It would appear that some people have lost the direction of the topic, are we talking about a Doco movie about Gliding or a Music Video with gliders in the background. A Doco movie does not require much music, some of the ideas I am reading here remind me of the surfing movies of the 60's.
There is also seem to be a focus on young people - what is young? People in their 20s and 30s are mostly trying to get established, a great number of the younger ones in the sport have grown up with it, second and even third generation gliding families. While it is always great to see young people involved, I think the target market are the 40 to 50 age group - the empty nesters. If we continue to follow tried and failed methods of promoting the sport, I am sure we will fail again - bringing out the "see I told you so" brigade in full voice. It is also interesting that many of us who are active in our own club committees have only heard about the GFA Marketing Committee, and it's meeting this weekend via this topic. SDF PS - teaching adults to fly - how about we apply adult teaching techniques - did I hear someone say - what are they? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Gilbert Sent: Saturday, 31 July 2004 3:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Gliding Movies C'mon Robert, clearly Adam wasnt speaking for everyone. If we were making one to be targeted at the 60-70 year old age bracket then we wouldnt use Marilyn Manson or Nirvana would we??? Even through there may be some people in that age bracket that like it. Generally speaking, the sort of music the target audience listens to is not classical. Just because one example made the charts in the eighties (a greatest hits of the eighties CD in my opinion would be blank) means nothing. Adam's remarks are correct, the younger generation (ie. a large percentage of) find Classical music boring. There are only so many chords, notes & melodies. Everything is re-used in some way or another. Nick. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Hart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 3:09 PM Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Gliding Movies > On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 10:39, Adam Woolley wrote: > > The problem with all the classical and compositional works is that it's > > plain boring to the younger generation. > > I fear you are over generalising. I have a growing amount of experience > with young people who would totally disagree with your allegation of > 'boring'! > > Furthermore, there are quite a number of hit 'pop' songs that are 100% > based on the classical music you so deride as boring - including a > version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 40th Symphony that went to #1 in > the hit parade sometime in the 70's or 80's. If you want to jazz it up, > I suggest you might like to listen to verions of Johann Sebastian Bach's > music by such people Jacques Loussier. But then, much classical music > does not need 'jazzing up'. I would happily provide you with a suggested > list of music you might listen to that would change your mind. (I have > visions of a number of scenes from Stanley Kubrick's "Clockwork Orange > here ;-) > > Simply because music is several hundred years (or more) old does not > make it boring. It's continued survival in today's repertoire attests to > its quality. Just how much of today's pop music will survive even 10 > years? > > (I realise that this is getting way off topic, but having just returned > from a holiday that included two weeks total immersion at the Australian > Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville, I cannot let such remarks pass > without comment). > > -- > Robert Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +61 (0)438 385 533 > Brisbane, Australia http://www.hart.wattle.id.au > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
