No idea about the focus group (usually told "we want to convey this
message, what do you think?" - wrong Q, just let'm watch & think for
themselves), but please note the target audience (16-24), which I think
will 'get it' (the message). Ergo: you guys are a bunch of doomsaying
crocodiles!
Cheers, p & the Dinosaurs!
> Hi Adam,
>
> there is a half backed excuse now on their website:
> http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/index_en.htm
>
>
> Statement on the recent video clip released by DG Enlargement
> <http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/press_corner/whatsnew/news/120306_en.htm>
>
>
> 06/03/2012 We have received a lot of feedback on our latest video clip,
> including from people concerned about the message it was sending. It was
> a viral clip targeting, through social networks and new media, a young
> audience (16-24) who understand the plots and themes of martial arts
> films and video games. The reactions of these target audiences to the
> clip have in fact been positive, as had those of the focus groups on
> whom the concept had been tested. The clip featured typical characters
> for the martial arts genre: kung fu, capoeira and kalaripayattu masters;
> it started with demonstration of their skills and ended with all
> characters showing their mutual respect, concluding in a position of
> peace and harmony. The genre was chosen to attract young people and to
> raise their curiosity on an important EU policy. The clip was absolutely
> not intended to be racist and we obviously regret that it has been
> perceived in this way. We apologise to anyone who may have felt
> offended. Given these controversies, we have decided to stop the
> campaign immediately and to withdraw the video. Stefano Sannino,
> Director General of DG Enlargement
>
> intressting Focus Groups - What do they think of identification products
> by design? Not by good politics?
>
>
> wish you well
> greets from Montreal
> (kiilo) Tobias
>
>
>
>
> On 09/03/12 17:34, Adam Thomas wrote:
>> Seems the video got pulled a few days ago by the people who
>> commissioned it. Ouch, it's really, really bad.
>>
>> On 09.03.2012, at 22:35, victoria sinclair <vickysinclair@???
>> <mailto:vickysinclair@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>> i dont know whether to be frightened, laugh, vomit or cry...surely
>>> this needs to be flagged up-jobs be lost over this?
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:02 PM, stephen kovats <kovats@???
>>> <mailto:kovats@r0g-media.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Wow! I just saw it ... and thought it was a spoof, until the
>>> credits rolled ... It's really unbelievable.
>>>
>>> On 09.03.2012, at 14:13, Jaromil wrote:
>>>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > This video is outrageous
>>> >
>>> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQREDQjfzC4
>>> >
>>> > Europe is depicted as a "good" woman that sieges and makes
>>> disappear
>>> > other ethnicities, but she is still very close from a soldier
>>> beating
>>> > them up, just trying to be politically correct on the surface
>>> (certain
>>> > uses gender issues in fact are used as a trojan horse since
>>> long), but
>>> > really is just a passive aggression.
>>> >
>>> > To save the decence they could have represented a peaceful
>>> interaction
>>> > within the circle at the end, but not: the foreigners
>>> disappear...
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > This video promotes stereotypes against different ethnicities.
>>> >
>>> > Is this is what the small amount of cultural funding is being
>>> used?
>>> > racist propaganda? I'm absolutely outraged.
>>> >
>>> > I'd like to sue those who aired it for racism, or whatever.
>>> >
>>> > I feel impotent and very very uncomfortable right now.
>>> >
>>> > This is not what I pay taxes for: being threatened and having
>>> > different ethnicities represented as treats.
>>> >
>>> > what can we do? :^(
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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