Premier MacLauchlan has posted the video of our chat last week, part of his Island Entrepreneurs web series. I like the fact that YouTube’s automatically-generated thumbnail for the video is of me scratching my head.
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There must be some Italian heritage in you then, with all the gesticulating ;)
Peter is not Italian. Peter is American and Canadian so Italy is not in North America.
Three comments:
1 Mr MacLauchlan comes across as very personable. The discussion has a pleasing warmth, and you seem to have a good connection. I'm a little envious of you, living, as you do, in PEI.
2 Audio quality in the video is lousy. I know, that basement room is reverberant. Next time, perhaps you should have a word with the premier about lavalier microphones.
3 The arm waving is fine -- don't worry about it.
We do have an amiable Premier, there’s no doubting that.
I agree completely. I was happier with my interview than with earlier ones in the series where the audio was almost inaudible. The Premier’s assistant uses an iPad with a simple external mic plugged into it. But it’s external only in the sense that it plugs into the iPad — it’s still 2 metres away from the people talking.
All that said, I also appreciate the rough-and-ready nature of the Premier’s series; there would be a danger, if it were more polished, that he’d end up traveling with a larger crew, which would include PR people and makeup artists and sound people and all of a sudden all the “just stopping by” qualities of the interview would be out the door.
Thank you for saying that.