Winol Special: Hampshire Police Commissioner Election debate plan

Editorial

Right guys the debate for The Hampshire Police and Crime Commissioner election is now confirmed for Thursday 1st November between 7.45pm and 10pm to be held in the Stripe Auditorium. But, we will need to be setting up from as early as possible, therefore we will be moving the equipment from half 3 into the Stripe Auditorium for 4.

We will set up and then start rehearsals to make sure that the Tricaster will work with the cameras in the Stripe and to ensure that the sound is ok, as well as the stream. We will be streaming off the Winol livestream account (www.livestream.com/winol). This will be test prior to the day of the debate. If this does not work we will use the Winol ustream account.

I need you to be aware and know who the candidates are. These are the following candidates and which political party they are representing. I have also put a link to their website so you can have a read of their campaign plans and to ensure that you are in the know to what is going on:

Michael Mates (Conservative) www.michaelmates.org
Jacqui Rayment (Labour) www.jacquirayment.co.uk
David Goodall (Liberal Democrat) www.davidgoodall.org.uk
Stephen West (UKIP) www.vote4stephen.com
Simon Hayes (Independent) www.hayes4pcc.org
Don Jerrard (The Justice and Anti-Corruption party)

Also useful links for the post-debate interviewers to learn up on the elections and the candidates are www.policelections.com and http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-19492607

The chair of the debate will no longer be Sally Taylor, but will now be Alex Forsyth who is the Home Affairs correspondent for BBC South. She has a vast knowledge of the upcoming election and has a extensive background in broadcast Journalism covering the stories that we focus on every week on Winol. Here is a link of her doing a preview of the election on this week's Sunday Politics. It is about 45 minutes into the programme.

Roles

I have decided to change the roles up a bit because I need to ensure that this looks really professional and well produced. I am playing people to their strengths for what I know so far, so please do not be offended if I have changed your role, but I do not know everyone strengths yet.

Managing Editor: Louis O'Brien
Tricaster/Producer: Henry Lewin-Titt
Director: Graham Marshall
Cameramen: George Berridge, Daniel Mackrell, Ewan Kennerell, Lee Jarvis plus one more who I need to decide on.
Ushers: Felicity Houston, Sophie Webb and Faith Thomas
Guest Reception: (checking off guests name to ensure they have been invited): Kate Drummond and Nicole Collas
Runners: Christina Michaels, Kirsty Phillips and Amy Moore. (you will be mainly going round with the microphone so people can ask their questions as the majority of the debate is a Q and A session with the candidates.
Online/graphics: Liam Garraham and Jason French (this is one of the most important jobs as we will need you to watch the stream throughout to ensure it is working and to have a graphics made ready to use if the stream goes down)
Post-debate interviewers: George Berridge, Spence Spencer, Tom Morgan, Thomas Baxter, Ali Al-Jamri and myself. I will need a couple of extra people to help with the cameras, as well as it will be two people per interview (one interviewer and one cameraman).



I will be holding a brief meeting with everyone tomorrow afternoon after the news and production conferences. I need to know if anyone else wants to help out as the more people we have helping the less pressure there will be (in particular the production team).

Everyone I know has either a HCJ seminar or Media Law. I will be consulting with Brian and Chris tomorrow to see how this will affect things. I gather that Law may be moved to a earlier time that day or we will be given the notes to catch up on. In regards to HCJ I think it may be working around your seminar time and then coming back after it has finished to continue to help out.

I need all hands on deck with this guys as this will we a test run to see how the American Election goes as this will be streamed live for a hour and a half and the American election show will be four times the length. So, it will be good practice for the following Tuesday/Wednesday.

Hope this all makes sense and if you have any questions then please come see me tomorrow morning.