Hawes is a shite interviewer, Clem is a drongo. Maybe interviews with Standing, Kiely, Parladorio or Hart could follow?
Not sure Hawes is a shite interviewer and you do have to remember that he represents the BBC, so is somewhat tied when it comes to a lean. He has to present balance. I think he was quite clever in his questioning by getting Clem to commit/deny certain statements. It's a future proofing form of journalism, whereby if anything he denied turns out to be true {come on, we know a fair bit of it will} then Clem is going to look more of a right bulb than he already is.
Morshead backed that up by assisting him to make his own bed, per se.
I haven't listened to any of the interviews yet, what's the best one to tune into? I assume what he says is much of a muchness across them all?
I would say the Official Club one is very repetitive in it's edit. Not sure it needed to be 40mins long. There's likely 15mins of repetition that could be chopped from it, also may have helped PR wise to have edited out the 556 side eyes that Clem gives after every answer; as well as his 'huffs', 'sighs' and eye rolls.
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Don't read if you're not fussed about some technical elements
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A minor technical gripe from me is that I would personally {if setting up the sound for this} invest in a pair of lapel mics with battery packs, on separate channels. You'll get a much cleaner set of channels, more options in post, especially for balancing levels. Passing a mic is really only best for say presentation events. A pre-recorded interview doesn't need that.
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Back to Clem. It annoyed me how he contradicted himself {it's more evident in the Official one as he's asked the same/similar stuff a few times}.
On one hand, he says: 'Probably
not been as visible as I'd like to be, I've been running things in the background...'
and on another, he says: 'I haven't done any media conferences,
I don't really like doing them, I like getting on and doing what I do...
I don't run on Social Media...'
and says; '...
The Trust and OSC has a direct line to me...they can talk to me any time they want...erm,
I've some supporters that are friends of mine that I talk to directly. They ring me or WhatsApp me or text me and I communicate with them...