Entry 4

         

The popular animated musical film Frozen, is a wonderful story that follows the journey of Princess Anna, who tries to break the spell of winter and  icy powers that her sister, Queen Elsa has. Since this film, Frozen, is a children’s movie, podcasts related to this film were hard to come by. Considering a younger audience doesn’t normally listen to podcasts. One very popular movie podcast that was on iTunes, entitled “Disney Story Central Podcasts.” This podcast is a kids and family podcast that is owned by Disney. These episodes all feature the a different story of Disney and Pixar movies in each one of their episodes. Some of these movies include, The Jungle Book, Finding Nemo, Moana, Beauty and the Beast, Cars, Tory Story, etc. Out of these Disney Story Central’s 19 podcasts, their Frozen episode is their most popular podcast, along with their Tangled episode. The average rating that the audience gave was fives stars, as well as the listeners gave very positive feedback and very good reviews.

Disney Story Central Podcasts is a storytelling styled podcast, similar to listening to an audiobook. This particular series is not a Frozen only podcast, these episodes feature many other stories of different popular Disney and Pixar movies. Although there are two Frozen related episodes. The first is, “Disney: Frozen” which is episode 19 in the series. It is the most recent release, which came out on November 7, 2017. This Frozen episode is about 17 minutes long. The second episode is entitled “Disney: Frozen Fever” which is episode 8 in the series, that was released January 9, 2017. This episode is about 11 minutes in length and is a sequel to the original Frozen movie.  

For this podcast series, all of their episodes are very similar, including the ones of the Frozen and Frozen Fever episodes. The format consists of a women host, named Marie Westbrook, who opens as well as closes the show, with a male story teller in between, named Joe Hernandez.

At the very beginning of a podcast episode, the host Marie opens, and welcomes the listener to their program, she also promotes the Disney Story Podcasts, then finally introduces the Disney children’s story that they are going to be telling. Once Marie finishes, music starts to play and a male’s voice begins to tell the story. He uses a lot of different tones and animation with his voice. In the background of the story being told, music is playing. This music for the most part is a calming fantasy instrumental. This music fits along with what is going on throughout the story. For example, if the characters are having fun, the music is happy and cheery, or of the characters are scared, the music is dark and mysterious. I think this background music is the element that works best about this podcast series. This music really adds more dramatic effect to the story and makes you understand the story, as if you were actually there. At the end, once the man finishes telling the story, the background music stops and the host Marie comes back into the picture. At this time, she thanks the audience for listening, as well as promotes the Disney apps, as well as the Disney story audio books. Along with this, both at the beginning and the end the host adds a little humorous comments to lighten up the mood and keep the viewer interested, I think this works well but its not over done

                         Link to Disney Story Central Podcast - Disney Book Group