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Radio Production Basics

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When do you break in scripts?
End of the stop set - and back to the music or advertisements
Cliches
At most commas - and at all semicolons and periods.
The way your tongue - palate - teeth - and lips move to form words and sounds

2. Story Styles
Mistakes cannot be corrected - Nothing can be edited
Dialogue - Narration - Testimonials - Product Comparisons - Lifetime Experiences - Humor - News
The manner at which you say a word
Enunciation

3. Format of a commercial
END the commercial - should be memorable and reinforce objective
END the commercial - should be memorable and reinforce objective
Cliches
NAME the price and product - introduce price and qualities to keep listener interested

4. Format of a commercial
One to one communication
Energy in your voice
Dialogue - Narration - Testimonials - Product Comparisons - Lifetime Experiences - Humor - News
NAME the price and product - introduce price and qualities to keep listener interested

5. What does breathing control?
Showing emotions through tones
Your vocal power
A story - A break between programming - Can be news - commercials - etc. - Makes the listener aware of - become interested in - and desire a product - then put them into action to buy the product
Reading - Articulation - Pronunciation - Inflection - Tempo - Vitality - Phrasing - Volume - Personality

6. Format of a commercial
End of the stop set - and back to the music or advertisements
OPEN commercial - catch the attention of the audience.
Brainstorming - coming up with ideas - Refinement - narrow down ideas and make sure they fit the client's needs
Enunciation

7. What is a stop set?
NAME the price and product - introduce price and qualities to keep listener interested
OPEN commercial - catch the attention of the audience.
A story - A break between programming - Can be news - commercials - etc. - Makes the listener aware of - become interested in - and desire a product - then put them into action to buy the product
With your diaphragm

8. What is a Return?
End of the stop set - and back to the music or advertisements
The opposite of a live show. Everything is prerecorded
Dialogue - Narration - Testimonials - Product Comparisons - Lifetime Experiences - Humor - News
Honesty in reporting - Keeping Fresh - Everything is happening as the reporter reports it - Can have callers - Allows interaction with your listeners

9. Story Styles
Dialogue - Narration - Testimonials - Product Comparisons - Lifetime Experiences - Humor - News
The rate of message delivery
Give a call to ACTION - after interest is peaked - give listener something to do about it
Comprehending messages - read ahead - pay attention to punctuation

10. When do you break in scripts?
At most commas - and at all semicolons and periods.
Station ID and footprint (KCOZ 91.7 Point Lookout - MO)
OPEN commercial - catch the attention of the audience.
Dialogue - Narration - Testimonials - Product Comparisons - Lifetime Experiences - Humor - News

11. How long do you have to catch the audience's attention?
6-8 seconds
End of the music - and the beginning of a stop set
Announcing and conveying who you are at the same time
Pronouncing words clearly

12. What are the benefits of voice tracking?
Enunciation
Being able to read copy and breathe at the same time
The rate of message delivery
All aspects are recorded - Show can be edited - No fear of failure - everything can be re-recorded - It takes 30 minutes to record 4 hours of shows

13. What makes you sound more professional?
Enunciation
Your personality - A story of local interest - A sponsor - A Backsell - A Return
Your vocal power
The way your tongue - palate - teeth - and lips move to form words and sounds

14. What is Vitality?
End of the music - and the beginning of a stop set
Controlling loudness of speech. Just come closer to a mic if you are quiet
One to one communication
Energy in your voice

15. What is voice tracking?
The way your tongue - palate - teeth - and lips move to form words and sounds
The opposite of a live show. Everything is prerecorded
Energy in your voice
At the end of each sentence

16. Format of a commercial
END the commercial - should be memorable and reinforce objective
Station ID and footprint (KCOZ 91.7 Point Lookout - MO)
OPEN commercial - catch the attention of the audience.
Energy in your voice

17. Stop sets should include
Station ID and footprint (KCOZ 91.7 Point Lookout - MO)
End of the music - and the beginning of a stop set
Comprehending messages - read ahead - pay attention to punctuation
Give a call to ACTION - after interest is peaked - give listener something to do about it

18. What is part of the process of a stop set?

19. What is Pronunciation?
The manner at which you say a word
Give a call to ACTION - after interest is peaked - give listener something to do about it
The rate of message delivery
The way your tongue - palate - teeth - and lips move to form words and sounds

20. What are the disadvantages of voice tracking?
Energy in your voice
6-8 seconds
The way your tongue - palate - teeth - and lips move to form words and sounds
Lack of spontenaity - Cannot have callers - Can not be fresh - Not happening live

21. RAPPIT PVV
Reading - Articulation - Pronunciation - Phrasing - Inflection - Tempo - Personality - Volume - Vitality
Announcing and conveying who you are at the same time
Brainstorming - coming up with ideas - Refinement - narrow down ideas and make sure they fit the client's needs
At most commas - and at all semicolons and periods.

22. What is Phrasing?
Energy in your voice
All aspects are recorded - Show can be edited - No fear of failure - everything can be re-recorded - It takes 30 minutes to record 4 hours of shows
OPEN commercial - catch the attention of the audience.
Being able to read copy and breathe at the same time

23. What is Volume?
Your personality - A story of local interest - A sponsor - A Backsell - A Return
Station ID and footprint (KCOZ 91.7 Point Lookout - MO)
OPEN commercial - catch the attention of the audience.
Controlling loudness of speech. Just come closer to a mic if you are quiet

24. What does breathing control?
Energy in your voice
The way your tongue - palate - teeth - and lips move to form words and sounds
Your vocal power
All aspects are recorded - Show can be edited - No fear of failure - everything can be re-recorded - It takes 30 minutes to record 4 hours of shows

25. What is Tempo?
Voice
The way your tongue - palate - teeth - and lips move to form words and sounds
Brainstorming - coming up with ideas - Refinement - narrow down ideas and make sure they fit the client's needs
The rate of message delivery

26. What is a stop set?
Pronouncing words clearly
Honesty in reporting - Keeping Fresh - Everything is happening as the reporter reports it - Can have callers - Allows interaction with your listeners
End of the music - and the beginning of a stop set
A story - A break between programming - Can be news - commercials - etc. - Makes the listener aware of - become interested in - and desire a product - then put them into action to buy the product

27. How do you breathe?
Reading - Articulation - Pronunciation - Inflection - Tempo - Vitality - Phrasing - Volume - Personality
With your diaphragm
The opposite of a live show. Everything is prerecorded
Comprehending messages - read ahead - pay attention to punctuation

28. What should you avoid in Stop sets?
Cliches
Pronouncing words clearly
Being able to read copy and breathe at the same time
Honesty in reporting - Keeping Fresh - Everything is happening as the reporter reports it - Can have callers - Allows interaction with your listeners

29. What are the disadvantages of live delivery?
The way your tongue - palate - teeth - and lips move to form words and sounds
Mistakes cannot be corrected - Nothing can be edited
Being able to read copy and breathe at the same time
Energy in your voice

30. What is Tempo?
Showing emotions through tones
Controlling loudness of speech. Just come closer to a mic if you are quiet
The rate of message delivery
Your vocal power

31. How long do you have to catch the audience's attention?
6-8 seconds
A story - A break between programming - Can be news - commercials - etc. - Makes the listener aware of - become interested in - and desire a product - then put them into action to buy the product
End of the music - and the beginning of a stop set
Reading - Articulation - Pronunciation - Phrasing - Inflection - Tempo - Personality - Volume - Vitality

32. What is Volume?
Reading - Articulation - Pronunciation - Phrasing - Inflection - Tempo - Personality - Volume - Vitality
Controlling loudness of speech. Just come closer to a mic if you are quiet
Showing emotions through tones
A story - A break between programming - Can be news - commercials - etc. - Makes the listener aware of - become interested in - and desire a product - then put them into action to buy the product

33. What is Articulation?
Mistakes cannot be corrected - Nothing can be edited
Voice
OPEN commercial - catch the attention of the audience.
The way your tongue - palate - teeth - and lips move to form words and sounds

34. Stop sets should include
Your personality - A story of local interest - A sponsor - A Backsell - A Return
At the end of each sentence
At the end of each sentence
Comprehending messages - read ahead - pay attention to punctuation

35. What is Enunciation?
Announcing and conveying who you are at the same time
NAME the price and product - introduce price and qualities to keep listener interested
At most commas - and at all semicolons and periods.
Pronouncing words clearly

36. Stop sets should include
Dialogue - Narration - Testimonials - Product Comparisons - Lifetime Experiences - Humor - News
Station ID and footprint (KCOZ 91.7 Point Lookout - MO)
Mistakes cannot be corrected - Nothing can be edited
END the commercial - should be memorable and reinforce objective

37. What are the benefits of voice tracking?
Cliches
All aspects are recorded - Show can be edited - No fear of failure - everything can be re-recorded - It takes 30 minutes to record 4 hours of shows
Dialogue - Narration - Testimonials - Product Comparisons - Lifetime Experiences - Humor - News
Your vocal power

38. What is Articulation?
Reading - Articulation - Pronunciation - Inflection - Tempo - Vitality - Phrasing - Volume - Personality
The way your tongue - palate - teeth - and lips move to form words and sounds
Give a call to ACTION - after interest is peaked - give listener something to do about it
All aspects are recorded - Show can be edited - No fear of failure - everything can be re-recorded - It takes 30 minutes to record 4 hours of shows

39. Radio is a _____________.
Lack of spontenaity - Cannot have callers - Can not be fresh - Not happening live
One to one communication
Reading - Articulation - Pronunciation - Inflection - Tempo - Vitality - Phrasing - Volume - Personality
At most commas - and at all semicolons and periods.

40. What is Inflection?
Showing emotions through tones
NAME the price and product - introduce price and qualities to keep listener interested
Brainstorming - coming up with ideas - Refinement - narrow down ideas and make sure they fit the client's needs
Being able to read copy and breathe at the same time

41. RAPPIT PVV
The manner at which you say a word
6-8 seconds
At the end of each sentence
Reading - Articulation - Pronunciation - Phrasing - Inflection - Tempo - Personality - Volume - Vitality

42. Radio is a _____________.
END the commercial - should be memorable and reinforce objective
One to one communication
Comprehending messages - read ahead - pay attention to punctuation
Brainstorming - coming up with ideas - Refinement - narrow down ideas and make sure they fit the client's needs

43. How do you breathe?
Energy in your voice
With your diaphragm
Brainstorming - coming up with ideas - Refinement - narrow down ideas and make sure they fit the client's needs
Reading - Articulation - Pronunciation - Phrasing - Inflection - Tempo - Personality - Volume - Vitality

44. What is part of the process of a stop set?

45. What is Enunciation?
At most commas - and at all semicolons and periods.
Honesty in reporting - Keeping Fresh - Everything is happening as the reporter reports it - Can have callers - Allows interaction with your listeners
The way your tongue - palate - teeth - and lips move to form words and sounds
Pronouncing words clearly

46. What is a Backsell?
END the commercial - should be memorable and reinforce objective
Announcing and conveying who you are at the same time
End of the music - and the beginning of a stop set
A story - A break between programming - Can be news - commercials - etc. - Makes the listener aware of - become interested in - and desire a product - then put them into action to buy the product

47. What are the disadvantages of voice tracking?
Lack of spontenaity - Cannot have callers - Can not be fresh - Not happening live
Your personality - A story of local interest - A sponsor - A Backsell - A Return
Cliches
6-8 seconds

48. What is Personality?
End of the music - and the beginning of a stop set
Announcing and conveying who you are at the same time
Reading - Articulation - Pronunciation - Inflection - Tempo - Vitality - Phrasing - Volume - Personality
The way your tongue - palate - teeth - and lips move to form words and sounds

49. Basic Communication Skills
Your vocal power
Reading - Articulation - Pronunciation - Inflection - Tempo - Vitality - Phrasing - Volume - Personality
At most commas - and at all semicolons and periods.
6-8 seconds

50. When do you breathe?
Energy in your voice
At the end of each sentence
With your diaphragm
Comprehending messages - read ahead - pay attention to punctuation