Election Night 2000
Election Night 2000 | |
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Genre: | Event Coverage |
Broadcast: | Friday 10th March 2000 |
Producer(s): | Alex Hudson Chris Parker |
Production Team
Election Night 2000 was produced by Chris Parker and Alex Hudson. Matt Hammond was in charge of technical matters.
Chris Ward, Chris Parker, Alex Hudson and Michael Prior-Jones were the directors.
Sets
YSTV took over Derwent JCR to act as both a control room and link set. The link set consisted of the silver-topped Ikea trestle table against a purple setboard. Two presenters on stools sat either side of it, with a small monitor placed between them.
In the adjacent room, D/016, was the Press Conference, which was a new initiative after some chaotic business with getting candidates interviewed the previous year. Unfortunately it suffered from a rather unprepossessing set (or lack thereof!) and having URY's microphones all over the place!
There was also a single camera and a presenter in the Dining Room.
Technical
Matt Hammond wrote a very swish-looking graphics system that ran on his Acorn Risc PC, which was then controlled by commands sent over a serial line from a user interface on a control machine (also an Acorn). There were also a number of other Acorn machines that provided cues for presenters, although this system was rushed into service and didn't work that well.
Screengrabs from the programme can be seen here [on YSTV's website].
The "silver-topped trestle table" (always referred to in full by those were there) would later be used by the membership for all manner of purposes including various off-camera uses, as the main set of Bulletin for a while, Off The Cuff and coming full circle as the support for the Bona Dicta table top in Elections 2007.
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