Golden Bodge

The Golden Bodge is, to many at YSTV, the best part about the NaSTA weekend. Screw the awards. Screw the networking. Keep the alcohol - you'll need your creative juices.

Rules vary a little year-to-year, but the essence of the Golden Bodge is simple.

• Your bodge must be submitted by the deadline
• Your bodge must only be filmed on smartphones
• Your bodge must not have been edited - the only exception is to piece together the clips
• Your bodge's clips must be included in order
• Your bodge's clips must each have been produced in one take
• Your bodge must conform to three categories
  • A style, e.g. "Porno"
  • A genre, e.g. "Comedy"
  • A line e.g. "But that's what she said!"
  • For example, "An action/adventure in the style of Cinderella with the line 'Take the second start to the left and straight on till morning!'"

YSTV Bodges

2014: LSU

Please ensure that you fully understand the context of this bodge by first viewing The LSU Exec Song 2013 and Frozen

Brief: "A bodge about the World Cup in a '50s Americana' style with the line 'You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!'"

Result: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO8lbRBUCAY

Whilst slightly drunk, Lloyd Wallis noted that, putting aside all of the other flaws with LSU's exec song, that there were far better choices for a parody out there. Due to the current box office offerings, the first example was "Let It Go". Lloyd vaguely drunkenly belted out half a chorus and as far as his memory is concerned woke up the next morning with a new friend.

Overnight, Grace Winpenny and Emily Torricelli had scripted a full parody of the Frozen number, and Thomas Cheyney had started planning the choreography. The soundtrack of Grace and Ellen Dunbavin was recorded in a somewhat free room in the SU building that we claimed using the mics on Tom's laptop, with someone stationed outside to stop a nearby door slamming, before being very roughly chopped up by David Heaton (sadly causing him to miss the talk on audio).

With consensus for ignoring all rules established, props were located, and a set that looked oddly like Heslington East was spotted. Cast members were grabbed from the pool of people willing to sacrifice preparation time before the awards evening. Sadly, time ran out when shooting, so only the first part of the resulting video has content. The rest involves David turning a page forward and back on a notepad, claiming that you are listening to Loughborough's student radio station. We guessed the name. We were close. Someone had the bright idea to film an intro/ending on the morning of the deadline, which admittedly did give the bodge something resembling a plot, and the notepad filler was shot during a break on the journey to the AGM venue. With Tom Cheyney being Tom Cheyney, the video was edited remotely on Tom's home PC whilst waiting for the venue doors to open.

Golden Bodge 2014 rules

Credits

• Music: Disney/whoever makes octaved-down versions of Disney songs and puts them on YouTube
• Vocals: Grace Winpenny, Ellen Dunbavin
• Lyrics: Lloyd Wallis, Grace Winpenny, Emily Torricelli
• LSU Exec Exec: Helen Hobin, Grace Winpenny, David Heaton
• LSU Exec: Sam Nicholson, Kieron Moore, Chris Wall
• Camera: Thomas Cheyney
• Sound Editor: David Heaton
• Production Assistant: Peter Eskdale
• Replacing Golden Bodge YouTube profile picture with a bear: Thomas Cheyney
• Held the Laptop to Avoid Being on Camera: Lloyd Wallis
• And introducing a traffic cone as the LSU RAG Bucket

Rules Followed

• Your bodge must be submitted by the start of the AGM: More or less
• Your bodge must only be filmed on smartphones: Is a DSLR a smartphone?
• Your bodge only be edited on a smartphone: Premiere Pro, REAPER and Audacity run on smartphones, right?
• Your bodge must be uploaded on your phone: No. From a computer in York, actually.

• Your bodge must be shorter than 3 minutes 16 seconds: Yes!
• Your bodge must conform to three categories: One out of three (although this wasn't explicitly stated as a rule, only as an entry guideline)