[MR] Off the wall Idea

[Karen Summerfelt-Hume]

Excessive caution?  Well, yes, because the great majority of outside
interviewers or videographers seem to feel that only sensationalism will
sell the story.  They are woefully and happily ready to print or record only
the sort of stories that the SCA tries to minimize.  We've worked hard for
years to minimize this and sometimes we succeed but with outside sources we
have no control over how they edit the story.

Institutional Bureaucracy?  Why yes, in the form of the BOD, Lawyers, Media
rules and regulations and possibly even some rights groups who take offense
at ladies in tight bodices or naked babies in bathtubs.

And I'm not even going to tackle the 2 Dukes swapping stories and cracking
jokes..... mostly because that should read 2 SCAdians so no one feels the
Dukes would be offended and starts a rant about that.

Go talk to the Media relations folks so you don't step on legal toes, then
go do your video. It* IS* a good way to get young peoples attention, but we
need it to appeal to their parents as well - better chance of getting the
whole family to try us out. But do it by the rules so we don't have the
great Lawyer/Insurance company bogeyman rise up to cause us more grief.

Chagan - who has seen way too many poor videos and newspaper articles in the
last two decades +


On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 1:59 PM, William Faleston <faleston at gmail.com> wrote:

> Pardon my pessimism, but this is another great idea doomed from the start
> by
> excessive caution and institutional bureaucracy.
>
> This would be laughably easy to do. I could do it next week and broadcast
> it
> live to the world over the web. You need  the following.
> -a decent camera
> -a tripod
> -a laptop
> -an broadband Internet connection at the event site
> -a free account on uStream
>
> If you want to get fancy, get two mics, a soundboard and two Dukes who like
> to talk and can crack the occasional joke.
> You could even work in A&S and other activities by having an interview
> corner where people are ready to show off their art during breaks in the
> tourney.
>
> But this won't happen, and it ties in to the discussions we've been having
> on recruting/retaining new members. It won't happen because people will
> demand excessive control over the final product, everyone will demand that
> their own favorite sacred cow be included with equal time, and non-lawyers
> will invent new objections that real lawyers would never bother with.
>
> 21st century media is fast, diverse, sometimes messy and defies easy
> control. If we want to reach young people, we should embrace it. I don't
> see
> that happening.
>
> Just my 2 cents
> William de Faleston
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