Podcast Review

For this assignment I chose to listen to Episode #192, "Chronicle/ In Brief: The Descendant, Tintin, The Artist" from a series entitled, "The Film Talk Movie Reviews". The Film Talk is hosted by interviewers Jett Loe and Garret Higgins but the Podcast itself is produced by Consolidated Operational Services LLC. 

The Podcast mainly focused on reviewing the 2012 film Chronicle. The show consisted of the two men creating commentary on the film as well as relating it to other better known works. The banter between the two of them created a playful yet informative dynamic to the review. Host Jett Loe started off the show by commenting on the technical and conceptual success of the movie. He commented on the depth of the writing in the movie as well as its relevance to modern society. The rebuttal and complimentary conversation from his cohost only added to the positive conversation about the film. Toward the beginning of the podcast they shared a sound bite from the film as well to help acclimate the listeners to the style of the movie. Although they mainly focused on praising Chronicle they used the last 10 minutes of the 30 minute podcast to do a quick few rounds of commentary on the movies Tintin, The Artist and The Descendants. The quick buzzer like 1 minute descriptions of the other movies added a new rhythm and dynamic to the show, 

This podcast was found under the TV & Film category of ITune's Podcast's and being that this series focuses on reviewing films I think it fits appropriately.The category could be more specifically defined as Film Review. Judging by the length of the other podcasts by them this one may have been a bit more brief and packed with more information than the others but it nevertheless appears typical of the channel. Overall the content of the podcast was intriguing and quirky and the quality was very good. The sound seemed about as clear as a good radio show which made it seem very professional. They seemed very practiced and smooth in their speech which also made it easy to listen to. The only down side was that with about 9 minutes left one of the speakers microphones decided to begin breaking up. The connection became very grainy and almost impossible to understand. While the other cohost managed to keep the show together and salvage what was left of the cast this technical difficulty was frustrating for me as a listener. I decided to stick it out and listen till the end and the strong beginning of the review seemed to outweigh the technical mistake but this mistake was undoubtedly distracting from the quality of the podcast as a whole.