Experimental Audio Series About Love in the Verbatim Genre

The thesis project is dedicated to the creation of an audio series about love with documentary elements. The theoretical chapter includes the analysis of sources on modern documentary practices, particularly, the verbatim genre, and the analysis of materials on pre-interview and interview techniques in media production. The project part of the thesis describes the features of creating audio content which combines fiction and documentary attributes. The final product is a season of the audio series "what color was your love?", consisting of 7 episodes (162 minutes). Each episode of the project is a true love story, conveyed in the verbatim genre. The episodes are devoted to various aspects of relationships and a wide range of topics, such as relationships with an addicted person, romantic love between people of different faiths, relationships with a significant age gap. The uniqueness of the project is that it provides social therapy and compensates for the lack of emotional support of the audience due to the opportunity to feel connection with the characters of the episodes and relate their experiences to their own. "what color was your love?" also evolves the listeners’ skills of reflection on personal experience and feelings.