LO 1: Podcast - Rooster Teeth

Area of research:	Notes:
Purpose	The Rooster Teeth Video game podcast is a weekly 1-2 hour long segment which entertains it's listeners with random chit chat and personal video game reviews.
Form & Style.	The Rooster Teeth podcast has, at one time been the most downloaded podcast on iTunes. The talk between the hosts is informal, as expected from a video game community; this is denoted via free use of language (such as swearing) and some themes of the show being explicit.
Content	Every week the content of the show is based on the presenters' experience playing a recent release video-game as well as general discussion about odd stories from the past week; on the #290th edition of the Podcast, the show is opened with conversation about Destiny, Bungie's latest blockbuster title. On this show, the hosts talked about everything from their drunk experiences to Harry Potter scenes; it's popularity stems from how random this show can get.
Genre	The podcast is largely comedic commentary on the popular culture of the week, including video games, recent news, website features, sports and upcoming projects as well as highlighting fan-made projects. This is connoted by the seemingly random list of topics that they move onto branching from planned features. For example, in the broadcast I have viewed, the hosts are talking about Manga television leading onto actors and then to bad acting; targeting the supposedly comically bad acting in Harry Potter.
Target audience	The hosts of the show, between the ages of 20 and 30 convey that the targeted audience are fans of the Rooster Teeth Channel and share interest in video game culture.
Frequency	The length of the Rooster Teeth Podcast and the frequency of which it is released informs me that a lot preparation and effort goes into the making of the show.
Production process	This type of podcast is recorded live and unscripted; there is a list of topics that the presenters may want to chat about during the broadcast yet it is improvised, which reinforces how informal the show is. The process focuses more on post production, editing in overlay graphics and advertisements for sponsors which support the show. The show can be accessed via YouTube as a raw uncut video podcast or downloaded for free from iTunes as an audio file to listen to on the go.