On The Media

Post #1

The podcast I decided to listen to was “Founder? You do NOT have to put your horse down!” It is hosted by Angelea Kelly who was a former host of “Horse girl tv.” It is structured to be informative, short, and to the point, running at 5:22. The broadcast schedule seemed to be slightly irregular through the years of 2007-2015, some seemed to be once a week, and sometimes once every two weeks.

The objective of this series is to inform their audience of many different issues or problems that may occur in the horse world. The content of this episode itself was to inform the audience of the difference between laminitis in a horse, and founder, and how while they both have to do with the hoof, they are not the same thing, and having one does not always mean it will lead to the other.

This episode exhibits multimodality through the use of how it is designed, such as the the intro to the episode, which included people riding horses with a catchy inviting background song. The intro then lead to the host (Angelea Kelly) interviewing the “founder enthusiast.” The hoof enthusiast is a natural hoof farrier whose interest sparked for this subject after him and his family purchased a donkey that had hoof issues.

The video is simple enough to watch, with having both people sitting on the couch with a low upbeat music in the background, which helps fill in any awkward pauses or moments between the two. At the end were some short clips of a white horse trotting on a lunge line. But what draws the audiences interest in the video, is when the visuals the founder enthusiast provides are pictures on a whiteboard that help with describing what is what within the hoof.

To locate this podcast, go through the Podcast app on an Iphone, and then just type in “Horses” and it can be found under the account called “Untacked Equestrian.”