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 Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 5:17 am Post subject: Sun20Jul - READING - The Elephant in The Room |
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The Global Cafe conference room has been booked for a screening of the 'Elephant in the Room'.
It will start at 3:30 and be finished by 6pm.
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I have put an advert in the local paper for this week and next. Good publicity for the film (and my website) even if not many turn up.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:16 am Post subject: |
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Unfortunately, not many turned up. I had expected more.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 11:33 am Post subject: |
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| scubadiver wrote: | I have put an advert in the local paper for this week and next. Good publicity for the film (and my website) even if not many turn up.
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| scubadiver wrote: | Unfortunately, not many turned up. I had expected more.
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From experience i've found that ads in local newspapers have relatively little punter pulling power. Perhaps if there is a next time try:
Indymedia (see here)
flyers through doors
posters in shop windows
The screening isn't mentioned in the cinema newsletter or website
There is also a podcast featuring reactions to the film and an interview with the director that might be of use.
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I am not a huge fan of leaflets to be honest. Not guaranteed to target the right people and I was too late for the events newsletter. I didn't think about the website.
I just think Reading needs a kick up the arse big time. It is a tough nut to crack.
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| scubadiver wrote: | | I am not a huge fan of leaflets to be honest. Not guaranteed to target the right people |
Say, for example, that roughly 20% of people have genuine doubts about the 9/11 events. If you were to deliver (at a minimum) 500 leaflets through peoples doors you can be safe in the knowledge that 100 people would consider coming along. If you wrote the leaflet carefully you could attract some of the remaining 80%. e.g. mentioning that the Elephant won best UK doc at the London Independent Film Festival. Also there's the chance that people who receive a leaflet might recommend the film to a friend who they're aware has doubts about 9/11.
I'm only saying the above because i know from experience it works. Just as much as i know that placing a single ad in a local paper and sitting back doesn't. You gotta blitz every angle.
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Leafleting is a funny business. I put out approx 1250 simply typed leaflets with a brief 911 theme and offered DVDs, gave email and mobile nr. I got 0 zero response.
However for William Rodriguez event i put out about 1200 and got a good response Also put posters in shops and on a few lampposts. A show of hands at the meeting of approx 150 showed a fairly even split between leaflet,a radio plug , email. and personal invite
my local college does A3 photocopies at 2p each so you can get quite a few small leaflets quite cheaply and a guillotine speeds up cutting.
Pound for pound i think a good article in a local newspaper is probably more effective at communicating 9/11 truth than a special event, but special events with a good speaker are valuable for encouraging each other and keeping the profile up.
The message is definitely getting through at grass roots level. Only today my neighbour who was reroofing an extension shouted over and asked me about 911 as he had obviously seen something on TV (as Ive never given him a dvd or anything) and commented about the squibbs and popping out being the same as a huge block of flats that were brought down with explosives by us many years ago.
Loose Change final cut was showing in Liverpool a while back and at last minute I printed some contact details and websites just to hand out in the cinema.
We just each do what we can with the resources we have
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