LightSlinger wrote on Apr 8
th, 2013 at 6:33am:
Yep, that's the idea... Honestly, I don't think it would be as hard as you might think. I mean, look at the Redd's commercial. It's not really that complicated at all. The rough part is the hook, or the gag. What will make this really stand out to our demographic and make it memorable? I mean that's the key really, not that I have to tell YOU that..
So, occassionally, Slingers get together at what we sometimes refer to as Sling-Fests. Just a get together of Slingers really. I think they played a game of Sling Golf during one a while back. My Idea is to make these things a bit more regular and use them to gather not just established slingers, but the un-initiated as well. I may have one soon in my home town that will have different elements to it. A begginers class on how to sling, maybe a sling golf tourney, an accuracy competition and maybe, just maybe, in a few years, a Funda Ball League!
I just think that these little SlingFests may benefit greatly from a well thought out and executed video like yours...
Maybe it would help to further define our demographic. Like I mentioned in the second paragraph, my concept of the SlingFest is not simply a gathering of Slingers but people that we can CONVERT into Slingers. We can shoot (in a manner of speaking) for a few different demographics.
1. My personal favorite: Families
2. Sportsman/Sportswomen (Golfers, Survivalists, baseball coaches who want to train their players to catch fly balls, Hunters, etc.)
3. Hobbists. (Isn’t this what most of us are? LOL)
4. Church Groups… You know why..
5. Even Obscure groups. (Zombie Apocalypse Survivalists, Anarchists, etc.)
I’m sure if I gave it some thought I could come up with others…
I see, I guess I wasn't sure what a sling-fest was exactly. I knew I would surely attend one, but I wasn't sure what it was about. You definitely have this thought out and your demographic list makes sense! Slinging.org needs a marketing division of some sort to come up with materials and help spread the word.
As for a video I was thinking of the videos David Graham does. You have probably seen them on youtube. He has videos of parkour, the human slingshot, giant rope swings, snowball fights, X games stuff, and all kinds of fun stuff. They are a fairly simple concept, a bunch of happy smiling people doing some sort of crazy stunt and having a ton of fun, shot with sweet angles with multiple cameras (action cameras, DSLR steadicams, hexacopter cameras), and then edited with quick cuts with some slow-mo thrown in and really no verbal audio, pretty much a song in the background and then all the nat sound from the action. They are really fun to watch, and it makes your real life feel boring to see all the fun these people are having. If there was a way to have a large sling-fest with a bunch of people and then shoot the action and edit it in a similar style, that might make for a popular video.
Here is the guy's youtube channel if you want to see what I'm talking about:
http://www.youtube.com/user/devinsupertramp?feature=watch