Radio Show Process Notes
Where are you in your sound-writing process?
Currently, my partner and I are working on the last steps of wrapping up our radio show script. Part of this process is finding audio pieces to include in the radio show segment. Audio pieces that we could use include the author or another person reciting the poem or a person analyzing the poem through speech.
What’s been done and what’s still left to do?
So far, my partner and I have completed our analyzations of the poems ‘The Vron Woods’ by Denise Levertov and ‘Sea Lily’ by Hilda Morley. Nonetheless, we would like to link both of these poems at the end of our radio show segment so that we can show how they are both similar in the way in how they talk about nature through organic form but also how they differ in their different themes.
What are your biggest accomplishments and failures so far?
Me and my partner’s biggest accomplishment so far is our analyzations of the different meanings in each of the poems that we have chosen. Working together in a group really enhances our ideas as we are able to explain them more deeply. As for failures, my partner and I do not have many. If I had to point one thing out, we can sometimes talk too fast during our recordings and lose time and personality as a result.
How do you feel about that?
I am very proud of the accomplishments my partner and I have made so far. It makes me excited to continue and finish out our work that is still left to do. On the other hand, I am feeling confident in feelings our failures and understand that it can be easily fixed with practice and dedication.
What have you learned so far?
At this point in the writing process of the script, I have learned that organic poetics can take a general form but be written to correlate with different emotions.
What ideas did you grapple with?
Ideas we have grappled with is how organic form can portray feelings of comfort, love, and the cycle of life while also dealing with emotions such as loss, death, and destruction.
Which problems have you solved, and which are you continuing to grapple with?
Problems that have been solved when working on this project is how the work will be divided among ourselves. This is the only problem that has been encountered and solved.
How might you over come the challenges and struggles?
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My partner and I have overcame this challenge by each of choosing a poem of our liking. After this, we wrote notes about each poem and shared them with one another. Once both poems have been analyzed, my partner and I worked together to compare and contrast how they are similar yet different.
What decisions have emerged lately as you plan and work on your project?
Decisions that have emerged lately during our project is whether or not we will use audio recordings during our radio show. My partner and I came to the conclusion that audio recordings will only be used if it adds a different perspective to our existing ideas.
What is the next step in your composing process?
The next step in my composing process is writing a more coherent intro and outro.
What do you need to do, know, and write?
For the intro and outro, I will need to let the audience know who me and partner are, the specifics of what we are doing, and what radio station and segment our show is on.
Walk through the four elements of the rhetorical situation:
1) How are you feeling about your progress toward achieving your purpose?
The purpose of my radio show was for my listeners to understand what organic form is, and how it can display different themes and emotions. Personally, I feel very confident in my progress in achieving this as both my partner and I have used our knowledge from class and past experiences to understand meaning that may be hidden in the text.
2) How are you feeling about your progress toward affecting your audience?
I am very confident with how my partner and I are making progress on our analysis of both of the poems we chose. It is our goal that our radio show will have a positive impact on our audience and inspire them to think more deeply and critically of organic form in poetry.
3) How are you feeling about your progress toward situating your work in time and place of your context?
Currently, I know that my work is relevant to the time and place of the poems I chose to analyze. One of the poems I analyzed was “The Vron Woods” by Denise Levertov who stated that she liked writing poems that related to history as well as to what is current.
4) How are you feeling about your progress toward following the expectations of your genre?
I am very confident with my progress toward following the expectations of organic poetry. My partner and I were able to establish how this form comes so fluently to people who are well versed in writing, as well as people just beginning, as they are writing about the real world and what is familiar to them.
