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May 5, 2005
Paris Hilton's Podcast
Combine fascination with celebrity and the whole podcasting buzz and you end up with a Paris Hilton podcast.
Earlier this even I watched the MuchMusic special with Paris Hilton and the rest of the House of Wax cast doing an appearance. I'm just watching the later evening's rebroadcast of it with the volume off and listening to several of the podcasts as I type this.
So, I've now know what is sounds like when Paris Hilton says the F word, orders a latte, signs autographs, walks the red carpet and talks to her pet dog, Tinkerbell, (who apparently wasn't able to go to Australia because of customs).
Pity.
It's part audio recording of the day's events and part narrative - sometimes mixed together in post - as an example, Dave Letterman's probing on her issue with former co-star, Nicole Richie. Letterman's interview snippet is cut back and forth with her comments she made after the show where she shares her feelings about the interview.
Apparently, Paris has a lot of iPods.
"They're hot".
I have to say, this is a lot more immersive experience than reading a blog. The inflection in the voice communicates a great deal. The ambient noise also communicates a lot of what it would be like to be there - more than you might expect. The whole red carpet experience sounds like it gets a little crazy at times with people yelling and screaming, doing a bunch of consecutive interviews and being in the middle of all the media attention.
It's remarkable how the other half live.
I normally listen to podcasts on my Creative Zen Micro but I'm listening to this on my laptop speakers (which on my new Dell Latitude D800 are much improved over the Latitude C800 I used to have).
I'm going to follow this out of some form of interest. I'm not quite sure the nature of the intrique, but I'm going to play along.
So far, the podcast has much more to do with Paris Hilton that House of Wax but it'll be interesting to see how they sound as I listen to more of the podcasts nearer to the movie release date.
I'm just listening to the most recent podcast. It's interesting to hear remarks about a broadcast event that I'm watching as I'm listening to the podcast. I didn't really realize that the whole problem of people throwing things had become the issue it had or at least it didn't really seems that watching the live broadcast. I suppose it's no surprise they try to keep things looking smooth and under control on broadcast television.
Frankly, Paris doesn't provide much narrative or really that much commentary beyond a sentence or two at a time. Despite that, just having the mic on with the right snippets spliced together at the right time seems to communicate quite a bit about what's going on.
In addition, an audio clip from the soundtrack - Prodigy's Spitfire - adds some interest.
Interesting.
I'm not sure how long the series of podcasts will go on for. I'm going to listen to the remainder and perhaps do my own assessment when it's complete.
Posted by Derek Leverington at May 5, 2005 11:05 PM
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