Whether or not you like the answers he gives, the presentation of the ‘Ask The PM’ questions and answers on the Downing Street YouTube channel is really nice. The ‘split-screen’ treatment gives equal prominence to punter and premier; and one plays when the other finishes. Nothing too clever, but I really like it.
The second round of questions has already opened: this time, on the specific topic of health. Worth noting a tightening of the editorial criteria: nothing party political, nothing over a minute.
Meanwhile, over at the Governance of Britain site I developed with the Ministry of Justice, we’ve got the first of (what should hopefully be) a regular series of video messages, introducing debates around the constitutional renewal programme. Minister Michael Wills is great on camera: then again, he has a background in TV, and has plenty of practice.
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downingstreet is a German user of YouTube. I think you want http://youtube.com/DowningSt (are incorrect usernames the new incorrect domain names? 🙂 )
Incidentally, I started playing the question I could see and after a few seconds the questioner was drowned out by Gordon Brown speaking over the top (far be it from me to draw any sort of political pun from that), and I wondered what on earth was going on… the auto-playing of a video I can’t see as it’s too far down the page is rather a bad decision IMO.
I think you probably meant to link to:
http://www.youtube.com/downingst
The one you have there is a little surreal, to say the least!
Sorry folks, what can I say. It was late, and I wasn’t even meant to be at a computer. Fixed now. But aren’t you glad you saw that (slightly sinister) clip of our German friend getting into his overalls?
@Matthew Good point re the auto-playing clip. I guess I’ve spent too long on MySpace pages which do that… and developed fantastic ‘pause button’ reflexes.