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Of all of podcasting's problems, "sameness" isn't one.
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Listen to 10 different podcasts, and you're likely to hear 10
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different approaches to sound.
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Are those differences from intentional design choices?
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Hello, and welcome to another Podcast Pontifications with me, Evo Terra.
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Does your podcast have a style?
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Not a type like narrative non-fiction, chatcast, or monologue, but a style,
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a design, some sort of artistic identity or affectation that you're
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going for with each of your episodes.
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I was watching Love, Death & Robots, an animated television series on
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Netflix, which is great, by the way, very different styles of animation
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in those short ten to fifteen-minute long episodes ranging from the
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hyper-realistic 3-D - is that real or not?
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- down to the Harryhausen style of Claymation almost.
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And as I was watching, I realized that some of those definitely looked better
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to me, and I think better to anybody, and by better, I mean more fluid style.
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Some of them were nearly lifelike, as I said.
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While others were far less...perfect, if you will, very jerky animation,
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blocky coloring, or backgrounds that looked, well, fake.
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But I'm betting that 100% of those episodes were all rendered on a computer.
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Probably very likely the same or similar computer with the same or
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similar computer programs as the person who did the much more realistic ones.
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Just like 100% of podcasts are rendered on a computer.
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Now, why didn't those different episodes look, at least from
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a style perspective, the same?
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Was it a time savings decision?
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Did the producer not want to spend the time to make it more realistic,
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so, therefore, they just they're stuck with that jerky style,
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herky-jerky movement because they couldn't afford to make it any better?
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No, of course that wasn't why that was done.
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The decision to have that herky-jerky movement, to have that replication of Ray
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Harryhausen style Claymation was a choice.
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They were trying to affect a particular style.
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So I'll ask that question of you again, does your podcast have a style?
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Does it have intentional design elements that make it unlike most other podcasts,
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but very much like a few others.
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And if so, can you name those other shows?
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Are you communicating with the people who make podcasts in the same style, again,
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not topic in the same style as yours, so that you can share tips and techniques and
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generally raise the profile of the style of podcasting you and others are doing.
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And if you're not, why not start now?
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Seems like a good idea, because I can assure you that listeners
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love a particular style.
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Everyone shouldn't say that a lot of people who listen to a lot of
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podcasts have a particular style, an artistic feeling and a flair that
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they want out of their podcasts.
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We talk about them as people who listen to true crime, but that's topic.
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I'm telling you, there are people out there who like certain styles,
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it hits an endorphin spot in their brain and they love it.
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And if you can find more people who have their endorphins tripped
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by the kind of podcasting you are making, the style of your show, the
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artistic-ness, the way that it feels.
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They're going to want it.
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They're going to want a lot more of that.
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Again, people who love that style will happily consume as much
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of that style as they can find.
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So if in fact, you do have a style you're going for start organizing, find out who
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else has that style propel your entire style of podcasting forward to find more
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people lean into that style of podcast.
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Are you.
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Now if you like the style of this podcast, and more importantly, you
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got some value from my episodes.
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Be they business focused or like this one, much more focused on the nuances and
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the artistic and the style of podcasting.
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With that I shall be back tomorrow with yet another Podcast Pontifications.
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Cheers!
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