Hiya, sorry had a few days off for my birthday. I’ve given Jack a nudge although he may be away this weekend @BDP is away).
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I’ve now received the first videos and spliced together. I have to say I really enjoyed watching and it’s more of what I’d like to see when deciding who to vote for - hopefully you guys will too when all the responses are in! 
Thanks so much for taking part!
If anyone is interested in peer reviewing the video before we publish the final cut- drop me a message and let me know.
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thanks for all your hard work on this Adam, it really is appreciated by me and I hope the electorate will find it useful too!
Re peer reviewing, here’s my thoughts… No, I don’t think we should peer review… If this was a traditional hustings we wouldn’t have that opportunity so why should we have it now? Plus, I think you may well open a massive can of worms and create more work for yourself, you know what us politicians are like lol 
vids incoming to your messenger now (sorry its a few mins late) - I’d like all my commentary on there but take out where I repeat the question being asked at the beginning of each clip it that helps. I’ve stuck to the 60 seconds as requested.
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they are taking ages to send, sorry…
haha! very valid point, I completely agree there! For peer review I was more thinking from non candidates, to make sure I’m being fair, and make sure I haven’t accidentally made a screw up in splicing questions together somehow. I think being able to modify or change or clip answers could start to get far too complicated to do fairly as you suggest!
Thanks for taking part! I look forward to watching!
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Dont give 1 candidate 5 minutes and another one 3 
The hype is real. Gotta do this in person sometime
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Actually, while an in-person hustings is great, after doing this and watching it - there is something in this format which I think could be more digestible to some than an in-person lengthy debate.
I guess we’ll see when you all see it.
Video comes out at around 30 minutes, which is round about what I hoped.
It’s sized at “one episode”, which could help shape your next 4 years in Eastleigh, so hopefully worth a watch.
Plan now:
- final finishing touches.
- ask some other kind people to check my work for silly errors.
- release - which I’ll do on youtube and post the link here.
No eta yet, either tonight if lucky, or tomorrow.
Thanks (in order of video submissions ) to @Josh_Constable, @SimonPayne , @Clare_Fawcett. I really enjoyed watching your videos and I’m about to test it on my wife… she hates politics so this should be interesting! 
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Pleasure Adam, thanks so much for stepping up to organise this!
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Wish it was 4 years. The term of office on this one i believe is until May 2023, so whoever gets elected will be doing this again in just over a years time.
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Yes thanks goes to Adam for organising this and the time taken compiling the final video.
I also would like to give thanks to the other candidates who have agreed and taken part at short notice. It wasnt something i was expecting to do this campaign, but it was good to do it.
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I feel a bit sorry for your wife, Adam
Again, thank you so much for pulling out all the stops to make this happen and thanks to the other candidates for taking part at short notice. I look forward to meeting you both on Thursday!
As an aside, I bumped into Bhavin earlier today whilst we were both out leafleting. Nice bloke, I enjoyed our conversation.
love this comment, hilarious 
Here it is folks! Grab some popcorn, sit back and enjoy the episode! (Runtime is approx 30 minutes).
I hope this is the kind of thing you were expecting! Standard disclaimers apply, I’m not a videographer but tried my best and hope this proves useful!
Thanks again for taking part! All 3 of you (@Josh_Constable @Clare_Fawcett @SimonPayne) are amazing for putting yourselves out there and trying something new. I really enjoyed listening to you all and putting real people to names on a ballot sheet!
I certainly enjoyed watching it, and wish I had this for all the times I had voted previously!
Notes & lessons learned:
- Start much earlier! Going from concept to completion in 3 days, 4 days before the election is crazy!
- Issue guidance to candidates on how to record and trim videos for best effect, in addition to lighting and camera positioning.
- Candidate reply order was kept consistent in order of video received order to be easier for the viewer to digest.
- Bhavin and Jack chose not take part so were represented in a fun way to help maintain the flow and clearly highlight there are 5 candidates in this election.
Let me know what you think!
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Fantastic! I think you’ve hit on a great concept for local election hustings which is far more accessible than traditional events- hope it’s the first of many! Thanks to the candidates who got involved as well.
Tweeted a link if anyone is over there and wants to spread the word…
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A sterling effort from Adam and Eastleigh Online. I know I pushed hard for this at short notice so huge thanks for all the hard work Adam and the team have put in…I think the end result is fantastic!
I really enjoyed taking part and big thanks too to Simon and Josh for doing the same, its so important we as candidates,get our messages out and have the electorate engage with us so they can see who we are, what we stand for and get a of sense of how we really do understand their issues and concerns about our great town!
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Simon you did make me laugh, knowing it was me who submitted the manifesto question. However did you guess 
Would have loved the chance to get some cross going, one for the wishlist hey.
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Simon thanking you actually made me laugh aloud while working on it also because I know I definitely didn’t share which question came from who.
Intriguing on the real-time cross-discussion. People are generally turned off politics really quite quickly - even this video came in at a lenghty-by-todays-standards of just 30 minutes… and getting people to watch will be difficult and could do with some word of mouth love.
I’m curious if a live hustings back and forth would drive more engagement, or only interest people already interested in politics to start with and turn “normal folk” off. This I feel maybe wouldn’t be that useful during an election? The name hustings itself is likely just not understood by most. (I didn’t until fairly recently).
I do like the idea of a real-time hustings, but I think there may be more to be gained by adjusting the formats to make it more interesting than “a boring political debate”… though I do get that you politicians like debates, and debates need to be had.
Have you guys got any ideas of improving the format, or doing better in future?
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In case it helps, I’ve linked to the individual questions so people can jump straight to the things that interest them
https://twitter.com/ESLHustings/status/1490802415913910277?t=XIF8bK6TYS_YqpCmhFANuA&s=19