Audio Storytelling assignment- Annah Freeman

Synopsis-
Up and Vanished
Season 1 Episode 1: Cold as Alaska
Created by Payne Lindsey
Distributed about twice a week on its website
They range from 25-80 minutes per episode

Payne Lindsey narrates about a beloved teacher who has gone missing after leaving a friend's BBQ and there is not much evidence as to why she is missing. Payne was interested in documentaries, but decided to podcast this case instead even though he has never done so before.

Form:

Act 1- narrator introduces the case of beloved teacher, Tara, who has gone missing right after leaving a BBQ. Narrator also introduces himself and how he came about this case. He says he is not a podcaster in any way, but he wanted to know what happened to Tara, so he decided to further investigate it. He wanted to do a documentary one day and decided to do this podcast in order to solve this case. The narrator starts calling people trying to learn more about Tara. He proceeds to say that he could barely reach anyone about tis cast, and when he could finally contact someone, they would not give him answers on this case.

Act 2- starts at about 11:00--the narrator goes on to describe the moment when Tara went missing. Faculty at the school she worked at noticed that she missed work, but never called in sick which was very odd for Tara. Her co-workers call the police and the police go to her house. He says how police investigated her room and saw a knocked over lamp shade and thought it was odd so further investigation for this case was sought out. The narrator visits the private investigator. The private investigator says that he found a ripped necklace which could explain struggle. He says that the GBI did an awful job in collecting evidence for this case.

Act-3--starts about 20:00--The narrator leaves the private investigators home and says how he replayed the conversation between him and the investigator over and over again. He calls his grandmother asking if she remembered about this case and she said that her friend knew more about this case. She gives him her friends name and says to contact her. She says that this friend talked to Tara that day.

Storytelling elements:
soft music at the beginning
a creepy intro with a woman's voice
actual recorded conversation with the private investigation
actual phone call with his grandmother
instrumentals between transition of acts