Children In Need 2014

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VTs

• Duckton Abbey

Amy and Hannah recording voices for Duckton Abbey

• Children in Need Charity Spotlight: The Island

Sarah interviewing children at The Island's youth mentoring scheme

We wanted to showcase a local charity that receives funding from Children in Need, so we contacted three, and The Island replied. Matt and Sarah set up a time to go interview the charity director at his office. The main issues that came out of this, were that two cameras would have been better for getting an establishing shot and closeups at the same time, and that carrying heavy equipment downtown on the bus is not fun. We arranged a second date to visit one of the fortnightly youth clubs that The Island runs, in order to interview some of the children and get some b-roll. The main issue at this second shoot was that we brought the wrong camera battery with us, luckily we also had a DSLR that we were able to use instead. In the future, it would be good to triple check equipment before leaving the station.

Robyn dancing with children at The Island

• Pudsey Quidditch

Sarah and Matt took two cameras and Pudsey to a game of Quidditch with the Hogyork Horntails and had a beary good time. Only one camera was used in the end, and both the warmup and the game were filmed, with Pudsey substituting for the Quaffle in many shots. There were not too many challenges...one camera worked well enough, and Matt did a good job tracking the fast play of the game. The team were really enthusiastic about having Pudsey play for the afternoon!

• Three Peaks Challenge

Helen Hobin and others, can you please write up your experiences with the Three Peaks Challenge???Unverified or incomplete information

• Bear Banter

• Band

Producer's Notes

The Bad

Matt and Sarah were up editing until the wee hours of the morning the day of Children in Need

And the Ugly

There actually wasn't anything ugly...we just couldn't resist this joke!

Fundraising

There were two pieces to the fundraising campaign for YSTV's Children in Need broadcast in 2014; the first was completing the Three Peaks Challenge (and filming it, which involved carrying a lot of heavy equipment), and the second was running around campus in Pudsey onesies and asking people to take selfies with Pudsey. See information under the VT category above for more about the Three Peaks Challenge. The "take a selfie with Pudsey" campaign was relatively successful...it involved a visit to The Glasshouse on Heslington East, and walking around Heslington East, visiting various housing blocks. Most people were willing to take a picture with Pudsey and donate some spare change. In the future, setting up a booth in a heavier-traffic area might be a good idea.

We created a Just Giving fundraising page (https://www.justgiving.com/YSTV-CiN2014/) for the Three Peaks Challenge, and raised £609.

We also created a Just Giving fundraising page for the live broadcast (https://www.justgiving.com/YSTV-Childreninneed2014/), modeled after the one created for the 2013 CiN broadcast. There was some confusion for our viewers with the 2013 Just Giving page, and we received two donations towards the 2014 total on the 2013 page (https://www.justgiving.com/YSTV-ChildrenInNeed/). We raised £90 total, including £15 collected from our adventures around campus in the Pudsey onesies.

The grand total raised was £739 including the two donations to the 2013 page.

Press and Publicity

Sarah and Robyn taking selfies with Pudsey

Facebook and Twitter served as the sole means of publicity for this broadcast. YSTV members shared posts about the Just Giving site and live broadcast through social media, and numerous posts to the YSTV Twitter and Facebook accounts were made in the days leading up to the broadcast, and on the day of.

Credits

• Producers: Matthew Ingram, Sarah Mesterton-Gibbons, Robin Place, and Amy Wilson
• Director: Amy Wilson
• Presenters: Sarah Mesterton-Gibbons and Robin Place
• Quiz Show Presenter: Alex Pusey
• Vision Mixer: Jai Rodgers
• VT Op: Sam Nicholson
• Sound Engineer: Robert Drane
• Camera Ops: Joella Panthradil, Ben Pearson, Connie Maunder, and Suzanne Pearson
• Graphics Op: Kenric Yuen
• Autocue Op: Grace Winpenny
• Floor Manager: Loyd Unverified or incomplete information
• Special Thanks to: Helen Hobin, Heather Marsden, Dominic Watt, Luxo Jr., Chris Wall, Alfie Lanham-Brown, The Island, PantSoc, Harry Potter Muggle Society, MagicSoc, Nick Sephton, and James Taylor
• Voiceovers for Duckton Abbey VT: Matthew Ingram, Amy Wilson, Robyn Place, Sarah Mesterton-Gibbons, Hannah H., and Sinead Barret
• Pudsey: As himself
• Production Consultant: Helen Hobin
• Technical & Computing: Tom Cheyney, and who else???Unverified or incomplete information
• Riggers: Rachel Burns, Calum Brookes, David Heaton, and Tom Cheyney
• VT Camera: Andrew Griffiths
• Graphics & Animation: Peter Eskdale
• Editors: Amy Wilson and Sarah Mesterton-Gibbons
• Social Media:  ???Unverified or incomplete information