host the file and added the music from their free music stock.
Episode art: Canva
Anchor automatically converts the WAV file into a 128kbps, stereo, .m4a file
