The Great Untangling of 2016
The Great Untangling of 2016 was roughly a week long event which seemed almost an initiation for the new members of the Tech Team for the academic year 2016-2017.
At the start of the academic year, there was a new tech team for 2016-2017. After many members had graduated the year before, the only member of YSTV's technical team was Sam Willcocks. Many members joined in 2016 which resulted in new members of the tech team at the very beginning of the year, or rather this event showed 3 potential tech minions to help the lonely technical director, despite the large turn out to dep tech by-elections.
It seems as though only Sam Willcocks, Tom Lee, Hui-Ling Phillips and Haruna Higa attended, not the member who was elected as Deputy Technical Director in by-elections at the beginning of the year.
The Tasks
The event consisted of many tasks including:
- Untangling cables
- Investigating whether cables could / should still be used
- Deciphering type of cable and sorting into boxes
- Labelling Boxes and organising them in the tech room
- Some general tech pointers
Breaks from staring at cables included Sam showing the new tech minions other bits of tech around the studio and control room and explaining how to use it, sharing stories of YSTV history.
The Results
- Black fingers from untangling old cables
- Shoe soles covered in stray electrical tape
- An arguably more organised tech room (for a while)
- A tech team with no misconceptions about the long, late hours they could be spending in YSTV in the future