The Production Wall

Calendar, content matrix, footage-review notes, hook bank, and the 50-issue library — one system, built campaign-ready.

July 1 – October 26, 2026 Election Day · Oct 26 50 Issues · 5 Pillars · 1 Movement Pin it up. Shoot against it.
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P1 · Who We Are P2 · Why It Matters P3 · What We're Fighting For P4 · How We Win P5 · Coalition Tentpole / Live Event Election Day
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Production Calendar

Weekly base runs all seven days: Sun candidate story, Mon doorknock+ask, Wed policy, Fri volunteer story, Sat constituent story. Tue/Thu carry the biweekly rotation. Tentpoles override the base day where they land.

✎ Click any day to edit, add, or clear it.

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Content × Shot Matrix

Every recurring format, cross-referenced against production specs and the matching shot list from the Creative Brief. Gold-edged rows are the newest additions.

SOURCE: comms strategy video-types list × creative brief shot lists × footage-review notes
FormatCadencePillarLength Camera / EditAudio / CaptionsCTA LadderLinked Shot List
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From the Footage Review

Notes from reviewing the reference clip — apply these across every format, not just the one it came from.

Keep Doing

  • Quick cuts — don't let a shot breathe longer than the line it's carrying
  • Handheld, moving camera — a little shake reads as real; a locked tripod reads as staged
  • Natural color grading is fine as-is — don't over-correct it out in the edit

Fix Next Time

  • Don't punch in too tight — too-zoomed-in framing loses the room and the moment
  • Don't lay music over real speech or real listening — the ambient sound is the content
  • Don't cut around the actual point of a speech or exchange — if there's a line that makes the moment land, keep it, even if it runs a little long
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Hook Bank — New Content Ideas

Each idea opens on the hook line or image it lives or dies by, tags which strategy-doc principle it's built on, and which Mamdani-style move it borrows.

The Wait List

“Tell me what you're done waiting for.”

She holds up the sign at the GO Station and says nothing else. Passersby write or say their answer. No narration over it — cut only on the real reactions.

P1 · Listening Mamdani: silent street listening Strategy: 80% listening, 20% talking

The Napkin Math

“This napkin has more honesty in it than most council budgets.”

At a diner counter, she sketches rent vs. wages in real time on a napkin, ends on the one number that matters, folds it, hands it to camera.

P3 · Policy Mamdani: prop-led humor explainer Strategy: 1 problem → 1 lever → 1 action

The Invisible Line

“There's an invisible line cutting this town in half. Let's walk across it.”

One continuous walking shot, no cuts, from north Milton straight into south Milton — stopping for whoever's outside on either side.

P5 · Coalition Mamdani: unbroken walk-and-talk Strategy: Uniters, not Dividers

The Receipt Wall

A hand pinning a real grocery receipt to a board. No words yet.

Sticky-Note Wall, version two — people pin actual receipts instead of opinions. The board fills with numbers, not sentiment.

P3 · Policy Mamdani: tangible prop over a stat-dump Strategy: proof of listening + deliverability

Why I Didn't Vote

Five different people. Same question. Same one-word answer: “No.”

Built entirely from real Q3 listening-tour answers, jump-cut together. Ends on her one-line response — not a lecture, an invitation.

P2 · Education Mamdani: repetition does the persuading Strategy: combat apathy, don't scold it

Council Bingo

“B-7... 'zoning variance.' Anyone? No? Let's translate.”

A one-card game of bingo with real council jargon — she calls each term, then gives the one-sentence plain-English version.

P2 · Education Mamdani: humor carries the substance Strategy: don't sound like a white paper

10,000 Doors

“We said ten thousand doors. Watch this.”

A door-knock relay — volunteers hand a tally counter down the street, click by click, until it hits the milestone on camera.

P4 · Organizing Mamdani: a low-budget stunt for a real number Strategy: make milestones human + celebratory

Double-Double Democracy

“Getting a permit approved here takes longer than this coffee order. That's the whole joke.”

She narrates how a zoning approval actually moves through council, using the steps of a Tim Hortons order as the stand-in for the flowchart.

P3 · Policy Mamdani: local prop replaces the diagram Strategy: "here's what council can do this year"
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Issue Library — 50 Hooks

Fifty local issues pulled out of the strategy doc's own categories — affordability, housing, transit, local democracy, coalition, youth, environment, safety — each with a one-line hook ready to anchor a Policy Video or Municipal Matters episode. Toggle a category to filter.

Two of these (the CN Logistics Hub and the Education Village) reference real, ongoing Milton projects — confirm current status before publishing. Every other hook here is a placeholder: swap in your own local data, names, and stories before anything goes out.

Five Non-Negotiables

  1. Handheld, in motion, warm grade, yellow caption text — every time
  2. One uncut moment of real listening per piece
  3. Affordability or "done waiting" lands in the first 10 seconds
  4. Ends on a ladder-appropriate ask — never just informs
  5. No static talking-head, no jargon, no negativity-first framing