How not to win £1 million!

Town centre retailers are in despair at the poor quality of a video entered by Rochdale in an attempt to win a million pounds.

http://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-features/2/news-headlines/75969/how-not-to-win-1-million

Debbie didn't do too badly I feel although her 'pitch' was slightly rushed. The quality of the video, on the other hand, was c**p!

Poppyanna555 wrote:didn't do too badly

Hardly a ringing endorsement is it?

Take a look at a town (Maidstone) that has taken the video submission seriously - a decent quality video and a voice over that, whilst clearly still that of an amateur, is far more polished:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gIFhJA8--M

Hmm, I guess you have made a good point there J, although the narrator wasn't the focus of the pitch and so you couldn't see how often he referred to his 'prompt' list. Even so, there is no denying that Rochdale's bid is embarrassingly bad.

I felt sorry for Debbie. Whoever put that video together had no idea at all. Done more damage than good for the image of Rochdale, it's tragic.

Abysmal, laughable and pathetic. Whoever is responsible should be hanging their head in shame at the back of the dole queue.

So who is responsible and why did they not seek help from some of the community based media production specialists in Rochdale.

If my phone produced such low quality video I would send it back.

I thought RMBC boasted a professional media department or suitable 'advisory' representatives !


Not taking a pop at just one individual, this feels to reflect the poor calibre of "management" for, in and around the town centre, which we're constantly told is based round a leadership core of public service partnerships.


It feels like a lost cause considering these partners also nominate each other for national Awards: like, 'Rochdale's town team sets sights on award treble'

http://menmedia.co.uk/rochdaleobserver/news/s/1582072_rochdales-town-team-sets-sights-on-award-treble

I didn't realise there was so much milk left to try and wring out of that Feelgood Festival. Rochdale in the News again, for all the wrong reasons.

An utter joke.

I have just tried to watch the video again, it is .......... lost for words, the effect on the viewer is to induce despair and sadness for Rochdale, it's people, it's culture, it's council.

First time I have seen it. What can one say. Leave to the experts I think.

The amateur video about Rochdale seems to be becoming quite a popular genre, there are quite a lot of them. Here is a small selection of some of the better ones, you can watch by clicking the smiley faces.

Thankyou Charly, I've changed that. I didn't know there was a Rochdale in New York. I used the first few videos that came up on Utube, missing the more unpleasant ones.

Bad videos about Rochdale seem to be almost a fashion or 'genre' in amateur video making. It would be an interesting challenge for a local video maker to make good, well produced and insightful videos about Rochdale.

The technical side of making videos is almost too easy now, it's quick and easy to make bad ones. In the old days, making a video was a more cumbersome affair, but that did mean more thought went into it.

Media image is a strange thing, but does have a huge effect on everything nowadays,

Perhaps for balance, we should have a good news film about Rochdale.

http://vimeo.com/24076291

Yes. But - where does the horror part come in. I think you should expand your story-board there Hinch and succeed in 'chilling' us prior to the 'opening of the old river' -.

Hinch wrote:A tireless campaign to discover the truth is led by a fearless local politician, supported by the local newspaper.

A fictional novel then

With a few good local amateur actors, or people willing to have a go, a reasonable video camera and editing software, it would be fairly easy to do make a soap opera about life in Rochdale, and upload an episode a week onto utube. Very likely it would attract a following, and become a commercial success, there seems to be an insatiable appetite for soap operas. It just needs the commitment of time from a group of people to keep doing it, week after week, and a brilliant scriptwriter. Brilliant scriptwriter anywhere?