Joe Radford: Difference between revisions

Joe's first major producing role was on the Boxing/MMA Fight Night 2019. He co-produced the livestream with [[Zoe Dickinson]], before floor-managing for the stream on the night. Due to changes to fights and unexpected injuries, Joe was forced to think on his feet and find new interviewees quickly throughout the night, in order to keep the show running smoothly. In the aftermath of the stream celebrations were had by way of winning a fight of his own against Zoe and then copious amounts of drinking at Marmite.

Joe's winning streak continued when he won [[YSTV Does Hunted]] Episode 2 with [[Olivia Gibbs]] totally outsmarting all of the hunters, putting all the other huntees to shame and most impressively outrunning [[Matthew Zeffertt]]. Unfortunately, just as all good things must come to an end, so too did Joe's winning streak. On the Drunk Mario Kart edition of [[Boozy Broadcasts]] at the start of second term, Joe (dressed as Mario) played and lost the first race of the night.

At the end of his first term, Joe directed and edited the short film [[Nessie]] (written by one [[Jacob Boyle]]). The film received much critical acclaim (ie the highly critical [[Matthew Zeffertt]] liked it) and there was rapturous applause following it's preview at a YSTV production meeting.

In second Term Joe continued to take on notable producing roles. He took over as [[Head of Behind the Streams]] and took on several producing roles for [[Elections 2020]]. He solely produced the Debate Night and infamously the stream went flawlessly, never going down once. He then co-produced and floor managed ERN (as well as heading up the Behind the Streams).  

Joe's most significant production yet has been the MMA Fight Night 2020. He was on the back foot from the beginning, due to the date of the event clashing with [[Zoe Dickinson]]'s 2nd year film and her stealing nearly all of the potential crew members. Understaffed he soldiered on, organising the rigging of the stream and all the technical aspects himself (to acclaim from Tech Director [[Andrew Waddle]]). The stream itself was a wondrous piece of art. The exceptional quality of filming aided by Joe's directing finesse led to a stream for the ages, lifting the standards for all future boxing streams.

Early on in second term, when the news broke that Coronavirus had reached York, Joe was one of the members of YSTV to be interviewed by Sky News. Following the interview, he worked as camera op and editor on a video about the Coronavirus, which was to include interviews with students saying that they didn't think it was anything to worry about. Luckily this video was never released as it turned out that Coronavirus was something to worry about.

Joe also worked on YSTV's [[Come Dine With Me]] primarily Sound Op-ing for two of the episodes and leading the editing of the project too. Although no one asked him, he would have to say the overall quality of the episodes massively improved once he joined the crew.

Joe had many things planned for his Third Term as YSTV including productions that were postponed, or adapted into alternative projects or all together scrapped due to the outbreak of Coronavirus and the imposed lockdown. Most significantly he was supposed to begin his pet project the [[YSTVCU]]. Due to this Joe became involved with several of the Quarantine shows that were produced from home such as [[Quarantine Weekly]], Riddle Riddle (which was never actually made) and Animated short stories (which is coming eventually!!!).

At the 2020 Elections, Joe won the role of [[Head of Marketing]] becoming the first to do so. He quickly began to develop YSTV's social media presence, by increasing the regularity of posting and ensuring the online branding was consistent. Alongside [[Ben Allen]] he revamped YSTV's entire online branding, unifying several styles to make everything consistent across platforms. (See [[YSTV Branding 2020]].)