What I expect to learn from our podcast project

What I expect to learn from the podcast project in general:

We are working in a group to produce a coherent end product: I expect to learn to work with this particular group, observe in what terms we talk about and plan a communication such as this, and how we make decisions to keep the project on track.

I expect to learn about communicating the message we converge onto with the little vocabulary and grammar skills we currently have in japanese;  non-verbal communication will be important.

I expect to get a whole new view on all the user-generated videos that litter the internets: we are gaining the point of view of those who produced them by producing one ourselves.

I expect to learn about recording and editing of video and sound.

What I expect to learn from the particular podcast project we intend to produce:

We are producing a podcast that tries to shed light on the peculiarities of american food culture; hopefully we will uncover aspects of american culture which are remarkable but not obvious to americans themselves, and which might be enlightening for a japanese audience.

I expect to learn about american culture and our own perception of it, of what we think its characteristics and peculiarities are, through the podcast production process and possibly through viewer feedback once the podcast is posted.

About communication

Communication is about moving an audience; moving their state of knowledge, moving them emotionally, moving their perception of the world at large.  The difference between the audience's mental state before and after the communication is what is important.  It is the received message.

Effective communication requires knowing something about how the audience is likely to be changed by it.  This is a very tall order; knowing one person well enough is hard enough, knowing a group of people, the audience, might seem nearly impossible.  This makes communication a difficult art.

However there is much to be gained by effective communication, be it to sell more products, teach future generations, produce compelling art, or just feel that we have a connection with the audience.  Much deliberate thought, trial and error has gone towards honing the art of communication.  This is why for just about any type of intended message and audience, it is possible to find examples of effective communication that have worked in the past;  we can digest these past examples, why they worked for this and that type of message and audience, and then mix, match and adapt them to the communication at hand.

好きな物

テレビアニメは好きです。日本のテレビアニメの中で、てき (enemy) がみかた (ally) や友だちによくなります：それをアメリカのテレビでぜんぜん見えません、アメリカのてきはずっとてきです。テレビアニメは友だちのかんけい (relationship)  をいろいろ (various) もみせます。それがたいせつだとおもいます。それから、テレビアニメが好きです。