Use Video to Fight Illiana: A Proposal
18 March 2007 05:56 AM | Indiana, NW Indiana and Porter
County
I think C.A.P.I.T. should use video
to get the point across about the quiet rural
life they want to protect against the Illiana
Toll road. Here is how to do it.
1. Most digital cameras wil also shoot video. Make a 2-3 minute video.
2. Scene 1. Start out filming documentary style with a host narrating while standing X number of yards away from a quiet, picturesque county road in south Porter County. Pan around to show scenery.
3. Scene 2. Now film next to I-94 during rush hour. Have the narrator talk the same distance away from the interstate as they did in the previous scene. The traffic noise should be horrendous.
4. Scene 3: back to quiet countryside and tell people that this is what we want to preserve.
5. Don't ask me how to do the technical stuff. I'm not sure how to edit digital video but software must be available to do this cheap. It would be great to watermark the video with "no-illiana.com"
6. Post to some place like Youtube.com.
7. Get the link out to people via the news group, website and email. If it is good, then it will spread virally from there.
What you are demonstraiting very graphically to people is that nobody wants to live next door to all the noise, muck and pollution of a superhighway. Sometimes seeing and hearing the difference will help people understand.
My two cents.
UPDATE: I just read my digest of the No Illiana Toll Road discussion group and noticed Dave Canright suggested something similar yesterday only for radio. Great minds...
They should do both.
1. Most digital cameras wil also shoot video. Make a 2-3 minute video.
2. Scene 1. Start out filming documentary style with a host narrating while standing X number of yards away from a quiet, picturesque county road in south Porter County. Pan around to show scenery.
3. Scene 2. Now film next to I-94 during rush hour. Have the narrator talk the same distance away from the interstate as they did in the previous scene. The traffic noise should be horrendous.
4. Scene 3: back to quiet countryside and tell people that this is what we want to preserve.
5. Don't ask me how to do the technical stuff. I'm not sure how to edit digital video but software must be available to do this cheap. It would be great to watermark the video with "no-illiana.com"
6. Post to some place like Youtube.com.
7. Get the link out to people via the news group, website and email. If it is good, then it will spread virally from there.
What you are demonstraiting very graphically to people is that nobody wants to live next door to all the noise, muck and pollution of a superhighway. Sometimes seeing and hearing the difference will help people understand.
My two cents.
UPDATE: I just read my digest of the No Illiana Toll Road discussion group and noticed Dave Canright suggested something similar yesterday only for radio. Great minds...
They should do both.
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