real people and real politics

The old political journalism

What they got wrong✴ UKIP✴ Scottish nationalism✴ 2015 election✴ Corbyn✴ Brexit✴ Trump

Covering party conference

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

Out of the bubble

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

UKIP

Scotland

Trump

Brexit

Politics today

The gap

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

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)