Freshers 2020

Freshers 2020
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Genre:	Freshers
Producer(s):	Zoe Dickinson, Joe Radford

Freshers 2020 was highly difficult for YSTV, both in terms of recruitment and coverage, due to COVID-19.

Coverage

YSTV Reports: The Forest

YSTV attended the opening of The Forest just before Freshers 2020. Although it wasn't branded as a Freshers video, it was used often throughout Freshers 2020.

Freshers' Round-Up 2020

This was the 2020 equivalent of the Freshers Livestream that would normally happen during Freshers Fair every year. It was hosted the same day as the virtual Freshers Fair. It featured interviews with a wide range of societies, volunteering groups, sports clubs, Sabbs and other University staff. It was entirely pre-recorded and edited together then streamed out as-live, as due to COVID-19 restrictions, a proper livestream was deemed not feasible.

Campus Tour

Alize Akturk and Tilly Garland hosted a tour of East and West Campus showing off all the wonderful sights. This was limited in scope thanks to, you guessed it, COVID-19.

Recruitment

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Zoë Dickinson at the Freshers Fair Stall in 2020 at the Forest.

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Rhys Milling pretends to be a Fresher at the Virtual Freshers Fair

Freshers Fair

YSTV partook in both YUSU's In-person and online Freshers Fairs.

The online Freshers Fair took place across a single morning and involved Joe Radford sitting in a zoom call waiting for eager Freshers to come and ask questions about YSTV. It wasn't very well attended most likely due to poor marketing from YUSU.

The in-person Freshers' Fair, as opposed to most years when Freshers Fair takes place all over campus on one day, was hosted solely in The Forest and took place across a whole week. Each day a different set of societies, volunteering groups and media groups hosted stalls.

YSTV hosted their stall on the Media Groups and Performance Societies day.

The stall featured a variety of YSTV paraphernalia and an iPad playing YSTV videos on a loop.

Welcome Meeting

A welcome Meeting for YSTV took place online, with the initial talk portion being hosted on Zoom and the second 'social' quiz half being hosted on Discord.

Welcome Video

A showreel (with 3 variations in length) was produced for Freshers 2020. It was essentially a re-edit of the 2019 Best Broadcaster showreel with footage from Quarantine YSTV added in.