130
edits
Ben Allen: Difference between revisions
→Productions
| Line 30: | Line 30: | ||
! scope="col" | Show | ! scope="col" | Show | ||
! scope="col" | Position | ! scope="col" | Position | ||
! scope="col" | Notes | ! scope="col" | Notes (Personal and Technical) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| scope="row"| | | scope="row"| | ||
| Line 40: | Line 40: | ||
| [[YSTV Give It a Go 2019]] | | [[YSTV Give It a Go 2019]] | ||
| Tech Intern | | Tech Intern | ||
| Walked in, was told to patch XLR | | Walked in, knew how an X32 worked, was told to patch XLR by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]], never looked back. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| scope="row"| 2 | | scope="row"| 2 | ||
| [[PCAs 2019 Intro]] | | [[PCAs 2019 Intro]] | ||
| Camera Operator & Actor | | Camera Operator & Actor | ||
| Makes a cameo doing sound and looking confused, unfortunately has been stuck with the same | | First on-camera credit. Makes a cameo doing sound and looking confused, unfortunately has been stuck with the same expression since. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| scope="row"| 3 | | scope="row"| 3 | ||
| Line 55: | Line 55: | ||
| [[Bob Ross Livestream]] | | [[Bob Ross Livestream]] | ||
| Sound & Livestream Technician | | Sound & Livestream Technician | ||
| | | Spent most of the time laughing. First time running computers for a live-stream solo. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| scope="row"| 5 | | scope="row"| 5 | ||
| [[RAG Absailing]] | | [[RAG Absailing]] | ||
| Editor | | Editor | ||
| | | First editing job for YSTV. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| scope="row"| 6 | | scope="row"| 6 | ||
| [[The Review Club - Wine Tasting]] | | [[The Review Club - Wine Tasting]] | ||
| Camera Operator | | Camera Operator | ||
| | | Drafted in last minute. Pointed a camera and laughed a lot. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| scope="row"| 7 | | scope="row"| 7 | ||
| [[Boozy Broadcasts: Drunk Werewolves]] | | [[Boozy Broadcasts: Drunk Werewolves]] | ||
| Director, Vision Mixer & Livestream Technician | | Director, Vision Mixer & Livestream Technician | ||
| | | Spent most of the time laughing. First time vision mixing. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| scope="row"| 8 | | scope="row"| 8 | ||
| [[YSTV Sport: Volleyball Autumn 2019]] | | [[YSTV Sport: Volleyball Autumn 2019]] | ||
| Director & Livestream Technician | | Director & Livestream Technician | ||
| | | Turns out the internet sucks in the sports centre so was done "as live" as no connection could be found. Spent all of the setup time trying to sort out the new live graphics he'd just got working. Didn't realise he had a remote JQuery dependency and no internet. Cursed the internet and did some running. Eventually, the graphics were working and the majority of the game was recorded with some admittedly out of breath directing. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| scope="row"| 9 | | scope="row"| 9 | ||
| [[Boxing Fight Night Live 2019]] | | [[Boxing Fight Night Live 2019]] | ||
| Graphics Programmer | | Graphics Programmer | ||
| | | Realised from Volleyball that roughly thrown together Visual Basic, no modularity and constant rewriting didn't make for a good graphics client. Had a better idea, got Marks Polakovs to kindly teach him React over one VERY long night. Rewrote the previous client in React. Came up with initial planning for the Ghostbuster Graphics system. The new Electron-based client ended up being named Luigi's Mansion 2 which was deployed successfully after 20 minutes of testing as Ben could not attend the event. After someone decided to play the maracas with the one validated OB unit, was phoned by Rhys and required to rush home in the car and remotely setup the other OB unit while Rhys was fixing the initial one. The backup unit was not needed in the end. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| scope="row"| 10 | | scope="row"| 10 | ||
| [[Hunted - Episode 2]] | | [[Hunted - Episode 2]] | ||
| Title Sequence Graphics | | Title Sequence Graphics | ||
| | | With additional shots from [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] and [[Thomas Schubert | Tom]], the title sequence was VFX heavy and slowly constructed (barely in time for NaSTA). Ben's work can be seen in the footstep shots and some of the HUD elements as well as the title shot (foot graciously provided by [[Louis Dickson]]) which was the final shot completed. Also the first time Ben had motion-tracked anything and it hadn't sucked, so that was nice! | ||
|- | |- | ||
| scope="row"| 11 | | scope="row"| 11 | ||
| [[York's Got Talent 2019]] | | [[York's Got Talent 2019]] | ||
| Director & Technician | | Director & Technician | ||
| | | Ben needed to learn that we owned a decimator, that would've made things so much smoother/less awful. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| scope="row"| 12 | | scope="row"| 12 | ||
| [[Please Sir, There's Been a Murder]] | | [[Please Sir, There's Been a Murder]] | ||
| Sound Operator, Livestream Technician | | Sound Operator, Livestream Technician | ||
| | | Learned the value of sleep, stared at clocks for hours testing latency, started to strongly dislike the Facebook live-streaming platform. The broadcast stream ended up being a bit unstable due to a sleep-deprived misconfiguration error causing our transcodes to stop crying. 'Solved' at the time by [[Andrew Waddle | Andrew]] monitoring stream health and Ben appropriately spamming ssh commands with forehead while sound mixing. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| scope="row"| | | scope="row"| | ||
| Line 110: | Line 110: | ||
| [[Election Results Night 2020|Debate Night 2020]] | | [[Election Results Night 2020|Debate Night 2020]] | ||
| Technician | | Technician | ||
| | | Didn't intend to do this, wanted to not do at least one election event. Ended up helping set up and assisted with tech for the start of the stream anyway. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| scope="row"| 15 | | scope="row"| 15 | ||
| [[YUSU Election Results Night 2020 Intro]] | | [[YUSU Election Results Night 2020 Intro]] | ||
| Director & Camera Operator | | Director & Camera Operator | ||
| | | Spent a night running around with [[Olivia Gibbs]], Numi Gildert and Alex West battling bad weather ruining plans and his own inability to balance a gimbal well enough on no battery. Ate Greggs. Shot most of it handheld (not ideal running with no IBIS). Spend an evening making a hash out of the edit. Considered doing half of it live on the night. Saved by Olivia salvaging most of the footage into a good edit which was then tweaked some more into the final product. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| scope="row"| 16 | | scope="row"| 16 | ||
| [[Election Results Night 2020|YUSU Election Results Night 2020]] | | [[Election Results Night 2020|YUSU Election Results Night 2020]] | ||
| Director | | Director | ||
| | | Directed first major YSTV production having not slept since the day before. Instead, spent the night before the show secretly making the graphics assets with the embargoed names and finishing off the stingers and lower-thirds. Spent that day regretting it. Actual stream was mostly successful and uneventful although all YSTV power did die beforehand as not enough sockets were present at the venue and multiple 1k lights were a step too far. Also, OB1 started being electric shock-y so that was quickly decommissioned and replaced with [[Marty]]. Stream was followed by a full club night at Courtyard. That was followed by sleep, lots of it. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| scope="row"| 17 | | scope="row"| 17 | ||
| Line 137: | Line 137: | ||
| | | | ||
|- | |- | ||
| scope="row"| | | scope="row"| 19 | ||
| [[Quarantine Weekly]] | | [[Quarantine Weekly]] | ||
| Executive Producer | | Executive Producer | ||
| Despite not having time to work on the actual show, the concept format was the result of an SNL-style hosted variety show pitch from Ben combined with a happy news, game show and campus/member-focused show idea from the wonderful [[Stephanie Shires]] who went on to brilliantly produce the whole series as Ben ended up too busy doing radio stuff. | | Despite not having time to work on the actual show, the concept format was the result of an SNL-style hosted variety show pitch from Ben combined with a happy news, game show and campus/member-focused show idea from the wonderful [[Stephanie Shires]] who went on to brilliantly produce the whole series as Ben ended up too busy doing radio stuff. | ||
|- | |||
| scope="row"| 20 | |||
| YSTV Rebranding 2020 | |||
| Co-designer | |||
| Finished adapting designs by [[Edwin Barnes]] with [[Joe Radford]] to create a complete branding package for all of YSTV's productions. | |||
|} | |} | ||