Jon Francois — Radio Connection

Twenty Second Day- NewsTalkMorning Mashup - Posted by Jon Francois on 2016-04-01

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... Read More >>

Twenty First Day- News/Talk Demo - Posted by Jon Francois on 2016-03-22

In the most recent session, Jay and I started working on my final demos. We agreed that my strengths are in the news/talk and morning show formats... Read More >>

Twentieth Day- Enuff with Your Katt! - Posted by Jon Francois on 2016-03-10

Jay and I worked on the Interviewing chapter again this week. We began our session by listening to an interview featuring comedian Katt Williams on the KBLX morning show in San Francisco... Read More >>

Nineteenth Day- Weather, The Oscars, andddd Interviewing The Rent! - Posted by Jon Francois on 2016-03-04

Jay and I began this week’s session by listening to the weather reports I produced last week and the segments I produced with my friend Laura over the following weekend... Read More >>

Eighteenth Day- How's The Weather In Your Neck Of The Woods? - Posted by Jon Francois on 2016-02-25

This week, I wrote and produced 10 weather reports. As you can imagine, the writing process took a few hours and it was a challenge to make each report not sound like the other... Read More >>

Seventeenth Day- Collaboration: The Sequel, Don't You Hate It When?, and Speedy Sports - Posted by Jon Francois on 2016-02-18

This week, me and fellow Radio Connection student Ali got the chance to work together again. Much like our work during Thanksgiving week, Jay gave us the assignment of producing a mock radio show consisting of jock breaks, conversational segments, commercials, and weather... Read More >>

Sixteenth Day- Boats, Ferrets, and Sports - Posted by Jon Francois on 2016-02-05

Jay and I kicked off this week’s session with a review of two man on the street assignments: a report on Winter Storm Jonas featuring a brief interview with my friend Laura and a visit to the Hartford Boat Show... Read More >>

Fifteenth Day- Careless Commercials and Man On The Street - Posted by Jon Francois on 2016-01-28

Jay and I worked on Lesson 12 and 13 in the textbook this week. I selected three commercials in Lesson 13 and they were all products I had no personal interest in (dance company, classic car giveaway, restaurant wine)... Read More >>

Fourteenth Day- News, News, and NEWS! - Posted by Jon Francois on 2016-01-21

Jay and I kicked things off with a review of the newscast I produced over the weekend about President Obama’s final State of the Union address... Read More >>

Thirteenth Day- Commercial Copywriting, Aircheck, and Newscast - Posted by Jon Francois on 2016-01-13

Jay and I picked up where we left off last week with commercial copywriting. I was assigned to write five commercials and make sure they were within the 30 second time constraint; I wrote commercials about White Castle, “The West Wing” television series, the Apple store, Levi’s, and Sprint... Read More >>