[MR] Off the wall Idea

[Garth Groff]

M'Lord William,

Yes, you are probably right on several counts.

One could produce a You-Tube video very easily. Nobody could stop you 
from posting it. You, your dukes, or your barony might (and I say 
"might") get into a lot of trouble with Kingdom or Corpra. I don't know. 
If you have looked at our media relations page, you will probably get 
the idea they are VERY tight about such things. They want to control the 
message, probably for various reasons both good and bad. I have already 
been cautioned (within our shire) about just inviting the local 
press/media to one of our demos, but I am going ahead with it.

IIRC the original poster was suggesting a local TV documentary type 
thing. If you want to get your story on local public access TV, it will 
have to be produced at a higher quality than You-Tube. Two reasons: they 
might well reject a piece of junk, and because you don't want to make 
your group look like a bunch of dorks. Trust me on this. I used to do 
this sort of work for the Coast Guard and worked with TV, radio, and 
print media in Los Angeles, the San Francisco area, and Virginia. We 
definitely didn't want to piss off the Admiral.

I'm not opposed to this sort of project, but I urge caution and 
professionalism. If you are game, go for it.

Kind regards,


Mungo


On 8/4/2011 1:58 PM, William Faleston 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