Driving is a big part of American culture and sometimes roads are dangerous, this piece tackles the topic in an understanding way.
I understand completely! The roads in eastern Kentucky are terrible. It’s almost like, to see beautiful country sides and tall evergreen trees in the forest you have to travel some horrible road that is on the edge of a cliff or some whatnot.
As dangerous as driving this road sounds, she is not very stressful in her voice to say be careful. I could barely hear her during the second musical interlude were she talks about the four teens that drown to death on that road when she was little, which is the part that really grabs you and gets your emotions going, I wish I could have heard it better. The script was written well. Its just her voice is so plain that it sort of pulled some of the life from the script. Also telling about her dad and why he chose to build their house we he did was pretty cool, maybe a sound clip from him would have been a little bit more neat than just saying what he said, but that’s about it as far as stuff that I caught.
The content of this piece is relevant to most of America because it deals with bad roads and we all know that they’re everywhere, so this is why I think this
This, as a short feature, if done well, and kept short, could be a fairly decent short feature. However I feel it was not done properly. First of all, the narrator, Meghan Lamb, does not have the best voice during this piece, she stays monotone, soft spoken, weak sounding, and she read her script in a way that you knew she was reading, that is not always best, one needs to sound somewhat conversation when reading on the radio. As far as narrations goes they were perfectly fine. However the narrations needed to broken up more. I think it went about a minute and a half before she broke up her first narration, she could have broken it up sooner, considering the topic of this piece is not very interesting in itself she needed to make it more interesting by perhaps adding audio or interviews of people describing river road,maybe even in kind of a vox-pop style. Overall, before I go over my word limit, this piece needed more ambient sound, interviews and descriptions of the road from someone other than the narrator, and the narrations needed to be shortend.
i like this.
few youth pieces are this effective at drawing emotions, but this one just about did it.
it would totally be a 5 star piece, but the last piece of music sounded a lot like the "titanic" theme (you know, with celene dion, "my heart will go on"). gah! so close to being an AMAZING and effective piece. but my heart sank when i heard that pipe/flute doing those notes. it just added a cheese factor that took away from the emotional story about the teens.
Comments for Dangers of the River Road
Produced by Megan Lamb
Other pieces by Bruce Hucko
Rating Summary
3 comments
Russell Wright
Posted on April 28, 2005 at 03:44 PM | Permalink
Review of Dangers of the River Road
Driving is a big part of American culture and sometimes roads are dangerous, this piece tackles the topic in an understanding way.
I understand completely! The roads in eastern Kentucky are terrible. It’s almost like, to see beautiful country sides and tall evergreen trees in the forest you have to travel some horrible road that is on the edge of a cliff or some whatnot.
As dangerous as driving this road sounds, she is not very stressful in her voice to say be careful. I could barely hear her during the second musical interlude were she talks about the four teens that drown to death on that road when she was little, which is the part that really grabs you and gets your emotions going, I wish I could have heard it better. The script was written well. Its just her voice is so plain that it sort of pulled some of the life from the script. Also telling about her dad and why he chose to build their house we he did was pretty cool, maybe a sound clip from him would have been a little bit more neat than just saying what he said, but that’s about it as far as stuff that I caught.
The content of this piece is relevant to most of America because it deals with bad roads and we all know that they’re everywhere, so this is why I think this
Rob Harman
Posted on April 21, 2005 at 12:32 PM | Permalink
Review of Dangers of the River Road
This, as a short feature, if done well, and kept short, could be a fairly decent short feature. However I feel it was not done properly. First of all, the narrator, Meghan Lamb, does not have the best voice during this piece, she stays monotone, soft spoken, weak sounding, and she read her script in a way that you knew she was reading, that is not always best, one needs to sound somewhat conversation when reading on the radio. As far as narrations goes they were perfectly fine. However the narrations needed to broken up more. I think it went about a minute and a half before she broke up her first narration, she could have broken it up sooner, considering the topic of this piece is not very interesting in itself she needed to make it more interesting by perhaps adding audio or interviews of people describing river road,maybe even in kind of a vox-pop style. Overall, before I go over my word limit, this piece needed more ambient sound, interviews and descriptions of the road from someone other than the narrator, and the narrations needed to be shortend.
Mark Kewman
Posted on April 18, 2005 at 08:45 AM | Permalink
Review of Dangers of the River Road
i like this.
few youth pieces are this effective at drawing emotions, but this one just about did it.
it would totally be a 5 star piece, but the last piece of music sounded a lot like the "titanic" theme (you know, with celene dion, "my heart will go on"). gah! so close to being an AMAZING and effective piece. but my heart sank when i heard that pipe/flute doing those notes. it just added a cheese factor that took away from the emotional story about the teens.