Sketch #6 – A Day in the Life
When planning for this week’s sketch, we knew we wanted to incorporate somewhat of a step-by-step guide to making more sustainable choices in your everyday life. Though we’d initially planned to create a podcast style audio piece that simply included ’10 steps’, we ended up switching out our idea to what became the final product – ‘a day in the life’.

Ultimately, I think this is far more impactful. Listeners are able to get a sense of how easy it is to make little changes in their every day lives that could have a larger impact on the environment. This audio piece could act as the little voice in the back of your head the next time you’re completing daily tasks, such as brushing your teeth or cleaning up after a meal. Switching off the tap when brushing your teeth could save almost 4 thousand litres of water every year, and at the moment Australia is throwing away approximately 2.5m tonnes of food each year. These have huge impacts on the environment, so it’s extremely important to bring these issues to light. In this sense, I think the idea is really effective.

If this idea had a bit more work, I think the production would need to be revised – perhaps adding more audio to create an entire soundscape, rather than just using sound effects as emphasis. At the moment, it doesn’t quite feel like it falls in to the category of ‘podcast’ as we initially had intended. I also think it would be beneficial to add some addition resources at the end of the clip. We wanted to keep the piece light hearted, which is why there isn’t an inclusion of hard facts. However, if there were a link to these facts, it would only have a greater impact.