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 His second pet project for the term was the second episode of [[YSTV does Hunted]]. Together with former contestant [[Andrew Waddle]], Thomas planned on taking the concept by [[Edwin Barnes]] and expanding it massively by introducing three additional teams and running the game for longer. YSTV seemed to love the idea, and a large crew of both old and new members ended up getting involved.
+Just a few days later, the UK experienced the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, which quickly seemed to grind any kind of YSTV activity to a hold. Luckily, Thomas and several other committee members acted quickly and raided the studio of its edit PCs and equipment to keep the group operational without studio access. In fact, Thomas was the last to leave the studio before it was closed off.
+After a failed attempt to set up a YSTV house for people to work together on content during the pandemic (''back when it seemed like it would just last a few weeks''), YSTV was quick to adapt their programming and launched [[Quarantine Weekly]]. After being asked by showrunner [[Stephanie Shires]], Thomas created the intro sequences and animations for the weekly episodes, produced and edited the [[Quarantine International]] segment and presented regular interviews with [[YUSU]] and other students.
+During the first lockdown, [[The Dynamic Duo]] ended their run as joint [[Station Directors]] with running both the [[AGM 2020]] and the committee elections over Zoom. This was particularly painful because despite re-working the constitution and the policy the year before, [[Stephanie Shires|Steph]] and Thomas still found around 50 amendments they wanted to make to both documents. This resulted in both meetings running for roughly 7 hours each. Ultimately, their time as [[Station Directors]] ended with the election of [[Zoe Dickinson]] as their successor.
+For the remainder of summer term, Thomas continued working on [[Quarantine Weekly]] and some minor productions. During the award season at the end of the academic year, Thomas was chosen to represent YSTV in several instances and therefor was able to accept a fair number of awards on YSTV's behalf. Notably, Thomas and [[Stephanie Shires|Steph]] were recognised for ''Outstanding Contribution to Student Media'' at the YUMAs 2020; [[Beautiful Yorkshire]] and [[The FetSocDoc]] were featured at LUMA 2020 as part of the gala screening, Thomas won an ''Unsung Hero'' award at the [[Love York Awards 2020]], and [[Please Sir, There's Been A Murder]] and [[The FetSocDoc]] received multiple awards at several events for their impact on student media and the wider student community.
+With his graduation in summer 2020, Thomas settled into a life as an YSTV alumni but continued living in York, which left him still connected with the following generation of YSTV. Because of this, Thomas made a few additional appearances in YSTV content. For example, he animated the intro to the [[Quarantine Weekly]] follow-up [[Oranges and Lemons]] and presented a few interviews for [[Freshers' Week 2020]]. During autumn term, the initially postponed [[NaSTA 2020]] took place, for which Thomas and [[Olivia Gibbs]] were selected as the station's representatives. Over the course of the night, YSTV was able to pick up a massive amount of awards and nominations - especially [[YSTV does Hunted - Episode 2]] picked up two awards for ''Best Post-Production'' and ''Best Title Sequence''. A few months later, it was also announced that the production was nominated by the Royal Television Society for ''Best Non-Fiction'' at the ''Yorkshire Student Awards''.
+Currently, Thomas works as a freelance editor, videographer and motion graphics artist and still frequently collaborates with other former and current YSTV members.
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