This Friday’s guest article from podcaster and documentary filmmaker Doug Fraser is about welcoming change. With this next installment in the Pro Storytelling series, Fraser explains how changes of character and circumstance drive compelling narratives. Want an engaging episode? Forge ahead through tension and discomfort.
“If variety is the spice of life, change is the seasoning of story,” Fraser writes. “It’s the inevitable result of tales the world over: incomplete characters (and real people) setting out to fulfill a need. Lucky for us storytellers, change is all around us. But why is it so important?” Three ‘decrees of change' break down the specific hooks that grab listeners' attention.
As with each article in this series, Fraser illustrates the concept with a clear example from his podcast What We Do. Audiences are forward-facing, so let's meet them where they are. In the words of renowned editor Shawn Coyne: “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
When 16-year-old Jack Ward of Ararat, Victoria, Australia began Ararat's Latest early this year, the news podcast simply fulfilled “a passion for bringing people information.” Now, “his hobby has inadvertently become a more serious endeavour,” write Matt Neal and Steve Martin of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
For 163 years, the bi-weekly newspaper Ararat Advertiser had serviced the city’s population of approximately 8,000 people. As of last week, “the coronavirus has resulted in [Ward] being the only news source with a reporter on the ground.” The high school student has gone above and beyond, even launching a subscription news alert service.
Ward confirms a rise in listeners. “[I'm] keeping locals informed, which is increasingly important after what's happened this week and locally in our news landscape,” he explained. “Sometimes, you know, I want to watch Netflix, but I've got to work on the podcast. So I do that instead. But I love it, and that's why I do it.”
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