[Sca-cooks] SCA media relations

[Huette von Ahrens]

--- jenne at fiedlerfamily.net wrote:
> I, personally, have had so much trouble with
> non-SCA 'professional
> photographers' who weren't willing to listen to
> the rules (unlike the
> local press that were willing to have an
> escort) that for the A&S event
> I'm running next year, there will be
> photography liasons to ensure that
> photographers do not interfere with other
> people's enjoyment of the event
> and use of the facilities. :)
> 
> -- Pani Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika

This sounds like a good idea.  I hope that is
works.

Many years ago, there as a mundane art/theater
festival in Hollywood, called "The Garden Theater
Festival".  The organizer called our local
baronial seneschal and asked if we would like to
participate in their festival by putting on a 
demo on one of the Saturdays that the festival
ran. [The festival ran 6 weeks.]  We were told
that usually 50,000 people attended the festival
on any given day.  So it was decided to put on a
tournament and I was the autocrat.  I also had a
separate stage where I scheduled various
entertainments and an historic fashion show.  I
also had a separate tent, provided by the 
Festival, where I had arts and sciences displays.
Before the event, I was contacted by four local 
TV news producers for KABC, KCBS, KNBC and KTLA
[which is now part of the WB Network] all telling
me that they were going to send news crews out to
film us.  So I set up a special place, with a 
nice picturesque background, lined up people I
know who had great garb and were capable of
sounding intelligent when they opened their
mouths.  I told each producer where this was 
going to be, what I looked like, where I could be
found and asked each crew to check in with me
_before_ they started filming.  Didn't happen. 
The film crews showed up all right, but the only
time I actually talked to them at the event was
when I practically stumbled over them.  Each told
me the same thing, "We want to shot things our 
way and we want spontaneous interviews."  I was 
so unhappy with them that I could have spit.  I
had lined up several friends who had video tape
machines [which were just coming out on the 
market at that time] watch the news that night 
and tape our segments.  None of the pieces were
bad, but we were lucky.  With the large amount of
people at the Festival, it could have been awful
and we couldn't have done anything about it.  And
it showed me that they weren't interested in how
we thought of ourselves.  Just how they thought 
of us.

Huette

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shall never cease to be amused.

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