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Jon Francois
This week, I put some finishing touches to the News/Talk demo and started working on the morning show demo. The former consists of the following:
- a report on President Obama's final State Of The Union
- an interview with DJ Enuff
- a discussion on the lack of diversity in this year's Academy Award nominations
- a Cavaliers-Warriors sports report
- a promo for the television series "The West Wing"
- a Winter Storm Jonas report that comes with a man on the street interview
- a commercial/PSA for the True Colors organization
Jay gave suggestions on the order of the segments (President Obama should come first because its a great mixture of conversational and informational), being aware of redundancy (I mentioned being a minority about two or three times in the Oscar segment), and so forth.
The morning show demo is turning out to be quite an effort. The goal is to highlight my strength of topical, thought provoking conversation, but a good chunk of my material seems to be forced punchlines and/or ad libbing. In other words, I've been producing segments I think a program director would like as opposed to segments that just capture who I am. For example:
"I predict America will become the United City of Los Angeles with President George Clooney and Vice President some guy drinking kale and doing yoga".
That comes off as trying too hard as opposed to a genuiely/naturally funny remark. I'm redoing segments like these with the idea of stimulating ideas or questions as opposed to trying to be the class clown.
