WHUS Radio: 100 Waves of Sound

Jonathan Kopeliovich

Los Angeles, CA

BFA (Digital Film/Video Production)

Advisor: Catherine Masud

Website
Link to WHUS Radio: 100 Waves of Sound

The WHUS Archive is an archive celebrating the 100th anniversary of the student radio at UConn. It will combine timelines of WHUS history with images, videos, zines, documents, and airchecks from the 1920s to present to present the transformation of a community radio station. Throughout my college career, WHUS Radio has been an invigorating experience that’s allowed me to explore multimedia production and to discover my love for journalism. The variety of opportunities and freeform programming is what contributed to its longevity. I wish to capture this spirit with a rich tapestry of interviews, collages of punk-like art, and archival radio broadcasts. What also makes the radio so special to me is that in my youth, radio has influenced my music taste. Before I had an iPod or Spotify, my parents played Queen and Led Zeppelin on the classic rock stations. I grew to love punk and films like Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Baby Driver. These influences found their way into my films like Dirty Laundry, where a student obsessively investigates the theft of his clothes in a montage set to a punk song. I will take the skills developed in making the WHUS Archive and apply them towards a career in science communication and research. Throughout my college career, WHUS Radio has been an invigorating experience that’s allowed me to explore multimedia production and to discover my love for journalism. The variety of opportunities and freeform programming is what contributed to its longevity. I wish to capture this spirit with animation, interviews, collages of punk-like art, and archival radio broadcasts. What also makes the radio so special to me is that in my youth, radio has influenced my music taste and my style of rhythmic editing and hyperactive montages. Before I had an iPod or Spotify, my parents played Queen and Led Zeppelin on the classic rock stations. I grew to love punk and films like Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Baby Driver. These influences found their way into my films like Dirty Laundry, where a student obsessively investigates the theft of his clothes in a montage set to a punk song. I will take the skills developed in making the WHUS Archive and apply them towards a career in science communication and documentary production.

Artist Bio

Jonathan Kopeliovich is a Los Angeles-based journalist and documentarian in the Digital Media Design program at the University of Connecticut. He is aiming for a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts with a concentration in Digital Film/Video Production. After his dad showed him Jim Carrey comedies, Jonathan was hooked on filmmaking and finding ways to tell stories to entertain others. A stint of film community college classes during high school combined with the diverse LA art community affirmed his excitement. After he came to UConn, he was captivated by the student radio and pursued a variety of stories on topics such as addiction, neurodiversity in engineering, and environmentalism. Jonathan is constantly looking for new mediums to experiment with. He helped produce films at the university television station, wrote for the Daily Campus, and created content for WHUS. Jonathan has made documentaries about the Armenian Genocide, the UConn mascot Jonathan the Husky, created narrative films about the environment, and pursued journalism. He has worked for the Department of Engineering as a writer, interned at NBC as a news correspondent, and was a science communication intern at a climate change think tank in Woods Hole. He currently works as the Training Director at WHUS Radio.

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