Michael Prior-Jones

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Michael Prior-Jones (known as Mike these days) joined YSTV in his first week at York in October 1999, having previously spent a gap year at BBC Research & Development. He studied for an MEng in Electronic Engineering and spent a lot of time doing YSTV stuff, as well as being involved in a less life-taking-over way with URY and Gilbert & Sullivan Society.

"Michael's finger was trying to tell him something, but for the life of him he couldn't work out what...." - Matt Colegate in the Caption Competition.

He lived in 21 Danum Road with Cally Nixon, Kevin Bowman, and John Biltcliffe.

On graduating from York in June 2003 he worked for BBC R&D until June 2005, when he took a job with the British Antarctic Survey as Communications Manager at Rothera Research Station. He spent 18 months at Rothera and filmed an Antarctic station ident with a penguin and various other footage which Mark Friend edited into VTs for Limited Edition.

He now works as a technology consultant and lives in Cambridge. He attended 40th Birthday and YSTV50.

During the time he was in YSTV he was

Mike's YSTV CV:

Technical

  • Wrote the front-end control for Matt Hammond's computer graphics system for Elections 2000
  • Bought the Audio-Technica AT835b shotgun microphone (and associated Rycote shockmount and windshield) - the mic was seen in use in the studio at YSTV 50 some 17 years later!
  • Bought the Behringer sound desk that was installed in 2001

Production

Society and studio admin

  • Drafted the 2001 constitution
  • Wrote all the risk assessments following a threat by the Goodricke Bursar to shut us down for various perceived safety failings. With a few revisions they are still in use today (and still on the same template!)