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The Avengers/Breakfast Club trailer mash-up is clearly transformative because it takes the audio from the classic movie, The Breakfast Club, and overlaps it with the visual part of the movie Marvel’s Avengers.  This element of the trailer mash up is what leads into the next part. 

The trailer was very proportional.  It was almost comical how a twenty first century action film about super heroes could accurately be twisted to give the viewer an idea that the classic movie The Breakfast Club audio depicts the super heroes in The Avengers trainer.  The audio and visual elements match up almost perfectly.  Not only is there enough characters in each of the movies for the description to match up numerically, but the characteristics of each comic book character matches up to the description of each high school teen even though the movies are years apart.

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This American Life and Radiolab Blog Post

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/524/i-was-so-high

The podcast from This American Life, entitled, “I Was So High” is about the ins and outs of understanding that there may and probably are people around you that are constantly under the influence of a drug and you may never even realize it.  It begins by talking about a man named Sean Cole who had heard rumors about people working under the influence of cocaine in the bars that he regularly attended in Toronto.  They were curious to know more, so they set up some anonymous interviews with people that fit the category.  At the end of the interviews of the anonymous people is when the music starts, and during speaking breaks and transitions from interview to narration for example, the music continues and also continues while the narrator speaks.  During most of the interviews of the anonymous people, the music cuts out completely in order for the listener to be able to hear the response.  The radio station interviewed people who worked at bars, probably in their mid twenties, and asked about their habits.  The narrators also talked about their own personal experiences with their own friends, stating that they had found out years into a friendship that their friend was always high when they were around them, and were shocked to find that out, because they were convinced that their habits were just attributes to their “personality.”  They also interviewed professionals about drugs such as cocaine and marijuana to get the inside scoop about their effects.  They touched on all areas of the topic, examining the people would display these habits. 

http://www.radiolab.org/story/haunted/

The podcast from Radiolab, entitled, “Haunted” started off differently than “I Was So High” from This American Life.  “Haunted” started out with a very attention grabbing jingle and appropriate music to set the tone of the topic.  The narrators also introduced themselves after that, which I liked because in This American Life, there was no introduction of who the narrator was and I just kept hearing different voices throughout the podcast.  It’s very important to inform your audience, especially when you are in radio for the audience cannot physically see you, who is speaking so that they can put a name to a voice.  In terms of music, there was none during the interviews at first, but then some was introduced at a light volume.  It came in and out and was not continuous, but I think they used the music in a natural, comical, and clever way.  They fit the theme of the music with the theme and tone of what was being said at the time.  They told the story in a good, personal, emotional way that grabbed my attention.  They introduced the interviewee and asked him about his past and did not just jump into the story of the haunted house.  They made a real connection with the interviewee, which gave the interview more substance.  I also really liked that the interviewer at one point appropriately brought a new feeling of hope into the interview when the interviewee was talking about his deceased parents.  He picked up the mood and got the interviewee back on track, but included just enough emotion to create the powerful message that it did. 

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