Erin McLeod

Erin joined the society as a shy 'lil fresher in 2021. Though she was far too anxious to floor manage at first (literally why are you waving your hands at me), she soon found her footing as part of the edit ferrets, thanks to the encouragement of the one and only Max Roach. She quickly realised that all her teen years spent making fan edits and silly little youtube videos, actually had given her a pretty decent (and employable) talent. Hurrah!

Years

2021-2022

She spent most of her first year improving her motion graphic skills, looking back fondly on works such as the pizza transitions she created for Pizza Parlour's of York, and some pretty questionable lower thirds. When she accidentally got roped into producing a series for Alize Akturk, focused on living sustainably as a student, she ended up on a crew of equally as media-enthusiastic freshers, who instantly all became besties. She went on to live with these people for two whole years. Crazy times. (see: boob house)

This same series went on to win Silver in Documentary and Factual at NaSTA 2022! After this Erin did not go into producing, in fact she ran far from it until her third year. But it was a nice award to have under her belt nonetheless. During Roses 2022, she had a blast, sleeping under a table and providing some quality vlog footage for the BTS videos. She also fell asleep standing up camera operating Canoe Polo, but thoroughly enjoyed her time editing highlights on Max Roach's laptop in the Media Control Room.

2022-2023

Erin's 2nd year was a bit of a rocky one, as documented by her constantly changing hair colours. She threw herself full force into productions though, mainly due to Beth Marsch's constant reassurance that 'tech is easy!' (it was.) With the introduction of YSTV Live, she took on her first reoccurring tech role (woo yeah) and could now teach others how to patch the studio, set up Vmix and NOT TO HANDLE THE T4'S LIKE A LIGHT SABER. She was Head of Live Highlights at Roses 2023, and successfully edited 24 (!) 2+ hour long videos down into highlights over the weekend. She didn't see the light of day, and was also cat sitting during this time, so made a pact to herself to get more fresh air in Roses 2024.

She started to become more passionate about the quality of our content, and seeds were being planted about running for a committee role. Erin ran against the iconic Ben Allen for Head of Presentation and won! It was time to start sending out edit notes and making lots (and lots) of thumbnails.

2023-2024

Erin was the centre of the great 2023 content backlog, which resulted in her giving edit notes (or editing) and uploading 77 consecutive days worth of content in Semester 1. This did a number on her mental health, so she got a bike, set some boundaries, and stuck to a solid 3-5 videos a week schedule for the remainder of the Semester. This bike also caused a number of issues, resulting in many late Admin meeting arrivals due to her extreamly unfortunate ability to cycle into walls.

[Wonder what the rest of 2024 will hold...]

#	Production	Role	Notes
1	YSTV On The Rocks: Episode 5 - GIAG Special	PA
2	Girl's Night In	Sound
3	The Little York Ghost Hunt	Editor	Baby's first edit!
4	Aesthetica Film Festival	Editor
5	Charity Shops of York | The Sustainable Student	Producer Editor
6	Therapy Dog Petting	Editor
7	Giant Canvas Balloon Painting	Editor
8	Duckman	Script Supervisor
9	The Geese	Camera Op
10	York Pride 2022	Editor
11	NaSTA Awards Ceremony 2022	Camera Op
12	The Moring Aftershow	Floor Manager
13	Indoor Hockey | Roses 2022	Camera Op
14	Table Tennis | Roses 2022	Camera Op
15	Canoe Polo | Roses 2022	Camera Op
16	Ultimate Frisbee | Roses 2022	Camera Op
17	Postgraduate Public History Conference 2022	Camera Op
18	Pizza Parlours of York	Editor
19	YSTV Tries Ultimate Frisbee	Editor Camera Op
20	Undergrad	Back of my head was in this
21	College Cup Netball	Camera Op
22	York Yesterday	Livestream Technician	YSTV Live
23	Spoon People	Producer!
24	Plant Pot Designing @ Anne Lister	Editor
25	Game Day - Women's Rugby v Northumbria	Tech
26	Tourtisted: York Maze	Editor
27	Touristed: York Minster	Editor
28	It's Not Rocket Science	Title Sequence
29	Game Day - Derwent v James Varsity (Netball)	Tech
30	55th Anniversary Livestream	Vision Mixer Graphics Creator Ident Maker ?? Producer	Debut of my very own show Spoon People! Made Teleshopping graphics Co-Hosted Innuendo Bingo and Smoothie Challenge A whole lotta fun
31	Untitled.mov	Tech?? Kind of	YSTV Live
32	Yindoors 2023	Graphics Operator	Hit in the head with a frisbee :(
33	The Mole	Vision Mixer Editor
34	ALL THE LIVE HIGHLIGHTS FOR ROSES 2023	Editor
35	XLR Sessions	Camera Op	Known for my infamous foot shots
36	York Bites: Caesars	Camera Op
37	York Bites: Babylon	Editor
38	XLR Summer Ball	Sound Op	Interviewed Scouting for Girls!
39	Hypnotist and Magician | YSTV Freshers	Editor
40	Comedy Night | YSTV Freshers	Editor
41	International Arrivals | YSTV Freshers	Editor
42	Freshers' Fair Livestream	Roaming Reports Producer
43	YSTV Live	Livestream Manager
44	Starbucks Open Mic Night with Nightsafe	Editor
45	Longboiology	Editor
46	Bird and Blend | YSTV Reports	Producer Editor