Iāve now received the first videos and spliced together. I have to say I really enjoyed watching and itās more of what Iād 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.
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, hereās my thoughtsā¦ No, I donāt think we should peer reviewā¦ If this was a traditional hustings we wouldnāt 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) - Iād 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. Iāve stuck to the 60 seconds as requested.
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they are taking ages to send, sorryā¦
haha! very valid point, I completely agree there! For peer review I was more thinking from non candidates, to make sure Iām being fair, and make sure I havenāt 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!
Dont give 1 candidate 5 minutes and another one 3 
The hype is real. Gotta do this in person sometime
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 weāll see when you all see it.
Video comes out at around 30 minutes, which is round about what I hoped.
Itās sized at āone episodeā, which could help shape your next 4 years in Eastleigh, so hopefully worth a watch.
Plan now:
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 Iām about to test it on my wifeā¦ she hates politics so this should be interesting! 
Pleasure Adam, thanks so much for stepping up to organise this!
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.
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.
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, Iām 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:
Let me know what you think!
Fantastic! I think youāve hit on a great concept for local election hustings which is far more accessible than traditional events- hope itās 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 wordā¦
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 inā¦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!
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.
Simon thanking you actually made me laugh aloud while working on it also because I know I definitely didnāt 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 minutesā¦ and getting people to watch will be difficult and could do with some word of mouth love.
Iām 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 ānormal folkā off. This I feel maybe wouldnāt be that useful during an election? The name hustings itself is likely just not understood by most. (I didnāt 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 āa boring political debateāā¦ 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?
He was right but you arenāt the only manifesto fan here! 
In case it helps, Iāve 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
I wasnāt too thrilled with 2 questions, namely -
As much as the biscuits one was an icebreaker, the āwho wont rock upā one was a bitā¦ awkwardā¦ for want of a better phrase.
So, more relevant, local questionsā¦ like for Central we couldve asked about the new Hendys, or the increased desire to charge Kipling Road/Brookwood Rd residents for parking on their streetā¦ for Central/North we could ask about the lack of public transport options, especially at night, for South the vandalism of Fleming Park etc. Etc. (Side note Iām Deputy Captain Hindsight, always good to have around after the fact)ā¦As much as GBRail HQ may be fantastic for Eastleigh, it almost certainly would not be in Central. Thereās just very little space
Also, next time try set a time limit per questionā¦ while I enjoyed @Clare_Fawcett 's detailed answers, it did kinda make it a bit haphazard considering @Josh_Constable and @SimonPayne had shorter answers. Setting a limit is 2 fold, people would be urged to speak for the entire limit, or would prioritise what theyād say within that limit
Lastly (and yes, I do mean lastly)ā¦ next time we plan this, we must make each section more "easier to get to "ā¦ i.e. if Iām short of time and want to know how our Candidates are different from the rank and file at Westminster or Eastleigh Borough Council, and you hit me with biscuits, Iām not going to spend the time going through the whole video
Some YT commenters do this with timestamps in the comments, other uploaders somehow manage to be able to divide the video playback bar into sections (hopefully youāll know what I mean).
For a rushed effort, this was absolutely brilliant. None of my stuff couldve been achieved with a rushed effort tbh