This piece follows Ben and Jen as they find new and amazing ways to feed themselves and others. This is a great topic, and Ben and Jen are wonderful characters. They have great voices, intonation, etc. And they "dumpster dive" for reasons beyond hunger. I would highly highly recommend this, if not for the overabundance of narration. This would have worked better, I think, with NO narrator or, at the very least, less from the narrator. He wasn't always illuminating. That said, it was a fun, fascinating piece. Good stuff.
This is a sweet, informative, sometimes stressful piece about pregnancy and labor. Sarah has a great voice, good pace and earnest, true narration. And it was interesting to hear the trials and tribulations of having a baby, beyond the pain and the goopy birth-stuff. However, it didn't strike me as much more than "cute". Which isn't a bad thing, but I was hoping for more. There were some distracting sound moments, too: the baby's heartbeat early on and Sarah's incredibly heavy breathing towards the end. The former is jarring because I didn't know what it was for some time. The latter was off-putting because she was breathing as if she'd just gone through hours of labor. Then we learn she'd had to have an emergency C-section. A sweet piece, though, with great baby noise at the end.
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Comment for "The revolution never tasted so good"
Lee Fuoco
Posted on January 13, 2005 at 05:52 AM | Permalink
Review of The revolution never tasted so good
This piece follows Ben and Jen as they find new and amazing ways to feed themselves and others. This is a great topic, and Ben and Jen are wonderful characters. They have great voices, intonation, etc. And they "dumpster dive" for reasons beyond hunger. I would highly highly recommend this, if not for the overabundance of narration. This would have worked better, I think, with NO narrator or, at the very least, less from the narrator. He wasn't always illuminating. That said, it was a fun, fascinating piece. Good stuff.
Comment for "Welcome Baby Max"
Lee Fuoco
Posted on December 28, 2004 at 11:01 AM | Permalink
Review of Welcome Baby Max
This is a sweet, informative, sometimes stressful piece about pregnancy and labor. Sarah has a great voice, good pace and earnest, true narration. And it was interesting to hear the trials and tribulations of having a baby, beyond the pain and the goopy birth-stuff. However, it didn't strike me as much more than "cute". Which isn't a bad thing, but I was hoping for more. There were some distracting sound moments, too: the baby's heartbeat early on and Sarah's incredibly heavy breathing towards the end. The former is jarring because I didn't know what it was for some time. The latter was off-putting because she was breathing as if she'd just gone through hours of labor. Then we learn she'd had to have an emergency C-section. A sweet piece, though, with great baby noise at the end.