real people and real politics
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The old political journalism
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What they got wrong✴ UKIP✴ Scottish nationalism✴ 2015 election✴ Corbyn✴ Brexit✴ Trump
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Covering party conference
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Some new principles
✴ Show the reality, not a media construction✴ Move around and create encounters
✴ Lose the tripod, lights and visual conventions
✴ Film all the bits inbetween: the journey is the story
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Out of the bubble
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Anywhere but Westminster✴ Get out of the ring of steel, out of the
bubble✴ Talk to more members of the public,
preferably in places that rarely see the media
✴ Challenge your own pre-conceptions, and those of your audience
✴ Each film is a voyage of discovery, not a pre-scripted product
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UKIP
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Scotland
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Trump
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Brexit
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Politics today
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The gap
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What we’ve learned✴ It’s complicated✴ Vox pops can be powerful, but have their limits✴ Always question your methods and assumptions✴ Be honest with your audience and about those methods✴ It’s all about the journey, and being true to that
(about journalism)
✴ Video has not just brought the stories alive, it has made us go out and have real encounters
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What we’ve learned
✴ The 20th century is over: settled, 2-party politics is finished
✴ The underlying disaffection with politics and power is not going away
✴ Polling is a dismal science – data without real encounters is almost worthless
✴ The media is as much of a problem as the politicians – maybe more of one
(about politics)