Spotlight

Spotlight
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Genre:	Magazine/Light Entertainment
First Broadcast:	2014
Producer(s):	Sam Nicholson Kenric Yuen

Spotlight is a Magazine show started in 2014, a successor to Monday Evening Live. Unfortunately, MEL was restricted by the intention of being broadcast only on a Monday, in the evening, and Live. It was ratified at the beginning of 2014-15 academic year, with Sam Nicholson at the helm. Due to degree commitments, the production passed to Kenric Yuen in January of 2015.

Spotlight was also the title of a previous YSTV production in 2010, now retconned to be Series 1 as Sam couldn't think of a better title for the new show after a month of trying!

Show Format:

Spotlight was created for members to experience a simple live studio show set-up. The show is headed by an executive producer, with each episode produced by a relatively in-experienced member of the station, to help learn or experience how production works. Or at least that was the theory. It hasn't happened so farUnverified or incomplete information.

The show is set up with three cameras and two sofas in the set, where the presenter(s) sit on one side, and any interviewee(s) on the other. Typically the plasma either goes in the middle or off to one side depending on how much space can be invented in the studio - for Ep3 it was used to show images and slides relevant to that segment of the show, but for the other episodes it didn't get set up.

Title Sequence

The title sequence was created by Sam Nicholson, and customised to the content featured on each show. It's built out of a Premiere project for the video tiles and an After Effects project to actually generate it - I'm sure if you can find it you'll figure it out!

Episodes, Series 2 (2014-15)

Episode	Presenter	Producer	Content
Ep1	Judy Walker and Elish Ashworth	Sam Nicholson	Yorkshire Marathon, LEGO convention, and interview with Sam Maguire and Chris Wall
Ep2	Judy Walker and Helen Farquharson	Sam Nicholson	Children in Need, Illumintating York, RAG Week, and G/046 20th Anniversary
Ep3	Helen Hobin and Matthew Ingram	Sam Nicholson	Somewhat unknown, unfortunately the recording didn't take!
Ep4	Helen Hobin and Sarah Mesterton-Gibbons	Kenric Yuen	Pantsoc promotion, YUSU Elections 2015 warm-up, and interview with Chris Wall
Ep5	-	-	-

At the conclusion of the 2014-15 run, the best piece of advice to give to a future producer of something Spotlight would be not to try and do a live show every other week by yourself (especially not in final year), either tag team with someone else and take alternate weeks or adjust the schedule to be further apart! ~SN