World Vision Report – “Love Shack”
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http://www.worldvisionreport.org/Stories/Week-of-February-13-2010/Love-Shack
From Dakar, Senegal, Will Everett describes a visit to the "love shack". Usually traditional medicine uses plants and oils to aid in a range of illnesses and afflictions, but what’s interesting about this feature is that it talks about a natural remedy for lovesickness. Everett visits one local man called Muhammad who says he's found an herbal solution for one of humanity's most enduring ailments: unrequited love. This feature is part of the Reporters Notebook category on the World Vision Report website.
The reporter is narrating, and he only has some snippets of the interviewee’s voice complimenting what he is saying. For natural sound, a lot of background noise was used along with the voice of the two interviewees. It was ok in the beginning, since it captured the whole atmosphere of this ‘love shack’, but then I felt it became somewhat of a distraction. The quality of the sound was really good, but as I have mentioned before, the background noise was just too much and really annoying to be hearing every time the interviewee speaks.
The announcer’s voice was clear and not too dramatic, which is good. For this topic, I felt that the 3:30 minutes is too much time for the feature. I felt like most of the time the reporter was being redundant and the topic really didn’t grab my attention and was really disinteresting. He used a sound bite of a friend who knows this apothecary (or so to say), and what she was saying was really irrelevant and lame. I didn’t feel like I have learned anything new or interesting by listening to this feature, as most of the time I felt like the reporter was just using some extra sound bites and natural sound to make this audio piece longer.
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