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Ben Allen

2022-03-09T14:48:01Z

Bja519: /* About */

{{YSTV Member
| first name = Ben
| last name = Allen
| picturefile = BenAllenBlue.jpeg
| picturesize = 200px
| active from = 2019
| active until = Present
| positions = Deputy Technical Director
| current location = The YSTV Studio. Definitely.
| degrees = MEng Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems
}}

=About=
Ben (npm install *) Allen, can often found in the studio in the early hours of the morning, screaming at technology, and is a prime example of a dedicated YSTV member. He is an all round lovely guy and is almost constantly busy and tired.

Joining as a fresher during the Give It A Go event in October 2019, Ben almost immediately became heavily involved in YSTV with his first event being a week or two later when YSTV hosted the 2019 NASTA People's choice awards. Acting as technical assistant to [[Technical Director]] [[Andrew Waddle]] during the setup and operation of the show. Having since worked on numerous live and recorded projects, Ben has worked within a variety of technical and operational roles; generally acting as technical and computing assistant to [[Andrew Waddle]] and [[Rhys Milling]] on live shows or working like a bugger with VFX. Not to mention his round the clock commitment to technical [[fuckary]].

See also;
* [[Marty]] Ben's software video switching project which acts as either a 3rd OB unit or a replacement for other server failures.
* [[Election Results Night 2020]]

Has a dark and mysterious alternate life (that must never be spoken of) at University Radio York including the positions:
*Assistant Head of Computing (2019-20)
*Station Manager of URY (2020-21)
*Assistant Head of Audio Resources (2021)
*Chief Engineer (2021-22)

=Trivia=
*Can be calmed down with a Snickers bar.
*His favourite film is Sharknado, which he once called 'a cinematic masterpiece with an almost ethereal quality'.
*Snack of choice probably a Dominos pizza.
*When in power-saving mode will only diet on breadsticks.
*100% fail-rate on setting up a dual boot first time.
*100% success-rate for eduroam setup.

=Productions/Projects=
==Productions/Design==
'''YEAR 1 (2019-20)'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| [[YSTV Give It a Go 2019]]
| Tech Intern
| Walked in, knew how an X32 worked, was told to patch XLR by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]], never looked back.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| [[PCAs 2019 Intro]]
| Camera Operator & Actor
| First on-camera credit. Makes a cameo doing sound and looking confused, unfortunately has been stuck with the same expression since.
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| [[PCAs 2019]]
| Camera Operator & Technician
| First role on an actual live YSTV show.
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| [[Bob Ross Livestream]]
| Sound & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time running computers for a live-stream solo.
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| [[RAG Absailing]]
| Editor
| First editing job for YSTV.
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[The Review Club - Wine Tasting]]
| Camera Operator
| Drafted in last minute. Pointed a camera and laughed a lot.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Boozy Broadcasts: Drunk Werewolves]]
| Director, Vision Mixer & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time vision mixing.
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| [[YSTV Sport: Volleyball Autumn 2019]]
| Director & Livestream Technician
| Turns out the internet sucks in the sports centre so was done "as live" as no connection could be found. Spent all of the setup time trying to sort out the new live graphics he'd just got working. Didn't realise he had a remote JQuery dependency and no internet. Cursed the internet and did some running. Eventually, the graphics were working and the majority of the game was recorded with some admittedly out of breath directing.
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Boxing Fight Night Live 2019]]
| Graphics Programmer
| Realised from Volleyball that roughly thrown together Visual Basic, no modularity and constant rewriting didn't make for a good graphics client. Had a better idea, got Marks Polakovs to kindly teach him React over one VERY long night. Rewrote the previous client in React. Came up with initial planning for the Ghostbuster Graphics system. The new Electron-based client ended up being named Luigi's Mansion 2 which was deployed successfully after 20 minutes of testing as Ben could not attend the event. After someone decided to play the maracas with the one validated OB unit, so was then phoned by Rhys and required to rush home in the car and remotely setup the other OB unit while Rhys was fixing the initial one. The backup unit was not needed in the end.
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Hunted - Episode 2]]
| Title Sequence Graphics
| With additional shots from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]], the title sequence was VFX heavy and slowly constructed (barely in time for NaSTA). Ben's work can be seen in the footstep shots and some of the HUD elements as well as the title shot (foot graciously provided by [[Louis Dickson]]) which was the final shot completed. Also the first time Ben had motion-tracked anything and it hadn't sucked, so that was nice!
|-
| scope="row"| 11
| [[York's Got Talent 2019]]
| Director & Technician
| Ben needed to learn that we owned a decimator, that would've made things so much smoother/less awful.
|-
| scope="row"| 12
| [[Please Sir, There's Been a Murder]]
| Sound Operator, Livestream Technician
| Learned the value of sleep, stared at clocks for hours testing latency, started to strongly dislike the Facebook live-streaming platform. The broadcast stream ended up being a bit unstable due to a sleep-deprived misconfiguration error causing our transcodes to start crying. 'Solved' at the time by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] monitoring stream health and Ben appropriately spamming ssh commands with forehead while sound mixing.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 13
| [[Election Results Night 2020|60 Second Manifestos 2020]]
| Director, Camera Operator, Editor & Graphics
| [[Cal Cooke | Cal]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]] assisted with shooting the 30 candidates with lighting expertise from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]]. After Effects used for animating the YUSU assets. Used DaVinci Resolve and Nvenc for fast chroma-keying and exports with Edit 3's GPU being fully leveraged, along with some bodging to refine the graphics to never need to be re-rendered from the original comp speeding the process up greatly (averaging 5 minutes editing per video with 1 minute final renders). Had fun shouting at EncodeSrv as it would misidentify the file's resolution when uploading to the website and transcoding. Ended up throwing files through Adobe Media Encoder as an easy fix. A fake manifesto from Ben may exist somewhere for pipeline testing purposes, this cannot be confirmed.
|-
| scope="row"| 14
| [[Election Results Night 2020|Debate Night 2020]]
| Technician
| Didn't intend to do this, wanted to not do at least one election event. Ended up helping set up and assisted with tech for the start of the stream anyway.
|-
| scope="row"| 15
| [[YUSU Election Results Night 2020 Intro]]
| Director & Camera Operator
| Spent a night running around with [[Olivia Gibbs]], Numi Gildert and Alex West battling bad weather ruining plans and his own inability to balance a gimbal well enough on no battery. Ate Greggs. Shot most of it handheld (not ideal running with no IBIS). Spend an evening making a hash out of the edit. Considered doing half of it live on the night. Saved by Olivia salvaging most of the footage into a good edit which was then tweaked some more into the final product.
|-
| scope="row"| 16
| [[Election Results Night 2020|YUSU Election Results Night 2020]]
| Director
| Directed first major YSTV production having not slept since the day before. Instead, spent the night before the show secretly making the graphics assets with the embargoed names and finishing off the stingers and lower-thirds. Spent that day regretting it. Actual stream was mostly successful and uneventful although all YSTV power did die beforehand as not enough sockets were present at the venue and multiple 1k lights were a step too far. Also, OB1 started being electric shock-y so that was quickly decommissioned and replaced with [[Marty]]. Stream was followed by a full club night at Courtyard. That was followed by sleep, lots of it.
|-
| scope="row"| 17
| [[MMA Fight Night]]
| Graphics Programming
| Second fighting based live-stream he couldn't attend; wasn't happy about that.
|-
| scope="row"| 18
| [[Ben Goes to Kuda- livestream]]
| Director & Producer
| Missed a bus into town, got bored, started streaming to the YSTV website from Ben's phone with some basic graphics. Continued the stream intermittently through the night, much confusion occurred from the members still in Courtyard.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term (The year of 'rona)'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 19
| [[Quarantine Weekly]]
| Executive Producer
| Despite not having time to work on the actual show, the concept format was the result of an SNL-style hosted variety show pitch from Ben combined with a happy news, game show and campus/member-focused show idea from the wonderful [[Stephanie Shires]] who went on to brilliantly produce the whole series as Ben ended up too busy doing radio stuff.
|-
| scope="row"| 20
| YSTV Rebranding 2020
| Co-designer
| Finished adapting designs by [[Edwin Barnes]] with [[Joe Radford]] and [[Rhys Milling]] to create a complete branding package for all of YSTV's productions.
|}

'''YEAR 2 (2020-21)'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| Forest Review Livestream
| Director & Producer
| Much the same kind of stupidity as the Kuda one, but in the Forest during a freshers intro meeting. Why? Good question.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| Freshers Stream 2020
| Motion Graphics Designer
|
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| Oranges & Lemons Episode 1 - Morphsuit Man Pumpkin Carving
| Narrator, Editor & Graphics
|
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| University Challenge Team Selection Finals
| Graphic Design
|
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| YSTV E-Sports Rocket League
| Participant
|
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[Elections 2021|60 Second Manifestos]]
| Graphics/Thumbnails
| YSTV’s first use of Remotion framework to automatically generate all thumbnails based off json data and render React webpages as images.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Elections 2021|Debate Night]]
| Technical Assistant
|
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| YSTV Arts and Crafts
| Logo Design
|
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Elections 2021|Election Results Night 2021]]
| Director, Vision Mixer, Graphics & Technical Assistant
| YSTV’s first use of SRT in production for the host’s video feed.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Roses 2021]]
| Production Architecture Lead & Graphics Lead
|
|-
|}

==Technical==
(This needs to be sorted as complete vs work in progress)
*Ghostbuster
*site-2020
*streaming pipeline
*pushing for vmix
*marty
*Atem Tally lights
*edit3
*cobra
*boa
*asp
*DAPIA
*roses graphics trials
*unreal engine graphics
*Vmix adoption
*edit1&2 rebuilds

=Technical Shenanigans=
* Notable for the discovery of the [[Holy Bodgeble]] in a field one day and has been hard at work translating the contents since
* Dismantled an ATEM to poke a fan once (much to [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew's]] dismay) and then wrote [[The night of the rattly atem|a poem]] about it out of boredom
[[File:working Ben.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ben and [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] [[The night of the rattly atem]]]]

Ben Allen

2021-08-05T17:51:27Z

Bja519:

{{YSTV Member
| first name = Ben
| last name = Allen
| picturefile = BenAllenBlue.jpeg
| picturesize = 200px
| active from = 2019
| active until = Present
| positions = Deputy Technical Director
| current location = The YSTV Studio. Definitely.
| degrees = MEng Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems
}}

=About=
Ben (npm install *) Allen, can often found in the studio in the early hours of the morning, screaming at technology, and is a prime example of a dedicated YSTV member. He is an all round lovely guy and is almost constantly busy and tired.

Joining as a fresher during the Give It A Go event in October 2019, Ben almost immediately became heavily involved in YSTV with his first event being a week or two later when YSTV hosted the 2019 NASTA People's choice awards. Acting as technical assistant to [[Technical Director]] [[Andrew Waddle]] during the setup and operation of the show. Having since worked on numerous live and recorded projects, Ben has worked within a variety of technical and operational roles; generally acting as technical and computing assistant to [[Andrew Waddle]] and [[Rhys Milling]] on live shows or working like a bugger with VFX. Not to mention his round the clock commitment to technical [[fuckary]].

See also;
* [[Marty]] Ben's software video switching project which acts as either a 3rd OB unit or a replacement for other server failures.
* [[Election Results Night 2020]]

Has a dark and mysterious alternate life (that must never be spoken of) at University Radio York including the positions:
*Assistant Head of Computing (2019-20)
*Station Manager of URY (2020-21)
*Assistant Head of Audio Resources (2021)
*Chief Engineer (2021-)

=Trivia=
*Can be calmed down with a Snickers bar.
*His favourite film is Sharknado, which he once called 'a cinematic masterpiece with an almost ethereal quality'.
*Snack of choice probably a Dominos pizza.
*When in power-saving mode will only diet on breadsticks.
*100% fail-rate on setting up a dual boot first time.
*100% success-rate for eduroam setup.

=Productions/Projects=
==Productions/Design==
'''YEAR 1 (2019-20)'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| [[YSTV Give It a Go 2019]]
| Tech Intern
| Walked in, knew how an X32 worked, was told to patch XLR by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]], never looked back.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| [[PCAs 2019 Intro]]
| Camera Operator & Actor
| First on-camera credit. Makes a cameo doing sound and looking confused, unfortunately has been stuck with the same expression since.
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| [[PCAs 2019]]
| Camera Operator & Technician
| First role on an actual live YSTV show.
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| [[Bob Ross Livestream]]
| Sound & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time running computers for a live-stream solo.
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| [[RAG Absailing]]
| Editor
| First editing job for YSTV.
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[The Review Club - Wine Tasting]]
| Camera Operator
| Drafted in last minute. Pointed a camera and laughed a lot.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Boozy Broadcasts: Drunk Werewolves]]
| Director, Vision Mixer & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time vision mixing.
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| [[YSTV Sport: Volleyball Autumn 2019]]
| Director & Livestream Technician
| Turns out the internet sucks in the sports centre so was done "as live" as no connection could be found. Spent all of the setup time trying to sort out the new live graphics he'd just got working. Didn't realise he had a remote JQuery dependency and no internet. Cursed the internet and did some running. Eventually, the graphics were working and the majority of the game was recorded with some admittedly out of breath directing.
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Boxing Fight Night Live 2019]]
| Graphics Programmer
| Realised from Volleyball that roughly thrown together Visual Basic, no modularity and constant rewriting didn't make for a good graphics client. Had a better idea, got Marks Polakovs to kindly teach him React over one VERY long night. Rewrote the previous client in React. Came up with initial planning for the Ghostbuster Graphics system. The new Electron-based client ended up being named Luigi's Mansion 2 which was deployed successfully after 20 minutes of testing as Ben could not attend the event. After someone decided to play the maracas with the one validated OB unit, so was then phoned by Rhys and required to rush home in the car and remotely setup the other OB unit while Rhys was fixing the initial one. The backup unit was not needed in the end.
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Hunted - Episode 2]]
| Title Sequence Graphics
| With additional shots from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]], the title sequence was VFX heavy and slowly constructed (barely in time for NaSTA). Ben's work can be seen in the footstep shots and some of the HUD elements as well as the title shot (foot graciously provided by [[Louis Dickson]]) which was the final shot completed. Also the first time Ben had motion-tracked anything and it hadn't sucked, so that was nice!
|-
| scope="row"| 11
| [[York's Got Talent 2019]]
| Director & Technician
| Ben needed to learn that we owned a decimator, that would've made things so much smoother/less awful.
|-
| scope="row"| 12
| [[Please Sir, There's Been a Murder]]
| Sound Operator, Livestream Technician
| Learned the value of sleep, stared at clocks for hours testing latency, started to strongly dislike the Facebook live-streaming platform. The broadcast stream ended up being a bit unstable due to a sleep-deprived misconfiguration error causing our transcodes to start crying. 'Solved' at the time by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] monitoring stream health and Ben appropriately spamming ssh commands with forehead while sound mixing.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 13
| [[Election Results Night 2020|60 Second Manifestos 2020]]
| Director, Camera Operator, Editor & Graphics
| [[Cal Cooke | Cal]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]] assisted with shooting the 30 candidates with lighting expertise from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]]. After Effects used for animating the YUSU assets. Used DaVinci Resolve and Nvenc for fast chroma-keying and exports with Edit 3's GPU being fully leveraged, along with some bodging to refine the graphics to never need to be re-rendered from the original comp speeding the process up greatly (averaging 5 minutes editing per video with 1 minute final renders). Had fun shouting at EncodeSrv as it would misidentify the file's resolution when uploading to the website and transcoding. Ended up throwing files through Adobe Media Encoder as an easy fix. A fake manifesto from Ben may exist somewhere for pipeline testing purposes, this cannot be confirmed.
|-
| scope="row"| 14
| [[Election Results Night 2020|Debate Night 2020]]
| Technician
| Didn't intend to do this, wanted to not do at least one election event. Ended up helping set up and assisted with tech for the start of the stream anyway.
|-
| scope="row"| 15
| [[YUSU Election Results Night 2020 Intro]]
| Director & Camera Operator
| Spent a night running around with [[Olivia Gibbs]], Numi Gildert and Alex West battling bad weather ruining plans and his own inability to balance a gimbal well enough on no battery. Ate Greggs. Shot most of it handheld (not ideal running with no IBIS). Spend an evening making a hash out of the edit. Considered doing half of it live on the night. Saved by Olivia salvaging most of the footage into a good edit which was then tweaked some more into the final product.
|-
| scope="row"| 16
| [[Election Results Night 2020|YUSU Election Results Night 2020]]
| Director
| Directed first major YSTV production having not slept since the day before. Instead, spent the night before the show secretly making the graphics assets with the embargoed names and finishing off the stingers and lower-thirds. Spent that day regretting it. Actual stream was mostly successful and uneventful although all YSTV power did die beforehand as not enough sockets were present at the venue and multiple 1k lights were a step too far. Also, OB1 started being electric shock-y so that was quickly decommissioned and replaced with [[Marty]]. Stream was followed by a full club night at Courtyard. That was followed by sleep, lots of it.
|-
| scope="row"| 17
| [[MMA Fight Night]]
| Graphics Programming
| Second fighting based live-stream he couldn't attend; wasn't happy about that.
|-
| scope="row"| 18
| [[Ben Goes to Kuda- livestream]]
| Director & Producer
| Missed a bus into town, got bored, started streaming to the YSTV website from Ben's phone with some basic graphics. Continued the stream intermittently through the night, much confusion occurred from the members still in Courtyard.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term (The year of 'rona)'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 19
| [[Quarantine Weekly]]
| Executive Producer
| Despite not having time to work on the actual show, the concept format was the result of an SNL-style hosted variety show pitch from Ben combined with a happy news, game show and campus/member-focused show idea from the wonderful [[Stephanie Shires]] who went on to brilliantly produce the whole series as Ben ended up too busy doing radio stuff.
|-
| scope="row"| 20
| YSTV Rebranding 2020
| Co-designer
| Finished adapting designs by [[Edwin Barnes]] with [[Joe Radford]] and [[Rhys Milling]] to create a complete branding package for all of YSTV's productions.
|}

'''YEAR 2 (2020-21)'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| Forest Review Livestream
| Director & Producer
| Much the same kind of stupidity as the Kuda one, but in the Forest during a freshers intro meeting. Why? Good question.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| Freshers Stream 2020
| Motion Graphics Designer
|
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| Oranges & Lemons Episode 1 - Morphsuit Man Pumpkin Carving
| Narrator, Editor & Graphics
|
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| University Challenge Team Selection Finals
| Graphic Design
|
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| YSTV E-Sports Rocket League
| Participant
|
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[Elections 2021|60 Second Manifestos]]
| Graphics/Thumbnails
| YSTV’s first use of Remotion framework to automatically generate all thumbnails based off json data and render React webpages as images.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Elections 2021|Debate Night]]
| Technical Assistant
|
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| YSTV Arts and Crafts
| Logo Design
|
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Elections 2021|Election Results Night 2021]]
| Director, Vision Mixer, Graphics & Technical Assistant
| YSTV’s first use of SRT in production for the host’s video feed.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Roses 2021]]
| Production Architecture Lead & Graphics Lead
|
|-
|}

==Technical==
(This needs to be sorted as complete vs work in progress)
*Ghostbuster
*site-2020
*streaming pipeline
*pushing for vmix
*marty
*Atem Tally lights
*edit3
*cobra
*boa
*asp
*DAPIA
*roses graphics trials
*unreal engine graphics
*Vmix adoption
*edit1&2 rebuilds

=Technical Shenanigans=
* Notable for the discovery of the [[Holy Bodgeble]] in a field one day and has been hard at work translating the contents since
* Dismantled an ATEM to poke a fan once (much to [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew's]] dismay) and then wrote [[The night of the rattly atem|a poem]] about it out of boredom
[[File:working Ben.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ben and [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] [[The night of the rattly atem]]]]

Ben Allen

2021-07-26T23:03:00Z

Bja519: /* About */

{{YSTV Member
| first name = Ben
| last name = Allen
| picturefile = BenAllenBlue.jpeg
| picturesize = 200px
| active from = 2019
| active until = Present
| positions = Deputy Technical Director
| current location = The YSTV Studio. Definitely.
| degrees = BEng Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems
}}

=About=
Ben (npm install *) Allen, can often found in the studio in the early hours of the morning, screaming at technology, and is a prime example of a dedicated YSTV member. He is an all round lovely guy and is almost constantly busy and tired.

Joining as a fresher during the Give It A Go event in October 2019, Ben almost immediately became heavily involved in YSTV with his first event being a week or two later when YSTV hosted the 2019 NASTA People's choice awards. Acting as technical assistant to [[Technical Director]] [[Andrew Waddle]] during the setup and operation of the show. Having since worked on numerous live and recorded projects, Ben has worked within a variety of technical and operational roles; generally acting as technical and computing assistant to [[Andrew Waddle]] and [[Rhys Milling]] on live shows or working like a bugger with VFX. Not to mention his round the clock commitment to technical [[fuckary]].

See also;
* [[Marty]] Ben's software video switching project which acts as either a 3rd OB unit or a replacement for other server failures.
* [[Election Results Night 2020]]

Has a dark and mysterious alternate life (that must never be spoken of) at University Radio York including the positions:
*Assistant Head of Computing (2019-20)
*Station Manager of URY (2020-21)
*Assistant Head of Audio Resources (2021)
*Chief Engineer (2021-)

=Trivia=
*Can be calmed down with a Snickers bar.
*His favourite film is Sharknado, which he once called 'a cinematic masterpiece with an almost ethereal quality'.
*Snack of choice probably a Dominos pizza.
*When in power-saving mode will only diet on breadsticks.
*100% fail-rate on setting up a dual boot first time.
*100% success-rate for eduroam setup.

=Productions/Projects=
==Productions/Design==
'''YEAR 1 (2019-20)'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| [[YSTV Give It a Go 2019]]
| Tech Intern
| Walked in, knew how an X32 worked, was told to patch XLR by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]], never looked back.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| [[PCAs 2019 Intro]]
| Camera Operator & Actor
| First on-camera credit. Makes a cameo doing sound and looking confused, unfortunately has been stuck with the same expression since.
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| [[PCAs 2019]]
| Camera Operator & Technician
| First role on an actual live YSTV show.
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| [[Bob Ross Livestream]]
| Sound & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time running computers for a live-stream solo.
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| [[RAG Absailing]]
| Editor
| First editing job for YSTV.
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[The Review Club - Wine Tasting]]
| Camera Operator
| Drafted in last minute. Pointed a camera and laughed a lot.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Boozy Broadcasts: Drunk Werewolves]]
| Director, Vision Mixer & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time vision mixing.
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| [[YSTV Sport: Volleyball Autumn 2019]]
| Director & Livestream Technician
| Turns out the internet sucks in the sports centre so was done "as live" as no connection could be found. Spent all of the setup time trying to sort out the new live graphics he'd just got working. Didn't realise he had a remote JQuery dependency and no internet. Cursed the internet and did some running. Eventually, the graphics were working and the majority of the game was recorded with some admittedly out of breath directing.
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Boxing Fight Night Live 2019]]
| Graphics Programmer
| Realised from Volleyball that roughly thrown together Visual Basic, no modularity and constant rewriting didn't make for a good graphics client. Had a better idea, got Marks Polakovs to kindly teach him React over one VERY long night. Rewrote the previous client in React. Came up with initial planning for the Ghostbuster Graphics system. The new Electron-based client ended up being named Luigi's Mansion 2 which was deployed successfully after 20 minutes of testing as Ben could not attend the event. After someone decided to play the maracas with the one validated OB unit, so was then phoned by Rhys and required to rush home in the car and remotely setup the other OB unit while Rhys was fixing the initial one. The backup unit was not needed in the end.
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Hunted - Episode 2]]
| Title Sequence Graphics
| With additional shots from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]], the title sequence was VFX heavy and slowly constructed (barely in time for NaSTA). Ben's work can be seen in the footstep shots and some of the HUD elements as well as the title shot (foot graciously provided by [[Louis Dickson]]) which was the final shot completed. Also the first time Ben had motion-tracked anything and it hadn't sucked, so that was nice!
|-
| scope="row"| 11
| [[York's Got Talent 2019]]
| Director & Technician
| Ben needed to learn that we owned a decimator, that would've made things so much smoother/less awful.
|-
| scope="row"| 12
| [[Please Sir, There's Been a Murder]]
| Sound Operator, Livestream Technician
| Learned the value of sleep, stared at clocks for hours testing latency, started to strongly dislike the Facebook live-streaming platform. The broadcast stream ended up being a bit unstable due to a sleep-deprived misconfiguration error causing our transcodes to start crying. 'Solved' at the time by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] monitoring stream health and Ben appropriately spamming ssh commands with forehead while sound mixing.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 13
| [[Election Results Night 2020|60 Second Manifestos 2020]]
| Director, Camera Operator, Editor & Graphics
| [[Cal Cooke | Cal]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]] assisted with shooting the 30 candidates with lighting expertise from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]]. After Effects used for animating the YUSU assets. Used DaVinci Resolve and Nvenc for fast chroma-keying and exports with Edit 3's GPU being fully leveraged, along with some bodging to refine the graphics to never need to be re-rendered from the original comp speeding the process up greatly (averaging 5 minutes editing per video with 1 minute final renders). Had fun shouting at EncodeSrv as it would misidentify the file's resolution when uploading to the website and transcoding. Ended up throwing files through Adobe Media Encoder as an easy fix. A fake manifesto from Ben may exist somewhere for pipeline testing purposes, this cannot be confirmed.
|-
| scope="row"| 14
| [[Election Results Night 2020|Debate Night 2020]]
| Technician
| Didn't intend to do this, wanted to not do at least one election event. Ended up helping set up and assisted with tech for the start of the stream anyway.
|-
| scope="row"| 15
| [[YUSU Election Results Night 2020 Intro]]
| Director & Camera Operator
| Spent a night running around with [[Olivia Gibbs]], Numi Gildert and Alex West battling bad weather ruining plans and his own inability to balance a gimbal well enough on no battery. Ate Greggs. Shot most of it handheld (not ideal running with no IBIS). Spend an evening making a hash out of the edit. Considered doing half of it live on the night. Saved by Olivia salvaging most of the footage into a good edit which was then tweaked some more into the final product.
|-
| scope="row"| 16
| [[Election Results Night 2020|YUSU Election Results Night 2020]]
| Director
| Directed first major YSTV production having not slept since the day before. Instead, spent the night before the show secretly making the graphics assets with the embargoed names and finishing off the stingers and lower-thirds. Spent that day regretting it. Actual stream was mostly successful and uneventful although all YSTV power did die beforehand as not enough sockets were present at the venue and multiple 1k lights were a step too far. Also, OB1 started being electric shock-y so that was quickly decommissioned and replaced with [[Marty]]. Stream was followed by a full club night at Courtyard. That was followed by sleep, lots of it.
|-
| scope="row"| 17
| [[MMA Fight Night]]
| Graphics Programming
| Second fighting based live-stream he couldn't attend; wasn't happy about that.
|-
| scope="row"| 18
| [[Ben Goes to Kuda- livestream]]
| Director & Producer
| Missed a bus into town, got bored, started streaming to the YSTV website from Ben's phone with some basic graphics. Continued the stream intermittently through the night, much confusion occurred from the members still in Courtyard.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term (The year of 'rona)'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 19
| [[Quarantine Weekly]]
| Executive Producer
| Despite not having time to work on the actual show, the concept format was the result of an SNL-style hosted variety show pitch from Ben combined with a happy news, game show and campus/member-focused show idea from the wonderful [[Stephanie Shires]] who went on to brilliantly produce the whole series as Ben ended up too busy doing radio stuff.
|-
| scope="row"| 20
| YSTV Rebranding 2020
| Co-designer
| Finished adapting designs by [[Edwin Barnes]] with [[Joe Radford]] and [[Rhys Milling]] to create a complete branding package for all of YSTV's productions.
|}

'''YEAR 2 (2020-21)'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| Forest Review Livestream
| Director & Producer
| Much the same kind of stupidity as the Kuda one, but in the Forest during a freshers intro meeting. Why? Good question.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| Freshers Stream 2020
| Motion Graphics Designer
|
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| Oranges & Lemons Episode 1 - Morphsuit Man Pumpkin Carving
| Narrator, Editor & Graphics
|
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| University Challenge Team Selection Finals
| Graphic Design
|
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| YSTV E-Sports Rocket League
| Participant
|
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[Elections 2021|60 Second Manifestos]]
| Graphics/Thumbnails
| YSTV’s first use of Remotion framework to automatically generate all thumbnails based off json data and render React webpages as images.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Elections 2021|Debate Night]]
| Technical Assistant
|
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| YSTV Arts and Crafts
| Logo Design
|
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Elections 2021|Election Results Night 2021]]
| Director, Vision Mixer, Graphics & Technical Assistant
| YSTV’s first use of SRT in production for the host’s video feed.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Roses 2021]]
| Production Architecture Lead & Graphics Lead
|
|-
|}

==Technical==
(This needs to be sorted as complete vs work in progress)
*Ghostbuster
*site-2020
*streaming pipeline
*pushing for vmix
*marty
*Atem Tally lights
*edit3
*cobra
*boa
*asp
*DAPIA
*roses graphics trials
*unreal engine graphics
*Vmix adoption
*edit1&2 rebuilds

=Technical Shenanigans=
* Notable for the discovery of the [[Holy Bodgeble]] in a field one day and has been hard at work translating the contents since
* Dismantled an ATEM to poke a fan once (much to [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew's]] dismay) and then wrote [[The night of the rattly atem|a poem]] about it out of boredom
[[File:working Ben.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ben and [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] [[The night of the rattly atem]]]]

Ben Allen

2021-04-25T23:26:59Z

Bja519: /* Productions/Design */

{{YSTV Member
| first name = Ben
| last name = Allen
| picturefile = BenAllenBlue.jpeg
| picturesize = 200px
| active from = 2019
| active until = Present
| positions = Deputy Technical Director
| current location = The YSTV Studio. Definitely.
| degrees = BEng Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems
}}

=About=
Ben Allen, can often found in the studio in the early hours of the morning, screaming at technology, and is a prime example of a dedicated YSTV member. He is an all round lovely guy and is almost constantly busy and tired.

Joining as a fresher during the Give It A Go event in October 2019, Ben almost immediately became heavily involved in YSTV with his first event being a week or two later when YSTV hosted the 2019 NASTA People's choice awards. Acting as technical assistant to [[Technical Director]] [[Andrew Waddle]] during the setup and operation of the show. Having since worked on numerous live and recorded projects, Ben has worked within a variety of technical and operational roles; generally acting as technical and computing assistant to [[Andrew Waddle]] and [[Rhys Milling]] on live shows or working like a bugger with VFX. Not to mention his round the clock commitment to technical [[fuckary]].

See also;
* [[Marty]] Ben's software video switching project which acts as either a 3rd OB unit or a replacement for other server failures.
* [[Election Results Night 2020]]

Has a dark and mysterious alternate life (that must never be spoken of) at University Radio York including the positions:
*Assistant Head of Computing (2019-20)
*Station Manager of URY (2020-21)
*Assistant Head of Audio Resources (2021-)

=Trivia=
*Can be calmed down with a Snickers bar.
*His favourite film is Sharknado, which he once called 'a cinematic masterpiece with an almost ethereal quality'.
*Snack of choice probably a Dominos pizza.
*When in power-saving mode will only diet on breadsticks.
*100% fail-rate on setting up a dual boot first time.
*100% success-rate for eduroam setup.

=Productions/Projects=
==Productions/Design==
'''YEAR 1 (2019-20)'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| [[YSTV Give It a Go 2019]]
| Tech Intern
| Walked in, knew how an X32 worked, was told to patch XLR by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]], never looked back.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| [[PCAs 2019 Intro]]
| Camera Operator & Actor
| First on-camera credit. Makes a cameo doing sound and looking confused, unfortunately has been stuck with the same expression since.
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| [[PCAs 2019]]
| Camera Operator & Technician
| First role on an actual live YSTV show.
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| [[Bob Ross Livestream]]
| Sound & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time running computers for a live-stream solo.
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| [[RAG Absailing]]
| Editor
| First editing job for YSTV.
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[The Review Club - Wine Tasting]]
| Camera Operator
| Drafted in last minute. Pointed a camera and laughed a lot.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Boozy Broadcasts: Drunk Werewolves]]
| Director, Vision Mixer & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time vision mixing.
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| [[YSTV Sport: Volleyball Autumn 2019]]
| Director & Livestream Technician
| Turns out the internet sucks in the sports centre so was done "as live" as no connection could be found. Spent all of the setup time trying to sort out the new live graphics he'd just got working. Didn't realise he had a remote JQuery dependency and no internet. Cursed the internet and did some running. Eventually, the graphics were working and the majority of the game was recorded with some admittedly out of breath directing.
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Boxing Fight Night Live 2019]]
| Graphics Programmer
| Realised from Volleyball that roughly thrown together Visual Basic, no modularity and constant rewriting didn't make for a good graphics client. Had a better idea, got Marks Polakovs to kindly teach him React over one VERY long night. Rewrote the previous client in React. Came up with initial planning for the Ghostbuster Graphics system. The new Electron-based client ended up being named Luigi's Mansion 2 which was deployed successfully after 20 minutes of testing as Ben could not attend the event. After someone decided to play the maracas with the one validated OB unit, so was then phoned by Rhys and required to rush home in the car and remotely setup the other OB unit while Rhys was fixing the initial one. The backup unit was not needed in the end.
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Hunted - Episode 2]]
| Title Sequence Graphics
| With additional shots from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]], the title sequence was VFX heavy and slowly constructed (barely in time for NaSTA). Ben's work can be seen in the footstep shots and some of the HUD elements as well as the title shot (foot graciously provided by [[Louis Dickson]]) which was the final shot completed. Also the first time Ben had motion-tracked anything and it hadn't sucked, so that was nice!
|-
| scope="row"| 11
| [[York's Got Talent 2019]]
| Director & Technician
| Ben needed to learn that we owned a decimator, that would've made things so much smoother/less awful.
|-
| scope="row"| 12
| [[Please Sir, There's Been a Murder]]
| Sound Operator, Livestream Technician
| Learned the value of sleep, stared at clocks for hours testing latency, started to strongly dislike the Facebook live-streaming platform. The broadcast stream ended up being a bit unstable due to a sleep-deprived misconfiguration error causing our transcodes to start crying. 'Solved' at the time by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] monitoring stream health and Ben appropriately spamming ssh commands with forehead while sound mixing.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 13
| [[Election Results Night 2020|60 Second Manifestos 2020]]
| Director, Camera Operator, Editor & Graphics
| [[Cal Cooke | Cal]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]] assisted with shooting the 30 candidates with lighting expertise from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]]. After Effects used for animating the YUSU assets. Used DaVinci Resolve and Nvenc for fast chroma-keying and exports with Edit 3's GPU being fully leveraged, along with some bodging to refine the graphics to never need to be re-rendered from the original comp speeding the process up greatly (averaging 5 minutes editing per video with 1 minute final renders). Had fun shouting at EncodeSrv as it would misidentify the file's resolution when uploading to the website and transcoding. Ended up throwing files through Adobe Media Encoder as an easy fix. A fake manifesto from Ben may exist somewhere for pipeline testing purposes, this cannot be confirmed.
|-
| scope="row"| 14
| [[Election Results Night 2020|Debate Night 2020]]
| Technician
| Didn't intend to do this, wanted to not do at least one election event. Ended up helping set up and assisted with tech for the start of the stream anyway.
|-
| scope="row"| 15
| [[YUSU Election Results Night 2020 Intro]]
| Director & Camera Operator
| Spent a night running around with [[Olivia Gibbs]], Numi Gildert and Alex West battling bad weather ruining plans and his own inability to balance a gimbal well enough on no battery. Ate Greggs. Shot most of it handheld (not ideal running with no IBIS). Spend an evening making a hash out of the edit. Considered doing half of it live on the night. Saved by Olivia salvaging most of the footage into a good edit which was then tweaked some more into the final product.
|-
| scope="row"| 16
| [[Election Results Night 2020|YUSU Election Results Night 2020]]
| Director
| Directed first major YSTV production having not slept since the day before. Instead, spent the night before the show secretly making the graphics assets with the embargoed names and finishing off the stingers and lower-thirds. Spent that day regretting it. Actual stream was mostly successful and uneventful although all YSTV power did die beforehand as not enough sockets were present at the venue and multiple 1k lights were a step too far. Also, OB1 started being electric shock-y so that was quickly decommissioned and replaced with [[Marty]]. Stream was followed by a full club night at Courtyard. That was followed by sleep, lots of it.
|-
| scope="row"| 17
| [[MMA Fight Night]]
| Graphics Programming
| Second fighting based live-stream he couldn't attend; wasn't happy about that.
|-
| scope="row"| 18
| [[Ben Goes to Kuda- livestream]]
| Director & Producer
| Missed a bus into town, got bored, started streaming to the YSTV website from Ben's phone with some basic graphics. Continued the stream intermittently through the night, much confusion occurred from the members still in Courtyard.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term (The year of 'rona)'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 19
| [[Quarantine Weekly]]
| Executive Producer
| Despite not having time to work on the actual show, the concept format was the result of an SNL-style hosted variety show pitch from Ben combined with a happy news, game show and campus/member-focused show idea from the wonderful [[Stephanie Shires]] who went on to brilliantly produce the whole series as Ben ended up too busy doing radio stuff.
|-
| scope="row"| 20
| YSTV Rebranding 2020
| Co-designer
| Finished adapting designs by [[Edwin Barnes]] with [[Joe Radford]] and [[Rhys Milling]] to create a complete branding package for all of YSTV's productions.
|}

'''YEAR 2 (2020-21)'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| Forest Review Livestream
| Director & Producer
| Much the same kind of stupidity as the Kuda one, but in the Forest during a freshers intro meeting. Why? Good question.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| Freshers Stream 2020
| Motion Graphics Designer
|
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| Oranges & Lemons Episode 1 - Morphsuit Man Pumpkin Carving
| Narrator, Editor & Graphics
|
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| University Challenge Team Selection Finals
| Graphic Design
|
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| YSTV E-Sports Rocket League
| Participant
|
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[Elections 2021|60 Second Manifestos]]
| Graphics/Thumbnails
| YSTV’s first use of Remotion framework to automatically generate all thumbnails based off json data and render React webpages as images.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Elections 2021|Debate Night]]
| Technical Assistant
|
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| YSTV Arts and Crafts
| Logo Design
|
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Elections 2021|Election Results Night 2021]]
| Director, Vision Mixer, Graphics & Technical Assistant
| YSTV’s first use of SRT in production for the host’s video feed.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Roses 2021]]
| Production Architecture Lead & Graphics Lead
|
|-
|}

==Technical==
(This needs to be sorted as complete vs work in progress)
*Ghostbuster
*site-2020
*streaming pipeline
*pushing for vmix
*marty
*Atem Tally lights
*edit3
*cobra
*boa
*asp
*DAPIA
*roses graphics trials
*unreal engine graphics
*Vmix adoption
*edit1&2 rebuilds

=Technical Shenanigans=
* Notable for the discovery of the [[Holy Bodgeble]] in a field one day and has been hard at work translating the contents since
* Dismantled an ATEM to poke a fan once (much to [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew's]] dismay) and then wrote [[The night of the rattly atem|a poem]] about it out of boredom
[[File:working Ben.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ben and [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] [[The night of the rattly atem]]]]

Ben Allen

2021-03-14T23:39:08Z

Bja519: /* Productions/Design */

{{YSTV Member
| first name = Ben
| last name = Allen
| picturefile = BenAllenBlue.jpeg
| picturesize = 200px
| active from = 2019
| active until = Present
| positions = Deputy Technical Director
| current location = The YSTV Studio. Definitely.
| degrees = BEng Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems
}}

=About=
Ben Allen, can often found in the studio in the early hours of the morning, screaming at technology, and is a prime example of a dedicated YSTV member. He is an all round lovely guy and is almost constantly busy and tired.

Joining as a fresher during the Give It A Go event in October 2019, Ben almost immediately became heavily involved in YSTV with his first event being a week or two later when YSTV hosted the 2019 NASTA People's choice awards. Acting as technical assistant to [[Technical Director]] [[Andrew Waddle]] during the setup and operation of the show. Having since worked on numerous live and recorded projects, Ben has worked within a variety of technical and operational roles; generally acting as technical and computing assistant to [[Andrew Waddle]] and [[Rhys Milling]] on live shows or working like a bugger with VFX. Not to mention his round the clock commitment to technical [[fuckary]].

See also;
* [[Marty]] Ben's software video switching project which acts as either a 3rd OB unit or a replacement for other server failures.
* [[Election Results Night 2020]]

Has a dark and mysterious alternate life (that must never be spoken of) at University Radio York including the positions:
*Assistant Head of Computing (2019-20)
*Station Manager of URY (2020-21)
*Assistant Head of Audio Resources (2021-)

=Trivia=
*Can be calmed down with a Snickers bar.
*His favourite film is Sharknado, which he once called 'a cinematic masterpiece with an almost ethereal quality'.
*Snack of choice probably a Dominos pizza.
*When in power-saving mode will only diet on breadsticks.
*100% fail-rate on setting up a dual boot first time.
*100% success-rate for eduroam setup.

=Productions/Projects=
==Productions/Design==
'''YEAR 1 (2019-20)'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| [[YSTV Give It a Go 2019]]
| Tech Intern
| Walked in, knew how an X32 worked, was told to patch XLR by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]], never looked back.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| [[PCAs 2019 Intro]]
| Camera Operator & Actor
| First on-camera credit. Makes a cameo doing sound and looking confused, unfortunately has been stuck with the same expression since.
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| [[PCAs 2019]]
| Camera Operator & Technician
| First role on an actual live YSTV show.
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| [[Bob Ross Livestream]]
| Sound & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time running computers for a live-stream solo.
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| [[RAG Absailing]]
| Editor
| First editing job for YSTV.
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[The Review Club - Wine Tasting]]
| Camera Operator
| Drafted in last minute. Pointed a camera and laughed a lot.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Boozy Broadcasts: Drunk Werewolves]]
| Director, Vision Mixer & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time vision mixing.
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| [[YSTV Sport: Volleyball Autumn 2019]]
| Director & Livestream Technician
| Turns out the internet sucks in the sports centre so was done "as live" as no connection could be found. Spent all of the setup time trying to sort out the new live graphics he'd just got working. Didn't realise he had a remote JQuery dependency and no internet. Cursed the internet and did some running. Eventually, the graphics were working and the majority of the game was recorded with some admittedly out of breath directing.
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Boxing Fight Night Live 2019]]
| Graphics Programmer
| Realised from Volleyball that roughly thrown together Visual Basic, no modularity and constant rewriting didn't make for a good graphics client. Had a better idea, got Marks Polakovs to kindly teach him React over one VERY long night. Rewrote the previous client in React. Came up with initial planning for the Ghostbuster Graphics system. The new Electron-based client ended up being named Luigi's Mansion 2 which was deployed successfully after 20 minutes of testing as Ben could not attend the event. After someone decided to play the maracas with the one validated OB unit, so was then phoned by Rhys and required to rush home in the car and remotely setup the other OB unit while Rhys was fixing the initial one. The backup unit was not needed in the end.
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Hunted - Episode 2]]
| Title Sequence Graphics
| With additional shots from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]], the title sequence was VFX heavy and slowly constructed (barely in time for NaSTA). Ben's work can be seen in the footstep shots and some of the HUD elements as well as the title shot (foot graciously provided by [[Louis Dickson]]) which was the final shot completed. Also the first time Ben had motion-tracked anything and it hadn't sucked, so that was nice!
|-
| scope="row"| 11
| [[York's Got Talent 2019]]
| Director & Technician
| Ben needed to learn that we owned a decimator, that would've made things so much smoother/less awful.
|-
| scope="row"| 12
| [[Please Sir, There's Been a Murder]]
| Sound Operator, Livestream Technician
| Learned the value of sleep, stared at clocks for hours testing latency, started to strongly dislike the Facebook live-streaming platform. The broadcast stream ended up being a bit unstable due to a sleep-deprived misconfiguration error causing our transcodes to start crying. 'Solved' at the time by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] monitoring stream health and Ben appropriately spamming ssh commands with forehead while sound mixing.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 13
| [[Election Results Night 2020|60 Second Manifestos 2020]]
| Director, Camera Operator, Editor & Graphics
| [[Cal Cooke | Cal]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]] assisted with shooting the 30 candidates with lighting expertise from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]]. After Effects used for animating the YUSU assets. Used DaVinci Resolve and Nvenc for fast chroma-keying and exports with Edit 3's GPU being fully leveraged, along with some bodging to refine the graphics to never need to be re-rendered from the original comp speeding the process up greatly (averaging 5 minutes editing per video with 1 minute final renders). Had fun shouting at EncodeSrv as it would misidentify the file's resolution when uploading to the website and transcoding. Ended up throwing files through Adobe Media Encoder as an easy fix. A fake manifesto from Ben may exist somewhere for pipeline testing purposes, this cannot be confirmed.
|-
| scope="row"| 14
| [[Election Results Night 2020|Debate Night 2020]]
| Technician
| Didn't intend to do this, wanted to not do at least one election event. Ended up helping set up and assisted with tech for the start of the stream anyway.
|-
| scope="row"| 15
| [[YUSU Election Results Night 2020 Intro]]
| Director & Camera Operator
| Spent a night running around with [[Olivia Gibbs]], Numi Gildert and Alex West battling bad weather ruining plans and his own inability to balance a gimbal well enough on no battery. Ate Greggs. Shot most of it handheld (not ideal running with no IBIS). Spend an evening making a hash out of the edit. Considered doing half of it live on the night. Saved by Olivia salvaging most of the footage into a good edit which was then tweaked some more into the final product.
|-
| scope="row"| 16
| [[Election Results Night 2020|YUSU Election Results Night 2020]]
| Director
| Directed first major YSTV production having not slept since the day before. Instead, spent the night before the show secretly making the graphics assets with the embargoed names and finishing off the stingers and lower-thirds. Spent that day regretting it. Actual stream was mostly successful and uneventful although all YSTV power did die beforehand as not enough sockets were present at the venue and multiple 1k lights were a step too far. Also, OB1 started being electric shock-y so that was quickly decommissioned and replaced with [[Marty]]. Stream was followed by a full club night at Courtyard. That was followed by sleep, lots of it.
|-
| scope="row"| 17
| [[MMA Fight Night]]
| Graphics Programming
| Second fighting based live-stream he couldn't attend; wasn't happy about that.
|-
| scope="row"| 18
| [[Ben Goes to Kuda- livestream]]
| Director & Producer
| Missed a bus into town, got bored, started streaming to the YSTV website from Ben's phone with some basic graphics. Continued the stream intermittently through the night, much confusion occurred from the members still in Courtyard.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term (The year of 'rona)'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 19
| [[Quarantine Weekly]]
| Executive Producer
| Despite not having time to work on the actual show, the concept format was the result of an SNL-style hosted variety show pitch from Ben combined with a happy news, game show and campus/member-focused show idea from the wonderful [[Stephanie Shires]] who went on to brilliantly produce the whole series as Ben ended up too busy doing radio stuff.
|-
| scope="row"| 20
| YSTV Rebranding 2020
| Co-designer
| Finished adapting designs by [[Edwin Barnes]] with [[Joe Radford]] and [[Rhys Milling]] to create a complete branding package for all of YSTV's productions.
|}

'''YEAR 2 (2020-21)'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| Forest Review Livestream
| Director & Producer
| Much the same kind of stupidity as the Kuda one, but in the Forest during a freshers intro meeting. Why? Good question.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| Freshers Stream 2020
| Motion Graphics Designer
|
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| Oranges & Lemons Episode 1 - Morphsuit Man Pumpkin Carving
| Narrator, Editor & Graphics
|
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| University Challenge Team Selection Finals
| Graphic Design
|
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| YSTV E-Sports Rocket League
| Participant
|
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[Elections 2021|60 Second Manifestos]]
| Graphics/Thumbnails
| YSTV’s first use of Remotion framework to automatically generate all thumbnails based off json data and render React webpages as images.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Elections 2021|Debate Night]]
| Technical Assistant
|
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| YSTV Arts and Crafts
| Logo Design
|
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Elections 2021|Election Results Night 2021]]
| Director, Vision Mixer, Graphics & Technical Assistant
| YSTV’s first use of SRT in production for the host’s video feed.
|-
|}

==Technical==
(This needs to be sorted as complete vs work in progress)
*Ghostbuster
*site-2020
*streaming pipeline
*pushing for vmix
*marty
*Atem Tally lights
*edit3
*cobra
*boa
*asp
*DAPIA
*roses graphics trials
*unreal engine graphics
*Vmix adoption
*edit1&2 rebuilds

=Technical Shenanigans=
* Notable for the discovery of the [[Holy Bodgeble]] in a field one day and has been hard at work translating the contents since
* Dismantled an ATEM to poke a fan once (much to [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew's]] dismay) and then wrote [[The night of the rattly atem|a poem]] about it out of boredom
[[File:working Ben.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ben and [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] [[The night of the rattly atem]]]]

Ben Allen

2021-03-14T23:38:52Z

Bja519: /* Productions/Design */

{{YSTV Member
| first name = Ben
| last name = Allen
| picturefile = BenAllenBlue.jpeg
| picturesize = 200px
| active from = 2019
| active until = Present
| positions = Deputy Technical Director
| current location = The YSTV Studio. Definitely.
| degrees = BEng Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems
}}

=About=
Ben Allen, can often found in the studio in the early hours of the morning, screaming at technology, and is a prime example of a dedicated YSTV member. He is an all round lovely guy and is almost constantly busy and tired.

Joining as a fresher during the Give It A Go event in October 2019, Ben almost immediately became heavily involved in YSTV with his first event being a week or two later when YSTV hosted the 2019 NASTA People's choice awards. Acting as technical assistant to [[Technical Director]] [[Andrew Waddle]] during the setup and operation of the show. Having since worked on numerous live and recorded projects, Ben has worked within a variety of technical and operational roles; generally acting as technical and computing assistant to [[Andrew Waddle]] and [[Rhys Milling]] on live shows or working like a bugger with VFX. Not to mention his round the clock commitment to technical [[fuckary]].

See also;
* [[Marty]] Ben's software video switching project which acts as either a 3rd OB unit or a replacement for other server failures.
* [[Election Results Night 2020]]

Has a dark and mysterious alternate life (that must never be spoken of) at University Radio York including the positions:
*Assistant Head of Computing (2019-20)
*Station Manager of URY (2020-21)
*Assistant Head of Audio Resources (2021-)

=Trivia=
*Can be calmed down with a Snickers bar.
*His favourite film is Sharknado, which he once called 'a cinematic masterpiece with an almost ethereal quality'.
*Snack of choice probably a Dominos pizza.
*When in power-saving mode will only diet on breadsticks.
*100% fail-rate on setting up a dual boot first time.
*100% success-rate for eduroam setup.

=Productions/Projects=
==Productions/Design==
'''YEAR 1 (2019-20)'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| [[YSTV Give It a Go 2019]]
| Tech Intern
| Walked in, knew how an X32 worked, was told to patch XLR by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]], never looked back.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| [[PCAs 2019 Intro]]
| Camera Operator & Actor
| First on-camera credit. Makes a cameo doing sound and looking confused, unfortunately has been stuck with the same expression since.
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| [[PCAs 2019]]
| Camera Operator & Technician
| First role on an actual live YSTV show.
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| [[Bob Ross Livestream]]
| Sound & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time running computers for a live-stream solo.
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| [[RAG Absailing]]
| Editor
| First editing job for YSTV.
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[The Review Club - Wine Tasting]]
| Camera Operator
| Drafted in last minute. Pointed a camera and laughed a lot.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Boozy Broadcasts: Drunk Werewolves]]
| Director, Vision Mixer & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time vision mixing.
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| [[YSTV Sport: Volleyball Autumn 2019]]
| Director & Livestream Technician
| Turns out the internet sucks in the sports centre so was done "as live" as no connection could be found. Spent all of the setup time trying to sort out the new live graphics he'd just got working. Didn't realise he had a remote JQuery dependency and no internet. Cursed the internet and did some running. Eventually, the graphics were working and the majority of the game was recorded with some admittedly out of breath directing.
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Boxing Fight Night Live 2019]]
| Graphics Programmer
| Realised from Volleyball that roughly thrown together Visual Basic, no modularity and constant rewriting didn't make for a good graphics client. Had a better idea, got Marks Polakovs to kindly teach him React over one VERY long night. Rewrote the previous client in React. Came up with initial planning for the Ghostbuster Graphics system. The new Electron-based client ended up being named Luigi's Mansion 2 which was deployed successfully after 20 minutes of testing as Ben could not attend the event. After someone decided to play the maracas with the one validated OB unit, so was then phoned by Rhys and required to rush home in the car and remotely setup the other OB unit while Rhys was fixing the initial one. The backup unit was not needed in the end.
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Hunted - Episode 2]]
| Title Sequence Graphics
| With additional shots from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]], the title sequence was VFX heavy and slowly constructed (barely in time for NaSTA). Ben's work can be seen in the footstep shots and some of the HUD elements as well as the title shot (foot graciously provided by [[Louis Dickson]]) which was the final shot completed. Also the first time Ben had motion-tracked anything and it hadn't sucked, so that was nice!
|-
| scope="row"| 11
| [[York's Got Talent 2019]]
| Director & Technician
| Ben needed to learn that we owned a decimator, that would've made things so much smoother/less awful.
|-
| scope="row"| 12
| [[Please Sir, There's Been a Murder]]
| Sound Operator, Livestream Technician
| Learned the value of sleep, stared at clocks for hours testing latency, started to strongly dislike the Facebook live-streaming platform. The broadcast stream ended up being a bit unstable due to a sleep-deprived misconfiguration error causing our transcodes to start crying. 'Solved' at the time by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] monitoring stream health and Ben appropriately spamming ssh commands with forehead while sound mixing.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 13
| [[Election Results Night 2020|60 Second Manifestos 2020]]
| Director, Camera Operator, Editor & Graphics
| [[Cal Cooke | Cal]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]] assisted with shooting the 30 candidates with lighting expertise from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]]. After Effects used for animating the YUSU assets. Used DaVinci Resolve and Nvenc for fast chroma-keying and exports with Edit 3's GPU being fully leveraged, along with some bodging to refine the graphics to never need to be re-rendered from the original comp speeding the process up greatly (averaging 5 minutes editing per video with 1 minute final renders). Had fun shouting at EncodeSrv as it would misidentify the file's resolution when uploading to the website and transcoding. Ended up throwing files through Adobe Media Encoder as an easy fix. A fake manifesto from Ben may exist somewhere for pipeline testing purposes, this cannot be confirmed.
|-
| scope="row"| 14
| [[Election Results Night 2020|Debate Night 2020]]
| Technician
| Didn't intend to do this, wanted to not do at least one election event. Ended up helping set up and assisted with tech for the start of the stream anyway.
|-
| scope="row"| 15
| [[YUSU Election Results Night 2020 Intro]]
| Director & Camera Operator
| Spent a night running around with [[Olivia Gibbs]], Numi Gildert and Alex West battling bad weather ruining plans and his own inability to balance a gimbal well enough on no battery. Ate Greggs. Shot most of it handheld (not ideal running with no IBIS). Spend an evening making a hash out of the edit. Considered doing half of it live on the night. Saved by Olivia salvaging most of the footage into a good edit which was then tweaked some more into the final product.
|-
| scope="row"| 16
| [[Election Results Night 2020|YUSU Election Results Night 2020]]
| Director
| Directed first major YSTV production having not slept since the day before. Instead, spent the night before the show secretly making the graphics assets with the embargoed names and finishing off the stingers and lower-thirds. Spent that day regretting it. Actual stream was mostly successful and uneventful although all YSTV power did die beforehand as not enough sockets were present at the venue and multiple 1k lights were a step too far. Also, OB1 started being electric shock-y so that was quickly decommissioned and replaced with [[Marty]]. Stream was followed by a full club night at Courtyard. That was followed by sleep, lots of it.
|-
| scope="row"| 17
| [[MMA Fight Night]]
| Graphics Programming
| Second fighting based live-stream he couldn't attend; wasn't happy about that.
|-
| scope="row"| 18
| [[Ben Goes to Kuda- livestream]]
| Director & Producer
| Missed a bus into town, got bored, started streaming to the YSTV website from Ben's phone with some basic graphics. Continued the stream intermittently through the night, much confusion occurred from the members still in Courtyard.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term (The year of 'rona)'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 19
| [[Quarantine Weekly]]
| Executive Producer
| Despite not having time to work on the actual show, the concept format was the result of an SNL-style hosted variety show pitch from Ben combined with a happy news, game show and campus/member-focused show idea from the wonderful [[Stephanie Shires]] who went on to brilliantly produce the whole series as Ben ended up too busy doing radio stuff.
|-
| scope="row"| 20
| YSTV Rebranding 2020
| Co-designer
| Finished adapting designs by [[Edwin Barnes]] with [[Joe Radford]] and [[Rhys Milling]] to create a complete branding package for all of YSTV's productions.
|}

'''YEAR 2 (2020-21'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| Forest Review Livestream
| Director & Producer
| Much the same kind of stupidity as the Kuda one, but in the Forest during a freshers intro meeting. Why? Good question.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| Freshers Stream 2020
| Motion Graphics Designer
|
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| Oranges & Lemons Episode 1 - Morphsuit Man Pumpkin Carving
| Narrator, Editor & Graphics
|
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| University Challenge Team Selection Finals
| Graphic Design
|
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| YSTV E-Sports Rocket League
| Participant
|
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[Elections 2021|60 Second Manifestos]]
| Graphics/Thumbnails
| YSTV’s first use of Remotion framework to automatically generate all thumbnails based off json data and render React webpages as images.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Elections 2021|Debate Night]]
| Technical Assistant
|
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| YSTV Arts and Crafts
| Logo Design
|
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Elections 2021|Election Results Night 2021]]
| Director, Vision Mixer, Graphics & Technical Assistant
| YSTV’s first use of SRT in production for the host’s video feed.
|-
|}

==Technical==
(This needs to be sorted as complete vs work in progress)
*Ghostbuster
*site-2020
*streaming pipeline
*pushing for vmix
*marty
*Atem Tally lights
*edit3
*cobra
*boa
*asp
*DAPIA
*roses graphics trials
*unreal engine graphics
*Vmix adoption
*edit1&2 rebuilds

=Technical Shenanigans=
* Notable for the discovery of the [[Holy Bodgeble]] in a field one day and has been hard at work translating the contents since
* Dismantled an ATEM to poke a fan once (much to [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew's]] dismay) and then wrote [[The night of the rattly atem|a poem]] about it out of boredom
[[File:working Ben.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ben and [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] [[The night of the rattly atem]]]]

Ben Allen

2021-03-14T03:58:03Z

Bja519: /* Technical */

{{YSTV Member
| first name = Ben
| last name = Allen
| picturefile = BenAllenBlue.jpeg
| picturesize = 200px
| active from = 2019
| active until = Present
| positions = Deputy Technical Director
| current location = The YSTV Studio. Definitely.
| degrees = BEng Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems
}}

=About=
Ben Allen, can often found in the studio in the early hours of the morning, screaming at technology, and is a prime example of a dedicated YSTV member. He is an all round lovely guy and is almost constantly busy and tired.

Joining as a fresher during the Give It A Go event in October 2019, Ben almost immediately became heavily involved in YSTV with his first event being a week or two later when YSTV hosted the 2019 NASTA People's choice awards. Acting as technical assistant to [[Technical Director]] [[Andrew Waddle]] during the setup and operation of the show. Having since worked on numerous live and recorded projects, Ben has worked within a variety of technical and operational roles; generally acting as technical and computing assistant to [[Andrew Waddle]] and [[Rhys Milling]] on live shows or working like a bugger with VFX. Not to mention his round the clock commitment to technical [[fuckary]].

See also;
* [[Marty]] Ben's software video switching project which acts as either a 3rd OB unit or a replacement for other server failures.
* [[Election Results Night 2020]]

Has a dark and mysterious alternate life (that must never be spoken of) at University Radio York including the positions:
*Assistant Head of Computing (2019-20)
*Station Manager of URY (2020-21)
*Assistant Head of Audio Resources (2021-)

=Trivia=
*Can be calmed down with a Snickers bar.
*His favourite film is Sharknado, which he once called 'a cinematic masterpiece with an almost ethereal quality'.
*Snack of choice probably a Dominos pizza.
*When in power-saving mode will only diet on breadsticks.
*100% fail-rate on setting up a dual boot first time.
*100% success-rate for eduroam setup.

=Productions/Projects=
==Productions/Design==
'''YEAR 1'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| [[YSTV Give It a Go 2019]]
| Tech Intern
| Walked in, knew how an X32 worked, was told to patch XLR by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]], never looked back.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| [[PCAs 2019 Intro]]
| Camera Operator & Actor
| First on-camera credit. Makes a cameo doing sound and looking confused, unfortunately has been stuck with the same expression since.
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| [[PCAs 2019]]
| Camera Operator & Technician
| First role on an actual live YSTV show.
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| [[Bob Ross Livestream]]
| Sound & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time running computers for a live-stream solo.
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| [[RAG Absailing]]
| Editor
| First editing job for YSTV.
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[The Review Club - Wine Tasting]]
| Camera Operator
| Drafted in last minute. Pointed a camera and laughed a lot.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Boozy Broadcasts: Drunk Werewolves]]
| Director, Vision Mixer & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time vision mixing.
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| [[YSTV Sport: Volleyball Autumn 2019]]
| Director & Livestream Technician
| Turns out the internet sucks in the sports centre so was done "as live" as no connection could be found. Spent all of the setup time trying to sort out the new live graphics he'd just got working. Didn't realise he had a remote JQuery dependency and no internet. Cursed the internet and did some running. Eventually, the graphics were working and the majority of the game was recorded with some admittedly out of breath directing.
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Boxing Fight Night Live 2019]]
| Graphics Programmer
| Realised from Volleyball that roughly thrown together Visual Basic, no modularity and constant rewriting didn't make for a good graphics client. Had a better idea, got Marks Polakovs to kindly teach him React over one VERY long night. Rewrote the previous client in React. Came up with initial planning for the Ghostbuster Graphics system. The new Electron-based client ended up being named Luigi's Mansion 2 which was deployed successfully after 20 minutes of testing as Ben could not attend the event. After someone decided to play the maracas with the one validated OB unit, so was then phoned by Rhys and required to rush home in the car and remotely setup the other OB unit while Rhys was fixing the initial one. The backup unit was not needed in the end.
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Hunted - Episode 2]]
| Title Sequence Graphics
| With additional shots from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]], the title sequence was VFX heavy and slowly constructed (barely in time for NaSTA). Ben's work can be seen in the footstep shots and some of the HUD elements as well as the title shot (foot graciously provided by [[Louis Dickson]]) which was the final shot completed. Also the first time Ben had motion-tracked anything and it hadn't sucked, so that was nice!
|-
| scope="row"| 11
| [[York's Got Talent 2019]]
| Director & Technician
| Ben needed to learn that we owned a decimator, that would've made things so much smoother/less awful.
|-
| scope="row"| 12
| [[Please Sir, There's Been a Murder]]
| Sound Operator, Livestream Technician
| Learned the value of sleep, stared at clocks for hours testing latency, started to strongly dislike the Facebook live-streaming platform. The broadcast stream ended up being a bit unstable due to a sleep-deprived misconfiguration error causing our transcodes to start crying. 'Solved' at the time by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] monitoring stream health and Ben appropriately spamming ssh commands with forehead while sound mixing.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 13
| [[Election Results Night 2020|60 Second Manifestos 2020]]
| Director, Camera Operator, Editor & Graphics
| [[Cal Cooke | Cal]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]] assisted with shooting the 30 candidates with lighting expertise from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]]. After Effects used for animating the YUSU assets. Used DaVinci Resolve and Nvenc for fast chroma-keying and exports with Edit 3's GPU being fully leveraged, along with some bodging to refine the graphics to never need to be re-rendered from the original comp speeding the process up greatly (averaging 5 minutes editing per video with 1 minute final renders). Had fun shouting at EncodeSrv as it would misidentify the file's resolution when uploading to the website and transcoding. Ended up throwing files through Adobe Media Encoder as an easy fix. A fake manifesto from Ben may exist somewhere for pipeline testing purposes, this cannot be confirmed.
|-
| scope="row"| 14
| [[Election Results Night 2020|Debate Night 2020]]
| Technician
| Didn't intend to do this, wanted to not do at least one election event. Ended up helping set up and assisted with tech for the start of the stream anyway.
|-
| scope="row"| 15
| [[YUSU Election Results Night 2020 Intro]]
| Director & Camera Operator
| Spent a night running around with [[Olivia Gibbs]], Numi Gildert and Alex West battling bad weather ruining plans and his own inability to balance a gimbal well enough on no battery. Ate Greggs. Shot most of it handheld (not ideal running with no IBIS). Spend an evening making a hash out of the edit. Considered doing half of it live on the night. Saved by Olivia salvaging most of the footage into a good edit which was then tweaked some more into the final product.
|-
| scope="row"| 16
| [[Election Results Night 2020|YUSU Election Results Night 2020]]
| Director
| Directed first major YSTV production having not slept since the day before. Instead, spent the night before the show secretly making the graphics assets with the embargoed names and finishing off the stingers and lower-thirds. Spent that day regretting it. Actual stream was mostly successful and uneventful although all YSTV power did die beforehand as not enough sockets were present at the venue and multiple 1k lights were a step too far. Also, OB1 started being electric shock-y so that was quickly decommissioned and replaced with [[Marty]]. Stream was followed by a full club night at Courtyard. That was followed by sleep, lots of it.
|-
| scope="row"| 17
| [[MMA Fight Night]]
| Graphics Programming
| Second fighting based live-stream he couldn't attend; wasn't happy about that.
|-
| scope="row"| 18
| [[Ben Goes to Kuda- livestream]]
| Director & Producer
| Missed a bus into town, got bored, started streaming to the YSTV website from Ben's phone with some basic graphics. Continued the stream intermittently through the night, much confusion occurred from the members still in Courtyard.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term (The year of 'rona)'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 19
| [[Quarantine Weekly]]
| Executive Producer
| Despite not having time to work on the actual show, the concept format was the result of an SNL-style hosted variety show pitch from Ben combined with a happy news, game show and campus/member-focused show idea from the wonderful [[Stephanie Shires]] who went on to brilliantly produce the whole series as Ben ended up too busy doing radio stuff.
|-
| scope="row"| 20
| YSTV Rebranding 2020
| Co-designer
| Finished adapting designs by [[Edwin Barnes]] with [[Joe Radford]] and [[Rhys Milling]] to create a complete branding package for all of YSTV's productions.
|}

'''YEAR 2'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| Forest Review Livestream
| Director & Producer
| Much the same kind of stupidity as the Kuda one, but in the Forest during a freshers intro meeting. Why? Good question.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| Freshers Stream 2020
| Motion Graphics Designer
|
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| Oranges & Lemons Episode 1 - Morphsuit Man Pumpkin Carving
| Narrator, Editor & Graphics
|
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| University Challenge Team Selection Finals
| Graphic Design
|
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| YSTV E-Sports Rocket League
| Participant
|
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[Elections 2021|60 Second Manifestos]]
| Graphics/Thumbnails
| YSTV’s first use of Remotion framework to automatically generate all thumbnails based off json data and render React webpages as images.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Elections 2021|Debate Night]]
| Technical Assistant
|
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| YSTV Arts and Crafts
| Logo Design
|
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Elections 2021|Election Results Night 2021]]
| Director, Vision Mixer, Graphics & Technical Assistant
| YSTV’s first use of SRT in production for the host’s video feed.
|-
|}

==Technical==
(This needs to be sorted as complete vs work in progress)
*Ghostbuster
*site-2020
*streaming pipeline
*pushing for vmix
*marty
*Atem Tally lights
*edit3
*cobra
*boa
*asp
*DAPIA
*roses graphics trials
*unreal engine graphics
*Vmix adoption
*edit1&2 rebuilds

=Technical Shenanigans=
* Notable for the discovery of the [[Holy Bodgeble]] in a field one day and has been hard at work translating the contents since
* Dismantled an ATEM to poke a fan once (much to [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew's]] dismay) and then wrote [[The night of the rattly atem|a poem]] about it out of boredom
[[File:working Ben.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ben and [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] [[The night of the rattly atem]]]]

Ben Allen

2021-03-14T03:57:43Z

Bja519: /* Technical */

{{YSTV Member
| first name = Ben
| last name = Allen
| picturefile = BenAllenBlue.jpeg
| picturesize = 200px
| active from = 2019
| active until = Present
| positions = Deputy Technical Director
| current location = The YSTV Studio. Definitely.
| degrees = BEng Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems
}}

=About=
Ben Allen, can often found in the studio in the early hours of the morning, screaming at technology, and is a prime example of a dedicated YSTV member. He is an all round lovely guy and is almost constantly busy and tired.

Joining as a fresher during the Give It A Go event in October 2019, Ben almost immediately became heavily involved in YSTV with his first event being a week or two later when YSTV hosted the 2019 NASTA People's choice awards. Acting as technical assistant to [[Technical Director]] [[Andrew Waddle]] during the setup and operation of the show. Having since worked on numerous live and recorded projects, Ben has worked within a variety of technical and operational roles; generally acting as technical and computing assistant to [[Andrew Waddle]] and [[Rhys Milling]] on live shows or working like a bugger with VFX. Not to mention his round the clock commitment to technical [[fuckary]].

See also;
* [[Marty]] Ben's software video switching project which acts as either a 3rd OB unit or a replacement for other server failures.
* [[Election Results Night 2020]]

Has a dark and mysterious alternate life (that must never be spoken of) at University Radio York including the positions:
*Assistant Head of Computing (2019-20)
*Station Manager of URY (2020-21)
*Assistant Head of Audio Resources (2021-)

=Trivia=
*Can be calmed down with a Snickers bar.
*His favourite film is Sharknado, which he once called 'a cinematic masterpiece with an almost ethereal quality'.
*Snack of choice probably a Dominos pizza.
*When in power-saving mode will only diet on breadsticks.
*100% fail-rate on setting up a dual boot first time.
*100% success-rate for eduroam setup.

=Productions/Projects=
==Productions/Design==
'''YEAR 1'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| [[YSTV Give It a Go 2019]]
| Tech Intern
| Walked in, knew how an X32 worked, was told to patch XLR by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]], never looked back.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| [[PCAs 2019 Intro]]
| Camera Operator & Actor
| First on-camera credit. Makes a cameo doing sound and looking confused, unfortunately has been stuck with the same expression since.
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| [[PCAs 2019]]
| Camera Operator & Technician
| First role on an actual live YSTV show.
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| [[Bob Ross Livestream]]
| Sound & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time running computers for a live-stream solo.
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| [[RAG Absailing]]
| Editor
| First editing job for YSTV.
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[The Review Club - Wine Tasting]]
| Camera Operator
| Drafted in last minute. Pointed a camera and laughed a lot.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Boozy Broadcasts: Drunk Werewolves]]
| Director, Vision Mixer & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time vision mixing.
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| [[YSTV Sport: Volleyball Autumn 2019]]
| Director & Livestream Technician
| Turns out the internet sucks in the sports centre so was done "as live" as no connection could be found. Spent all of the setup time trying to sort out the new live graphics he'd just got working. Didn't realise he had a remote JQuery dependency and no internet. Cursed the internet and did some running. Eventually, the graphics were working and the majority of the game was recorded with some admittedly out of breath directing.
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Boxing Fight Night Live 2019]]
| Graphics Programmer
| Realised from Volleyball that roughly thrown together Visual Basic, no modularity and constant rewriting didn't make for a good graphics client. Had a better idea, got Marks Polakovs to kindly teach him React over one VERY long night. Rewrote the previous client in React. Came up with initial planning for the Ghostbuster Graphics system. The new Electron-based client ended up being named Luigi's Mansion 2 which was deployed successfully after 20 minutes of testing as Ben could not attend the event. After someone decided to play the maracas with the one validated OB unit, so was then phoned by Rhys and required to rush home in the car and remotely setup the other OB unit while Rhys was fixing the initial one. The backup unit was not needed in the end.
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Hunted - Episode 2]]
| Title Sequence Graphics
| With additional shots from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]], the title sequence was VFX heavy and slowly constructed (barely in time for NaSTA). Ben's work can be seen in the footstep shots and some of the HUD elements as well as the title shot (foot graciously provided by [[Louis Dickson]]) which was the final shot completed. Also the first time Ben had motion-tracked anything and it hadn't sucked, so that was nice!
|-
| scope="row"| 11
| [[York's Got Talent 2019]]
| Director & Technician
| Ben needed to learn that we owned a decimator, that would've made things so much smoother/less awful.
|-
| scope="row"| 12
| [[Please Sir, There's Been a Murder]]
| Sound Operator, Livestream Technician
| Learned the value of sleep, stared at clocks for hours testing latency, started to strongly dislike the Facebook live-streaming platform. The broadcast stream ended up being a bit unstable due to a sleep-deprived misconfiguration error causing our transcodes to start crying. 'Solved' at the time by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] monitoring stream health and Ben appropriately spamming ssh commands with forehead while sound mixing.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 13
| [[Election Results Night 2020|60 Second Manifestos 2020]]
| Director, Camera Operator, Editor & Graphics
| [[Cal Cooke | Cal]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]] assisted with shooting the 30 candidates with lighting expertise from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]]. After Effects used for animating the YUSU assets. Used DaVinci Resolve and Nvenc for fast chroma-keying and exports with Edit 3's GPU being fully leveraged, along with some bodging to refine the graphics to never need to be re-rendered from the original comp speeding the process up greatly (averaging 5 minutes editing per video with 1 minute final renders). Had fun shouting at EncodeSrv as it would misidentify the file's resolution when uploading to the website and transcoding. Ended up throwing files through Adobe Media Encoder as an easy fix. A fake manifesto from Ben may exist somewhere for pipeline testing purposes, this cannot be confirmed.
|-
| scope="row"| 14
| [[Election Results Night 2020|Debate Night 2020]]
| Technician
| Didn't intend to do this, wanted to not do at least one election event. Ended up helping set up and assisted with tech for the start of the stream anyway.
|-
| scope="row"| 15
| [[YUSU Election Results Night 2020 Intro]]
| Director & Camera Operator
| Spent a night running around with [[Olivia Gibbs]], Numi Gildert and Alex West battling bad weather ruining plans and his own inability to balance a gimbal well enough on no battery. Ate Greggs. Shot most of it handheld (not ideal running with no IBIS). Spend an evening making a hash out of the edit. Considered doing half of it live on the night. Saved by Olivia salvaging most of the footage into a good edit which was then tweaked some more into the final product.
|-
| scope="row"| 16
| [[Election Results Night 2020|YUSU Election Results Night 2020]]
| Director
| Directed first major YSTV production having not slept since the day before. Instead, spent the night before the show secretly making the graphics assets with the embargoed names and finishing off the stingers and lower-thirds. Spent that day regretting it. Actual stream was mostly successful and uneventful although all YSTV power did die beforehand as not enough sockets were present at the venue and multiple 1k lights were a step too far. Also, OB1 started being electric shock-y so that was quickly decommissioned and replaced with [[Marty]]. Stream was followed by a full club night at Courtyard. That was followed by sleep, lots of it.
|-
| scope="row"| 17
| [[MMA Fight Night]]
| Graphics Programming
| Second fighting based live-stream he couldn't attend; wasn't happy about that.
|-
| scope="row"| 18
| [[Ben Goes to Kuda- livestream]]
| Director & Producer
| Missed a bus into town, got bored, started streaming to the YSTV website from Ben's phone with some basic graphics. Continued the stream intermittently through the night, much confusion occurred from the members still in Courtyard.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term (The year of 'rona)'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 19
| [[Quarantine Weekly]]
| Executive Producer
| Despite not having time to work on the actual show, the concept format was the result of an SNL-style hosted variety show pitch from Ben combined with a happy news, game show and campus/member-focused show idea from the wonderful [[Stephanie Shires]] who went on to brilliantly produce the whole series as Ben ended up too busy doing radio stuff.
|-
| scope="row"| 20
| YSTV Rebranding 2020
| Co-designer
| Finished adapting designs by [[Edwin Barnes]] with [[Joe Radford]] and [[Rhys Milling]] to create a complete branding package for all of YSTV's productions.
|}

'''YEAR 2'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| Forest Review Livestream
| Director & Producer
| Much the same kind of stupidity as the Kuda one, but in the Forest during a freshers intro meeting. Why? Good question.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| Freshers Stream 2020
| Motion Graphics Designer
|
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| Oranges & Lemons Episode 1 - Morphsuit Man Pumpkin Carving
| Narrator, Editor & Graphics
|
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| University Challenge Team Selection Finals
| Graphic Design
|
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| YSTV E-Sports Rocket League
| Participant
|
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[Elections 2021|60 Second Manifestos]]
| Graphics/Thumbnails
| YSTV’s first use of Remotion framework to automatically generate all thumbnails based off json data and render React webpages as images.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Elections 2021|Debate Night]]
| Technical Assistant
|
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| YSTV Arts and Crafts
| Logo Design
|
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Elections 2021|Election Results Night 2021]]
| Director, Vision Mixer, Graphics & Technical Assistant
| YSTV’s first use of SRT in production for the host’s video feed.
|-
|}

==Technical==
(This needs to be sorted as complete vs work in progress)
*Ghostbuster
*site-2020
*streaming pipeline
*pushing for vmix
*marty
*Atem Tally lights
*edit3
*cobra
*boa
*asp
*DAPIA
*roses graphics trials
*unreal engine graphics
*Vmix adoption

=Technical Shenanigans=
* Notable for the discovery of the [[Holy Bodgeble]] in a field one day and has been hard at work translating the contents since
* Dismantled an ATEM to poke a fan once (much to [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew's]] dismay) and then wrote [[The night of the rattly atem|a poem]] about it out of boredom
[[File:working Ben.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ben and [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] [[The night of the rattly atem]]]]

Ben Allen

2021-03-14T03:57:13Z

Bja519: /* Productions/Design */

{{YSTV Member
| first name = Ben
| last name = Allen
| picturefile = BenAllenBlue.jpeg
| picturesize = 200px
| active from = 2019
| active until = Present
| positions = Deputy Technical Director
| current location = The YSTV Studio. Definitely.
| degrees = BEng Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems
}}

=About=
Ben Allen, can often found in the studio in the early hours of the morning, screaming at technology, and is a prime example of a dedicated YSTV member. He is an all round lovely guy and is almost constantly busy and tired.

Joining as a fresher during the Give It A Go event in October 2019, Ben almost immediately became heavily involved in YSTV with his first event being a week or two later when YSTV hosted the 2019 NASTA People's choice awards. Acting as technical assistant to [[Technical Director]] [[Andrew Waddle]] during the setup and operation of the show. Having since worked on numerous live and recorded projects, Ben has worked within a variety of technical and operational roles; generally acting as technical and computing assistant to [[Andrew Waddle]] and [[Rhys Milling]] on live shows or working like a bugger with VFX. Not to mention his round the clock commitment to technical [[fuckary]].

See also;
* [[Marty]] Ben's software video switching project which acts as either a 3rd OB unit or a replacement for other server failures.
* [[Election Results Night 2020]]

Has a dark and mysterious alternate life (that must never be spoken of) at University Radio York including the positions:
*Assistant Head of Computing (2019-20)
*Station Manager of URY (2020-21)
*Assistant Head of Audio Resources (2021-)

=Trivia=
*Can be calmed down with a Snickers bar.
*His favourite film is Sharknado, which he once called 'a cinematic masterpiece with an almost ethereal quality'.
*Snack of choice probably a Dominos pizza.
*When in power-saving mode will only diet on breadsticks.
*100% fail-rate on setting up a dual boot first time.
*100% success-rate for eduroam setup.

=Productions/Projects=
==Productions/Design==
'''YEAR 1'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| [[YSTV Give It a Go 2019]]
| Tech Intern
| Walked in, knew how an X32 worked, was told to patch XLR by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]], never looked back.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| [[PCAs 2019 Intro]]
| Camera Operator & Actor
| First on-camera credit. Makes a cameo doing sound and looking confused, unfortunately has been stuck with the same expression since.
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| [[PCAs 2019]]
| Camera Operator & Technician
| First role on an actual live YSTV show.
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| [[Bob Ross Livestream]]
| Sound & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time running computers for a live-stream solo.
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| [[RAG Absailing]]
| Editor
| First editing job for YSTV.
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[The Review Club - Wine Tasting]]
| Camera Operator
| Drafted in last minute. Pointed a camera and laughed a lot.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Boozy Broadcasts: Drunk Werewolves]]
| Director, Vision Mixer & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time vision mixing.
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| [[YSTV Sport: Volleyball Autumn 2019]]
| Director & Livestream Technician
| Turns out the internet sucks in the sports centre so was done "as live" as no connection could be found. Spent all of the setup time trying to sort out the new live graphics he'd just got working. Didn't realise he had a remote JQuery dependency and no internet. Cursed the internet and did some running. Eventually, the graphics were working and the majority of the game was recorded with some admittedly out of breath directing.
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Boxing Fight Night Live 2019]]
| Graphics Programmer
| Realised from Volleyball that roughly thrown together Visual Basic, no modularity and constant rewriting didn't make for a good graphics client. Had a better idea, got Marks Polakovs to kindly teach him React over one VERY long night. Rewrote the previous client in React. Came up with initial planning for the Ghostbuster Graphics system. The new Electron-based client ended up being named Luigi's Mansion 2 which was deployed successfully after 20 minutes of testing as Ben could not attend the event. After someone decided to play the maracas with the one validated OB unit, so was then phoned by Rhys and required to rush home in the car and remotely setup the other OB unit while Rhys was fixing the initial one. The backup unit was not needed in the end.
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Hunted - Episode 2]]
| Title Sequence Graphics
| With additional shots from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]], the title sequence was VFX heavy and slowly constructed (barely in time for NaSTA). Ben's work can be seen in the footstep shots and some of the HUD elements as well as the title shot (foot graciously provided by [[Louis Dickson]]) which was the final shot completed. Also the first time Ben had motion-tracked anything and it hadn't sucked, so that was nice!
|-
| scope="row"| 11
| [[York's Got Talent 2019]]
| Director & Technician
| Ben needed to learn that we owned a decimator, that would've made things so much smoother/less awful.
|-
| scope="row"| 12
| [[Please Sir, There's Been a Murder]]
| Sound Operator, Livestream Technician
| Learned the value of sleep, stared at clocks for hours testing latency, started to strongly dislike the Facebook live-streaming platform. The broadcast stream ended up being a bit unstable due to a sleep-deprived misconfiguration error causing our transcodes to start crying. 'Solved' at the time by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] monitoring stream health and Ben appropriately spamming ssh commands with forehead while sound mixing.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 13
| [[Election Results Night 2020|60 Second Manifestos 2020]]
| Director, Camera Operator, Editor & Graphics
| [[Cal Cooke | Cal]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]] assisted with shooting the 30 candidates with lighting expertise from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]]. After Effects used for animating the YUSU assets. Used DaVinci Resolve and Nvenc for fast chroma-keying and exports with Edit 3's GPU being fully leveraged, along with some bodging to refine the graphics to never need to be re-rendered from the original comp speeding the process up greatly (averaging 5 minutes editing per video with 1 minute final renders). Had fun shouting at EncodeSrv as it would misidentify the file's resolution when uploading to the website and transcoding. Ended up throwing files through Adobe Media Encoder as an easy fix. A fake manifesto from Ben may exist somewhere for pipeline testing purposes, this cannot be confirmed.
|-
| scope="row"| 14
| [[Election Results Night 2020|Debate Night 2020]]
| Technician
| Didn't intend to do this, wanted to not do at least one election event. Ended up helping set up and assisted with tech for the start of the stream anyway.
|-
| scope="row"| 15
| [[YUSU Election Results Night 2020 Intro]]
| Director & Camera Operator
| Spent a night running around with [[Olivia Gibbs]], Numi Gildert and Alex West battling bad weather ruining plans and his own inability to balance a gimbal well enough on no battery. Ate Greggs. Shot most of it handheld (not ideal running with no IBIS). Spend an evening making a hash out of the edit. Considered doing half of it live on the night. Saved by Olivia salvaging most of the footage into a good edit which was then tweaked some more into the final product.
|-
| scope="row"| 16
| [[Election Results Night 2020|YUSU Election Results Night 2020]]
| Director
| Directed first major YSTV production having not slept since the day before. Instead, spent the night before the show secretly making the graphics assets with the embargoed names and finishing off the stingers and lower-thirds. Spent that day regretting it. Actual stream was mostly successful and uneventful although all YSTV power did die beforehand as not enough sockets were present at the venue and multiple 1k lights were a step too far. Also, OB1 started being electric shock-y so that was quickly decommissioned and replaced with [[Marty]]. Stream was followed by a full club night at Courtyard. That was followed by sleep, lots of it.
|-
| scope="row"| 17
| [[MMA Fight Night]]
| Graphics Programming
| Second fighting based live-stream he couldn't attend; wasn't happy about that.
|-
| scope="row"| 18
| [[Ben Goes to Kuda- livestream]]
| Director & Producer
| Missed a bus into town, got bored, started streaming to the YSTV website from Ben's phone with some basic graphics. Continued the stream intermittently through the night, much confusion occurred from the members still in Courtyard.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term (The year of 'rona)'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 19
| [[Quarantine Weekly]]
| Executive Producer
| Despite not having time to work on the actual show, the concept format was the result of an SNL-style hosted variety show pitch from Ben combined with a happy news, game show and campus/member-focused show idea from the wonderful [[Stephanie Shires]] who went on to brilliantly produce the whole series as Ben ended up too busy doing radio stuff.
|-
| scope="row"| 20
| YSTV Rebranding 2020
| Co-designer
| Finished adapting designs by [[Edwin Barnes]] with [[Joe Radford]] and [[Rhys Milling]] to create a complete branding package for all of YSTV's productions.
|}

'''YEAR 2'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| Forest Review Livestream
| Director & Producer
| Much the same kind of stupidity as the Kuda one, but in the Forest during a freshers intro meeting. Why? Good question.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| Freshers Stream 2020
| Motion Graphics Designer
|
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| Oranges & Lemons Episode 1 - Morphsuit Man Pumpkin Carving
| Narrator, Editor & Graphics
|
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| University Challenge Team Selection Finals
| Graphic Design
|
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| YSTV E-Sports Rocket League
| Participant
|
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[Elections 2021|60 Second Manifestos]]
| Graphics/Thumbnails
| YSTV’s first use of Remotion framework to automatically generate all thumbnails based off json data and render React webpages as images.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Elections 2021|Debate Night]]
| Technical Assistant
|
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| YSTV Arts and Crafts
| Logo Design
|
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Elections 2021|Election Results Night 2021]]
| Director, Vision Mixer, Graphics & Technical Assistant
| YSTV’s first use of SRT in production for the host’s video feed.
|-
|}

==Technical==
(This needs to be sorted as complete vs work in progress)
*Ghostbuster
*site-2020
*streaming pipeline
*pushing for vmix
*marty
*Atem Tally lights
*edit3
*cobra
*boa
*asp
*DAPIA
*roses graphics trials
*unreal engine graphics

=Technical Shenanigans=
* Notable for the discovery of the [[Holy Bodgeble]] in a field one day and has been hard at work translating the contents since
* Dismantled an ATEM to poke a fan once (much to [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew's]] dismay) and then wrote [[The night of the rattly atem|a poem]] about it out of boredom
[[File:working Ben.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ben and [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] [[The night of the rattly atem]]]]

Ben Allen

2021-03-14T03:44:52Z

Bja519: /* About */

{{YSTV Member
| first name = Ben
| last name = Allen
| picturefile = BenAllenBlue.jpeg
| picturesize = 200px
| active from = 2019
| active until = Present
| positions = Deputy Technical Director
| current location = The YSTV Studio. Definitely.
| degrees = BEng Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems
}}

=About=
Ben Allen, can often found in the studio in the early hours of the morning, screaming at technology, and is a prime example of a dedicated YSTV member. He is an all round lovely guy and is almost constantly busy and tired.

Joining as a fresher during the Give It A Go event in October 2019, Ben almost immediately became heavily involved in YSTV with his first event being a week or two later when YSTV hosted the 2019 NASTA People's choice awards. Acting as technical assistant to [[Technical Director]] [[Andrew Waddle]] during the setup and operation of the show. Having since worked on numerous live and recorded projects, Ben has worked within a variety of technical and operational roles; generally acting as technical and computing assistant to [[Andrew Waddle]] and [[Rhys Milling]] on live shows or working like a bugger with VFX. Not to mention his round the clock commitment to technical [[fuckary]].

See also;
* [[Marty]] Ben's software video switching project which acts as either a 3rd OB unit or a replacement for other server failures.
* [[Election Results Night 2020]]

Has a dark and mysterious alternate life (that must never be spoken of) at University Radio York including the positions:
*Assistant Head of Computing (2019-20)
*Station Manager of URY (2020-21)
*Assistant Head of Audio Resources (2021-)

=Trivia=
*Can be calmed down with a Snickers bar.
*His favourite film is Sharknado, which he once called 'a cinematic masterpiece with an almost ethereal quality'.
*Snack of choice probably a Dominos pizza.
*When in power-saving mode will only diet on breadsticks.
*100% fail-rate on setting up a dual boot first time.
*100% success-rate for eduroam setup.

=Productions/Projects=
==Productions/Design==
'''YEAR 1'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| [[YSTV Give It a Go 2019]]
| Tech Intern
| Walked in, knew how an X32 worked, was told to patch XLR by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]], never looked back.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| [[PCAs 2019 Intro]]
| Camera Operator & Actor
| First on-camera credit. Makes a cameo doing sound and looking confused, unfortunately has been stuck with the same expression since.
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| [[PCAs 2019]]
| Camera Operator & Technician
| First role on an actual live YSTV show.
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| [[Bob Ross Livestream]]
| Sound & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time running computers for a live-stream solo.
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| [[RAG Absailing]]
| Editor
| First editing job for YSTV.
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[The Review Club - Wine Tasting]]
| Camera Operator
| Drafted in last minute. Pointed a camera and laughed a lot.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Boozy Broadcasts: Drunk Werewolves]]
| Director, Vision Mixer & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time vision mixing.
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| [[YSTV Sport: Volleyball Autumn 2019]]
| Director & Livestream Technician
| Turns out the internet sucks in the sports centre so was done "as live" as no connection could be found. Spent all of the setup time trying to sort out the new live graphics he'd just got working. Didn't realise he had a remote JQuery dependency and no internet. Cursed the internet and did some running. Eventually, the graphics were working and the majority of the game was recorded with some admittedly out of breath directing.
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Boxing Fight Night Live 2019]]
| Graphics Programmer
| Realised from Volleyball that roughly thrown together Visual Basic, no modularity and constant rewriting didn't make for a good graphics client. Had a better idea, got Marks Polakovs to kindly teach him React over one VERY long night. Rewrote the previous client in React. Came up with initial planning for the Ghostbuster Graphics system. The new Electron-based client ended up being named Luigi's Mansion 2 which was deployed successfully after 20 minutes of testing as Ben could not attend the event. After someone decided to play the maracas with the one validated OB unit, so was then phoned by Rhys and required to rush home in the car and remotely setup the other OB unit while Rhys was fixing the initial one. The backup unit was not needed in the end.
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Hunted - Episode 2]]
| Title Sequence Graphics
| With additional shots from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]], the title sequence was VFX heavy and slowly constructed (barely in time for NaSTA). Ben's work can be seen in the footstep shots and some of the HUD elements as well as the title shot (foot graciously provided by [[Louis Dickson]]) which was the final shot completed. Also the first time Ben had motion-tracked anything and it hadn't sucked, so that was nice!
|-
| scope="row"| 11
| [[York's Got Talent 2019]]
| Director & Technician
| Ben needed to learn that we owned a decimator, that would've made things so much smoother/less awful.
|-
| scope="row"| 12
| [[Please Sir, There's Been a Murder]]
| Sound Operator, Livestream Technician
| Learned the value of sleep, stared at clocks for hours testing latency, started to strongly dislike the Facebook live-streaming platform. The broadcast stream ended up being a bit unstable due to a sleep-deprived misconfiguration error causing our transcodes to start crying. 'Solved' at the time by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] monitoring stream health and Ben appropriately spamming ssh commands with forehead while sound mixing.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 13
| [[Election Results Night 2020|60 Second Manifestos 2020]]
| Director, Camera Operator, Editor & Graphics
| [[Cal Cooke | Cal]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]] assisted with shooting the 30 candidates with lighting expertise from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]]. After Effects used for animating the YUSU assets. Used DaVinci Resolve and Nvenc for fast chroma-keying and exports with Edit 3's GPU being fully leveraged, along with some bodging to refine the graphics to never need to be re-rendered from the original comp speeding the process up greatly (averaging 5 minutes editing per video with 1 minute final renders). Had fun shouting at EncodeSrv as it would misidentify the file's resolution when uploading to the website and transcoding. Ended up throwing files through Adobe Media Encoder as an easy fix. A fake manifesto from Ben may exist somewhere for pipeline testing purposes, this cannot be confirmed.
|-
| scope="row"| 14
| [[Election Results Night 2020|Debate Night 2020]]
| Technician
| Didn't intend to do this, wanted to not do at least one election event. Ended up helping set up and assisted with tech for the start of the stream anyway.
|-
| scope="row"| 15
| [[YUSU Election Results Night 2020 Intro]]
| Director & Camera Operator
| Spent a night running around with [[Olivia Gibbs]], Numi Gildert and Alex West battling bad weather ruining plans and his own inability to balance a gimbal well enough on no battery. Ate Greggs. Shot most of it handheld (not ideal running with no IBIS). Spend an evening making a hash out of the edit. Considered doing half of it live on the night. Saved by Olivia salvaging most of the footage into a good edit which was then tweaked some more into the final product.
|-
| scope="row"| 16
| [[Election Results Night 2020|YUSU Election Results Night 2020]]
| Director
| Directed first major YSTV production having not slept since the day before. Instead, spent the night before the show secretly making the graphics assets with the embargoed names and finishing off the stingers and lower-thirds. Spent that day regretting it. Actual stream was mostly successful and uneventful although all YSTV power did die beforehand as not enough sockets were present at the venue and multiple 1k lights were a step too far. Also, OB1 started being electric shock-y so that was quickly decommissioned and replaced with [[Marty]]. Stream was followed by a full club night at Courtyard. That was followed by sleep, lots of it.
|-
| scope="row"| 17
| [[MMA Fight Night]]
| Graphics Programming
| Second fighting based live-stream he couldn't attend; wasn't happy about that.
|-
| scope="row"| 18
| [[Ben Goes to Kuda- livestream]]
| Director & Producer
| Missed a bus into town, got bored, started streaming to the YSTV website from Ben's phone with some basic graphics. Continued the stream intermittently through the night, much confusion occurred from the members still in Courtyard.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term (The year of 'rona)'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 19
| [[Quarantine Weekly]]
| Executive Producer
| Despite not having time to work on the actual show, the concept format was the result of an SNL-style hosted variety show pitch from Ben combined with a happy news, game show and campus/member-focused show idea from the wonderful [[Stephanie Shires]] who went on to brilliantly produce the whole series as Ben ended up too busy doing radio stuff.
|-
| scope="row"| 20
| YSTV Rebranding 2020
| Co-designer
| Finished adapting designs by [[Edwin Barnes]] with [[Joe Radford]] and [[Rhys Milling]] to create a complete branding package for all of YSTV's productions.
|}

'''YEAR 2'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| Forest Review Livestream
| Director & Producer
| Much the same kind of stupidity as the Kuda one, but in the Forest during a freshers intro meeting. Why? Good question.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| Freshers Stream 2020
| Motion Graphics Designer
|
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| Oranges & Lemons Episode 1 - Morphsuit Man Pumpkin Carving
| Narrator, Editor & Graphics
|
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| 60 Second Manifestos
| Graphics
|
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| Debate Night
| Technical Assistant
|
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| Election Results Night 2021
| Director, Vision Mixer, Graphics & Technical Assistant
|
|-
|}

==Technical==
(This needs to be sorted as complete vs work in progress)
*Ghostbuster
*site-2020
*streaming pipeline
*pushing for vmix
*marty
*Atem Tally lights
*edit3
*cobra
*boa
*asp
*DAPIA
*roses graphics trials
*unreal engine graphics

=Technical Shenanigans=
* Notable for the discovery of the [[Holy Bodgeble]] in a field one day and has been hard at work translating the contents since
* Dismantled an ATEM to poke a fan once (much to [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew's]] dismay) and then wrote [[The night of the rattly atem|a poem]] about it out of boredom
[[File:working Ben.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ben and [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] [[The night of the rattly atem]]]]

Ben Allen

2021-03-14T03:40:53Z

Bja519: /* Trivia */

{{YSTV Member
| first name = Ben
| last name = Allen
| picturefile = BenAllenBlue.jpeg
| picturesize = 200px
| active from = 2019
| active until = Present
| positions = Deputy Technical Director
| current location = The YSTV Studio. Definitely.
| degrees = BEng Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems
}}

=About=
Ben Allen, can often found in the studio in the early hours of the morning, screaming at technology, and is a prime example of a dedicated YSTV member. He is an all round lovely guy and is almost constantly busy and tired.

Joining as a fresher during the Give It A Go event in October 2019, Ben almost immediately became heavily involved in YSTV with his first event being a week or two later when YSTV hosted the 2019 NASTA People's choice awards. Acting as technical assistant to [[Technical Director]] [[Andrew Waddle]] during the setup and operation of the show. Having since worked on numerous live and recorded projects, Ben has worked within a variety of technical and operational roles; generally acting as technical and computing assistant to [[Andrew Waddle]] and [[Rhys Milling]] on live shows or working like a bugger with VFX. Not to mention his round the clock commitment to technical [[fuckary]].

See also;
* [[Marty]] Ben's software video switching project which acts as either a 3rd OB unit or a replacement for other server failures.
* [[Election Results Night 2020]]

=Trivia=
*Can be calmed down with a Snickers bar.
*His favourite film is Sharknado, which he once called 'a cinematic masterpiece with an almost ethereal quality'.
*Snack of choice probably a Dominos pizza.
*When in power-saving mode will only diet on breadsticks.
*100% fail-rate on setting up a dual boot first time.
*100% success-rate for eduroam setup.

=Productions/Projects=
==Productions/Design==
'''YEAR 1'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| [[YSTV Give It a Go 2019]]
| Tech Intern
| Walked in, knew how an X32 worked, was told to patch XLR by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]], never looked back.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| [[PCAs 2019 Intro]]
| Camera Operator & Actor
| First on-camera credit. Makes a cameo doing sound and looking confused, unfortunately has been stuck with the same expression since.
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| [[PCAs 2019]]
| Camera Operator & Technician
| First role on an actual live YSTV show.
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| [[Bob Ross Livestream]]
| Sound & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time running computers for a live-stream solo.
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| [[RAG Absailing]]
| Editor
| First editing job for YSTV.
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[The Review Club - Wine Tasting]]
| Camera Operator
| Drafted in last minute. Pointed a camera and laughed a lot.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Boozy Broadcasts: Drunk Werewolves]]
| Director, Vision Mixer & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time vision mixing.
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| [[YSTV Sport: Volleyball Autumn 2019]]
| Director & Livestream Technician
| Turns out the internet sucks in the sports centre so was done "as live" as no connection could be found. Spent all of the setup time trying to sort out the new live graphics he'd just got working. Didn't realise he had a remote JQuery dependency and no internet. Cursed the internet and did some running. Eventually, the graphics were working and the majority of the game was recorded with some admittedly out of breath directing.
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Boxing Fight Night Live 2019]]
| Graphics Programmer
| Realised from Volleyball that roughly thrown together Visual Basic, no modularity and constant rewriting didn't make for a good graphics client. Had a better idea, got Marks Polakovs to kindly teach him React over one VERY long night. Rewrote the previous client in React. Came up with initial planning for the Ghostbuster Graphics system. The new Electron-based client ended up being named Luigi's Mansion 2 which was deployed successfully after 20 minutes of testing as Ben could not attend the event. After someone decided to play the maracas with the one validated OB unit, so was then phoned by Rhys and required to rush home in the car and remotely setup the other OB unit while Rhys was fixing the initial one. The backup unit was not needed in the end.
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Hunted - Episode 2]]
| Title Sequence Graphics
| With additional shots from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]], the title sequence was VFX heavy and slowly constructed (barely in time for NaSTA). Ben's work can be seen in the footstep shots and some of the HUD elements as well as the title shot (foot graciously provided by [[Louis Dickson]]) which was the final shot completed. Also the first time Ben had motion-tracked anything and it hadn't sucked, so that was nice!
|-
| scope="row"| 11
| [[York's Got Talent 2019]]
| Director & Technician
| Ben needed to learn that we owned a decimator, that would've made things so much smoother/less awful.
|-
| scope="row"| 12
| [[Please Sir, There's Been a Murder]]
| Sound Operator, Livestream Technician
| Learned the value of sleep, stared at clocks for hours testing latency, started to strongly dislike the Facebook live-streaming platform. The broadcast stream ended up being a bit unstable due to a sleep-deprived misconfiguration error causing our transcodes to start crying. 'Solved' at the time by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] monitoring stream health and Ben appropriately spamming ssh commands with forehead while sound mixing.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 13
| [[Election Results Night 2020|60 Second Manifestos 2020]]
| Director, Camera Operator, Editor & Graphics
| [[Cal Cooke | Cal]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]] assisted with shooting the 30 candidates with lighting expertise from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]]. After Effects used for animating the YUSU assets. Used DaVinci Resolve and Nvenc for fast chroma-keying and exports with Edit 3's GPU being fully leveraged, along with some bodging to refine the graphics to never need to be re-rendered from the original comp speeding the process up greatly (averaging 5 minutes editing per video with 1 minute final renders). Had fun shouting at EncodeSrv as it would misidentify the file's resolution when uploading to the website and transcoding. Ended up throwing files through Adobe Media Encoder as an easy fix. A fake manifesto from Ben may exist somewhere for pipeline testing purposes, this cannot be confirmed.
|-
| scope="row"| 14
| [[Election Results Night 2020|Debate Night 2020]]
| Technician
| Didn't intend to do this, wanted to not do at least one election event. Ended up helping set up and assisted with tech for the start of the stream anyway.
|-
| scope="row"| 15
| [[YUSU Election Results Night 2020 Intro]]
| Director & Camera Operator
| Spent a night running around with [[Olivia Gibbs]], Numi Gildert and Alex West battling bad weather ruining plans and his own inability to balance a gimbal well enough on no battery. Ate Greggs. Shot most of it handheld (not ideal running with no IBIS). Spend an evening making a hash out of the edit. Considered doing half of it live on the night. Saved by Olivia salvaging most of the footage into a good edit which was then tweaked some more into the final product.
|-
| scope="row"| 16
| [[Election Results Night 2020|YUSU Election Results Night 2020]]
| Director
| Directed first major YSTV production having not slept since the day before. Instead, spent the night before the show secretly making the graphics assets with the embargoed names and finishing off the stingers and lower-thirds. Spent that day regretting it. Actual stream was mostly successful and uneventful although all YSTV power did die beforehand as not enough sockets were present at the venue and multiple 1k lights were a step too far. Also, OB1 started being electric shock-y so that was quickly decommissioned and replaced with [[Marty]]. Stream was followed by a full club night at Courtyard. That was followed by sleep, lots of it.
|-
| scope="row"| 17
| [[MMA Fight Night]]
| Graphics Programming
| Second fighting based live-stream he couldn't attend; wasn't happy about that.
|-
| scope="row"| 18
| [[Ben Goes to Kuda- livestream]]
| Director & Producer
| Missed a bus into town, got bored, started streaming to the YSTV website from Ben's phone with some basic graphics. Continued the stream intermittently through the night, much confusion occurred from the members still in Courtyard.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term (The year of 'rona)'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 19
| [[Quarantine Weekly]]
| Executive Producer
| Despite not having time to work on the actual show, the concept format was the result of an SNL-style hosted variety show pitch from Ben combined with a happy news, game show and campus/member-focused show idea from the wonderful [[Stephanie Shires]] who went on to brilliantly produce the whole series as Ben ended up too busy doing radio stuff.
|-
| scope="row"| 20
| YSTV Rebranding 2020
| Co-designer
| Finished adapting designs by [[Edwin Barnes]] with [[Joe Radford]] and [[Rhys Milling]] to create a complete branding package for all of YSTV's productions.
|}

'''YEAR 2'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| Forest Review Livestream
| Director & Producer
| Much the same kind of stupidity as the Kuda one, but in the Forest during a freshers intro meeting. Why? Good question.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| Freshers Stream 2020
| Motion Graphics Designer
|
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| Oranges & Lemons Episode 1 - Morphsuit Man Pumpkin Carving
| Narrator, Editor & Graphics
|
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| 60 Second Manifestos
| Graphics
|
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| Debate Night
| Technical Assistant
|
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| Election Results Night 2021
| Director, Vision Mixer, Graphics & Technical Assistant
|
|-
|}

==Technical==
(This needs to be sorted as complete vs work in progress)
*Ghostbuster
*site-2020
*streaming pipeline
*pushing for vmix
*marty
*Atem Tally lights
*edit3
*cobra
*boa
*asp
*DAPIA
*roses graphics trials
*unreal engine graphics

=Technical Shenanigans=
* Notable for the discovery of the [[Holy Bodgeble]] in a field one day and has been hard at work translating the contents since
* Dismantled an ATEM to poke a fan once (much to [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew's]] dismay) and then wrote [[The night of the rattly atem|a poem]] about it out of boredom
[[File:working Ben.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ben and [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] [[The night of the rattly atem]]]]

Elections 2021

2021-03-14T03:39:47Z

Bja519: /* ERN + Aftershow */

Covid turned this whole exercise into a lot of work
=== 60 Second Manifestos ===

=== Debate Night ===

=== ERN + Aftershow ===
Potentially nerdy but interesting tech note:
ERN was the first production in YSTV history to use SRT for low latency video from the host. Between the two productions used the trinity of ‘current’ next-gen video protocols - SRT (for host), NDI (for teams call for after show) and WebRTC (candidates live reaction feeds).

Elections 2021

2021-03-14T03:38:58Z

Bja519: Created page with "Covid turned this whole exercise into a lot of work === 60 Second Manifestos === === Debate Night === === ERN + Aftershow === Potentially nerdy tech note: ERN first in YSTV..."

Covid turned this whole exercise into a lot of work
=== 60 Second Manifestos ===

=== Debate Night ===

=== ERN + Aftershow ===
Potentially nerdy tech note:
ERN first in YSTV history to use SRT for low latency video from the host. Between the two productions used the trinity of ‘current’ next-gen video protocols - SRT (for host), NDI (for teams call for after show) and WebRTC (candidates live reaction feeds)

Ben Allen

2021-03-14T03:33:06Z

Bja519: /* Productions/Design */

{{YSTV Member
| first name = Ben
| last name = Allen
| picturefile = BenAllenBlue.jpeg
| picturesize = 200px
| active from = 2019
| active until = Present
| positions = Deputy Technical Director
| current location = The YSTV Studio. Definitely.
| degrees = BEng Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems
}}

=About=
Ben Allen, can often found in the studio in the early hours of the morning, screaming at technology, and is a prime example of a dedicated YSTV member. He is an all round lovely guy and is almost constantly busy and tired.

Joining as a fresher during the Give It A Go event in October 2019, Ben almost immediately became heavily involved in YSTV with his first event being a week or two later when YSTV hosted the 2019 NASTA People's choice awards. Acting as technical assistant to [[Technical Director]] [[Andrew Waddle]] during the setup and operation of the show. Having since worked on numerous live and recorded projects, Ben has worked within a variety of technical and operational roles; generally acting as technical and computing assistant to [[Andrew Waddle]] and [[Rhys Milling]] on live shows or working like a bugger with VFX. Not to mention his round the clock commitment to technical [[fuckary]].

See also;
* [[Marty]] Ben's software video switching project which acts as either a 3rd OB unit or a replacement for other server failures.
* [[Election Results Night 2020]]

=Trivia=
*Can be calmed down with a Snickers bar.
*His favourite film is Sharknado, which he once called 'a cinematic masterpiece with an almost ethereal quality'.
*Snack of choice probably a Pot noodle or Dominos pizza.
*When in power-saving mode will only diet on breadsticks.
*100% fail-rate on setting up a dual boot so far.
*100% success-rate for eduroam setup.

=Productions/Projects=
==Productions/Design==
'''YEAR 1'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| [[YSTV Give It a Go 2019]]
| Tech Intern
| Walked in, knew how an X32 worked, was told to patch XLR by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]], never looked back.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| [[PCAs 2019 Intro]]
| Camera Operator & Actor
| First on-camera credit. Makes a cameo doing sound and looking confused, unfortunately has been stuck with the same expression since.
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| [[PCAs 2019]]
| Camera Operator & Technician
| First role on an actual live YSTV show.
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| [[Bob Ross Livestream]]
| Sound & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time running computers for a live-stream solo.
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| [[RAG Absailing]]
| Editor
| First editing job for YSTV.
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[The Review Club - Wine Tasting]]
| Camera Operator
| Drafted in last minute. Pointed a camera and laughed a lot.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Boozy Broadcasts: Drunk Werewolves]]
| Director, Vision Mixer & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time vision mixing.
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| [[YSTV Sport: Volleyball Autumn 2019]]
| Director & Livestream Technician
| Turns out the internet sucks in the sports centre so was done "as live" as no connection could be found. Spent all of the setup time trying to sort out the new live graphics he'd just got working. Didn't realise he had a remote JQuery dependency and no internet. Cursed the internet and did some running. Eventually, the graphics were working and the majority of the game was recorded with some admittedly out of breath directing.
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Boxing Fight Night Live 2019]]
| Graphics Programmer
| Realised from Volleyball that roughly thrown together Visual Basic, no modularity and constant rewriting didn't make for a good graphics client. Had a better idea, got Marks Polakovs to kindly teach him React over one VERY long night. Rewrote the previous client in React. Came up with initial planning for the Ghostbuster Graphics system. The new Electron-based client ended up being named Luigi's Mansion 2 which was deployed successfully after 20 minutes of testing as Ben could not attend the event. After someone decided to play the maracas with the one validated OB unit, so was then phoned by Rhys and required to rush home in the car and remotely setup the other OB unit while Rhys was fixing the initial one. The backup unit was not needed in the end.
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Hunted - Episode 2]]
| Title Sequence Graphics
| With additional shots from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]], the title sequence was VFX heavy and slowly constructed (barely in time for NaSTA). Ben's work can be seen in the footstep shots and some of the HUD elements as well as the title shot (foot graciously provided by [[Louis Dickson]]) which was the final shot completed. Also the first time Ben had motion-tracked anything and it hadn't sucked, so that was nice!
|-
| scope="row"| 11
| [[York's Got Talent 2019]]
| Director & Technician
| Ben needed to learn that we owned a decimator, that would've made things so much smoother/less awful.
|-
| scope="row"| 12
| [[Please Sir, There's Been a Murder]]
| Sound Operator, Livestream Technician
| Learned the value of sleep, stared at clocks for hours testing latency, started to strongly dislike the Facebook live-streaming platform. The broadcast stream ended up being a bit unstable due to a sleep-deprived misconfiguration error causing our transcodes to start crying. 'Solved' at the time by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] monitoring stream health and Ben appropriately spamming ssh commands with forehead while sound mixing.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 13
| [[Election Results Night 2020|60 Second Manifestos 2020]]
| Director, Camera Operator, Editor & Graphics
| [[Cal Cooke | Cal]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]] assisted with shooting the 30 candidates with lighting expertise from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]]. After Effects used for animating the YUSU assets. Used DaVinci Resolve and Nvenc for fast chroma-keying and exports with Edit 3's GPU being fully leveraged, along with some bodging to refine the graphics to never need to be re-rendered from the original comp speeding the process up greatly (averaging 5 minutes editing per video with 1 minute final renders). Had fun shouting at EncodeSrv as it would misidentify the file's resolution when uploading to the website and transcoding. Ended up throwing files through Adobe Media Encoder as an easy fix. A fake manifesto from Ben may exist somewhere for pipeline testing purposes, this cannot be confirmed.
|-
| scope="row"| 14
| [[Election Results Night 2020|Debate Night 2020]]
| Technician
| Didn't intend to do this, wanted to not do at least one election event. Ended up helping set up and assisted with tech for the start of the stream anyway.
|-
| scope="row"| 15
| [[YUSU Election Results Night 2020 Intro]]
| Director & Camera Operator
| Spent a night running around with [[Olivia Gibbs]], Numi Gildert and Alex West battling bad weather ruining plans and his own inability to balance a gimbal well enough on no battery. Ate Greggs. Shot most of it handheld (not ideal running with no IBIS). Spend an evening making a hash out of the edit. Considered doing half of it live on the night. Saved by Olivia salvaging most of the footage into a good edit which was then tweaked some more into the final product.
|-
| scope="row"| 16
| [[Election Results Night 2020|YUSU Election Results Night 2020]]
| Director
| Directed first major YSTV production having not slept since the day before. Instead, spent the night before the show secretly making the graphics assets with the embargoed names and finishing off the stingers and lower-thirds. Spent that day regretting it. Actual stream was mostly successful and uneventful although all YSTV power did die beforehand as not enough sockets were present at the venue and multiple 1k lights were a step too far. Also, OB1 started being electric shock-y so that was quickly decommissioned and replaced with [[Marty]]. Stream was followed by a full club night at Courtyard. That was followed by sleep, lots of it.
|-
| scope="row"| 17
| [[MMA Fight Night]]
| Graphics Programming
| Second fighting based live-stream he couldn't attend; wasn't happy about that.
|-
| scope="row"| 18
| [[Ben Goes to Kuda- livestream]]
| Director & Producer
| Missed a bus into town, got bored, started streaming to the YSTV website from Ben's phone with some basic graphics. Continued the stream intermittently through the night, much confusion occurred from the members still in Courtyard.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term (The year of 'rona)'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 19
| [[Quarantine Weekly]]
| Executive Producer
| Despite not having time to work on the actual show, the concept format was the result of an SNL-style hosted variety show pitch from Ben combined with a happy news, game show and campus/member-focused show idea from the wonderful [[Stephanie Shires]] who went on to brilliantly produce the whole series as Ben ended up too busy doing radio stuff.
|-
| scope="row"| 20
| YSTV Rebranding 2020
| Co-designer
| Finished adapting designs by [[Edwin Barnes]] with [[Joe Radford]] and [[Rhys Milling]] to create a complete branding package for all of YSTV's productions.
|}

'''YEAR 2'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| Forest Review Livestream
| Director & Producer
| Much the same kind of stupidity as the Kuda one, but in the Forest during a freshers intro meeting. Why? Good question.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| Freshers Stream 2020
| Motion Graphics Designer
|
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| Oranges & Lemons Episode 1 - Morphsuit Man Pumpkin Carving
| Narrator, Editor & Graphics
|
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| 60 Second Manifestos
| Graphics
|
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| Debate Night
| Technical Assistant
|
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| Election Results Night 2021
| Director, Vision Mixer, Graphics & Technical Assistant
|
|-
|}

==Technical==
(This needs to be sorted as complete vs work in progress)
*Ghostbuster
*site-2020
*streaming pipeline
*pushing for vmix
*marty
*Atem Tally lights
*edit3
*cobra
*boa
*asp
*DAPIA
*roses graphics trials
*unreal engine graphics

=Technical Shenanigans=
* Notable for the discovery of the [[Holy Bodgeble]] in a field one day and has been hard at work translating the contents since
* Dismantled an ATEM to poke a fan once (much to [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew's]] dismay) and then wrote [[The night of the rattly atem|a poem]] about it out of boredom
[[File:working Ben.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ben and [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] [[The night of the rattly atem]]]]

Ben Allen

2021-03-14T03:31:30Z

Bja519: /* Productions/Design */

{{YSTV Member
| first name = Ben
| last name = Allen
| picturefile = BenAllenBlue.jpeg
| picturesize = 200px
| active from = 2019
| active until = Present
| positions = Deputy Technical Director
| current location = The YSTV Studio. Definitely.
| degrees = BEng Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems
}}

=About=
Ben Allen, can often found in the studio in the early hours of the morning, screaming at technology, and is a prime example of a dedicated YSTV member. He is an all round lovely guy and is almost constantly busy and tired.

Joining as a fresher during the Give It A Go event in October 2019, Ben almost immediately became heavily involved in YSTV with his first event being a week or two later when YSTV hosted the 2019 NASTA People's choice awards. Acting as technical assistant to [[Technical Director]] [[Andrew Waddle]] during the setup and operation of the show. Having since worked on numerous live and recorded projects, Ben has worked within a variety of technical and operational roles; generally acting as technical and computing assistant to [[Andrew Waddle]] and [[Rhys Milling]] on live shows or working like a bugger with VFX. Not to mention his round the clock commitment to technical [[fuckary]].

See also;
* [[Marty]] Ben's software video switching project which acts as either a 3rd OB unit or a replacement for other server failures.
* [[Election Results Night 2020]]

=Trivia=
*Can be calmed down with a Snickers bar.
*His favourite film is Sharknado, which he once called 'a cinematic masterpiece with an almost ethereal quality'.
*Snack of choice probably a Pot noodle or Dominos pizza.
*When in power-saving mode will only diet on breadsticks.
*100% fail-rate on setting up a dual boot so far.
*100% success-rate for eduroam setup.

=Productions/Projects=
==Productions/Design==
'''YEAR 1'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| [[YSTV Give It a Go 2019]]
| Tech Intern
| Walked in, knew how an X32 worked, was told to patch XLR by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]], never looked back.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| [[PCAs 2019 Intro]]
| Camera Operator & Actor
| First on-camera credit. Makes a cameo doing sound and looking confused, unfortunately has been stuck with the same expression since.
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| [[PCAs 2019]]
| Camera Operator & Technician
| First role on an actual live YSTV show.
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| [[Bob Ross Livestream]]
| Sound & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time running computers for a live-stream solo.
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| [[RAG Absailing]]
| Editor
| First editing job for YSTV.
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[The Review Club - Wine Tasting]]
| Camera Operator
| Drafted in last minute. Pointed a camera and laughed a lot.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Boozy Broadcasts: Drunk Werewolves]]
| Director, Vision Mixer & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time vision mixing.
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| [[YSTV Sport: Volleyball Autumn 2019]]
| Director & Livestream Technician
| Turns out the internet sucks in the sports centre so was done "as live" as no connection could be found. Spent all of the setup time trying to sort out the new live graphics he'd just got working. Didn't realise he had a remote JQuery dependency and no internet. Cursed the internet and did some running. Eventually, the graphics were working and the majority of the game was recorded with some admittedly out of breath directing.
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Boxing Fight Night Live 2019]]
| Graphics Programmer
| Realised from Volleyball that roughly thrown together Visual Basic, no modularity and constant rewriting didn't make for a good graphics client. Had a better idea, got Marks Polakovs to kindly teach him React over one VERY long night. Rewrote the previous client in React. Came up with initial planning for the Ghostbuster Graphics system. The new Electron-based client ended up being named Luigi's Mansion 2 which was deployed successfully after 20 minutes of testing as Ben could not attend the event. After someone decided to play the maracas with the one validated OB unit, so was then phoned by Rhys and required to rush home in the car and remotely setup the other OB unit while Rhys was fixing the initial one. The backup unit was not needed in the end.
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Hunted - Episode 2]]
| Title Sequence Graphics
| With additional shots from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]], the title sequence was VFX heavy and slowly constructed (barely in time for NaSTA). Ben's work can be seen in the footstep shots and some of the HUD elements as well as the title shot (foot graciously provided by [[Louis Dickson]]) which was the final shot completed. Also the first time Ben had motion-tracked anything and it hadn't sucked, so that was nice!
|-
| scope="row"| 11
| [[York's Got Talent 2019]]
| Director & Technician
| Ben needed to learn that we owned a decimator, that would've made things so much smoother/less awful.
|-
| scope="row"| 12
| [[Please Sir, There's Been a Murder]]
| Sound Operator, Livestream Technician
| Learned the value of sleep, stared at clocks for hours testing latency, started to strongly dislike the Facebook live-streaming platform. The broadcast stream ended up being a bit unstable due to a sleep-deprived misconfiguration error causing our transcodes to start crying. 'Solved' at the time by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] monitoring stream health and Ben appropriately spamming ssh commands with forehead while sound mixing.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 13
| [[Election Results Night 2020|60 Second Manifestos 2020]]
| Director, Camera Operator, Editor & Graphics
| [[Cal Cooke | Cal]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]] assisted with shooting the 30 candidates with lighting expertise from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]]. After Effects used for animating the YUSU assets. Used DaVinci Resolve and Nvenc for fast chroma-keying and exports with Edit 3's GPU being fully leveraged, along with some bodging to refine the graphics to never need to be re-rendered from the original comp speeding the process up greatly (averaging 5 minutes editing per video with 1 minute final renders). Had fun shouting at EncodeSrv as it would misidentify the file's resolution when uploading to the website and transcoding. Ended up throwing files through Adobe Media Encoder as an easy fix. A fake manifesto from Ben may exist somewhere for pipeline testing purposes, this cannot be confirmed.
|-
| scope="row"| 14
| [[Election Results Night 2020|Debate Night 2020]]
| Technician
| Didn't intend to do this, wanted to not do at least one election event. Ended up helping set up and assisted with tech for the start of the stream anyway.
|-
| scope="row"| 15
| [[YUSU Election Results Night 2020 Intro]]
| Director & Camera Operator
| Spent a night running around with [[Olivia Gibbs]], Numi Gildert and Alex West battling bad weather ruining plans and his own inability to balance a gimbal well enough on no battery. Ate Greggs. Shot most of it handheld (not ideal running with no IBIS). Spend an evening making a hash out of the edit. Considered doing half of it live on the night. Saved by Olivia salvaging most of the footage into a good edit which was then tweaked some more into the final product.
|-
| scope="row"| 16
| [[Election Results Night 2020|YUSU Election Results Night 2020]]
| Director
| Directed first major YSTV production having not slept since the day before. Instead, spent the night before the show secretly making the graphics assets with the embargoed names and finishing off the stingers and lower-thirds. Spent that day regretting it. Actual stream was mostly successful and uneventful although all YSTV power did die beforehand as not enough sockets were present at the venue and multiple 1k lights were a step too far. Also, OB1 started being electric shock-y so that was quickly decommissioned and replaced with [[Marty]]. Stream was followed by a full club night at Courtyard. That was followed by sleep, lots of it.
|-
| scope="row"| 17
| [[MMA Fight Night]]
| Graphics Programming
| Second fighting based live-stream he couldn't attend; wasn't happy about that.
|-
| scope="row"| 18
| [[Ben Goes to Kuda- livestream]]
| Director & Producer
| Missed a bus into town, got bored, started streaming to the YSTV website from Ben's phone with some basic graphics. Continued the stream intermittently through the night, much confusion occurred from the members still in Courtyard.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term (The year of 'rona)'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 19
| [[Quarantine Weekly]]
| Executive Producer
| Despite not having time to work on the actual show, the concept format was the result of an SNL-style hosted variety show pitch from Ben combined with a happy news, game show and campus/member-focused show idea from the wonderful [[Stephanie Shires]] who went on to brilliantly produce the whole series as Ben ended up too busy doing radio stuff.
|-
| scope="row"| 20
| YSTV Rebranding 2020
| Co-designer
| Finished adapting designs by [[Edwin Barnes]] with [[Joe Radford]] and [[Rhys Milling]] to create a complete branding package for all of YSTV's productions.
|}

'''YEAR 2'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| Forest Review Livestream
| Director & Producer
| Much the same kind of stupidity as the Kuda one, but in the Forest during a freshers intro meeting. Why? Good question.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| Freshers Stream 2020
| Motion Graphics Designer
|
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| Oranges & Lemons Episode 1 - Morphsuit Man Pumpkin Carving
| Narrator, Editor & Graphics
|
|-
| scope="row"|
| ‘’’’Spring Term’’’
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| 60 Second Manifestos
| Graphics
|
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| Debate Night
| Technical Assistant
|
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| Election Results Night 2021
| Director, Vision Mixer, Graphics & Technical Assistant
|
|-
|}

==Technical==
(This needs to be sorted as complete vs work in progress)
*Ghostbuster
*site-2020
*streaming pipeline
*pushing for vmix
*marty
*Atem Tally lights
*edit3
*cobra
*boa
*asp
*DAPIA
*roses graphics trials
*unreal engine graphics

=Technical Shenanigans=
* Notable for the discovery of the [[Holy Bodgeble]] in a field one day and has been hard at work translating the contents since
* Dismantled an ATEM to poke a fan once (much to [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew's]] dismay) and then wrote [[The night of the rattly atem|a poem]] about it out of boredom
[[File:working Ben.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ben and [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] [[The night of the rattly atem]]]]

Sophie Bolwell-Davies

2021-03-12T23:14:47Z

Bja519: /* Productions */

{{YSTV Member
| first name = Sophie
| last name = Bolwell-Davies
| picturefile = sophie yay.jpg
| picturesize = 200px
| active from = 2019
| active until =
| positions = Head of Marketing, Social Secretary
| hometown = Essex
| current location = The YSTV Studio. Probably.
| degrees = BSc Film and Television Production
| allegiance = Trolley Team
}}
==About==
Sophie (also known as [[Sophie B-D]]) joined YSTV in the autumn of 2019, and quickly got involved in many productions and social events. She is best known for her contribution to Quarantine Weekly, where she featured in every episode (to date), and didn't do too badly. In the 2020 elections, Sophie was voted in as Social Secretary.
Sophie can most commonly be found in the YSTV studio, Goodricke College, Courtyard or at home in Essex. She ia an OG member of the group known as [[Firstyearsthatarecool]] and a proud member if Trolley Team, but not a fan of plugs.

On the 9th of April, Sophie became the unofficial Head of Wiki at the request of [[Will Stirk|Stirky]], she was VONCed the next day, and then unVONCed herself because Rhys can't just vonk her willy nilly. Also learnt how to make a slideshow on wiki before [[Will Stirk]].

=Productions=
'''YEAR 1'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
|-
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Description
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| [[YSTV Sport: Volleyball Autumn 2019]]
| Camera Op
| Officially met the [[Thomas Schubert]], [[Andrew Waddle]], [[Morgan McKay]] and [[Ben Allen]]. And camera Op'd with [[Rory Percival]].
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| [[Boozy Broadcasts: Drunk Werewolves]]
| Participant
| Innocently signed up as she loved the game but shortly realised she had forgotten the rules and was very suspicious. Perks were the pizza her and [[Alize Akturk|Alize]] ordered beforehand.
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| [[Boozy Broadcasts: Mario Kart Drunk Drivers]]
| Participant
| Played one round against the soon to be crowned winner, and lost. Believed to have started the banana throwing, after [[Will Stirk]] provided everyone with a lot of bananas whilst sporting appropriate attire.
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| [[YSTV does Hunted - Episode 2]]
| Participant/Camera Op/ Great plan creator
| May have been caught first, but had an amazing team consisting of [[Tilly Garland]] and [[Marta Vītola]]. Is best remembered for her assurance that they were heading in the right direction, when she had no clue and her notorious plans.
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| [[American Football 2020]]
| Editor
| Had a great time editing in the studio with [[Louis Dickson]] and had many interesting experiences at 2 am, including sprinting across campus on multiple occasions to catch the bus. This video also redefined the definition of [[B-Roll]] within YSTV.
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[Come Dine with Me- episode 1]]
| Camera Op
| Had a great time filming, as well as interviewing each of the contestants at the end with [[Neve Carey]].
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Election Debate Night 2020]]
| Camera Op
| Was directed by [[Joe Radford]] for the first time and enjoyed hearing all the gossip on the potential candidates.
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| [[Ben Goes to Kuda- livestream]]
| Participant
| A failed attempt to take Ben to Kuda that ending in the group heading to Flares, produced by [[Ben Allen]] the livestream was not recorded and baffled [[Thomas Schubert]] in Courtyard who was shocked by how the group were livestreaming and the fact that it had graphics.
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[College Varsity 2020]]
| Producer
| Her first event producing, she had the awesome cam op team of [[Will Stirk]] and [[Adam Hilton]]. Despite Durham cancelling many events, and everyone except Sophie oversleeping, the group had a fun day filming that ended the day with a well deserved Effe's. Thank you to [[Ben Allen]] for letting me into the studio in the morning :).
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Mental Health Day]]
| Producer
| The day where everything went wrong. It started as usual with everyone except Sophie oversleeping and showing up many, many hours late. A notable mention to [[Isobel Drury]] who made the day more exciting and demonstrated the importance of sleep.
|-
| scope="row"| 11
| [[Elections Results Night 2020]]
| Camera Op
| [[#Chillandmingle]] Had a great time Camera Oping with [[Karinna Hollins]] and [[Alize Akturk]].
|-
| scope="row"| 12
| [[YSTV Sport- MMA Fight Night 2020]]
| Camera Op
| Enjoyed Camera Oping from the gallery and proudly helped set up the Jibb for the first time on her own.
|-
| scope="row"| 13
| [[Quarantine Weekly- Episode 1]]
| Participant
| May have scored 5/10 on her Den after not being able to download the updated rules, thus losing, and paid the price with a bucket of cold water being poured on her head
|-
| scope="row"| 14
| [[Quarantine Weekly- Episode 2]]
| Participant
| Didn't loose!!!
|-
| scope="row"| 15
| [[Quarantine Weekly- Episode 3]]
| Participant
| Made the most amazing banana cake of her entire life, and won the weeks challenge like a champ!
|-
| scope="row"| 16
| [[Quarantine Weekly- Episode 4]]
| Participant
| Recreated the 1781 painting 'The Nightmare' by Henry Fuseli, and had a very beautiful image of [[Louis Dickson]] :)
|-
| scope="row"| 17
| [[Quarantine Weekly- Episode 5]]
| Participant
| Teaming up with [[Zoë Dickinson]], the pair challenged [[Joseph Wharfe]] and [[Will Stirk]] to the ultimate challenges and proved, once and for all that the position of social secretary is the best
|-
| scope="row"| 18
| [[Quarantine Weekly- Episode 6]]
| Participant
| Viral ASMR challenge or Quarantine Weekly Sophie Edition :)
|-
| scope="row"| 19
| [[Quarantine Weekly- Episode 7]]
| Participant
| Household chores- completed 2/3 tasks
|-
| scope="row"| 20
| [[Quarantine Weekly- Episode 8]]
| Participant
| Breaking the Deadlock- Teamed up with [[Rhys Milling]] and things didn't go to plan...
|-
| scope="row"| 21
| [[Quarantine Weekly- Episode 9]]
| Participant
| Did more exercise, in 3 minutes, than the whole of Quarantine.
|-
| scope="row"| 22
| [[Quarantine Weekly- Episode 10]]
| Participant and Co-Host of a segment
| A perfect end to the series, with the ultimate competition challenges all in one episode.
|-
|}

'''YEAR 2'''

{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
|-
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Description
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| [[Oranges and Lemons]]
| Producer & Actor
| A great start to the new show, the episode was Halloween themed and I made my debut as an zombie actor.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| [[YSTV On the Rocks Episode 1]]
| Executive Producer and Host
| Streamed via OBS to the website, with technical support in set up from Dom and Rhys.
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| [[YSTV On the Rocks Episode 2]]
| Executive Producer and Host
| Streamed via OBS to the website, with technical support in set up from Dom and Rhys. Alize joined us as a special guest
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| [[Meme Stream Media Episode 1]]
| Executive Producer, Director? and Vision Mixer
| Streamed via OBS to the website, fully vision mixed without director
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| [[YSTV's Society Scoop]]
| Graphics
| Created the intro graphics
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[YSTV On the Rocks Episode 3]]
| Executive Producer and Host
| With guests Keoni and Niamh
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[You Have No Authority Here: A YSTV Sketch]]
| Actor?
|
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| [[YSTV On the Rocks Episode 4]]
| Executive Producer and Host
| With guests Oliver and Kira- note don't let techies try out new equipment on your livestream, especially 1 hour before you go live.
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Lockdown Diaries Episode 4]]
| Participant
| Filmed over two days due to Election 60 second Manifestos happening.
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Election Debate Night 2021]]
| Vision Mixer
| Vision Mixer whilst running all the social media pages promoting our involvement
|-
| scope="row"| 11
| [[YSTV Arts and Crafts]]
| Host and 'Art expert'
| The most I've ever laughed on a livestream
|-
|}

=Trivia=
*Has a lot of power over a lot of people, according to popular opinion
*Loves Blankets.
*Loves animals.
*Sucks at building dens according to popular competitions.
*Scared of her own chickens.
* Believed to be the person storing breadsticks in the archive corridor - confirmed by the person who's breadsticks they were ://
*Has napped in the ystv studio
* Is a closet gamer-girl
* Named soggy croutons

=Photos=
<gallery mode= slideshow>
File:Unnamed.jpg|thumb|left|Sophie and Louis Dickson editing in the studio
File:Unnamed 2.jpg|thumb|left|Sophie jib op-ing at [[Elections Results Night 2020]]
File:Unnamed 3.jpg|thumb|left|Sophie and Rhys Milling at the [[Baby Shark Social 2020]]
</gallery>

Ben Allen

2021-02-15T21:31:38Z

Bja519:

{{YSTV Member
| first name = Ben
| last name = Allen
| picturefile = BenAllenBlue.jpeg
| picturesize = 200px
| active from = 2019
| active until = Present
| positions = Deputy Technical Director
| current location = The YSTV Studio. Definitely.
| degrees = BEng Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems
}}

=About=
Ben Allen, can often found in the studio in the early hours of the morning, screaming at technology, and is a prime example of a dedicated YSTV member. He is an all round lovely guy and is almost constantly busy and tired.

Joining as a fresher during the Give It A Go event in October 2019, Ben almost immediately became heavily involved in YSTV with his first event being a week or two later when YSTV hosted the 2019 NASTA People's choice awards. Acting as technical assistant to [[Technical Director]] [[Andrew Waddle]] during the setup and operation of the show. Having since worked on numerous live and recorded projects, Ben has worked within a variety of technical and operational roles; generally acting as technical and computing assistant to [[Andrew Waddle]] and [[Rhys Milling]] on live shows or working like a bugger with VFX. Not to mention his round the clock commitment to technical [[fuckary]].

See also;
* [[Marty]] Ben's software video switching project which acts as either a 3rd OB unit or a replacement for other server failures.
* [[Election Results Night 2020]]

=Trivia=
*Can be calmed down with a Snickers bar.
*His favourite film is Sharknado, which he once called 'a cinematic masterpiece with an almost ethereal quality'.
*Snack of choice probably a Pot noodle or Dominos pizza.
*When in power-saving mode will only diet on breadsticks.
*100% fail-rate on setting up a dual boot so far.
*100% success-rate for eduroam setup.

=Productions/Projects=
==Productions/Design==
'''YEAR 1'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| [[YSTV Give It a Go 2019]]
| Tech Intern
| Walked in, knew how an X32 worked, was told to patch XLR by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]], never looked back.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| [[PCAs 2019 Intro]]
| Camera Operator & Actor
| First on-camera credit. Makes a cameo doing sound and looking confused, unfortunately has been stuck with the same expression since.
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| [[PCAs 2019]]
| Camera Operator & Technician
| First role on an actual live YSTV show.
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| [[Bob Ross Livestream]]
| Sound & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time running computers for a live-stream solo.
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| [[RAG Absailing]]
| Editor
| First editing job for YSTV.
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[The Review Club - Wine Tasting]]
| Camera Operator
| Drafted in last minute. Pointed a camera and laughed a lot.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Boozy Broadcasts: Drunk Werewolves]]
| Director, Vision Mixer & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time vision mixing.
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| [[YSTV Sport: Volleyball Autumn 2019]]
| Director & Livestream Technician
| Turns out the internet sucks in the sports centre so was done "as live" as no connection could be found. Spent all of the setup time trying to sort out the new live graphics he'd just got working. Didn't realise he had a remote JQuery dependency and no internet. Cursed the internet and did some running. Eventually, the graphics were working and the majority of the game was recorded with some admittedly out of breath directing.
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Boxing Fight Night Live 2019]]
| Graphics Programmer
| Realised from Volleyball that roughly thrown together Visual Basic, no modularity and constant rewriting didn't make for a good graphics client. Had a better idea, got Marks Polakovs to kindly teach him React over one VERY long night. Rewrote the previous client in React. Came up with initial planning for the Ghostbuster Graphics system. The new Electron-based client ended up being named Luigi's Mansion 2 which was deployed successfully after 20 minutes of testing as Ben could not attend the event. After someone decided to play the maracas with the one validated OB unit, so was then phoned by Rhys and required to rush home in the car and remotely setup the other OB unit while Rhys was fixing the initial one. The backup unit was not needed in the end.
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Hunted - Episode 2]]
| Title Sequence Graphics
| With additional shots from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]], the title sequence was VFX heavy and slowly constructed (barely in time for NaSTA). Ben's work can be seen in the footstep shots and some of the HUD elements as well as the title shot (foot graciously provided by [[Louis Dickson]]) which was the final shot completed. Also the first time Ben had motion-tracked anything and it hadn't sucked, so that was nice!
|-
| scope="row"| 11
| [[York's Got Talent 2019]]
| Director & Technician
| Ben needed to learn that we owned a decimator, that would've made things so much smoother/less awful.
|-
| scope="row"| 12
| [[Please Sir, There's Been a Murder]]
| Sound Operator, Livestream Technician
| Learned the value of sleep, stared at clocks for hours testing latency, started to strongly dislike the Facebook live-streaming platform. The broadcast stream ended up being a bit unstable due to a sleep-deprived misconfiguration error causing our transcodes to start crying. 'Solved' at the time by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] monitoring stream health and Ben appropriately spamming ssh commands with forehead while sound mixing.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 13
| [[Election Results Night 2020|60 Second Manifestos 2020]]
| Director, Camera Operator, Editor & Graphics
| [[Cal Cooke | Cal]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]] assisted with shooting the 30 candidates with lighting expertise from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]]. After Effects used for animating the YUSU assets. Used DaVinci Resolve and Nvenc for fast chroma-keying and exports with Edit 3's GPU being fully leveraged, along with some bodging to refine the graphics to never need to be re-rendered from the original comp speeding the process up greatly (averaging 5 minutes editing per video with 1 minute final renders). Had fun shouting at EncodeSrv as it would misidentify the file's resolution when uploading to the website and transcoding. Ended up throwing files through Adobe Media Encoder as an easy fix. A fake manifesto from Ben may exist somewhere for pipeline testing purposes, this cannot be confirmed.
|-
| scope="row"| 14
| [[Election Results Night 2020|Debate Night 2020]]
| Technician
| Didn't intend to do this, wanted to not do at least one election event. Ended up helping set up and assisted with tech for the start of the stream anyway.
|-
| scope="row"| 15
| [[YUSU Election Results Night 2020 Intro]]
| Director & Camera Operator
| Spent a night running around with [[Olivia Gibbs]], Numi Gildert and Alex West battling bad weather ruining plans and his own inability to balance a gimbal well enough on no battery. Ate Greggs. Shot most of it handheld (not ideal running with no IBIS). Spend an evening making a hash out of the edit. Considered doing half of it live on the night. Saved by Olivia salvaging most of the footage into a good edit which was then tweaked some more into the final product.
|-
| scope="row"| 16
| [[Election Results Night 2020|YUSU Election Results Night 2020]]
| Director
| Directed first major YSTV production having not slept since the day before. Instead, spent the night before the show secretly making the graphics assets with the embargoed names and finishing off the stingers and lower-thirds. Spent that day regretting it. Actual stream was mostly successful and uneventful although all YSTV power did die beforehand as not enough sockets were present at the venue and multiple 1k lights were a step too far. Also, OB1 started being electric shock-y so that was quickly decommissioned and replaced with [[Marty]]. Stream was followed by a full club night at Courtyard. That was followed by sleep, lots of it.
|-
| scope="row"| 17
| [[MMA Fight Night]]
| Graphics Programming
| Second fighting based live-stream he couldn't attend; wasn't happy about that.
|-
| scope="row"| 18
| [[Ben Goes to Kuda- livestream]]
| Director & Producer
| Missed a bus into town, got bored, started streaming to the YSTV website from Ben's phone with some basic graphics. Continued the stream intermittently through the night, much confusion occurred from the members still in Courtyard.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term (The year of 'rona)'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 19
| [[Quarantine Weekly]]
| Executive Producer
| Despite not having time to work on the actual show, the concept format was the result of an SNL-style hosted variety show pitch from Ben combined with a happy news, game show and campus/member-focused show idea from the wonderful [[Stephanie Shires]] who went on to brilliantly produce the whole series as Ben ended up too busy doing radio stuff.
|-
| scope="row"| 20
| YSTV Rebranding 2020
| Co-designer
| Finished adapting designs by [[Edwin Barnes]] with [[Joe Radford]] and [[Rhys Milling]] to create a complete branding package for all of YSTV's productions.
|}

'''YEAR 2'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| Forest Review Livestream
| Director & Producer
| Much the same kind of stupidity as the Kuda one, but in the Forest during a freshers intro meeting. Why? Good question.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| Freshers Stream 2020
| Motion Graphics Designer
|
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| Oranges & Lemons Episode 1 - Morphsuit Man Pumpkin Carving
| Narrator, Editor & Graphics
|
|-
|}
==Technical==
(This needs to be sorted as complete vs work in progress)
*Ghostbuster
*site-2020
*streaming pipeline
*pushing for vmix
*marty
*Atem Tally lights
*edit3
*cobra
*boa
*asp
*DAPIA
*roses graphics trials
*unreal engine graphics

=Technical Shenanigans=
* Notable for the discovery of the [[Holy Bodgeble]] in a field one day and has been hard at work translating the contents since
* Dismantled an ATEM to poke a fan once (much to [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew's]] dismay) and then wrote [[The night of the rattly atem|a poem]] about it out of boredom
[[File:working Ben.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ben and [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] [[The night of the rattly atem]]]]

Ben Allen

2021-02-15T21:30:46Z

Bja519:

{{YSTV Member
| first name = Ben
| last name = Allen
| picturefile = BenAllenBlue.jpg
| picturesize = 200px
| active from = 2019
| active until = Present
| positions = Deputy Technical Director
| current location = The YSTV Studio. Definitely.
| degrees = BEng Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems
}}
=About=
Ben Allen, can often found in the studio in the early hours of the morning, screaming at technology, and is a prime example of a dedicated YSTV member. He is an all round lovely guy and is almost constantly busy and tired.

Joining as a fresher during the Give It A Go event in October 2019, Ben almost immediately became heavily involved in YSTV with his first event being a week or two later when YSTV hosted the 2019 NASTA People's choice awards. Acting as technical assistant to [[Technical Director]] [[Andrew Waddle]] during the setup and operation of the show. Having since worked on numerous live and recorded projects, Ben has worked within a variety of technical and operational roles; generally acting as technical and computing assistant to [[Andrew Waddle]] and [[Rhys Milling]] on live shows or working like a bugger with VFX. Not to mention his round the clock commitment to technical [[fuckary]].

See also;
* [[Marty]] Ben's software video switching project which acts as either a 3rd OB unit or a replacement for other server failures.
* [[Election Results Night 2020]]

=Trivia=
*Can be calmed down with a Snickers bar.
*His favourite film is Sharknado, which he once called 'a cinematic masterpiece with an almost ethereal quality'.
*Snack of choice probably a Pot noodle or Dominos pizza.
*When in power-saving mode will only diet on breadsticks.
*100% fail-rate on setting up a dual boot so far.
*100% success-rate for eduroam setup.

=Productions/Projects=
==Productions/Design==
'''YEAR 1'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| [[YSTV Give It a Go 2019]]
| Tech Intern
| Walked in, knew how an X32 worked, was told to patch XLR by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]], never looked back.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| [[PCAs 2019 Intro]]
| Camera Operator & Actor
| First on-camera credit. Makes a cameo doing sound and looking confused, unfortunately has been stuck with the same expression since.
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| [[PCAs 2019]]
| Camera Operator & Technician
| First role on an actual live YSTV show.
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| [[Bob Ross Livestream]]
| Sound & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time running computers for a live-stream solo.
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| [[RAG Absailing]]
| Editor
| First editing job for YSTV.
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[The Review Club - Wine Tasting]]
| Camera Operator
| Drafted in last minute. Pointed a camera and laughed a lot.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Boozy Broadcasts: Drunk Werewolves]]
| Director, Vision Mixer & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time vision mixing.
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| [[YSTV Sport: Volleyball Autumn 2019]]
| Director & Livestream Technician
| Turns out the internet sucks in the sports centre so was done "as live" as no connection could be found. Spent all of the setup time trying to sort out the new live graphics he'd just got working. Didn't realise he had a remote JQuery dependency and no internet. Cursed the internet and did some running. Eventually, the graphics were working and the majority of the game was recorded with some admittedly out of breath directing.
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Boxing Fight Night Live 2019]]
| Graphics Programmer
| Realised from Volleyball that roughly thrown together Visual Basic, no modularity and constant rewriting didn't make for a good graphics client. Had a better idea, got Marks Polakovs to kindly teach him React over one VERY long night. Rewrote the previous client in React. Came up with initial planning for the Ghostbuster Graphics system. The new Electron-based client ended up being named Luigi's Mansion 2 which was deployed successfully after 20 minutes of testing as Ben could not attend the event. After someone decided to play the maracas with the one validated OB unit, so was then phoned by Rhys and required to rush home in the car and remotely setup the other OB unit while Rhys was fixing the initial one. The backup unit was not needed in the end.
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Hunted - Episode 2]]
| Title Sequence Graphics
| With additional shots from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]], the title sequence was VFX heavy and slowly constructed (barely in time for NaSTA). Ben's work can be seen in the footstep shots and some of the HUD elements as well as the title shot (foot graciously provided by [[Louis Dickson]]) which was the final shot completed. Also the first time Ben had motion-tracked anything and it hadn't sucked, so that was nice!
|-
| scope="row"| 11
| [[York's Got Talent 2019]]
| Director & Technician
| Ben needed to learn that we owned a decimator, that would've made things so much smoother/less awful.
|-
| scope="row"| 12
| [[Please Sir, There's Been a Murder]]
| Sound Operator, Livestream Technician
| Learned the value of sleep, stared at clocks for hours testing latency, started to strongly dislike the Facebook live-streaming platform. The broadcast stream ended up being a bit unstable due to a sleep-deprived misconfiguration error causing our transcodes to start crying. 'Solved' at the time by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] monitoring stream health and Ben appropriately spamming ssh commands with forehead while sound mixing.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 13
| [[Election Results Night 2020|60 Second Manifestos 2020]]
| Director, Camera Operator, Editor & Graphics
| [[Cal Cooke | Cal]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]] assisted with shooting the 30 candidates with lighting expertise from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]]. After Effects used for animating the YUSU assets. Used DaVinci Resolve and Nvenc for fast chroma-keying and exports with Edit 3's GPU being fully leveraged, along with some bodging to refine the graphics to never need to be re-rendered from the original comp speeding the process up greatly (averaging 5 minutes editing per video with 1 minute final renders). Had fun shouting at EncodeSrv as it would misidentify the file's resolution when uploading to the website and transcoding. Ended up throwing files through Adobe Media Encoder as an easy fix. A fake manifesto from Ben may exist somewhere for pipeline testing purposes, this cannot be confirmed.
|-
| scope="row"| 14
| [[Election Results Night 2020|Debate Night 2020]]
| Technician
| Didn't intend to do this, wanted to not do at least one election event. Ended up helping set up and assisted with tech for the start of the stream anyway.
|-
| scope="row"| 15
| [[YUSU Election Results Night 2020 Intro]]
| Director & Camera Operator
| Spent a night running around with [[Olivia Gibbs]], Numi Gildert and Alex West battling bad weather ruining plans and his own inability to balance a gimbal well enough on no battery. Ate Greggs. Shot most of it handheld (not ideal running with no IBIS). Spend an evening making a hash out of the edit. Considered doing half of it live on the night. Saved by Olivia salvaging most of the footage into a good edit which was then tweaked some more into the final product.
|-
| scope="row"| 16
| [[Election Results Night 2020|YUSU Election Results Night 2020]]
| Director
| Directed first major YSTV production having not slept since the day before. Instead, spent the night before the show secretly making the graphics assets with the embargoed names and finishing off the stingers and lower-thirds. Spent that day regretting it. Actual stream was mostly successful and uneventful although all YSTV power did die beforehand as not enough sockets were present at the venue and multiple 1k lights were a step too far. Also, OB1 started being electric shock-y so that was quickly decommissioned and replaced with [[Marty]]. Stream was followed by a full club night at Courtyard. That was followed by sleep, lots of it.
|-
| scope="row"| 17
| [[MMA Fight Night]]
| Graphics Programming
| Second fighting based live-stream he couldn't attend; wasn't happy about that.
|-
| scope="row"| 18
| [[Ben Goes to Kuda- livestream]]
| Director & Producer
| Missed a bus into town, got bored, started streaming to the YSTV website from Ben's phone with some basic graphics. Continued the stream intermittently through the night, much confusion occurred from the members still in Courtyard.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term (The year of 'rona)'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 19
| [[Quarantine Weekly]]
| Executive Producer
| Despite not having time to work on the actual show, the concept format was the result of an SNL-style hosted variety show pitch from Ben combined with a happy news, game show and campus/member-focused show idea from the wonderful [[Stephanie Shires]] who went on to brilliantly produce the whole series as Ben ended up too busy doing radio stuff.
|-
| scope="row"| 20
| YSTV Rebranding 2020
| Co-designer
| Finished adapting designs by [[Edwin Barnes]] with [[Joe Radford]] and [[Rhys Milling]] to create a complete branding package for all of YSTV's productions.
|}

'''YEAR 2'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| Forest Review Livestream
| Director & Producer
| Much the same kind of stupidity as the Kuda one, but in the Forest during a freshers intro meeting. Why? Good question.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| Freshers Stream 2020
| Motion Graphics Designer
|
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| Oranges & Lemons Episode 1 - Morphsuit Man Pumpkin Carving
| Narrator, Editor & Graphics
|
|-
|}
==Technical==
(This needs to be sorted as complete vs work in progress)
*Ghostbuster
*site-2020
*streaming pipeline
*pushing for vmix
*marty
*Atem Tally lights
*edit3
*cobra
*boa
*asp
*DAPIA
*roses graphics trials
*unreal engine graphics

=Technical Shenanigans=
* Notable for the discovery of the [[Holy Bodgeble]] in a field one day and has been hard at work translating the contents since
* Dismantled an ATEM to poke a fan once (much to [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew's]] dismay) and then wrote [[The night of the rattly atem|a poem]] about it out of boredom
[[File:working Ben.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ben and [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] [[The night of the rattly atem]]]]

File:BenAllenBlue.jpeg

2021-02-15T21:30:24Z

Bja519:

Ben Allen

2021-02-12T01:51:25Z

Bja519: /* Technical */ draft 1

{{YSTV Member
| first name = Ben
| last name = Allen
| picturefile = Ben_square.jpg
| picturesize = 200px
| active from = 2019
| active until = Present
| positions = Deputy Technical Director
| current location = The YSTV Studio. Definitely.
| degrees = BEng Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems
}}
=About=
Ben Allen, can often found in the studio in the early hours of the morning, screaming at technology, and is a prime example of a dedicated YSTV member. He is an all round lovely guy and is almost constantly busy and tired.

Joining as a fresher during the Give It A Go event in October 2019, Ben almost immediately became heavily involved in YSTV with his first event being a week or two later when YSTV hosted the 2019 NASTA People's choice awards. Acting as technical assistant to [[Technical Director]] [[Andrew Waddle]] during the setup and operation of the show. Having since worked on numerous live and recorded projects, Ben has worked within a variety of technical and operational roles; generally acting as technical and computing assistant to [[Andrew Waddle]] and [[Rhys Milling]] on live shows or working like a bugger with VFX. Not to mention his round the clock commitment to technical [[fuckary]].

See also;
* [[Marty]] Ben's software video switching project which acts as either a 3rd OB unit or a replacement for other server failures.
* [[Election Results Night 2020]]

=Trivia=
*Can be calmed down with a Snickers bar.
*His favourite film is Sharknado, which he once called 'a cinematic masterpiece with an almost ethereal quality'.
*Snack of choice probably a Pot noodle or Dominos pizza.
*When in power-saving mode will only diet on breadsticks.
*100% fail-rate on setting up a dual boot so far.
*100% success-rate for eduroam setup.

=Productions/Projects=
==Productions/Design==
'''YEAR 1'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| [[YSTV Give It a Go 2019]]
| Tech Intern
| Walked in, knew how an X32 worked, was told to patch XLR by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]], never looked back.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| [[PCAs 2019 Intro]]
| Camera Operator & Actor
| First on-camera credit. Makes a cameo doing sound and looking confused, unfortunately has been stuck with the same expression since.
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| [[PCAs 2019]]
| Camera Operator & Technician
| First role on an actual live YSTV show.
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| [[Bob Ross Livestream]]
| Sound & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time running computers for a live-stream solo.
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| [[RAG Absailing]]
| Editor
| First editing job for YSTV.
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[The Review Club - Wine Tasting]]
| Camera Operator
| Drafted in last minute. Pointed a camera and laughed a lot.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Boozy Broadcasts: Drunk Werewolves]]
| Director, Vision Mixer & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time vision mixing.
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| [[YSTV Sport: Volleyball Autumn 2019]]
| Director & Livestream Technician
| Turns out the internet sucks in the sports centre so was done "as live" as no connection could be found. Spent all of the setup time trying to sort out the new live graphics he'd just got working. Didn't realise he had a remote JQuery dependency and no internet. Cursed the internet and did some running. Eventually, the graphics were working and the majority of the game was recorded with some admittedly out of breath directing.
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Boxing Fight Night Live 2019]]
| Graphics Programmer
| Realised from Volleyball that roughly thrown together Visual Basic, no modularity and constant rewriting didn't make for a good graphics client. Had a better idea, got Marks Polakovs to kindly teach him React over one VERY long night. Rewrote the previous client in React. Came up with initial planning for the Ghostbuster Graphics system. The new Electron-based client ended up being named Luigi's Mansion 2 which was deployed successfully after 20 minutes of testing as Ben could not attend the event. After someone decided to play the maracas with the one validated OB unit, so was then phoned by Rhys and required to rush home in the car and remotely setup the other OB unit while Rhys was fixing the initial one. The backup unit was not needed in the end.
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Hunted - Episode 2]]
| Title Sequence Graphics
| With additional shots from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]], the title sequence was VFX heavy and slowly constructed (barely in time for NaSTA). Ben's work can be seen in the footstep shots and some of the HUD elements as well as the title shot (foot graciously provided by [[Louis Dickson]]) which was the final shot completed. Also the first time Ben had motion-tracked anything and it hadn't sucked, so that was nice!
|-
| scope="row"| 11
| [[York's Got Talent 2019]]
| Director & Technician
| Ben needed to learn that we owned a decimator, that would've made things so much smoother/less awful.
|-
| scope="row"| 12
| [[Please Sir, There's Been a Murder]]
| Sound Operator, Livestream Technician
| Learned the value of sleep, stared at clocks for hours testing latency, started to strongly dislike the Facebook live-streaming platform. The broadcast stream ended up being a bit unstable due to a sleep-deprived misconfiguration error causing our transcodes to start crying. 'Solved' at the time by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] monitoring stream health and Ben appropriately spamming ssh commands with forehead while sound mixing.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 13
| [[Election Results Night 2020|60 Second Manifestos 2020]]
| Director, Camera Operator, Editor & Graphics
| [[Cal Cooke | Cal]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]] assisted with shooting the 30 candidates with lighting expertise from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]]. After Effects used for animating the YUSU assets. Used DaVinci Resolve and Nvenc for fast chroma-keying and exports with Edit 3's GPU being fully leveraged, along with some bodging to refine the graphics to never need to be re-rendered from the original comp speeding the process up greatly (averaging 5 minutes editing per video with 1 minute final renders). Had fun shouting at EncodeSrv as it would misidentify the file's resolution when uploading to the website and transcoding. Ended up throwing files through Adobe Media Encoder as an easy fix. A fake manifesto from Ben may exist somewhere for pipeline testing purposes, this cannot be confirmed.
|-
| scope="row"| 14
| [[Election Results Night 2020|Debate Night 2020]]
| Technician
| Didn't intend to do this, wanted to not do at least one election event. Ended up helping set up and assisted with tech for the start of the stream anyway.
|-
| scope="row"| 15
| [[YUSU Election Results Night 2020 Intro]]
| Director & Camera Operator
| Spent a night running around with [[Olivia Gibbs]], Numi Gildert and Alex West battling bad weather ruining plans and his own inability to balance a gimbal well enough on no battery. Ate Greggs. Shot most of it handheld (not ideal running with no IBIS). Spend an evening making a hash out of the edit. Considered doing half of it live on the night. Saved by Olivia salvaging most of the footage into a good edit which was then tweaked some more into the final product.
|-
| scope="row"| 16
| [[Election Results Night 2020|YUSU Election Results Night 2020]]
| Director
| Directed first major YSTV production having not slept since the day before. Instead, spent the night before the show secretly making the graphics assets with the embargoed names and finishing off the stingers and lower-thirds. Spent that day regretting it. Actual stream was mostly successful and uneventful although all YSTV power did die beforehand as not enough sockets were present at the venue and multiple 1k lights were a step too far. Also, OB1 started being electric shock-y so that was quickly decommissioned and replaced with [[Marty]]. Stream was followed by a full club night at Courtyard. That was followed by sleep, lots of it.
|-
| scope="row"| 17
| [[MMA Fight Night]]
| Graphics Programming
| Second fighting based live-stream he couldn't attend; wasn't happy about that.
|-
| scope="row"| 18
| [[Ben Goes to Kuda- livestream]]
| Director & Producer
| Missed a bus into town, got bored, started streaming to the YSTV website from Ben's phone with some basic graphics. Continued the stream intermittently through the night, much confusion occurred from the members still in Courtyard.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term (The year of 'rona)'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 19
| [[Quarantine Weekly]]
| Executive Producer
| Despite not having time to work on the actual show, the concept format was the result of an SNL-style hosted variety show pitch from Ben combined with a happy news, game show and campus/member-focused show idea from the wonderful [[Stephanie Shires]] who went on to brilliantly produce the whole series as Ben ended up too busy doing radio stuff.
|-
| scope="row"| 20
| YSTV Rebranding 2020
| Co-designer
| Finished adapting designs by [[Edwin Barnes]] with [[Joe Radford]] and [[Rhys Milling]] to create a complete branding package for all of YSTV's productions.
|}

'''YEAR 2'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| Forest Review Livestream
| Director & Producer
| Much the same kind of stupidity as the Kuda one, but in the Forest during a freshers intro meeting. Why? Good question.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| Freshers Stream 2020
| Motion Graphics Designer
|
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| Oranges & Lemons Episode 1 - Morphsuit Man Pumpkin Carving
| Narrator, Editor & Graphics
|
|-
|}
==Technical==
(This needs to be sorted as complete vs work in progress)
*Ghostbuster
*site-2020
*streaming pipeline
*pushing for vmix
*marty
*Atem Tally lights
*edit3
*cobra
*boa
*asp
*DAPIA
*roses graphics trials
*unreal engine graphics

=Technical Shenanigans=
* Notable for the discovery of the [[Holy Bodgeble]] in a field one day and has been hard at work translating the contents since
* Dismantled an ATEM to poke a fan once (much to [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew's]] dismay) and then wrote [[The night of the rattly atem|a poem]] about it out of boredom
[[File:working Ben.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ben and [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] [[The night of the rattly atem]]]]

Ben Allen

2021-02-12T01:48:06Z

Bja519: /* Productions/Projects */

{{YSTV Member
| first name = Ben
| last name = Allen
| picturefile = Ben_square.jpg
| picturesize = 200px
| active from = 2019
| active until = Present
| positions = Deputy Technical Director
| current location = The YSTV Studio. Definitely.
| degrees = BEng Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems
}}
=About=
Ben Allen, can often found in the studio in the early hours of the morning, screaming at technology, and is a prime example of a dedicated YSTV member. He is an all round lovely guy and is almost constantly busy and tired.

Joining as a fresher during the Give It A Go event in October 2019, Ben almost immediately became heavily involved in YSTV with his first event being a week or two later when YSTV hosted the 2019 NASTA People's choice awards. Acting as technical assistant to [[Technical Director]] [[Andrew Waddle]] during the setup and operation of the show. Having since worked on numerous live and recorded projects, Ben has worked within a variety of technical and operational roles; generally acting as technical and computing assistant to [[Andrew Waddle]] and [[Rhys Milling]] on live shows or working like a bugger with VFX. Not to mention his round the clock commitment to technical [[fuckary]].

See also;
* [[Marty]] Ben's software video switching project which acts as either a 3rd OB unit or a replacement for other server failures.
* [[Election Results Night 2020]]

=Trivia=
*Can be calmed down with a Snickers bar.
*His favourite film is Sharknado, which he once called 'a cinematic masterpiece with an almost ethereal quality'.
*Snack of choice probably a Pot noodle or Dominos pizza.
*When in power-saving mode will only diet on breadsticks.
*100% fail-rate on setting up a dual boot so far.
*100% success-rate for eduroam setup.

=Productions/Projects=
==Productions/Design==
'''YEAR 1'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| [[YSTV Give It a Go 2019]]
| Tech Intern
| Walked in, knew how an X32 worked, was told to patch XLR by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]], never looked back.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| [[PCAs 2019 Intro]]
| Camera Operator & Actor
| First on-camera credit. Makes a cameo doing sound and looking confused, unfortunately has been stuck with the same expression since.
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| [[PCAs 2019]]
| Camera Operator & Technician
| First role on an actual live YSTV show.
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| [[Bob Ross Livestream]]
| Sound & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time running computers for a live-stream solo.
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| [[RAG Absailing]]
| Editor
| First editing job for YSTV.
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[The Review Club - Wine Tasting]]
| Camera Operator
| Drafted in last minute. Pointed a camera and laughed a lot.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Boozy Broadcasts: Drunk Werewolves]]
| Director, Vision Mixer & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time vision mixing.
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| [[YSTV Sport: Volleyball Autumn 2019]]
| Director & Livestream Technician
| Turns out the internet sucks in the sports centre so was done "as live" as no connection could be found. Spent all of the setup time trying to sort out the new live graphics he'd just got working. Didn't realise he had a remote JQuery dependency and no internet. Cursed the internet and did some running. Eventually, the graphics were working and the majority of the game was recorded with some admittedly out of breath directing.
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Boxing Fight Night Live 2019]]
| Graphics Programmer
| Realised from Volleyball that roughly thrown together Visual Basic, no modularity and constant rewriting didn't make for a good graphics client. Had a better idea, got Marks Polakovs to kindly teach him React over one VERY long night. Rewrote the previous client in React. Came up with initial planning for the Ghostbuster Graphics system. The new Electron-based client ended up being named Luigi's Mansion 2 which was deployed successfully after 20 minutes of testing as Ben could not attend the event. After someone decided to play the maracas with the one validated OB unit, so was then phoned by Rhys and required to rush home in the car and remotely setup the other OB unit while Rhys was fixing the initial one. The backup unit was not needed in the end.
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Hunted - Episode 2]]
| Title Sequence Graphics
| With additional shots from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]], the title sequence was VFX heavy and slowly constructed (barely in time for NaSTA). Ben's work can be seen in the footstep shots and some of the HUD elements as well as the title shot (foot graciously provided by [[Louis Dickson]]) which was the final shot completed. Also the first time Ben had motion-tracked anything and it hadn't sucked, so that was nice!
|-
| scope="row"| 11
| [[York's Got Talent 2019]]
| Director & Technician
| Ben needed to learn that we owned a decimator, that would've made things so much smoother/less awful.
|-
| scope="row"| 12
| [[Please Sir, There's Been a Murder]]
| Sound Operator, Livestream Technician
| Learned the value of sleep, stared at clocks for hours testing latency, started to strongly dislike the Facebook live-streaming platform. The broadcast stream ended up being a bit unstable due to a sleep-deprived misconfiguration error causing our transcodes to start crying. 'Solved' at the time by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] monitoring stream health and Ben appropriately spamming ssh commands with forehead while sound mixing.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 13
| [[Election Results Night 2020|60 Second Manifestos 2020]]
| Director, Camera Operator, Editor & Graphics
| [[Cal Cooke | Cal]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]] assisted with shooting the 30 candidates with lighting expertise from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]]. After Effects used for animating the YUSU assets. Used DaVinci Resolve and Nvenc for fast chroma-keying and exports with Edit 3's GPU being fully leveraged, along with some bodging to refine the graphics to never need to be re-rendered from the original comp speeding the process up greatly (averaging 5 minutes editing per video with 1 minute final renders). Had fun shouting at EncodeSrv as it would misidentify the file's resolution when uploading to the website and transcoding. Ended up throwing files through Adobe Media Encoder as an easy fix. A fake manifesto from Ben may exist somewhere for pipeline testing purposes, this cannot be confirmed.
|-
| scope="row"| 14
| [[Election Results Night 2020|Debate Night 2020]]
| Technician
| Didn't intend to do this, wanted to not do at least one election event. Ended up helping set up and assisted with tech for the start of the stream anyway.
|-
| scope="row"| 15
| [[YUSU Election Results Night 2020 Intro]]
| Director & Camera Operator
| Spent a night running around with [[Olivia Gibbs]], Numi Gildert and Alex West battling bad weather ruining plans and his own inability to balance a gimbal well enough on no battery. Ate Greggs. Shot most of it handheld (not ideal running with no IBIS). Spend an evening making a hash out of the edit. Considered doing half of it live on the night. Saved by Olivia salvaging most of the footage into a good edit which was then tweaked some more into the final product.
|-
| scope="row"| 16
| [[Election Results Night 2020|YUSU Election Results Night 2020]]
| Director
| Directed first major YSTV production having not slept since the day before. Instead, spent the night before the show secretly making the graphics assets with the embargoed names and finishing off the stingers and lower-thirds. Spent that day regretting it. Actual stream was mostly successful and uneventful although all YSTV power did die beforehand as not enough sockets were present at the venue and multiple 1k lights were a step too far. Also, OB1 started being electric shock-y so that was quickly decommissioned and replaced with [[Marty]]. Stream was followed by a full club night at Courtyard. That was followed by sleep, lots of it.
|-
| scope="row"| 17
| [[MMA Fight Night]]
| Graphics Programming
| Second fighting based live-stream he couldn't attend; wasn't happy about that.
|-
| scope="row"| 18
| [[Ben Goes to Kuda- livestream]]
| Director & Producer
| Missed a bus into town, got bored, started streaming to the YSTV website from Ben's phone with some basic graphics. Continued the stream intermittently through the night, much confusion occurred from the members still in Courtyard.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term (The year of 'rona)'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 19
| [[Quarantine Weekly]]
| Executive Producer
| Despite not having time to work on the actual show, the concept format was the result of an SNL-style hosted variety show pitch from Ben combined with a happy news, game show and campus/member-focused show idea from the wonderful [[Stephanie Shires]] who went on to brilliantly produce the whole series as Ben ended up too busy doing radio stuff.
|-
| scope="row"| 20
| YSTV Rebranding 2020
| Co-designer
| Finished adapting designs by [[Edwin Barnes]] with [[Joe Radford]] and [[Rhys Milling]] to create a complete branding package for all of YSTV's productions.
|}

'''YEAR 2'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| Forest Review Livestream
| Director & Producer
| Much the same kind of stupidity as the Kuda one, but in the Forest during a freshers intro meeting. Why? Good question.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| Freshers Stream 2020
| Motion Graphics Designer
|
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| Oranges & Lemons Episode 1 - Morphsuit Man Pumpkin Carving
| Narrator, Editor & Graphics
|
|-
|}
==Technical==

=Technical Shenanigans=
* Notable for the discovery of the [[Holy Bodgeble]] in a field one day and has been hard at work translating the contents since
* Dismantled an ATEM to poke a fan once (much to [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew's]] dismay) and then wrote [[The night of the rattly atem|a poem]] about it out of boredom
[[File:working Ben.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ben and [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] [[The night of the rattly atem]]]]

Ben Allen

2021-02-12T01:43:09Z

Bja519: /* Productions/Projects */

{{YSTV Member
| first name = Ben
| last name = Allen
| picturefile = Ben_square.jpg
| picturesize = 200px
| active from = 2019
| active until = Present
| positions = Deputy Technical Director
| current location = The YSTV Studio. Definitely.
| degrees = BEng Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems
}}
=About=
Ben Allen, can often found in the studio in the early hours of the morning, screaming at technology, and is a prime example of a dedicated YSTV member. He is an all round lovely guy and is almost constantly busy and tired.

Joining as a fresher during the Give It A Go event in October 2019, Ben almost immediately became heavily involved in YSTV with his first event being a week or two later when YSTV hosted the 2019 NASTA People's choice awards. Acting as technical assistant to [[Technical Director]] [[Andrew Waddle]] during the setup and operation of the show. Having since worked on numerous live and recorded projects, Ben has worked within a variety of technical and operational roles; generally acting as technical and computing assistant to [[Andrew Waddle]] and [[Rhys Milling]] on live shows or working like a bugger with VFX. Not to mention his round the clock commitment to technical [[fuckary]].

See also;
* [[Marty]] Ben's software video switching project which acts as either a 3rd OB unit or a replacement for other server failures.
* [[Election Results Night 2020]]

=Trivia=
*Can be calmed down with a Snickers bar.
*His favourite film is Sharknado, which he once called 'a cinematic masterpiece with an almost ethereal quality'.
*Snack of choice probably a Pot noodle or Dominos pizza.
*When in power-saving mode will only diet on breadsticks.
*100% fail-rate on setting up a dual boot so far.
*100% success-rate for eduroam setup.

=Productions/Projects=
'''YEAR 1'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| [[YSTV Give It a Go 2019]]
| Tech Intern
| Walked in, knew how an X32 worked, was told to patch XLR by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]], never looked back.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| [[PCAs 2019 Intro]]
| Camera Operator & Actor
| First on-camera credit. Makes a cameo doing sound and looking confused, unfortunately has been stuck with the same expression since.
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| [[PCAs 2019]]
| Camera Operator & Technician
| First role on an actual live YSTV show.
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| [[Bob Ross Livestream]]
| Sound & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time running computers for a live-stream solo.
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| [[RAG Absailing]]
| Editor
| First editing job for YSTV.
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[The Review Club - Wine Tasting]]
| Camera Operator
| Drafted in last minute. Pointed a camera and laughed a lot.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Boozy Broadcasts: Drunk Werewolves]]
| Director, Vision Mixer & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time vision mixing.
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| [[YSTV Sport: Volleyball Autumn 2019]]
| Director & Livestream Technician
| Turns out the internet sucks in the sports centre so was done "as live" as no connection could be found. Spent all of the setup time trying to sort out the new live graphics he'd just got working. Didn't realise he had a remote JQuery dependency and no internet. Cursed the internet and did some running. Eventually, the graphics were working and the majority of the game was recorded with some admittedly out of breath directing.
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Boxing Fight Night Live 2019]]
| Graphics Programmer
| Realised from Volleyball that roughly thrown together Visual Basic, no modularity and constant rewriting didn't make for a good graphics client. Had a better idea, got Marks Polakovs to kindly teach him React over one VERY long night. Rewrote the previous client in React. Came up with initial planning for the Ghostbuster Graphics system. The new Electron-based client ended up being named Luigi's Mansion 2 which was deployed successfully after 20 minutes of testing as Ben could not attend the event. After someone decided to play the maracas with the one validated OB unit, so was then phoned by Rhys and required to rush home in the car and remotely setup the other OB unit while Rhys was fixing the initial one. The backup unit was not needed in the end.
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Hunted - Episode 2]]
| Title Sequence Graphics
| With additional shots from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]], the title sequence was VFX heavy and slowly constructed (barely in time for NaSTA). Ben's work can be seen in the footstep shots and some of the HUD elements as well as the title shot (foot graciously provided by [[Louis Dickson]]) which was the final shot completed. Also the first time Ben had motion-tracked anything and it hadn't sucked, so that was nice!
|-
| scope="row"| 11
| [[York's Got Talent 2019]]
| Director & Technician
| Ben needed to learn that we owned a decimator, that would've made things so much smoother/less awful.
|-
| scope="row"| 12
| [[Please Sir, There's Been a Murder]]
| Sound Operator, Livestream Technician
| Learned the value of sleep, stared at clocks for hours testing latency, started to strongly dislike the Facebook live-streaming platform. The broadcast stream ended up being a bit unstable due to a sleep-deprived misconfiguration error causing our transcodes to start crying. 'Solved' at the time by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] monitoring stream health and Ben appropriately spamming ssh commands with forehead while sound mixing.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 13
| [[Election Results Night 2020|60 Second Manifestos 2020]]
| Director, Camera Operator, Editor & Graphics
| [[Cal Cooke | Cal]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]] assisted with shooting the 30 candidates with lighting expertise from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]]. After Effects used for animating the YUSU assets. Used DaVinci Resolve and Nvenc for fast chroma-keying and exports with Edit 3's GPU being fully leveraged, along with some bodging to refine the graphics to never need to be re-rendered from the original comp speeding the process up greatly (averaging 5 minutes editing per video with 1 minute final renders). Had fun shouting at EncodeSrv as it would misidentify the file's resolution when uploading to the website and transcoding. Ended up throwing files through Adobe Media Encoder as an easy fix. A fake manifesto from Ben may exist somewhere for pipeline testing purposes, this cannot be confirmed.
|-
| scope="row"| 14
| [[Election Results Night 2020|Debate Night 2020]]
| Technician
| Didn't intend to do this, wanted to not do at least one election event. Ended up helping set up and assisted with tech for the start of the stream anyway.
|-
| scope="row"| 15
| [[YUSU Election Results Night 2020 Intro]]
| Director & Camera Operator
| Spent a night running around with [[Olivia Gibbs]], Numi Gildert and Alex West battling bad weather ruining plans and his own inability to balance a gimbal well enough on no battery. Ate Greggs. Shot most of it handheld (not ideal running with no IBIS). Spend an evening making a hash out of the edit. Considered doing half of it live on the night. Saved by Olivia salvaging most of the footage into a good edit which was then tweaked some more into the final product.
|-
| scope="row"| 16
| [[Election Results Night 2020|YUSU Election Results Night 2020]]
| Director
| Directed first major YSTV production having not slept since the day before. Instead, spent the night before the show secretly making the graphics assets with the embargoed names and finishing off the stingers and lower-thirds. Spent that day regretting it. Actual stream was mostly successful and uneventful although all YSTV power did die beforehand as not enough sockets were present at the venue and multiple 1k lights were a step too far. Also, OB1 started being electric shock-y so that was quickly decommissioned and replaced with [[Marty]]. Stream was followed by a full club night at Courtyard. That was followed by sleep, lots of it.
|-
| scope="row"| 17
| [[MMA Fight Night]]
| Graphics Programming
| Second fighting based live-stream he couldn't attend; wasn't happy about that.
|-
| scope="row"| 18
| [[Ben Goes to Kuda- livestream]]
| Director & Producer
| Missed a bus into town, got bored, started streaming to the YSTV website from Ben's phone with some basic graphics. Continued the stream intermittently through the night, much confusion occurred from the members still in Courtyard.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term (The year of 'rona)'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 19
| [[Quarantine Weekly]]
| Executive Producer
| Despite not having time to work on the actual show, the concept format was the result of an SNL-style hosted variety show pitch from Ben combined with a happy news, game show and campus/member-focused show idea from the wonderful [[Stephanie Shires]] who went on to brilliantly produce the whole series as Ben ended up too busy doing radio stuff.
|-
| scope="row"| 20
| YSTV Rebranding 2020
| Co-designer
| Finished adapting designs by [[Edwin Barnes]] with [[Joe Radford]] and [[Rhys Milling]] to create a complete branding package for all of YSTV's productions.
|}

'''YEAR 2'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| Forest Review Livestream
| Director & Producer
| Much the same kind of stupidity as the Kuda one, but in the Forest during a freshers intro meeting. Why? Good question.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| Freshers Stream 2020
| Motion Graphics Designer
|
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| Oranges & Lemons Episode 1 - Morphsuit Man Pumpkin Carving
| Narrator, Editor & Graphics
|
|-
|}

=Technical Shenanigans=
* Notable for the discovery of the [[Holy Bodgeble]] in a field one day and has been hard at work translating the contents since
* Dismantled an ATEM to poke a fan once (much to [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew's]] dismay) and then wrote [[The night of the rattly atem|a poem]] about it out of boredom
[[File:working Ben.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ben and [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] [[The night of the rattly atem]]]]

Ben Allen

2020-11-03T17:17:48Z

Bja519: /* Productions/Projects */

{{YSTV Member
| first name = Ben
| last name = Allen
| picturefile = Ben_square.jpg
| picturesize = 200px
| active from = 2019
| active until = Present
| positions = Deputy Technical Director
| current location = The YSTV Studio. Definitely.
| degrees = BEng Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems
}}
=About=
Ben Allen, can often found in the studio in the early hours of the morning, screaming at technology, and is a prime example of a dedicated YSTV member. He is an all round lovely guy and is almost constantly busy and tired.

Joining as a fresher during the Give It A Go event in October 2019, Ben almost immediately became heavily involved in YSTV with his first event being a week or two later when YSTV hosted the 2019 NASTA People's choice awards. Acting as technical assistant to [[Technical Director]] [[Andrew Waddle]] during the setup and operation of the show. Having since worked on numerous live and recorded projects, Ben has worked within a variety of technical and operational roles; generally acting as technical and computing assistant to [[Andrew Waddle]] and [[Rhys Milling]] on live shows or working like a bugger with VFX. Not to mention his round the clock commitment to technical [[fuckary]].

See also;
* [[Marty]] Ben's software video switching project which acts as either a 3rd OB unit or a replacement for other server failures.
* [[Election Results Night 2020]]

=Trivia=
*Can be calmed down with a Snickers bar.
*His favourite film is Sharknado, which he once called 'a cinematic masterpiece with an almost ethereal quality'.
*Snack of choice probably a Pot noodle or Dominos pizza.
*When in power-saving mode will only diet on breadsticks.
*100% fail-rate on setting up a dual boot so far.
*100% success-rate for eduroam setup.

=Productions/Projects=
'''YEAR 1'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| [[YSTV Give It a Go 2019]]
| Tech Intern
| Walked in, knew how an X32 worked, was told to patch XLR by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]], never looked back.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| [[PCAs 2019 Intro]]
| Camera Operator & Actor
| First on-camera credit. Makes a cameo doing sound and looking confused, unfortunately has been stuck with the same expression since.
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| [[PCAs 2019]]
| Camera Operator & Technician
| First role on an actual live YSTV show.
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| [[Bob Ross Livestream]]
| Sound & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time running computers for a live-stream solo.
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| [[RAG Absailing]]
| Editor
| First editing job for YSTV.
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[The Review Club - Wine Tasting]]
| Camera Operator
| Drafted in last minute. Pointed a camera and laughed a lot.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Boozy Broadcasts: Drunk Werewolves]]
| Director, Vision Mixer & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time vision mixing.
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| [[YSTV Sport: Volleyball Autumn 2019]]
| Director & Livestream Technician
| Turns out the internet sucks in the sports centre so was done "as live" as no connection could be found. Spent all of the setup time trying to sort out the new live graphics he'd just got working. Didn't realise he had a remote JQuery dependency and no internet. Cursed the internet and did some running. Eventually, the graphics were working and the majority of the game was recorded with some admittedly out of breath directing.
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Boxing Fight Night Live 2019]]
| Graphics Programmer
| Realised from Volleyball that roughly thrown together Visual Basic, no modularity and constant rewriting didn't make for a good graphics client. Had a better idea, got Marks Polakovs to kindly teach him React over one VERY long night. Rewrote the previous client in React. Came up with initial planning for the Ghostbuster Graphics system. The new Electron-based client ended up being named Luigi's Mansion 2 which was deployed successfully after 20 minutes of testing as Ben could not attend the event. After someone decided to play the maracas with the one validated OB unit, so was then phoned by Rhys and required to rush home in the car and remotely setup the other OB unit while Rhys was fixing the initial one. The backup unit was not needed in the end.
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Hunted - Episode 2]]
| Title Sequence Graphics
| With additional shots from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]], the title sequence was VFX heavy and slowly constructed (barely in time for NaSTA). Ben's work can be seen in the footstep shots and some of the HUD elements as well as the title shot (foot graciously provided by [[Louis Dickson]]) which was the final shot completed. Also the first time Ben had motion-tracked anything and it hadn't sucked, so that was nice!
|-
| scope="row"| 11
| [[York's Got Talent 2019]]
| Director & Technician
| Ben needed to learn that we owned a decimator, that would've made things so much smoother/less awful.
|-
| scope="row"| 12
| [[Please Sir, There's Been a Murder]]
| Sound Operator, Livestream Technician
| Learned the value of sleep, stared at clocks for hours testing latency, started to strongly dislike the Facebook live-streaming platform. The broadcast stream ended up being a bit unstable due to a sleep-deprived misconfiguration error causing our transcodes to start crying. 'Solved' at the time by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] monitoring stream health and Ben appropriately spamming ssh commands with forehead while sound mixing.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 13
| [[Election Results Night 2020|60 Second Manifestos 2020]]
| Director, Camera Operator, Editor & Graphics
| [[Cal Cooke | Cal]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]] assisted with shooting the 30 candidates with lighting expertise from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]]. After Effects used for animating the YUSU assets. Used DaVinci Resolve and Nvenc for fast chroma-keying and exports with Edit 3's GPU being fully leveraged, along with some bodging to refine the graphics to never need to be re-rendered from the original comp speeding the process up greatly (averaging 5 minutes editing per video with 1 minute final renders). Had fun shouting at EncodeSrv as it would misidentify the file's resolution when uploading to the website and transcoding. Ended up throwing files through Adobe Media Encoder as an easy fix. A fake manifesto from Ben may exist somewhere for pipeline testing purposes, this cannot be confirmed.
|-
| scope="row"| 14
| [[Election Results Night 2020|Debate Night 2020]]
| Technician
| Didn't intend to do this, wanted to not do at least one election event. Ended up helping set up and assisted with tech for the start of the stream anyway.
|-
| scope="row"| 15
| [[YUSU Election Results Night 2020 Intro]]
| Director & Camera Operator
| Spent a night running around with [[Olivia Gibbs]], Numi Gildert and Alex West battling bad weather ruining plans and his own inability to balance a gimbal well enough on no battery. Ate Greggs. Shot most of it handheld (not ideal running with no IBIS). Spend an evening making a hash out of the edit. Considered doing half of it live on the night. Saved by Olivia salvaging most of the footage into a good edit which was then tweaked some more into the final product.
|-
| scope="row"| 16
| [[Election Results Night 2020|YUSU Election Results Night 2020]]
| Director
| Directed first major YSTV production having not slept since the day before. Instead, spent the night before the show secretly making the graphics assets with the embargoed names and finishing off the stingers and lower-thirds. Spent that day regretting it. Actual stream was mostly successful and uneventful although all YSTV power did die beforehand as not enough sockets were present at the venue and multiple 1k lights were a step too far. Also, OB1 started being electric shock-y so that was quickly decommissioned and replaced with [[Marty]]. Stream was followed by a full club night at Courtyard. That was followed by sleep, lots of it.
|-
| scope="row"| 17
| [[MMA Fight Night]]
| Graphics Programming
| Second fighting based live-stream he couldn't attend; wasn't happy about that.
|-
| scope="row"| 18
| [[Ben Goes to Kuda- livestream]]
| Director & Producer
| Missed a bus into town, got bored, started streaming to the YSTV website from Ben's phone with some basic graphics. Continued the stream intermittently through the night, much confusion occurred from the members still in Courtyard.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term (The year of 'rona)'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 19
| [[Quarantine Weekly]]
| Executive Producer
| Despite not having time to work on the actual show, the concept format was the result of an SNL-style hosted variety show pitch from Ben combined with a happy news, game show and campus/member-focused show idea from the wonderful [[Stephanie Shires]] who went on to brilliantly produce the whole series as Ben ended up too busy doing radio stuff.
|-
| scope="row"| 20
| YSTV Rebranding 2020
| Co-designer
| Finished adapting designs by [[Edwin Barnes]] with [[Joe Radford]] and [[Rhys Milling]] to create a complete branding package for all of YSTV's productions.
|}

'''YEAR 2'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| Forest Review Livestream
| Director & Producer
| Much the same kind of stupidity as the Kuda one, but in the Forest during a freshers intro meeting. Why? Good question.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| Freshers Stream 2020
| Motion Graphics Designer
|
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| Oranges & Lemons Episode 1 - Morphsuit Man Pumpkin Carving
| Editor & Graphics
|
|-
|}

=Technical Shenanigans=
* Notable for the discovery of the [[Holy Bodgeble]] in a field one day and has been hard at work translating the contents since
* Dismantled an ATEM to poke a fan once (much to [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew's]] dismay) and then wrote [[The night of the rattly atem|a poem]] about it out of boredom
[[File:working Ben.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ben and [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] [[The night of the rattly atem]]]]

Ben Allen

2020-11-03T16:56:48Z

Bja519: /* Productions/Projects */

{{YSTV Member
| first name = Ben
| last name = Allen
| picturefile = Ben_square.jpg
| picturesize = 200px
| active from = 2019
| active until = Present
| positions = Deputy Technical Director
| current location = The YSTV Studio. Definitely.
| degrees = BEng Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems
}}
=About=
Ben Allen, can often found in the studio in the early hours of the morning, screaming at technology, and is a prime example of a dedicated YSTV member. He is an all round lovely guy and is almost constantly busy and tired.

Joining as a fresher during the Give It A Go event in October 2019, Ben almost immediately became heavily involved in YSTV with his first event being a week or two later when YSTV hosted the 2019 NASTA People's choice awards. Acting as technical assistant to [[Technical Director]] [[Andrew Waddle]] during the setup and operation of the show. Having since worked on numerous live and recorded projects, Ben has worked within a variety of technical and operational roles; generally acting as technical and computing assistant to [[Andrew Waddle]] and [[Rhys Milling]] on live shows or working like a bugger with VFX. Not to mention his round the clock commitment to technical [[fuckary]].

See also;
* [[Marty]] Ben's software video switching project which acts as either a 3rd OB unit or a replacement for other server failures.
* [[Election Results Night 2020]]

=Trivia=
*Can be calmed down with a Snickers bar.
*His favourite film is Sharknado, which he once called 'a cinematic masterpiece with an almost ethereal quality'.
*Snack of choice probably a Pot noodle or Dominos pizza.
*When in power-saving mode will only diet on breadsticks.
*100% fail-rate on setting up a dual boot so far.
*100% success-rate for eduroam setup.

=Productions/Projects=
'''YEAR 1'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| [[YSTV Give It a Go 2019]]
| Tech Intern
| Walked in, knew how an X32 worked, was told to patch XLR by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]], never looked back.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| [[PCAs 2019 Intro]]
| Camera Operator & Actor
| First on-camera credit. Makes a cameo doing sound and looking confused, unfortunately has been stuck with the same expression since.
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| [[PCAs 2019]]
| Camera Operator & Technician
| First role on an actual live YSTV show.
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| [[Bob Ross Livestream]]
| Sound & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time running computers for a live-stream solo.
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| [[RAG Absailing]]
| Editor
| First editing job for YSTV.
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[The Review Club - Wine Tasting]]
| Camera Operator
| Drafted in last minute. Pointed a camera and laughed a lot.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Boozy Broadcasts: Drunk Werewolves]]
| Director, Vision Mixer & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time vision mixing.
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| [[YSTV Sport: Volleyball Autumn 2019]]
| Director & Livestream Technician
| Turns out the internet sucks in the sports centre so was done "as live" as no connection could be found. Spent all of the setup time trying to sort out the new live graphics he'd just got working. Didn't realise he had a remote JQuery dependency and no internet. Cursed the internet and did some running. Eventually, the graphics were working and the majority of the game was recorded with some admittedly out of breath directing.
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Boxing Fight Night Live 2019]]
| Graphics Programmer
| Realised from Volleyball that roughly thrown together Visual Basic, no modularity and constant rewriting didn't make for a good graphics client. Had a better idea, got Marks Polakovs to kindly teach him React over one VERY long night. Rewrote the previous client in React. Came up with initial planning for the Ghostbuster Graphics system. The new Electron-based client ended up being named Luigi's Mansion 2 which was deployed successfully after 20 minutes of testing as Ben could not attend the event. After someone decided to play the maracas with the one validated OB unit, was phoned by Rhys and required to rush home in the car and remotely setup the other OB unit while Rhys was fixing the initial one. The backup unit was not needed in the end.
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Hunted - Episode 2]]
| Title Sequence Graphics
| With additional shots from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]], the title sequence was VFX heavy and slowly constructed (barely in time for NaSTA). Ben's work can be seen in the footstep shots and some of the HUD elements as well as the title shot (foot graciously provided by [[Louis Dickson]]) which was the final shot completed. Also the first time Ben had motion-tracked anything and it hadn't sucked, so that was nice!
|-
| scope="row"| 11
| [[York's Got Talent 2019]]
| Director & Technician
| Ben needed to learn that we owned a decimator, that would've made things so much smoother/less awful.
|-
| scope="row"| 12
| [[Please Sir, There's Been a Murder]]
| Sound Operator, Livestream Technician
| Learned the value of sleep, stared at clocks for hours testing latency, started to strongly dislike the Facebook live-streaming platform. The broadcast stream ended up being a bit unstable due to a sleep-deprived misconfiguration error causing our transcodes to stop crying. 'Solved' at the time by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] monitoring stream health and Ben appropriately spamming ssh commands with forehead while sound mixing.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 13
| [[Election Results Night 2020|60 Second Manifestos 2020]]
| Director, Camera Operator, Editor & Graphics
| [[Cal Cooke | Cal]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]] assisted with shooting the 30 candidates with lighting expertise from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]]. After Effects used for animating the YUSU assets. Used DaVinci Resolve and Nvenc for fast chroma-keying and exports with Edit 3's GPU being fully leveraged, along with some bodging to refine the graphics to never need to be re-rendered from the original comp speeding the process up greatly. Had fun shouting at EncodeSrv as it would misidentify the file's resolution when uploading to the website and transcoding. Ended up throwing files through Adobe Media Encoder as an easy fix. A fake manifesto from Ben may exist somewhere for pipeline testing purposes, this cannot be confirmed.
|-
| scope="row"| 14
| [[Election Results Night 2020|Debate Night 2020]]
| Technician
| Didn't intend to do this, wanted to not do at least one election event. Ended up helping set up and assisted with tech for the start of the stream anyway.
|-
| scope="row"| 15
| [[YUSU Election Results Night 2020 Intro]]
| Director & Camera Operator
| Spent a night running around with [[Olivia Gibbs]], Numi Gildert and Alex West battling bad weather ruining plans and his own inability to balance a gimbal well enough on no battery. Ate Greggs. Shot most of it handheld (not ideal running with no IBIS). Spend an evening making a hash out of the edit. Considered doing half of it live on the night. Saved by Olivia salvaging most of the footage into a good edit which was then tweaked some more into the final product.
|-
| scope="row"| 16
| [[Election Results Night 2020|YUSU Election Results Night 2020]]
| Director
| Directed first major YSTV production having not slept since the day before. Instead, spent the night before the show secretly making the graphics assets with the embargoed names and finishing off the stingers and lower-thirds. Spent that day regretting it. Actual stream was mostly successful and uneventful although all YSTV power did die beforehand as not enough sockets were present at the venue and multiple 1k lights were a step too far. Also, OB1 started being electric shock-y so that was quickly decommissioned and replaced with [[Marty]]. Stream was followed by a full club night at Courtyard. That was followed by sleep, lots of it.
|-
| scope="row"| 17
| [[MMA Fight Night]]
| Graphics Programming
| Second fighting based live-stream he couldn't attend; wasn't happy about that.
|-
| scope="row"| 18
| [[Ben Goes to Kuda- livestream]]
| Director & Producer
| Missed a bus into town, got bored, started streaming to the YSTV website from Ben's phone with some basic graphics. Continued the stream intermittently through the night, much confusion occurred from the members still in Courtyard.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term (The year of 'rona)'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 19
| [[Quarantine Weekly]]
| Executive Producer
| Despite not having time to work on the actual show, the concept format was the result of an SNL-style hosted variety show pitch from Ben combined with a happy news, game show and campus/member-focused show idea from the wonderful [[Stephanie Shires]] who went on to brilliantly produce the whole series as Ben ended up too busy doing radio stuff.
|-
| scope="row"| 20
| YSTV Rebranding 2020
| Co-designer
| Finished adapting designs by [[Edwin Barnes]] with [[Joe Radford]] and [[Rhys Milling]] to create a complete branding package for all of YSTV's productions.
|}

'''YEAR 2'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| Freshers Stream 2020
| Motion Graphics Designer
|
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| Oranges & Lemons Episode 1 - Morphsuit Man Pumpkin Carving
| Editor & Graphics
|
|-
|}

=Technical Shenanigans=
* Notable for the discovery of the [[Holy Bodgeble]] in a field one day and has been hard at work translating the contents since
* Dismantled an ATEM to poke a fan once (much to [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew's]] dismay) and then wrote [[The night of the rattly atem|a poem]] about it out of boredom
[[File:working Ben.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ben and [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] [[The night of the rattly atem]]]]

The night of the rattly atem

2020-10-11T18:57:41Z

Bja519:

T'was the night after hustings, and all through the station,
not a server was breaking, (comp team cried with elation).

Welsh Rhys was putting our OB2 back,
when from the corner a cry came; he shouted, "Alack!

The ATEM is make a curious racket.
Could it be that a fan's fallen out of it's bracket?

Or a wire has been trapped, or some dust has got caught
in the fans, as it's making a noise that you ought,

to hear from a person who's grinding a plate
on the back of a shovel - it's a scraping you'd hate"

Andrew shot out his chair and agog he did gabble,
"how the fuck has our ATEM developed a rattle??!"

Ben sprang out his chair, his eyes filled with glee
at the prospect of technical surgery

As he bounded to fetch a screwdriver kit
Andrew was yelling "which cretin has lunched it?

It was fine when we left, so where's the mistake?
Did one of you muppets push it into the lake?!"

Returning with tools, they sat down at the desk
The OB2's future on their shoulders did rest

They lifted the lid and poked all about;
their eyes getting wider, brows furrowed with doubt

The was nothing on fire so with fear abound,
they again added power to track down the sound

But after LEDs flashing and the fans starting 'vroom',
a deafening silence enveloped the room.

"Hark" declared Andrew, "the noise - it's stopped,
so maybe our ATEM then hasn't been dropped..?

I suggest we take courage, and end this little skit
before one of us touches and actually breaks it.

A noise doesn't matter I'm sure it is fine
we can deal with that issue on some other time.

So with spirits restored and smiles once again bright,
the techies packed up and went home for the night.

-[[Ben Allen]]

Ben Allen

2020-10-11T17:36:46Z

Bja519: /* Productions/Projects */

{{YSTV Member
| first name = Ben
| last name = Allen
| picturefile = Ben_square.jpg
| picturesize = 200px
| active from = 2019
| active until = Present
| positions = Deputy Technical Director
| current location = The YSTV Studio. Definitely.
| degrees = BEng Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems
}}
=About=
Ben Allen, can often found in the studio in the early hours of the morning, screaming at technology, and is a prime example of a dedicated YSTV member. He is an all round lovely guy and is almost constantly busy and tired.

Joining as a fresher during the Give It A Go event in October 2019, Ben almost immediately became heavily involved in YSTV with his first event being a week or two later when YSTV hosted the 2019 NASTA People's choice awards. Acting as technical assistant to [[Technical Director]] [[Andrew Waddle]] during the setup and operation of the show. Having since worked on numerous live and recorded projects, Ben has worked within a variety of technical and operational roles; generally acting as technical and computing assistant to [[Andrew Waddle]] and [[Rhys Milling]] on live shows or working like a bugger with VFX. Not to mention his round the clock commitment to technical [[fuckary]].

See also;
* [[Marty]] Ben's software video switching project which acts as either a 3rd OB unit or a replacement for other server failures.
* [[Election Results Night 2020]]

=Trivia=
*Can be calmed down with a Snickers bar.
*His favourite film is Sharknado, which he once called 'a cinematic masterpiece with an almost ethereal quality'.
*Snack of choice probably a Pot noodle or Dominos pizza.
*When in power-saving mode will only diet on breadsticks.
*100% fail-rate on setting up a dual boot so far.
*100% success-rate for eduroam setup.

=Productions/Projects=
'''YEAR 1'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| [[YSTV Give It a Go 2019]]
| Tech Intern
| Walked in, knew how an X32 worked, was told to patch XLR by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]], never looked back.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| [[PCAs 2019 Intro]]
| Camera Operator & Actor
| First on-camera credit. Makes a cameo doing sound and looking confused, unfortunately has been stuck with the same expression since.
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| [[PCAs 2019]]
| Camera Operator & Technician
| First role on an actual live YSTV show.
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| [[Bob Ross Livestream]]
| Sound & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time running computers for a live-stream solo.
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| [[RAG Absailing]]
| Editor
| First editing job for YSTV.
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[The Review Club - Wine Tasting]]
| Camera Operator
| Drafted in last minute. Pointed a camera and laughed a lot.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Boozy Broadcasts: Drunk Werewolves]]
| Director, Vision Mixer & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time vision mixing.
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| [[YSTV Sport: Volleyball Autumn 2019]]
| Director & Livestream Technician
| Turns out the internet sucks in the sports centre so was done "as live" as no connection could be found. Spent all of the setup time trying to sort out the new live graphics he'd just got working. Didn't realise he had a remote JQuery dependency and no internet. Cursed the internet and did some running. Eventually, the graphics were working and the majority of the game was recorded with some admittedly out of breath directing.
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Boxing Fight Night Live 2019]]
| Graphics Programmer
| Realised from Volleyball that roughly thrown together Visual Basic, no modularity and constant rewriting didn't make for a good graphics client. Had a better idea, got Marks Polakovs to kindly teach him React over one VERY long night. Rewrote the previous client in React. Came up with initial planning for the Ghostbuster Graphics system. The new Electron-based client ended up being named Luigi's Mansion 2 which was deployed successfully after 20 minutes of testing as Ben could not attend the event. After someone decided to play the maracas with the one validated OB unit, was phoned by Rhys and required to rush home in the car and remotely setup the other OB unit while Rhys was fixing the initial one. The backup unit was not needed in the end.
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Hunted - Episode 2]]
| Title Sequence Graphics
| With additional shots from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]], the title sequence was VFX heavy and slowly constructed (barely in time for NaSTA). Ben's work can be seen in the footstep shots and some of the HUD elements as well as the title shot (foot graciously provided by [[Louis Dickson]]) which was the final shot completed. Also the first time Ben had motion-tracked anything and it hadn't sucked, so that was nice!
|-
| scope="row"| 11
| [[York's Got Talent 2019]]
| Director & Technician
| Ben needed to learn that we owned a decimator, that would've made things so much smoother/less awful.
|-
| scope="row"| 12
| [[Please Sir, There's Been a Murder]]
| Sound Operator, Livestream Technician
| Learned the value of sleep, stared at clocks for hours testing latency, started to strongly dislike the Facebook live-streaming platform. The broadcast stream ended up being a bit unstable due to a sleep-deprived misconfiguration error causing our transcodes to stop crying. 'Solved' at the time by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] monitoring stream health and Ben appropriately spamming ssh commands with forehead while sound mixing.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 13
| [[Election Results Night 2020|60 Second Manifestos 2020]]
| Director, Camera Operator, Editor & Graphics
| [[Cal Cooke | Cal]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]] assisted with shooting the 30 candidates with lighting expertise from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]]. After Effects used for animating the YUSU assets. Used DaVinci Resolve and Nvenc for fast chroma-keying and exports with Edit 3's GPU being fully leveraged, along with some bodging to refine the graphics to never need to be re-rendered from the original comp speeding the process up greatly. Had fun shouting at EncodeSrv as it would misidentify the file's resolution when uploading to the website and transcoding. Ended up throwing files through Adobe Media Encoder as an easy fix. A fake manifesto from Ben may exist somewhere for pipeline testing purposes, this cannot be confirmed.
|-
| scope="row"| 14
| [[Election Results Night 2020|Debate Night 2020]]
| Technician
| Didn't intend to do this, wanted to not do at least one election event. Ended up helping set up and assisted with tech for the start of the stream anyway.
|-
| scope="row"| 15
| [[YUSU Election Results Night 2020 Intro]]
| Director & Camera Operator
| Spent a night running around with [[Olivia Gibbs]], Numi Gildert and Alex West battling bad weather ruining plans and his own inability to balance a gimbal well enough on no battery. Ate Greggs. Shot most of it handheld (not ideal running with no IBIS). Spend an evening making a hash out of the edit. Considered doing half of it live on the night. Saved by Olivia salvaging most of the footage into a good edit which was then tweaked some more into the final product.
|-
| scope="row"| 16
| [[Election Results Night 2020|YUSU Election Results Night 2020]]
| Director
| Directed first major YSTV production having not slept since the day before. Instead, spent the night before the show secretly making the graphics assets with the embargoed names and finishing off the stingers and lower-thirds. Spent that day regretting it. Actual stream was mostly successful and uneventful although all YSTV power did die beforehand as not enough sockets were present at the venue and multiple 1k lights were a step too far. Also, OB1 started being electric shock-y so that was quickly decommissioned and replaced with [[Marty]]. Stream was followed by a full club night at Courtyard. That was followed by sleep, lots of it.
|-
| scope="row"| 17
| [[MMA Fight Night]]
| Graphics Programming
| Second fighting based live-stream he couldn't attend; wasn't happy about that.
|-
| scope="row"| 18
| [[Ben Goes to Kuda- livestream]]
| Director & Producer
| Missed a bus into town, got bored, started streaming to the YSTV website from Ben's phone with some basic graphics. Continued the stream intermittently through the night, much confusion occurred from the members still in Courtyard.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term (The year of 'rona)'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 19
| [[Quarantine Weekly]]
| Executive Producer
| Despite not having time to work on the actual show, the concept format was the result of an SNL-style hosted variety show pitch from Ben combined with a happy news, game show and campus/member-focused show idea from the wonderful [[Stephanie Shires]] who went on to brilliantly produce the whole series as Ben ended up too busy doing radio stuff.
|-
| scope="row"| 20
| YSTV Rebranding 2020
| Co-designer
| Finished adapting designs by [[Edwin Barnes]] with [[Joe Radford]] and [[Rhys Milling]] to create a complete branding package for all of YSTV's productions.
|}

'''YEAR 2'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| Freshers Stream 2020
| Motion Graphics Designer
|
|-
|}

=Technical Shenanigans=
* Notable for the discovery of the [[Holy Bodgeble]] in a field one day and has been hard at work translating the contents since
* Dismantled an ATEM to poke a fan once (much to [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew's]] dismay) and then wrote [[The night of the rattly atem|a poem]] about it out of boredom
[[File:working Ben.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ben and [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] [[The night of the rattly atem]]]]

Ben Allen

2020-09-24T07:25:04Z

Bja519: /* Productions/Projects */

{{YSTV Member
| first name = Ben
| last name = Allen
| picturefile = Ben_square.jpg
| picturesize = 200px
| active from = 2019
| active until = Present
| positions = Deputy Technical Director
| current location = The YSTV Studio. Definitely.
| degrees = BEng Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems
}}
=About=
Ben Allen, can often found in the studio in the early hours of the morning, screaming at technology, and is a prime example of a dedicated YSTV member. He is an all round lovely guy and is almost constantly busy and tired.

Joining as a fresher during the Give It A Go event in October 2019, Ben almost immediately became heavily involved in YSTV with his first event being a week or two later when YSTV hosted the 2019 NASTA People's choice awards. Acting as technical assistant to [[Technical Director]] [[Andrew Waddle]] during the setup and operation of the show. Having since worked on numerous live and recorded projects, Ben has worked within a variety of technical and operational roles; generally acting as technical and computing assistant to [[Andrew Waddle]] and [[Rhys Milling]] on live shows or working like a bugger with VFX. Not to mention his round the clock commitment to technical [[fuckary]].

See also;
* [[Marty]] Ben's software video switching project which acts as either a 3rd OB unit or a replacement for other server failures.
* [[Election Results Night 2020]]

=Trivia=
*Can be calmed down with a Snickers bar.
*His favourite film is Sharknado, which he once called 'a cinematic masterpiece with an almost ethereal quality'.
*Snack of choice probably a Pot noodle or Dominos pizza

=Productions/Projects=
'''YEAR 1'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| [[YSTV Give It a Go 2019]]
| Tech Intern
| Walked in, knew how an X32 worked, was told to patch XLR by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]], never looked back.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| [[PCAs 2019 Intro]]
| Camera Operator & Actor
| First on-camera credit. Makes a cameo doing sound and looking confused, unfortunately has been stuck with the same expression since.
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| [[PCAs 2019]]
| Camera Operator & Technician
| First role on an actual live YSTV show.
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| [[Bob Ross Livestream]]
| Sound & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time running computers for a live-stream solo.
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| [[RAG Absailing]]
| Editor
| First editing job for YSTV.
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[The Review Club - Wine Tasting]]
| Camera Operator
| Drafted in last minute. Pointed a camera and laughed a lot.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Boozy Broadcasts: Drunk Werewolves]]
| Director, Vision Mixer & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time vision mixing.
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| [[YSTV Sport: Volleyball Autumn 2019]]
| Director & Livestream Technician
| Turns out the internet sucks in the sports centre so was done "as live" as no connection could be found. Spent all of the setup time trying to sort out the new live graphics he'd just got working. Didn't realise he had a remote JQuery dependency and no internet. Cursed the internet and did some running. Eventually, the graphics were working and the majority of the game was recorded with some admittedly out of breath directing.
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Boxing Fight Night Live 2019]]
| Graphics Programmer
| Realised from Volleyball that roughly thrown together Visual Basic, no modularity and constant rewriting didn't make for a good graphics client. Had a better idea, got Marks Polakovs to kindly teach him React over one VERY long night. Rewrote the previous client in React. Came up with initial planning for the Ghostbuster Graphics system. The new Electron-based client ended up being named Luigi's Mansion 2 which was deployed successfully after 20 minutes of testing as Ben could not attend the event. After someone decided to play the maracas with the one validated OB unit, was phoned by Rhys and required to rush home in the car and remotely setup the other OB unit while Rhys was fixing the initial one. The backup unit was not needed in the end.
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Hunted - Episode 2]]
| Title Sequence Graphics
| With additional shots from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]], the title sequence was VFX heavy and slowly constructed (barely in time for NaSTA). Ben's work can be seen in the footstep shots and some of the HUD elements as well as the title shot (foot graciously provided by [[Louis Dickson]]) which was the final shot completed. Also the first time Ben had motion-tracked anything and it hadn't sucked, so that was nice!
|-
| scope="row"| 11
| [[York's Got Talent 2019]]
| Director & Technician
| Ben needed to learn that we owned a decimator, that would've made things so much smoother/less awful.
|-
| scope="row"| 12
| [[Please Sir, There's Been a Murder]]
| Sound Operator, Livestream Technician
| Learned the value of sleep, stared at clocks for hours testing latency, started to strongly dislike the Facebook live-streaming platform. The broadcast stream ended up being a bit unstable due to a sleep-deprived misconfiguration error causing our transcodes to stop crying. 'Solved' at the time by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] monitoring stream health and Ben appropriately spamming ssh commands with forehead while sound mixing.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 13
| [[Election Results Night 2020|60 Second Manifestos 2020]]
| Director, Camera Operator, Editor & Graphics
| [[Cal Cooke | Cal]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]] assisted with shooting the 30 candidates with lighting expertise from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]]. After Effects used for animating the YUSU assets. Used DaVinci Resolve and Nvenc for fast chroma-keying and exports with Edit 3's GPU being fully leveraged, along with some bodging to refine the graphics to never need to be re-rendered from the original comp speeding the process up greatly. Had fun shouting at EncodeSrv as it would misidentify the file's resolution when uploading to the website and transcoding. Ended up throwing files through Adobe Media Encoder as an easy fix. A fake manifesto from Ben may exist somewhere for pipeline testing purposes, this cannot be confirmed.
|-
| scope="row"| 14
| [[Election Results Night 2020|Debate Night 2020]]
| Technician
| Didn't intend to do this, wanted to not do at least one election event. Ended up helping set up and assisted with tech for the start of the stream anyway.
|-
| scope="row"| 15
| [[YUSU Election Results Night 2020 Intro]]
| Director & Camera Operator
| Spent a night running around with [[Olivia Gibbs]], Numi Gildert and Alex West battling bad weather ruining plans and his own inability to balance a gimbal well enough on no battery. Ate Greggs. Shot most of it handheld (not ideal running with no IBIS). Spend an evening making a hash out of the edit. Considered doing half of it live on the night. Saved by Olivia salvaging most of the footage into a good edit which was then tweaked some more into the final product.
|-
| scope="row"| 16
| [[Election Results Night 2020|YUSU Election Results Night 2020]]
| Director
| Directed first major YSTV production having not slept since the day before. Instead, spent the night before the show secretly making the graphics assets with the embargoed names and finishing off the stingers and lower-thirds. Spent that day regretting it. Actual stream was mostly successful and uneventful although all YSTV power did die beforehand as not enough sockets were present at the venue and multiple 1k lights were a step too far. Also, OB1 started being electric shock-y so that was quickly decommissioned and replaced with [[Marty]]. Stream was followed by a full club night at Courtyard. That was followed by sleep, lots of it.
|-
| scope="row"| 17
| [[MMA Fight Night]]
| Graphics Programming
| Second fighting based live-stream he couldn't attend; wasn't happy about that.
|-
| scope="row"| 18
| [[Ben Goes to Kuda- livestream]]
| Director & Producer
| Missed a bus into town, got bored, started streaming to the YSTV website from Ben's phone with some basic graphics. Continued the stream intermittently through the night, much confusion occurred from the members still in Courtyard.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term (The year of 'rona)'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 19
| [[Quarantine Weekly]]
| Executive Producer
| Despite not having time to work on the actual show, the concept format was the result of an SNL-style hosted variety show pitch from Ben combined with a happy news, game show and campus/member-focused show idea from the wonderful [[Stephanie Shires]] who went on to brilliantly produce the whole series as Ben ended up too busy doing radio stuff.
|-
| scope="row"| 20
| YSTV Rebranding 2020
| Co-designer
| Finished adapting designs by [[Edwin Barnes]] with [[Joe Radford]] and [[Rhys Milling]] to create a complete branding package for all of YSTV's productions.
|}

'''YEAR 2'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|
|}

=Technical Shenanigans=
* Notable for the discovery of the [[Holy Bodgeble]] in a field one day and has been hard at work translating the contents since
* Dismantled an ATEM to poke a fan once (much to [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew's]] dismay) and then wrote [[The night of the rattly atem|a poem]] about it out of boredom
[[File:working Ben.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ben and [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] [[The night of the rattly atem]]]]

Ben Allen

2020-09-24T07:16:55Z

Bja519: /* Productions/Projects */

{{YSTV Member
| first name = Ben
| last name = Allen
| picturefile = Ben_square.jpg
| picturesize = 200px
| active from = 2019
| active until = Present
| positions = Deputy Technical Director
| current location = The YSTV Studio. Definitely.
| degrees = BEng Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems
}}
=About=
Ben Allen, can often found in the studio in the early hours of the morning, screaming at technology, and is a prime example of a dedicated YSTV member. He is an all round lovely guy and is almost constantly busy and tired.

Joining as a fresher during the Give It A Go event in October 2019, Ben almost immediately became heavily involved in YSTV with his first event being a week or two later when YSTV hosted the 2019 NASTA People's choice awards. Acting as technical assistant to [[Technical Director]] [[Andrew Waddle]] during the setup and operation of the show. Having since worked on numerous live and recorded projects, Ben has worked within a variety of technical and operational roles; generally acting as technical and computing assistant to [[Andrew Waddle]] and [[Rhys Milling]] on live shows or working like a bugger with VFX. Not to mention his round the clock commitment to technical [[fuckary]].

See also;
* [[Marty]] Ben's software video switching project which acts as either a 3rd OB unit or a replacement for other server failures.
* [[Election Results Night 2020]]

=Trivia=
*Can be calmed down with a Snickers bar.
*His favourite film is Sharknado, which he once called 'a cinematic masterpiece with an almost ethereal quality'.
*Snack of choice probably a Pot noodle or Dominos pizza

=Productions/Projects=
'''YEAR 1'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| [[YSTV Give It a Go 2019]]
| Tech Intern
| Walked in, knew how an X32 worked, was told to patch XLR by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]], never looked back.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| [[PCAs 2019 Intro]]
| Camera Operator & Actor
| First on-camera credit. Makes a cameo doing sound and looking confused, unfortunately has been stuck with the same expression since.
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| [[PCAs 2019]]
| Camera Operator & Technician
| First role on an actual live YSTV show.
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| [[Bob Ross Livestream]]
| Sound & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time running computers for a live-stream solo.
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| [[RAG Absailing]]
| Editor
| First editing job for YSTV.
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[The Review Club - Wine Tasting]]
| Camera Operator
| Drafted in last minute. Pointed a camera and laughed a lot.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Boozy Broadcasts: Drunk Werewolves]]
| Director, Vision Mixer & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time vision mixing.
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| [[YSTV Sport: Volleyball Autumn 2019]]
| Director & Livestream Technician
| Turns out the internet sucks in the sports centre so was done "as live" as no connection could be found. Spent all of the setup time trying to sort out the new live graphics he'd just got working. Didn't realise he had a remote JQuery dependency and no internet. Cursed the internet and did some running. Eventually, the graphics were working and the majority of the game was recorded with some admittedly out of breath directing.
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Boxing Fight Night Live 2019]]
| Graphics Programmer
| Realised from Volleyball that roughly thrown together Visual Basic, no modularity and constant rewriting didn't make for a good graphics client. Had a better idea, got Marks Polakovs to kindly teach him React over one VERY long night. Rewrote the previous client in React. Came up with initial planning for the Ghostbuster Graphics system. The new Electron-based client ended up being named Luigi's Mansion 2 which was deployed successfully after 20 minutes of testing as Ben could not attend the event. After someone decided to play the maracas with the one validated OB unit, was phoned by Rhys and required to rush home in the car and remotely setup the other OB unit while Rhys was fixing the initial one. The backup unit was not needed in the end.
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Hunted - Episode 2]]
| Title Sequence Graphics
| With additional shots from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]], the title sequence was VFX heavy and slowly constructed (barely in time for NaSTA). Ben's work can be seen in the footstep shots and some of the HUD elements as well as the title shot (foot graciously provided by [[Louis Dickson]]) which was the final shot completed. Also the first time Ben had motion-tracked anything and it hadn't sucked, so that was nice!
|-
| scope="row"| 11
| [[York's Got Talent 2019]]
| Director & Technician
| Ben needed to learn that we owned a decimator, that would've made things so much smoother/less awful.
|-
| scope="row"| 12
| [[Please Sir, There's Been a Murder]]
| Sound Operator, Livestream Technician
| Learned the value of sleep, stared at clocks for hours testing latency, started to strongly dislike the Facebook live-streaming platform. The broadcast stream ended up being a bit unstable due to a sleep-deprived misconfiguration error causing our transcodes to stop crying. 'Solved' at the time by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] monitoring stream health and Ben appropriately spamming ssh commands with forehead while sound mixing.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 13
| [[Election Results Night 2020|60 Second Manifestos 2020]]
| Director, Camera Operator, Editor & Graphics
| [[Cal Cooke | Cal]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]] assisted with shooting the 30 candidates with lighting expertise from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]]. After Effects used for animating the YUSU assets. Used DaVinci Resolve and Nvenc for fast chroma-keying and exports with Edit 3's GPU being fully leveraged, along with some bodging to refine the graphics to never need to be re-rendered from the original comp speeding the process up greatly. Had fun shouting at EncodeSrv as it would misidentify the file's resolution when uploading to the website and transcoding. Ended up throwing files through Adobe Media Encoder as an easy fix. A fake manifesto from Ben may exist somewhere for pipeline testing purposes, this cannot be confirmed.
|-
| scope="row"| 14
| [[Election Results Night 2020|Debate Night 2020]]
| Technician
| Didn't intend to do this, wanted to not do at least one election event. Ended up helping set up and assisted with tech for the start of the stream anyway.
|-
| scope="row"| 15
| [[YUSU Election Results Night 2020 Intro]]
| Director & Camera Operator
| Spent a night running around with [[Olivia Gibbs]], Numi Gildert and Alex West battling bad weather ruining plans and his own inability to balance a gimbal well enough on no battery. Ate Greggs. Shot most of it handheld (not ideal running with no IBIS). Spend an evening making a hash out of the edit. Considered doing half of it live on the night. Saved by Olivia salvaging most of the footage into a good edit which was then tweaked some more into the final product.
|-
| scope="row"| 16
| [[Election Results Night 2020|YUSU Election Results Night 2020]]
| Director
| Directed first major YSTV production having not slept since the day before. Instead, spent the night before the show secretly making the graphics assets with the embargoed names and finishing off the stingers and lower-thirds. Spent that day regretting it. Actual stream was mostly successful and uneventful although all YSTV power did die beforehand as not enough sockets were present at the venue and multiple 1k lights were a step too far. Also, OB1 started being electric shock-y so that was quickly decommissioned and replaced with [[Marty]]. Stream was followed by a full club night at Courtyard. That was followed by sleep, lots of it.
|-
| scope="row"| 17
| [[MMA Fight Night]]
| Graphics Programming
| Second fighting based live-stream he couldn't attend; wasn't happy about that.
|-
| scope="row"| 18
| [[Ben Goes to Kuda- livestream]]
| Director & Producer
| Missed a bus into town, got bored, started streaming to the site from Ben's phone with some basic graphics intermittently through the night, much confusion occurred from the members still in Courtyard.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term (The year of 'rona)'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 19
| [[Quarantine Weekly]]
| Executive Producer
| Despite not having time to work on the actual show, the concept format was the result of an SNL-style hosted variety show pitch from Ben combined with a happy news, game show and campus/member-focused show idea from the wonderful [[Stephanie Shires]] who went on to brilliantly produce the whole series as Ben ended up too busy doing radio stuff.
|-
| scope="row"| 20
| YSTV Rebranding 2020
| Co-designer
| Finished adapting designs by [[Edwin Barnes]] with [[Joe Radford]] and [[Rhys Milling]] to create a complete branding package for all of YSTV's productions.
|}

'''YEAR 2'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|
|}

=Technical Shenanigans=
* Notable for the discovery of the [[Holy Bodgeble]] in a field one day and has been hard at work translating the contents since
* Dismantled an ATEM to poke a fan once (much to [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew's]] dismay) and then wrote [[The night of the rattly atem|a poem]] about it out of boredom
[[File:working Ben.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ben and [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] [[The night of the rattly atem]]]]

Ben Allen

2020-09-24T07:16:15Z

Bja519: /* Productions/Projects */

{{YSTV Member
| first name = Ben
| last name = Allen
| picturefile = Ben_square.jpg
| picturesize = 200px
| active from = 2019
| active until = Present
| positions = Deputy Technical Director
| current location = The YSTV Studio. Definitely.
| degrees = BEng Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems
}}
=About=
Ben Allen, can often found in the studio in the early hours of the morning, screaming at technology, and is a prime example of a dedicated YSTV member. He is an all round lovely guy and is almost constantly busy and tired.

Joining as a fresher during the Give It A Go event in October 2019, Ben almost immediately became heavily involved in YSTV with his first event being a week or two later when YSTV hosted the 2019 NASTA People's choice awards. Acting as technical assistant to [[Technical Director]] [[Andrew Waddle]] during the setup and operation of the show. Having since worked on numerous live and recorded projects, Ben has worked within a variety of technical and operational roles; generally acting as technical and computing assistant to [[Andrew Waddle]] and [[Rhys Milling]] on live shows or working like a bugger with VFX. Not to mention his round the clock commitment to technical [[fuckary]].

See also;
* [[Marty]] Ben's software video switching project which acts as either a 3rd OB unit or a replacement for other server failures.
* [[Election Results Night 2020]]

=Trivia=
*Can be calmed down with a Snickers bar.
*His favourite film is Sharknado, which he once called 'a cinematic masterpiece with an almost ethereal quality'.
*Snack of choice probably a Pot noodle or Dominos pizza

=Productions/Projects=
'''YEAR 1'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| [[YSTV Give It a Go 2019]]
| Tech Intern
| Walked in, knew how an X32 worked, was told to patch XLR by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]], never looked back.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| [[PCAs 2019 Intro]]
| Camera Operator & Actor
| First on-camera credit. Makes a cameo doing sound and looking confused, unfortunately has been stuck with the same expression since.
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| [[PCAs 2019]]
| Camera Operator & Technician
| First role on an actual live YSTV show.
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| [[Bob Ross Livestream]]
| Sound & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time running computers for a live-stream solo.
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| [[RAG Absailing]]
| Editor
| First editing job for YSTV.
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[The Review Club - Wine Tasting]]
| Camera Operator
| Drafted in last minute. Pointed a camera and laughed a lot.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Boozy Broadcasts: Drunk Werewolves]]
| Director, Vision Mixer & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time vision mixing.
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| [[YSTV Sport: Volleyball Autumn 2019]]
| Director & Livestream Technician
| Turns out the internet sucks in the sports centre so was done "as live" as no connection could be found. Spent all of the setup time trying to sort out the new live graphics he'd just got working. Didn't realise he had a remote JQuery dependency and no internet. Cursed the internet and did some running. Eventually, the graphics were working and the majority of the game was recorded with some admittedly out of breath directing.
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Boxing Fight Night Live 2019]]
| Graphics Programmer
| Realised from Volleyball that roughly thrown together Visual Basic, no modularity and constant rewriting didn't make for a good graphics client. Had a better idea, got Marks Polakovs to kindly teach him React over one VERY long night. Rewrote the previous client in React. Came up with initial planning for the Ghostbuster Graphics system. The new Electron-based client ended up being named Luigi's Mansion 2 which was deployed successfully after 20 minutes of testing as Ben could not attend the event. After someone decided to play the maracas with the one validated OB unit, was phoned by Rhys and required to rush home in the car and remotely setup the other OB unit while Rhys was fixing the initial one. The backup unit was not needed in the end.
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Hunted - Episode 2]]
| Title Sequence Graphics
| With additional shots from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]], the title sequence was VFX heavy and slowly constructed (barely in time for NaSTA). Ben's work can be seen in the footstep shots and some of the HUD elements as well as the title shot (foot graciously provided by [[Louis Dickson]]) which was the final shot completed. Also the first time Ben had motion-tracked anything and it hadn't sucked, so that was nice!
|-
| scope="row"| 11
| [[York's Got Talent 2019]]
| Director & Technician
| Ben needed to learn that we owned a decimator, that would've made things so much smoother/less awful.
|-
| scope="row"| 12
| [[Please Sir, There's Been a Murder]]
| Sound Operator, Livestream Technician
| Learned the value of sleep, stared at clocks for hours testing latency, started to strongly dislike the Facebook live-streaming platform. The broadcast stream ended up being a bit unstable due to a sleep-deprived misconfiguration error causing our transcodes to stop crying. 'Solved' at the time by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] monitoring stream health and Ben appropriately spamming ssh commands with forehead while sound mixing.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 13
| [[Election Results Night 2020|60 Second Manifestos 2020]]
| Director, Camera Operator, Editor & Graphics
| [[Cal Cooke | Cal]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]] assisted with shooting the 30 candidates with lighting expertise from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]]. After Effects used for animating the YUSU assets. Used DaVinci Resolve and Nvenc for fast chroma-keying and exports with Edit 3's GPU being fully leveraged, along with some bodging to refine the graphics to never need to be re-rendered from the original comp speeding the process up greatly. Had fun shouting at EncodeSrv as it would misidentify the file's resolution when uploading to the website and transcoding. Ended up throwing files through Adobe Media Encoder as an easy fix. A fake manifesto from Ben may exist somewhere for pipeline testing purposes, this cannot be confirmed.
|-
| scope="row"| 14
| [[Election Results Night 2020|Debate Night 2020]]
| Technician
| Didn't intend to do this, wanted to not do at least one election event. Ended up helping set up and assisted with tech for the start of the stream anyway.
|-
| scope="row"| 15
| [[YUSU Election Results Night 2020 Intro]]
| Director & Camera Operator
| Spent a night running around with [[Olivia Gibbs]], Numi Gildert and Alex West battling bad weather ruining plans and his own inability to balance a gimbal well enough on no battery. Ate Greggs. Shot most of it handheld (not ideal running with no IBIS). Spend an evening making a hash out of the edit. Considered doing half of it live on the night. Saved by Olivia salvaging most of the footage into a good edit which was then tweaked some more into the final product.
|-
| scope="row"| 16
| [[Election Results Night 2020|YUSU Election Results Night 2020]]
| Director
| Directed first major YSTV production having not slept since the day before. Instead, spent the night before the show secretly making the graphics assets with the embargoed names and finishing off the stingers and lower-thirds. Spent that day regretting it. Actual stream was mostly successful and uneventful although all YSTV power did die beforehand as not enough sockets were present at the venue and multiple 1k lights were a step too far. Also, OB1 started being electric shock-y so that was quickly decommissioned and replaced with [[Marty]]. Stream was followed by a full club night at Courtyard. That was followed by sleep, lots of it.
|-
| scope="row"| 17
| [[MMA Fight Night]]
| Graphics Programming
| Second fighting based live-stream he couldn't attend; wasn't happy about that.
|-
| scope="row"| 18
| [[Ben Goes to Kuda- livestream]]
| Director & Producer
| Missed a bus into town, got bored, started streaming to the site from Ben's phone with some basic graphics intermittently through the night, much confusion occurred from the members still in Courtyard.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term (The year of 'rona)'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 19
| [[Quarantine Weekly]]
| Executive Producer
| Despite not having time to work on the actual show, the concept format was the result of an SNL-style hosted variety show pitch from Ben combined with a happy news, game show and campus/member-focused show idea from the wonderful [[Stephanie Shires]] who went on to brilliantly produce the whole series as Ben ended up too busy doing radio stuff.
|-
| scope="row"| 20
| YSTV Rebranding 2020
| Co-designer
| Finished adapting designs by [[Edwin Barnes]] with [[Joe Radford]] and [[Rhys Milling]] to create a complete branding package for all of YSTV's productions.
|}

'''YEAR 2'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|
|
}

=Technical Shenanigans=
* Notable for the discovery of the [[Holy Bodgeble]] in a field one day and has been hard at work translating the contents since
* Dismantled an ATEM to poke a fan once (much to [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew's]] dismay) and then wrote [[The night of the rattly atem|a poem]] about it out of boredom
[[File:working Ben.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ben and [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] [[The night of the rattly atem]]]]

Ben Allen

2020-09-24T07:15:55Z

Bja519:

{{YSTV Member
| first name = Ben
| last name = Allen
| picturefile = Ben_square.jpg
| picturesize = 200px
| active from = 2019
| active until = Present
| positions = Deputy Technical Director
| current location = The YSTV Studio. Definitely.
| degrees = BEng Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems
}}
=About=
Ben Allen, can often found in the studio in the early hours of the morning, screaming at technology, and is a prime example of a dedicated YSTV member. He is an all round lovely guy and is almost constantly busy and tired.

Joining as a fresher during the Give It A Go event in October 2019, Ben almost immediately became heavily involved in YSTV with his first event being a week or two later when YSTV hosted the 2019 NASTA People's choice awards. Acting as technical assistant to [[Technical Director]] [[Andrew Waddle]] during the setup and operation of the show. Having since worked on numerous live and recorded projects, Ben has worked within a variety of technical and operational roles; generally acting as technical and computing assistant to [[Andrew Waddle]] and [[Rhys Milling]] on live shows or working like a bugger with VFX. Not to mention his round the clock commitment to technical [[fuckary]].

See also;
* [[Marty]] Ben's software video switching project which acts as either a 3rd OB unit or a replacement for other server failures.
* [[Election Results Night 2020]]

=Trivia=
*Can be calmed down with a Snickers bar.
*His favourite film is Sharknado, which he once called 'a cinematic masterpiece with an almost ethereal quality'.
*Snack of choice probably a Pot noodle or Dominos pizza

=Productions/Projects=
'''YEAR 1'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| [[YSTV Give It a Go 2019]]
| Tech Intern
| Walked in, knew how an X32 worked, was told to patch XLR by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]], never looked back.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| [[PCAs 2019 Intro]]
| Camera Operator & Actor
| First on-camera credit. Makes a cameo doing sound and looking confused, unfortunately has been stuck with the same expression since.
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| [[PCAs 2019]]
| Camera Operator & Technician
| First role on an actual live YSTV show.
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| [[Bob Ross Livestream]]
| Sound & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time running computers for a live-stream solo.
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| [[RAG Absailing]]
| Editor
| First editing job for YSTV.
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[The Review Club - Wine Tasting]]
| Camera Operator
| Drafted in last minute. Pointed a camera and laughed a lot.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Boozy Broadcasts: Drunk Werewolves]]
| Director, Vision Mixer & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time vision mixing.
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| [[YSTV Sport: Volleyball Autumn 2019]]
| Director & Livestream Technician
| Turns out the internet sucks in the sports centre so was done "as live" as no connection could be found. Spent all of the setup time trying to sort out the new live graphics he'd just got working. Didn't realise he had a remote JQuery dependency and no internet. Cursed the internet and did some running. Eventually, the graphics were working and the majority of the game was recorded with some admittedly out of breath directing.
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Boxing Fight Night Live 2019]]
| Graphics Programmer
| Realised from Volleyball that roughly thrown together Visual Basic, no modularity and constant rewriting didn't make for a good graphics client. Had a better idea, got Marks Polakovs to kindly teach him React over one VERY long night. Rewrote the previous client in React. Came up with initial planning for the Ghostbuster Graphics system. The new Electron-based client ended up being named Luigi's Mansion 2 which was deployed successfully after 20 minutes of testing as Ben could not attend the event. After someone decided to play the maracas with the one validated OB unit, was phoned by Rhys and required to rush home in the car and remotely setup the other OB unit while Rhys was fixing the initial one. The backup unit was not needed in the end.
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Hunted - Episode 2]]
| Title Sequence Graphics
| With additional shots from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]], the title sequence was VFX heavy and slowly constructed (barely in time for NaSTA). Ben's work can be seen in the footstep shots and some of the HUD elements as well as the title shot (foot graciously provided by [[Louis Dickson]]) which was the final shot completed. Also the first time Ben had motion-tracked anything and it hadn't sucked, so that was nice!
|-
| scope="row"| 11
| [[York's Got Talent 2019]]
| Director & Technician
| Ben needed to learn that we owned a decimator, that would've made things so much smoother/less awful.
|-
| scope="row"| 12
| [[Please Sir, There's Been a Murder]]
| Sound Operator, Livestream Technician
| Learned the value of sleep, stared at clocks for hours testing latency, started to strongly dislike the Facebook live-streaming platform. The broadcast stream ended up being a bit unstable due to a sleep-deprived misconfiguration error causing our transcodes to stop crying. 'Solved' at the time by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] monitoring stream health and Ben appropriately spamming ssh commands with forehead while sound mixing.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 13
| [[Election Results Night 2020|60 Second Manifestos 2020]]
| Director, Camera Operator, Editor & Graphics
| [[Cal Cooke | Cal]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]] assisted with shooting the 30 candidates with lighting expertise from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]]. After Effects used for animating the YUSU assets. Used DaVinci Resolve and Nvenc for fast chroma-keying and exports with Edit 3's GPU being fully leveraged, along with some bodging to refine the graphics to never need to be re-rendered from the original comp speeding the process up greatly. Had fun shouting at EncodeSrv as it would misidentify the file's resolution when uploading to the website and transcoding. Ended up throwing files through Adobe Media Encoder as an easy fix. A fake manifesto from Ben may exist somewhere for pipeline testing purposes, this cannot be confirmed.
|-
| scope="row"| 14
| [[Election Results Night 2020|Debate Night 2020]]
| Technician
| Didn't intend to do this, wanted to not do at least one election event. Ended up helping set up and assisted with tech for the start of the stream anyway.
|-
| scope="row"| 15
| [[YUSU Election Results Night 2020 Intro]]
| Director & Camera Operator
| Spent a night running around with [[Olivia Gibbs]], Numi Gildert and Alex West battling bad weather ruining plans and his own inability to balance a gimbal well enough on no battery. Ate Greggs. Shot most of it handheld (not ideal running with no IBIS). Spend an evening making a hash out of the edit. Considered doing half of it live on the night. Saved by Olivia salvaging most of the footage into a good edit which was then tweaked some more into the final product.
|-
| scope="row"| 16
| [[Election Results Night 2020|YUSU Election Results Night 2020]]
| Director
| Directed first major YSTV production having not slept since the day before. Instead, spent the night before the show secretly making the graphics assets with the embargoed names and finishing off the stingers and lower-thirds. Spent that day regretting it. Actual stream was mostly successful and uneventful although all YSTV power did die beforehand as not enough sockets were present at the venue and multiple 1k lights were a step too far. Also, OB1 started being electric shock-y so that was quickly decommissioned and replaced with [[Marty]]. Stream was followed by a full club night at Courtyard. That was followed by sleep, lots of it.
|-
| scope="row"| 17
| [[MMA Fight Night]]
| Graphics Programming
| Second fighting based live-stream he couldn't attend; wasn't happy about that.
|-
| scope="row"| 18
| [[Ben Goes to Kuda- livestream]]
| Director & Producer
| Missed a bus into town, got bored, started streaming to the site from Ben's phone with some basic graphics intermittently through the night, much confusion occurred from the members still in Courtyard.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term (The year of 'rona)'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 19
| [[Quarantine Weekly]]
| Executive Producer
| Despite not having time to work on the actual show, the concept format was the result of an SNL-style hosted variety show pitch from Ben combined with a happy news, game show and campus/member-focused show idea from the wonderful [[Stephanie Shires]] who went on to brilliantly produce the whole series as Ben ended up too busy doing radio stuff.
|-
| scope="row"| 20
| YSTV Rebranding 2020
| Co-designer
| Finished adapting designs by [[Edwin Barnes]] with [[Joe Radford]] and [[Rhys Milling]] to create a complete branding package for all of YSTV's productions.
|}

'''YEAR 2'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|
|-
}

=Technical Shenanigans=
* Notable for the discovery of the [[Holy Bodgeble]] in a field one day and has been hard at work translating the contents since
* Dismantled an ATEM to poke a fan once (much to [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew's]] dismay) and then wrote [[The night of the rattly atem|a poem]] about it out of boredom
[[File:working Ben.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ben and [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] [[The night of the rattly atem]]]]

Marty

2020-09-24T07:12:28Z

Bja519: /* Times Marty has been useful */

'''M'''y
'''A'''tem
'''R'''eplacing
'''T'''elevisual
'''Y'''eet

==About==
Formerly known as Fly and used by [[Tom Lee]] for mysterious dev-things, [[Ben Allen]] found and re-purposed this random server - putting a Decklink Duo 2 inside and setting up a bunch of software to turn in into a third OB unit/video Swiss-Army Knife. To my knowledge it's YSTV's first dive into software video switching.

* Software video switching of the 4x SDI inputs
* CasparCG graphics output via NDI or SDI with alpha
* Testbed for the "Luigi's Mansion" graphics system

==Some times Marty has been useful (from memory)==
* [[Election Results Night 2020]] - (graphics machine for venue signage)

Marty

2020-09-24T07:11:26Z

Bja519: /* About */

'''M'''y
'''A'''tem
'''R'''eplacing
'''T'''elevisual
'''Y'''eet

==About==
Formerly known as Fly and used by [[Tom Lee]] for mysterious dev-things, [[Ben Allen]] found and re-purposed this random server - putting a Decklink Duo 2 inside and setting up a bunch of software to turn in into a third OB unit/video Swiss-Army Knife. To my knowledge it's YSTV's first dive into software video switching.

* Software video switching of the 4x SDI inputs
* CasparCG graphics output via NDI or SDI with alpha
* Testbed for the "Luigi's Mansion" graphics system

==Times Marty has been useful==
* [[Election Results Night 2020]] - (graphics machine for venue signage)

Ben Allen

2020-09-24T07:10:20Z

Bja519: /* Productions/Projects */

{{YSTV Member
| first name = Ben
| last name = Allen
| picturefile = Ben_square.jpg
| picturesize = 200px
| active from = 2019
| active until = Present
| positions = Deputy Technical Director
| current location = The YSTV Studio. Definitely.
| degrees = BEng Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems
}}
=About=
Ben Allen, can often found in the studio in the early hours of the morning, screaming at technology, and is a prime example of a dedicated YSTV member. He is an all round lovely guy and is almost constantly busy and tired.

Joining as a fresher during the Give It A Go event in October 2019, Ben almost immediately became heavily involved in YSTV with his first event being a week or two later when YSTV hosted the 2019 NASTA People's choice awards. Acting as technical assistant to [[Technical Director]] [[Andrew Waddle]] during the setup and operation of the show. Having since worked on numerous live and recorded projects, Ben has worked within a variety of technical and operational roles; generally acting as technical and computing assistant to [[Andrew Waddle]] and [[Rhys Milling]] on live shows or working like a bugger with VFX. Not to mention his round the clock commitment to technical [[fuckary]].

See also;
* [[Marty]] Ben's software video switching project which acts as either a 3rd OB unit or a replacement for other server failures.
* [[Election Results Night 2020]]

=Trivia=
*Can be calmed down with a Snickers bar.
*His favourite film is Sharknado, which he once called 'a cinematic masterpiece with an almost ethereal quality'.
*Snack of choice probably a Pot noodle or Dominos pizza

=Productions/Projects=
'''YEAR 1'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| [[YSTV Give It a Go 2019]]
| Tech Intern
| Walked in, knew how an X32 worked, was told to patch XLR by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]], never looked back.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| [[PCAs 2019 Intro]]
| Camera Operator & Actor
| First on-camera credit. Makes a cameo doing sound and looking confused, unfortunately has been stuck with the same expression since.
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| [[PCAs 2019]]
| Camera Operator & Technician
| First role on an actual live YSTV show.
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| [[Bob Ross Livestream]]
| Sound & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time running computers for a live-stream solo.
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| [[RAG Absailing]]
| Editor
| First editing job for YSTV.
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[The Review Club - Wine Tasting]]
| Camera Operator
| Drafted in last minute. Pointed a camera and laughed a lot.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Boozy Broadcasts: Drunk Werewolves]]
| Director, Vision Mixer & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time vision mixing.
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| [[YSTV Sport: Volleyball Autumn 2019]]
| Director & Livestream Technician
| Turns out the internet sucks in the sports centre so was done "as live" as no connection could be found. Spent all of the setup time trying to sort out the new live graphics he'd just got working. Didn't realise he had a remote JQuery dependency and no internet. Cursed the internet and did some running. Eventually, the graphics were working and the majority of the game was recorded with some admittedly out of breath directing.
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Boxing Fight Night Live 2019]]
| Graphics Programmer
| Realised from Volleyball that roughly thrown together Visual Basic, no modularity and constant rewriting didn't make for a good graphics client. Had a better idea, got Marks Polakovs to kindly teach him React over one VERY long night. Rewrote the previous client in React. Came up with initial planning for the Ghostbuster Graphics system. The new Electron-based client ended up being named Luigi's Mansion 2 which was deployed successfully after 20 minutes of testing as Ben could not attend the event. After someone decided to play the maracas with the one validated OB unit, was phoned by Rhys and required to rush home in the car and remotely setup the other OB unit while Rhys was fixing the initial one. The backup unit was not needed in the end.
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Hunted - Episode 2]]
| Title Sequence Graphics
| With additional shots from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]], the title sequence was VFX heavy and slowly constructed (barely in time for NaSTA). Ben's work can be seen in the footstep shots and some of the HUD elements as well as the title shot (foot graciously provided by [[Louis Dickson]]) which was the final shot completed. Also the first time Ben had motion-tracked anything and it hadn't sucked, so that was nice!
|-
| scope="row"| 11
| [[York's Got Talent 2019]]
| Director & Technician
| Ben needed to learn that we owned a decimator, that would've made things so much smoother/less awful.
|-
| scope="row"| 12
| [[Please Sir, There's Been a Murder]]
| Sound Operator, Livestream Technician
| Learned the value of sleep, stared at clocks for hours testing latency, started to strongly dislike the Facebook live-streaming platform. The broadcast stream ended up being a bit unstable due to a sleep-deprived misconfiguration error causing our transcodes to stop crying. 'Solved' at the time by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] monitoring stream health and Ben appropriately spamming ssh commands with forehead while sound mixing.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 13
| [[Election Results Night 2020|60 Second Manifestos 2020]]
| Director, Camera Operator, Editor & Graphics
| [[Cal Cooke | Cal]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]] assisted with shooting the 30 candidates with lighting expertise from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]]. After Effects used for animating the YUSU assets. Used DaVinci Resolve and Nvenc for fast chroma-keying and exports with Edit 3's GPU being fully leveraged, along with some bodging to refine the graphics to never need to be re-rendered from the original comp speeding the process up greatly. Had fun shouting at EncodeSrv as it would misidentify the file's resolution when uploading to the website and transcoding. Ended up throwing files through Adobe Media Encoder as an easy fix. A fake manifesto from Ben may exist somewhere for pipeline testing purposes, this cannot be confirmed.
|-
| scope="row"| 14
| [[Election Results Night 2020|Debate Night 2020]]
| Technician
| Didn't intend to do this, wanted to not do at least one election event. Ended up helping set up and assisted with tech for the start of the stream anyway.
|-
| scope="row"| 15
| [[YUSU Election Results Night 2020 Intro]]
| Director & Camera Operator
| Spent a night running around with [[Olivia Gibbs]], Numi Gildert and Alex West battling bad weather ruining plans and his own inability to balance a gimbal well enough on no battery. Ate Greggs. Shot most of it handheld (not ideal running with no IBIS). Spend an evening making a hash out of the edit. Considered doing half of it live on the night. Saved by Olivia salvaging most of the footage into a good edit which was then tweaked some more into the final product.
|-
| scope="row"| 16
| [[Election Results Night 2020|YUSU Election Results Night 2020]]
| Director
| Directed first major YSTV production having not slept since the day before. Instead, spent the night before the show secretly making the graphics assets with the embargoed names and finishing off the stingers and lower-thirds. Spent that day regretting it. Actual stream was mostly successful and uneventful although all YSTV power did die beforehand as not enough sockets were present at the venue and multiple 1k lights were a step too far. Also, OB1 started being electric shock-y so that was quickly decommissioned and replaced with [[Marty]]. Stream was followed by a full club night at Courtyard. That was followed by sleep, lots of it.
|-
| scope="row"| 17
| [[MMA Fight Night]]
| Graphics Programming
| Second fighting based live-stream he couldn't attend; wasn't happy about that.
|-
| scope="row"| 18
| [[Ben Goes to Kuda- livestream]]
| Director & Producer
| Missed a bus into town, got bored, started streaming to the site from Ben's phone with some basic graphics intermittently through the night, much confusion occurred from the members still in Courtyard.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 19
| [[Quarantine Weekly]]
| Executive Producer
| Despite not having time to work on the actual show, the concept format was the result of an SNL-style hosted variety show pitch from Ben combined with a happy news, game show and campus/member-focused show idea from the wonderful [[Stephanie Shires]] who went on to brilliantly produce the whole series as Ben ended up too busy doing radio stuff.
|-
| scope="row"| 20
| YSTV Rebranding 2020
| Co-designer
| Finished adapting designs by [[Edwin Barnes]] with [[Joe Radford]] and [[Rhys Milling]] to create a complete branding package for all of YSTV's productions.
|}

=Technical Shenanigans=
* Notable for the discovery of the [[Holy Bodgeble]] in a field one day and has been hard at work translating the contents since
* Dismantled an ATEM to poke a fan once (much to [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew's]] dismay) and then wrote [[The night of the rattly atem|a poem]] about it out of boredom
[[File:working Ben.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ben and [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] [[The night of the rattly atem]]]]

Drive Crash 5: Don’t rain on my paRAID

2020-09-16T19:59:17Z

Bja519:

== 14th September ==
15:55 - Rhys swaps new harddrive into Web and begins building array

16:45 - Rhys declares a state of “not ideal”

16:50 - Rhys calls Ben (packing last minute to go back to York)

16:52 - Preemptive DEFCON of “Fire...?” Declared

16:54 - DEFCON level formalised as “Not ideal”

16:55 - Wiki entry started on Ben’s phone

17:10 - Temporary landing-page created by Ben (link to twitter added later)

17:30 - Rhys’ phone is dying and he needs food

18:29 - Stargate is out of disk space

19:30 - Rhys is bleeding

20:05 - Rhys is still bleeding, also single user mode gives Matt Strat unhappy memories

21:53 - Motherboard swapped and web is POST-ing

== 15th September ==
16:00 - Normality restored by Rhys

19:00 - Backup to McKellen started by Rhys

[[Category:Drive_Crashes]]

Drive Crash 5: Don’t rain on my paRAID

2020-09-16T19:58:10Z

Bja519:

Drive Crash 5: Don’t rain on my paRAID

2020-09-16T19:57:05Z

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== 14th September ==
15:55 - Rhys swaps new harddrive into Web and begins building array

16:45 - Rhys declares a state of “not ideal”

16:50 - Rhys calls Ben (packing last minute to go back to York)

16:52 - Preemptive DEFCON of “Fire...?” Declared

16:54 - DEFCON level formalised as “Not ideal”

16:55 - wiki entry started on phone

17:10 - temporary landing-page created

17:30 - Rhys’ phone is dying and he needs food

18:29 - Stargate is out of disk space

19:30 - Rhys is bleeding

20:05 - Rhys is still bleeding, also single user mode gives Matt Strat unhappy memories

21:53 - Motherboard swapped and web is POST-ing

== 15th September ==
16:00 - Normality restored

19:00 - Backup to McKellen started

Ben Allen

2020-06-19T01:51:14Z

Bja519: /* Trivia */

{{YSTV Member
| first name = Ben
| last name = Allen
| picturefile = Ben_square.jpg
| picturesize = 200px
| active from = 2019
| active until = Present
| positions = Deputy Technical Director
| current location = The YSTV Studio. Definitely.
| degrees = BEng Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems
}}
=About=
Ben Allen, can often found in the studio in the early hours of the morning, screaming at technology, and is a prime example of a dedicated YSTV member. He is an all round lovely guy and is almost constantly busy and tired.

Joining as a fresher during the Give It A Go event in October 2019, Ben almost immediately became heavily involved in YSTV with his first event being a week or two later when YSTV hosted the 2019 NASTA People's choice awards. Acting as technical assistant to [[Technical Director]] [[Andrew Waddle]] during the setup and operation of the show. Having since worked on numerous live and recorded projects, Ben has worked within a variety of technical and operational roles; generally acting as technical and computing assistant to [[Andrew Waddle]] and [[Rhys Milling]] on live shows or working like a bugger with VFX. Not to mention his round the clock commitment to technical [[fuckary]].

See also;
* [[Marty]] Ben's software video switching project which acts as either a 3rd OB unit or a replacement for other server failures.
* [[Election Results Night 2020]]

=Trivia=
*Can be calmed down with a Snickers bar.
*His favourite film is Sharknado, which he once called 'a cinematic masterpiece with an almost ethereal quality'.
*Snack of choice probably a Pot noodle or Dominos pizza

=Productions/Projects=
'''YEAR 1'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| [[YSTV Give It a Go 2019]]
| Tech Intern
| Walked in, knew how an X32 worked, was told to patch XLR by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]], never looked back.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| [[PCAs 2019 Intro]]
| Camera Operator & Actor
| First on-camera credit. Makes a cameo doing sound and looking confused, unfortunately has been stuck with the same expression since.
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| [[PCAs 2019]]
| Camera Operator & Technician
| First role on an actual live YSTV show.
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| [[Bob Ross Livestream]]
| Sound & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time running computers for a live-stream solo.
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| [[RAG Absailing]]
| Editor
| First editing job for YSTV.
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[The Review Club - Wine Tasting]]
| Camera Operator
| Drafted in last minute. Pointed a camera and laughed a lot.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Boozy Broadcasts: Drunk Werewolves]]
| Director, Vision Mixer & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time vision mixing.
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| [[YSTV Sport: Volleyball Autumn 2019]]
| Director & Livestream Technician
| Turns out the internet sucks in the sports centre so was done "as live" as no connection could be found. Spent all of the setup time trying to sort out the new live graphics he'd just got working. Didn't realise he had a remote JQuery dependency and no internet. Cursed the internet and did some running. Eventually, the graphics were working and the majority of the game was recorded with some admittedly out of breath directing.
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Boxing Fight Night Live 2019]]
| Graphics Programmer
| Realised from Volleyball that roughly thrown together Visual Basic, no modularity and constant rewriting didn't make for a good graphics client. Had a better idea, got Marks Polakovs to kindly teach him React over one VERY long night. Rewrote the previous client in React. Came up with initial planning for the Ghostbuster Graphics system. The new Electron-based client ended up being named Luigi's Mansion 2 which was deployed successfully after 20 minutes of testing as Ben could not attend the event. After someone decided to play the maracas with the one validated OB unit, was phoned by Rhys and required to rush home in the car and remotely setup the other OB unit while Rhys was fixing the initial one. The backup unit was not needed in the end.
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Hunted - Episode 2]]
| Title Sequence Graphics
| With additional shots from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]], the title sequence was VFX heavy and slowly constructed (barely in time for NaSTA). Ben's work can be seen in the footstep shots and some of the HUD elements as well as the title shot (foot graciously provided by [[Louis Dickson]]) which was the final shot completed. Also the first time Ben had motion-tracked anything and it hadn't sucked, so that was nice!
|-
| scope="row"| 11
| [[York's Got Talent 2019]]
| Director & Technician
| Ben needed to learn that we owned a decimator, that would've made things so much smoother/less awful.
|-
| scope="row"| 12
| [[Please Sir, There's Been a Murder]]
| Sound Operator, Livestream Technician
| Learned the value of sleep, stared at clocks for hours testing latency, started to strongly dislike the Facebook live-streaming platform. The broadcast stream ended up being a bit unstable due to a sleep-deprived misconfiguration error causing our transcodes to stop crying. 'Solved' at the time by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] monitoring stream health and Ben appropriately spamming ssh commands with forehead while sound mixing.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 13
| [[Election Results Night 2020|60 Second Manifestos 2020]]
| Director, Camera Operator, Editor & Graphics
| [[Cal Cooke | Cal]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]] assisted with shooting the 30 candidates with lighting expertise from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]]. After Effects used for animating the YUSU assets. Used DaVinci Resolve and Nvenc for fast chroma-keying and exports with Edit 3's GPU being fully leveraged, along with some bodging to refine the graphics to never need to be re-rendered from the original comp speeding the process up greatly. Had fun shouting at EncodeSrv as it would misidentify the file's resolution when uploading to the website and transcoding. Ended up throwing files through Adobe Media Encoder as an easy fix. A fake manifesto from Ben may exist somewhere for pipeline testing purposes, this cannot be confirmed.
|-
| scope="row"| 14
| [[Election Results Night 2020|Debate Night 2020]]
| Technician
| Didn't intend to do this, wanted to not do at least one election event. Ended up helping set up and assisted with tech for the start of the stream anyway.
|-
| scope="row"| 15
| [[YUSU Election Results Night 2020 Intro]]
| Director & Camera Operator
| Spent a night running around with [[Olivia Gibbs]], Numi Gildert and Alex West battling bad weather ruining plans and his own inability to balance a gimbal well enough on no battery. Ate Greggs. Shot most of it handheld (not ideal running with no IBIS). Spend an evening making a hash out of the edit. Considered doing half of it live on the night. Saved by Olivia salvaging most of the footage into a good edit which was then tweaked some more into the final product.
|-
| scope="row"| 16
| [[Election Results Night 2020|YUSU Election Results Night 2020]]
| Director
| Directed first major YSTV production having not slept since the day before. Instead, spent the night before the show secretly making the graphics assets with the embargoed names and finishing off the stingers and lower-thirds. Spent that day regretting it. Actual stream was mostly successful and uneventful although all YSTV power did die beforehand as not enough sockets were present at the venue and multiple 1k lights were a step too far. Also, OB1 started being electric shock-y so that was quickly decommissioned and replaced with [[Marty]]. Stream was followed by a full club night at Courtyard. That was followed by sleep, lots of it.
|-
| scope="row"| 17
| [[MMA Fight Night]]
| Graphics Programming
| Second fighting based live-stream he couldn't attend; wasn't happy about that.
|-
| scope="row"| 18
| [[Ben Goes to Kuda- livestream]]
| Director & Producer
| Missed a bus into town, got bored, started streaming to the site from Ben's phone with some basic graphics intermittently through the night, much confusion occurred from the members still in Courtyard.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 19
| [[Quarantine Weekly]]
| Executive Producer
| Despite not having time to work on the actual show, the concept format was the result of an SNL-style hosted variety show pitch from Ben combined with a happy news, game show and campus/member-focused show idea from the wonderful [[Stephanie Shires]] who went on to brilliantly produce the whole series as Ben ended up too busy doing radio stuff.
|-
| scope="row"| 20
| YSTV Rebranding 2020
| Co-designer
| Finished adapting designs by [[Edwin Barnes]] with [[Joe Radford]] to create a complete branding package for all of YSTV's productions.
|}

=Technical Shenanigans=
* Notable for the discovery of the [[Holy Bodgeble]] in a field one day and has been hard at work translating the contents since
* Dismantled an ATEM to poke a fan once (much to [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew's]] dismay) and then wrote [[The night of the rattly atem|a poem]] about it out of boredom
[[File:working Ben.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ben and [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] [[The night of the rattly atem]]]]

Ben Allen

2020-06-19T01:50:44Z

Bja519: /* Productions */

{{YSTV Member
| first name = Ben
| last name = Allen
| picturefile = Ben_square.jpg
| picturesize = 200px
| active from = 2019
| active until = Present
| positions = Deputy Technical Director
| current location = The YSTV Studio. Definitely.
| degrees = BEng Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems
}}
=About=
Ben Allen, can often found in the studio in the early hours of the morning, screaming at technology, and is a prime example of a dedicated YSTV member. He is an all round lovely guy and is almost constantly busy and tired.

Joining as a fresher during the Give It A Go event in October 2019, Ben almost immediately became heavily involved in YSTV with his first event being a week or two later when YSTV hosted the 2019 NASTA People's choice awards. Acting as technical assistant to [[Technical Director]] [[Andrew Waddle]] during the setup and operation of the show. Having since worked on numerous live and recorded projects, Ben has worked within a variety of technical and operational roles; generally acting as technical and computing assistant to [[Andrew Waddle]] and [[Rhys Milling]] on live shows or working like a bugger with VFX. Not to mention his round the clock commitment to technical [[fuckary]].

See also;
* [[Marty]] Ben's software video switching project which acts as either a 3rd OB unit or a replacement for other server failures.
* [[Election Results Night 2020]]

=Trivia=
*Can be calmed down with a snickers bar.
*His favourite film is Sharknado, which he once called 'a cinematic masterpiece with an almost ethereal quality'.
*Snack of choice probably a Pot noodle or dominos

=Productions/Projects=
'''YEAR 1'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 1
| [[YSTV Give It a Go 2019]]
| Tech Intern
| Walked in, knew how an X32 worked, was told to patch XLR by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]], never looked back.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| [[PCAs 2019 Intro]]
| Camera Operator & Actor
| First on-camera credit. Makes a cameo doing sound and looking confused, unfortunately has been stuck with the same expression since.
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| [[PCAs 2019]]
| Camera Operator & Technician
| First role on an actual live YSTV show.
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| [[Bob Ross Livestream]]
| Sound & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time running computers for a live-stream solo.
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| [[RAG Absailing]]
| Editor
| First editing job for YSTV.
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[The Review Club - Wine Tasting]]
| Camera Operator
| Drafted in last minute. Pointed a camera and laughed a lot.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Boozy Broadcasts: Drunk Werewolves]]
| Director, Vision Mixer & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time vision mixing.
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| [[YSTV Sport: Volleyball Autumn 2019]]
| Director & Livestream Technician
| Turns out the internet sucks in the sports centre so was done "as live" as no connection could be found. Spent all of the setup time trying to sort out the new live graphics he'd just got working. Didn't realise he had a remote JQuery dependency and no internet. Cursed the internet and did some running. Eventually, the graphics were working and the majority of the game was recorded with some admittedly out of breath directing.
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Boxing Fight Night Live 2019]]
| Graphics Programmer
| Realised from Volleyball that roughly thrown together Visual Basic, no modularity and constant rewriting didn't make for a good graphics client. Had a better idea, got Marks Polakovs to kindly teach him React over one VERY long night. Rewrote the previous client in React. Came up with initial planning for the Ghostbuster Graphics system. The new Electron-based client ended up being named Luigi's Mansion 2 which was deployed successfully after 20 minutes of testing as Ben could not attend the event. After someone decided to play the maracas with the one validated OB unit, was phoned by Rhys and required to rush home in the car and remotely setup the other OB unit while Rhys was fixing the initial one. The backup unit was not needed in the end.
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Hunted - Episode 2]]
| Title Sequence Graphics
| With additional shots from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]], the title sequence was VFX heavy and slowly constructed (barely in time for NaSTA). Ben's work can be seen in the footstep shots and some of the HUD elements as well as the title shot (foot graciously provided by [[Louis Dickson]]) which was the final shot completed. Also the first time Ben had motion-tracked anything and it hadn't sucked, so that was nice!
|-
| scope="row"| 11
| [[York's Got Talent 2019]]
| Director & Technician
| Ben needed to learn that we owned a decimator, that would've made things so much smoother/less awful.
|-
| scope="row"| 12
| [[Please Sir, There's Been a Murder]]
| Sound Operator, Livestream Technician
| Learned the value of sleep, stared at clocks for hours testing latency, started to strongly dislike the Facebook live-streaming platform. The broadcast stream ended up being a bit unstable due to a sleep-deprived misconfiguration error causing our transcodes to stop crying. 'Solved' at the time by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] monitoring stream health and Ben appropriately spamming ssh commands with forehead while sound mixing.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 13
| [[Election Results Night 2020|60 Second Manifestos 2020]]
| Director, Camera Operator, Editor & Graphics
| [[Cal Cooke | Cal]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]] assisted with shooting the 30 candidates with lighting expertise from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]]. After Effects used for animating the YUSU assets. Used DaVinci Resolve and Nvenc for fast chroma-keying and exports with Edit 3's GPU being fully leveraged, along with some bodging to refine the graphics to never need to be re-rendered from the original comp speeding the process up greatly. Had fun shouting at EncodeSrv as it would misidentify the file's resolution when uploading to the website and transcoding. Ended up throwing files through Adobe Media Encoder as an easy fix. A fake manifesto from Ben may exist somewhere for pipeline testing purposes, this cannot be confirmed.
|-
| scope="row"| 14
| [[Election Results Night 2020|Debate Night 2020]]
| Technician
| Didn't intend to do this, wanted to not do at least one election event. Ended up helping set up and assisted with tech for the start of the stream anyway.
|-
| scope="row"| 15
| [[YUSU Election Results Night 2020 Intro]]
| Director & Camera Operator
| Spent a night running around with [[Olivia Gibbs]], Numi Gildert and Alex West battling bad weather ruining plans and his own inability to balance a gimbal well enough on no battery. Ate Greggs. Shot most of it handheld (not ideal running with no IBIS). Spend an evening making a hash out of the edit. Considered doing half of it live on the night. Saved by Olivia salvaging most of the footage into a good edit which was then tweaked some more into the final product.
|-
| scope="row"| 16
| [[Election Results Night 2020|YUSU Election Results Night 2020]]
| Director
| Directed first major YSTV production having not slept since the day before. Instead, spent the night before the show secretly making the graphics assets with the embargoed names and finishing off the stingers and lower-thirds. Spent that day regretting it. Actual stream was mostly successful and uneventful although all YSTV power did die beforehand as not enough sockets were present at the venue and multiple 1k lights were a step too far. Also, OB1 started being electric shock-y so that was quickly decommissioned and replaced with [[Marty]]. Stream was followed by a full club night at Courtyard. That was followed by sleep, lots of it.
|-
| scope="row"| 17
| [[MMA Fight Night]]
| Graphics Programming
| Second fighting based live-stream he couldn't attend; wasn't happy about that.
|-
| scope="row"| 18
| [[Ben Goes to Kuda- livestream]]
| Director & Producer
| Missed a bus into town, got bored, started streaming to the site from Ben's phone with some basic graphics intermittently through the night, much confusion occurred from the members still in Courtyard.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 19
| [[Quarantine Weekly]]
| Executive Producer
| Despite not having time to work on the actual show, the concept format was the result of an SNL-style hosted variety show pitch from Ben combined with a happy news, game show and campus/member-focused show idea from the wonderful [[Stephanie Shires]] who went on to brilliantly produce the whole series as Ben ended up too busy doing radio stuff.
|-
| scope="row"| 20
| YSTV Rebranding 2020
| Co-designer
| Finished adapting designs by [[Edwin Barnes]] with [[Joe Radford]] to create a complete branding package for all of YSTV's productions.
|}

=Technical Shenanigans=
* Notable for the discovery of the [[Holy Bodgeble]] in a field one day and has been hard at work translating the contents since
* Dismantled an ATEM to poke a fan once (much to [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew's]] dismay) and then wrote [[The night of the rattly atem|a poem]] about it out of boredom
[[File:working Ben.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ben and [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] [[The night of the rattly atem]]]]

Ben Allen

2020-06-19T01:38:43Z

Bja519: /* Productions */

{{YSTV Member
| first name = Ben
| last name = Allen
| picturefile = Ben_square.jpg
| picturesize = 200px
| active from = 2019
| active until = Present
| positions = Deputy Technical Director
| current location = The YSTV Studio. Definitely.
| degrees = BEng Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems
}}
=About=
Ben Allen, can often found in the studio in the early hours of the morning, screaming at technology, and is a prime example of a dedicated YSTV member. He is an all round lovely guy and is almost constantly busy and tired.

Joining as a fresher during the Give It A Go event in October 2019, Ben almost immediately became heavily involved in YSTV with his first event being a week or two later when YSTV hosted the 2019 NASTA People's choice awards. Acting as technical assistant to [[Technical Director]] [[Andrew Waddle]] during the setup and operation of the show. Having since worked on numerous live and recorded projects, Ben has worked within a variety of technical and operational roles; generally acting as technical and computing assistant to [[Andrew Waddle]] and [[Rhys Milling]] on live shows or working like a bugger with VFX. Not to mention his round the clock commitment to technical [[fuckary]].

See also;
* [[Marty]] Ben's software video switching project which acts as either a 3rd OB unit or a replacement for other server failures.
* [[Election Results Night 2020]]

=Trivia=
*Can be calmed down with a snickers bar.
*His favourite film is Sharknado, which he once called 'a cinematic masterpiece with an almost ethereal quality'.
*Snack of choice probably a Pot noodle or dominos

=Productions=
'''YEAR 1'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
| scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Position
! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical)
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Autumn Term'''
|
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|-
| scope="row"| 1
| [[YSTV Give It a Go 2019]]
| Tech Intern
| Walked in, knew how an X32 worked, was told to patch XLR by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]], never looked back.
|-
| scope="row"| 2
| [[PCAs 2019 Intro]]
| Camera Operator & Actor
| First on-camera credit. Makes a cameo doing sound and looking confused, unfortunately has been stuck with the same expression since.
|-
| scope="row"| 3
| [[PCAs 2019]]
| Camera Operator & Technician
| First role on an actual live YSTV show.
|-
| scope="row"| 4
| [[Bob Ross Livestream]]
| Sound & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time running computers for a live-stream solo.
|-
| scope="row"| 5
| [[RAG Absailing]]
| Editor
| First editing job for YSTV.
|-
| scope="row"| 6
| [[The Review Club - Wine Tasting]]
| Camera Operator
| Drafted in last minute. Pointed a camera and laughed a lot.
|-
| scope="row"| 7
| [[Boozy Broadcasts: Drunk Werewolves]]
| Director, Vision Mixer & Livestream Technician
| Spent most of the time laughing. First time vision mixing.
|-
| scope="row"| 8
| [[YSTV Sport: Volleyball Autumn 2019]]
| Director & Livestream Technician
| Turns out the internet sucks in the sports centre so was done "as live" as no connection could be found. Spent all of the setup time trying to sort out the new live graphics he'd just got working. Didn't realise he had a remote JQuery dependency and no internet. Cursed the internet and did some running. Eventually, the graphics were working and the majority of the game was recorded with some admittedly out of breath directing.
|-
| scope="row"| 9
| [[Boxing Fight Night Live 2019]]
| Graphics Programmer
| Realised from Volleyball that roughly thrown together Visual Basic, no modularity and constant rewriting didn't make for a good graphics client. Had a better idea, got Marks Polakovs to kindly teach him React over one VERY long night. Rewrote the previous client in React. Came up with initial planning for the Ghostbuster Graphics system. The new Electron-based client ended up being named Luigi's Mansion 2 which was deployed successfully after 20 minutes of testing as Ben could not attend the event. After someone decided to play the maracas with the one validated OB unit, was phoned by Rhys and required to rush home in the car and remotely setup the other OB unit while Rhys was fixing the initial one. The backup unit was not needed in the end.
|-
| scope="row"| 10
| [[Hunted - Episode 2]]
| Title Sequence Graphics
| With additional shots from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]], the title sequence was VFX heavy and slowly constructed (barely in time for NaSTA). Ben's work can be seen in the footstep shots and some of the HUD elements as well as the title shot (foot graciously provided by [[Louis Dickson]]) which was the final shot completed. Also the first time Ben had motion-tracked anything and it hadn't sucked, so that was nice!
|-
| scope="row"| 11
| [[York's Got Talent 2019]]
| Director & Technician
| Ben needed to learn that we owned a decimator, that would've made things so much smoother/less awful.
|-
| scope="row"| 12
| [[Please Sir, There's Been a Murder]]
| Sound Operator, Livestream Technician
| Learned the value of sleep, stared at clocks for hours testing latency, started to strongly dislike the Facebook live-streaming platform. The broadcast stream ended up being a bit unstable due to a sleep-deprived misconfiguration error causing our transcodes to stop crying. 'Solved' at the time by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] monitoring stream health and Ben appropriately spamming ssh commands with forehead while sound mixing.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Spring Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 13
| [[Election Results Night 2020|60 Second Manifestos 2020]]
| Director, Camera Operator, Editor & Graphics
|
|-
| scope="row"| 14
| [[Election Results Night 2020|Debate Night 2020]]
| Technician
| Didn't intend to do this, wanted to not do at least one election event. Ended up helping set up and assisted with tech for the start of the stream anyway.
|-
| scope="row"| 15
| [[YUSU Election Results Night 2020 Intro]]
| Director & Camera Operator
| Spent a night running around with [[Olivia Gibbs]], Numi Gildert and Alex West battling bad weather ruining plans and his own inability to balance a gimbal well enough on no battery. Ate Greggs. Shot most of it handheld (not ideal running with no IBIS). Spend an evening making a hash out of the edit. Considered doing half of it live on the night. Saved by Olivia salvaging most of the footage into a good edit which was then tweaked some more into the final product.
|-
| scope="row"| 16
| [[Election Results Night 2020|YUSU Election Results Night 2020]]
| Director
| Directed first major YSTV production having not slept since the day before. Instead, spent the night before the show secretly making the graphics assets with the embargoed names and finishing off the stingers and lower-thirds. Spent that day regretting it. Actual stream was mostly successful and uneventful although all YSTV power did die beforehand as not enough sockets were present at the venue and multiple 1k lights were a step too far. Also, OB1 started being electric shock-y so that was quickly decommissioned and replaced with [[Marty]]. Stream was followed by a full club night at Courtyard. That was followed by sleep, lots of it.
|-
| scope="row"| 17
| [[MMA Fight Night]]
| Graphics Programming
|
|-
| scope="row"| 18
| [[Ben Goes to Kuda- livestream]]
| Director & Producer
| Missed a bus into town, got bored, started streaming to the site from Ben's phone with some basic graphics intermittently through the night, much confusion occurred from the members still in Courtyard.
|-
| scope="row"|
| '''Summer Term'''
|
|
|-
| scope="row"| 19
| [[Quarantine Weekly]]
| Executive Producer
| Despite not having time to work on the actual show, the concept format was the result of an SNL-style hosted variety show pitch from Ben combined with a happy news, game show and campus/member-focused show idea from the wonderful [[Stephanie Shires]] who went on to brilliantly produce the whole series as Ben ended up too busy doing radio stuff.
|-
| scope="row"| 20
| YSTV Rebranding 2020
| Co-designer
| Finished adapting designs by [[Edwin Barnes]] with [[Joe Radford]] to create a complete branding package for all of YSTV's productions.
|}

=Technical Shenanigans=
* Notable for the discovery of the [[Holy Bodgeble]] in a field one day and has been hard at work translating the contents since
* Dismantled an ATEM to poke a fan once (much to [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew's]] dismay) and then wrote [[The night of the rattly atem|a poem]] about it out of boredom
[[File:working Ben.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ben and [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] [[The night of the rattly atem]]]]

Ben Allen

2020-06-19T00:55:52Z

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User:Lthomasd

2020-06-19T00:25:23Z

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User talk:Lthomasd

2020-06-19T00:19:18Z

Bja519: Welcome!

'''Welcome to ''YSTV History Wiki''!'''
We hope you will contribute much and well.
You will probably want to read the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Contents help pages].
Again, welcome and have fun! [[User:Bja519|Bja519]] ([[User talk:Bja519|talk]]) 01:19, 19 June 2020 (BST)

Ben Allen

2020-05-04T23:47:18Z

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Elections 2020

2020-04-25T23:44:28Z

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{{Production Info
| name = Elections 2020
| genre = Events Coverage
| start date = 22/02/20
| producers = [[Cal Cooke]], [[Olivia Gibbs]], [[Joe Radford]], [[Ben Allen]], [[Thomas Schubert]]
}}

=60 Second Manifestos=
==Credits==
* Produced by: [[Ben Allen]], [[Thomas Schubert]], [[Cal Cooke]]
* Crew: [[Ben Allen]], [[Cal Cooke]], [[Alize Akturk]]

* Graphics and post production: [[Ben Allen]]
* Gaffer: [[Andrew Waddle]]

==Event==
The yearly 60 sms production went fairly without a hitch, with fewer candidates than [[Elections 2019]] the process was a lot smoother and faster in run-through. With [[Ben Allen]] at the helm of the shoot days, and the post work, the process was refined and new production methods implemented (mainly using DaVinci Resolve to do the keying). The videos included one sent in remotely, and the rules have been adapted both on YSTV's end and from YUSU to allow for this in future. (The candidate records their video under the normal conditions while being watched over skype by a YSTV producer). The response both from YUSU and from candidates was very positive.

==Technical Issues==
===EncodeSrv===
During the same time period as 60 sms the computing team had finally swapped away from their old transcoders to their new transcoders, the bytemarks. Whilst this was an upgrade since it provided extra space in the studio, the software however was not completely installed on them. Where they were only capable of transcoding livestreams not completing encoding jobs. So in order to ensure that the videos would be available to watch on the website, the computing team setup EncodeSrv, the software that handles all our rendering, the issue being was a lack of documentation and the software was based on Python 2.7. So over a period of a week the software was brought up to use Python 3.8. However, during the haste of development there ended up being 4 different variants of the software being deployed for the 60 sms due to the encoding jobs failing and patches were made to the software on the fly. Luckily, all the videos were able to be processed in time to be released to the public.
===Uploading to the website===
Due to an issue with how the YSTV website processes videos it was generating incorrect encode jobs for the videos that Ben had produced through DaVinci Resolve. Likely caused by the YSTV website not being "familiar" with the files generated by Resolve, [[Ben Allen| Ben]] transcoded the video files with AME so the website could generate the correct jobs. This issue is currently still under investigation.

=Debate Night=
==Credits==
* Produced by: [[Joe Radford]]
* Directed by: [[Joe Radford]]

* Technical Lead: [[Andrew Waddle]]
* Technical team: [[Andrew Waddle]], [[Will Stirk]], [[Rhys Milling]], [[Ben Allen]]
* Computing: [[Rhys Milling]]

* Vision Mixer: [[Thomas Schubert]]
* Sound: [[Andrew Waddle]]
* Graphics Op: [[Joe Radford]]

* Camera ops: [[Adam Hilton]], [[Wilfred Hodder]], [[Sophie Bolwell-Davies]], [[Will Stirk]]

==Event==
The show was run primarily by [[Joe Radford]] with a minimal crew, working to the YUSU event plan in D bar. The show stream was almost a total success from the YSTV side, with only 1 footage issue in the recorded version. The livestream was, as so often, held together by literal [[Bodge|gaffer tape]]; with the Ethernet cable for the stream up-link held in with tape. No massive failures occurred, and the only real issue was the Derwent technical staff (running the stage sound) causing a whole load of reverb every time new people would speak. Another issue was that their wireless mic system ran on the exact same frequency as our comms. Combined with their insistence on leaving faders up this lead to [[Joe Radford | Joe's]] voice being occasionally broadcast across their speakers until [[Ben Allen| Ben]] got sick of waiting for them to realize this and unplugged their other microphone from their desk. This fixed the issue on a more permanent basis for the rest of the event.

Owing to some new lighting equipment from the Electronic Engineering Department, the stream looked somewhat better than years previously with the AC90 cameras working far better when aimed at a stage flooded with 2000 Watts of light.

This show was only 3 days before the [[NASTA 2020]] submission deadline for new work, so many of those involved and much of the rest of YSTV was busy in editing crunch.

=Election Results Night=
==Credits==

* Produced by: [[Thomas Schubert]], [[Cal Cooke]], [[Joe Radford]], [[Olivia Gibbs]]
* Directed by: [[Ben Allen]]
* Presenters: [[Louis Dickson]], [[Thomas Schubert]]

* Technical Lead: [[Andrew Waddle]]
* Technical team: [[Andrew Waddle]], [[Will Stirk]], [[Rhys Milling]]
* Computing: [[Rhys Milling]], [[Marks Polakovs]]

* Vision Mixers: [[Morgan McKay]], [[Jonathan Hughes]]
* Sound: [[Jacob Boyle]]
* Graphics Op: [[Marks Polakovs]]
* Live highlights: [[Marta Vitola]]

* Floor managers: [[Zoë Dickinson]], [[Joe Radford]]
* Camera ops: [[Alize Akturk]], [[Wilfred Hodder]], [[Karinna Hollins]], [[Caroline Preynat-Viero]], [[Joseph Wharfe]], [[Sophie Bolwell-Davies]]
* Social Media: [[Jack Carter]]

<nowiki>#</nowiki>Chillandmingle

This was a special OB since it involved two OB units being used, a lot more cameras than a regular OB, and the VideoHub two to a lack of capacity on the ATEM. OB2 handled our main stream whilst OB1 handled the YUSU stream which played out graphics in The Lounge.

==Event==
The ERN show is always one of the largest productions of a typical YSTV year, with normally upwards of 20 people involved on the crew just from YSTV. It is also an occasion to work with both TechSoc (Technical theatre) and URY on the technical end, and YUSU on the planning and delivery end.

The 2020 show was fairly [[bodge|bodged]] together at the last minute, owing to it falling in the middle of 3rd year assessments and 2nd year TFTV films. This took a lot of the normal YSTV team out as they were either planning their own films or helping on someone else's. The planning was done with YUSU about 48 hours before live which was a tad bit difficult and rather stressful. With 2 OB units being required to service the different feeds of the internal (venue) stream, playing out YUSU graphics etc, and the online live stream (YUSU graphics combined with camera feeds). With TecSoc handling the venue install, our setup was mainly the twin galleries and our studio. Despite a number of issues during the setup and rehearsal, including a total power failure and very painful electric shocks, the show was ready on time and went off mainly without a fault.

'''Note''' The decision was taken not to push the stream to either Facebook or YouTube on the off-chance that back-ground music would cause a take-down (YUSU events tend to have licence music played during and YSTV is not included in said licence). The stream was instead pushed just to the YSTV website.

==Technical Issues==
===Power delivery===
Upon arrival of The Lounge with the OB units the tech team made the discovery that the outlet in the wall we had connected the OB unit to lacked any electricity. So we then proceeded to swap to the other outlet on the other side of the wall, this one did work and until the moment when we had planned to go live everything was going well until we managed to blow a fuse in one of the sockets. It turned out that it was not a good idea to run nearly all of our equipment on two outlets, we were able to quickly resolve this issue by swapping the fuse and Tech Soc providing us one of their 16A outlets.
This had also sadly caused the stream to die, which required [[Rhys Milling|Rhys]] to jog all the way to courtyard where it had been playing out but had died to the connection loss.
In addition, when the OB units were switched back on we were struck with an OS not found screen on our graphics computer for OB2, this caused great distress, but it turned out that a USB had been left in the computer that was originally being used to transfer the embargoed graphics but it had also been used previously to boot an OS which we didn't realise at first. Upon discovery, a quick unplug, a power-on and we were back in action.

===Networking===
There was significant issues that occurred in regards to networking. Firstly, the laptops were connected through WiFi which displeased [[Matthew Stratford|Matthew]] and [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] greatly. This was likely caused by the fact the A/V control software kept on disconnecting, a better WiFi AP would probably have resolved this slight issue. [[Rhys Milling|Rhys]] attempted to resolve this by connecting them all to OB2's switch but this resulted in the laptop's unable to get IP addresses. This was not ideal. It appeared that none of the laptop's could discover the DHCP server, reasons are still unknown to this day, although it was likely a faulty config file made by [[Rhys Milling|Rhys]] and a DNS server issue. So in order to resolve this issue we had to setup each laptop to use a static IP address instead which thankfully resolved the lack of connectivity and allowed us to vision mix to our hearts content.

===The OB unit that wasn't grounded===
During setup of the computing infrastructure [[Rhys Milling|Rhys]] had first noticed this issue when plugging in equipment into OB1 but didn't let it phase him thinking it was just a static shock. That happened early during the setup, so after all the extra equipment had been plugged in it had caused this shock to be left a little bit more. [[Rhys Milling|Rhys]] was attempting to plug an SDI cable in from OB1 complaining that there was an issue with it but sadly his cries were disregarded by [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] and [[Ben Allen|Ben]] saying that they experience it all the time in the studio! After enough complaining by [[Rhys Milling|Rhys]], [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] attempted the final connection of the SDI cable, thinking it was fine at first then ZAP! He reeled in pain and then the tech team decided it wasn't a good idea to use that OB unit anymore so we had to quickly deploy [[Marty]] the third OB unit which up until now was reserved until emergencies. So it was quickly prepped for graphics playout where it was then discovered it didn't have any graphics software installed, so [[Rhys Milling|Rhys]] and [[Ben Allen|Ben]] worked against the clock to get it ready to playout graphics! Luckily it was setup and did its job without fault.

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