YouTube Ads
Hi Fellow Greens,
I've posted four ads on YouTube now and I thought I'd provide the links here. I really appreciate the responses I've been getting from Green candidates, fellow Green bloggers and bloggers from other sites in Canada about these ads. I can't say enough about YouTube as an effective election communication tool. I strongly recommend Green candidates use this medium if for no other reason than to get around the mainstream media.
Here are the links:
Kyoto Ad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI7xTfGL2L8
Proportional Representation Ad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex7C_Re1iGs
Helping Our Cities Ad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFTnliRcPbA
Methane Conversion Ad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p50jJydIGDw&mode=re...
Joel Parkes
Peterborough Green Party Candidate
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Nice Work
Great stuff Joel--keep them coming!
i love it
i think you should make versions without your name.. so other candidates can put them up on their sites if they need content.
also, email me. we need to talk about what kind of demanding, strenuous, daunting task you can perform free of charge for the youth wing!
James@greenparty.ca
just kidding it will be fun!
I'd love to help
I'd love to send a version without my name on it to whomever needs it. I'm not entirely sure how to transfer the whole iMovies file, though (they're huge!). Perhaps I should just re-do them without my name or Peterborough's name on them and then you can just link up to them from your own web-sites. If anyone wants this done, just give me the word!
Joel Parkes
Peterborough Green Party Candidate
Congratultions Joel on leading the way in YouTube ad creation!
Watched all three ads -- they're fantastic! well done!!
Jim
Great initiative!
We should have a national contest to stimulate those kinds of great productions. Creative and fun.
Stéphane Bordeleau
Le paradis est ici!
Really Impressed
Hey Joel. I'm really impressed with these ads: simple, short, and effective. I'm sure lots of candidates would like to get voters to see those during an election.
Kind of off topic, but do you know if there is anyone designated within the party to record Elizabeth's TV appearances and post them on Youtube? I notice there are a couple older interviews on there now, but it couldn't hurt to get any positive coverage up.
Graham Anderson
Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo
Soundtrack
Joel,
It wouldn't be bragging for you to clarify that you composed and performed the music as well. This isn't the norm for YouTube videos which often have soundtracks taken from elsewhere.
P.S. Have you met Charlie Angus (Singer/songwriter MP for Timmins-James Bay)? It would be wild to have other progressive musicians in parliament.
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Russell McOrmond (Constituent, Ottawa South)
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Kudos from another blogger
Joel,
1337hax0r listed your youtube ad on his blogsite a while ago under the caption "Now this is positive advertising". Nice to see, since I believe he supports another party.
http://www.1337hax0r.com/
Jim Johnston,
Lambton-Kent-Middlesex
That conversion of methane ad... careful
Lambton Kent Middlesex EDA (SW Ontario)
If any candidate is prepared to use that ad in their campaign, should they be prepared to answer some obvious questions like:
Why do the owners of that fuel not capture it and push it into teh natural gas pipeline?
Will those reasons make it impractical for anyone to use that fuel as described in that ad?
Think carefully, we have steady flows of methane in our natural gas pipelines, and anyone can convert it to hydrogen and carbon if it is economically viable. Why is nobody doing it with a steady supply? Do we suppose that because this blow-off methane is 'free' therefore we can better afford to use it? But you already know it is not being captured because it is not economically practical to do so. Capturing it would cost more than the wholesale price of tha gas.
We can still justify this increased cost of methane on the basis of reduced pollution, particularly if the owners of that fuel are dinged for both depletion of the resource and pollution tax.
If we are going to sell this conversion on the basis of income for municipalities from teh carbon, just how does the munici[pality get paid for that carbon, and what happens to it when they are paid for it? Does someone use it to replace coal, with CO2 emissions?
Helping our cities ad, caution
Lambton Kent Middlesex EDA (SW Ontario)
The specific proposal in this ad is not part of Green Party of Canada approved policy, is it?
So if a candidate uses this, will they not be called out by competing candidates as blowing hot air up our kilts, making suggestions that the party itself has never discussed let alone agreed on?
Second caution. our present rules have municipalities under management of the provincial governments. We can provide provinces with money to carry out their duties, but even here we have an agreement that the Federal government will not use its taxing powers to dictate how the provinces use their money. This ad strongly suggests that we will break that accord and attempt to bypass authority of the provinces over municipalities. The Federal government would of course not try to do any managing of how he cities use that money the way the provinces do.
Kyoto ad caution
Lambton Kent Middlesex EDA (SW Ontario)
The Kyoto protocol was not put in place to put an end to global warming. Its purpose is to remove as much a possible man made causes of global warming. The difference would be trivial if all of global warming were man made. That is not the assumption. We can definitely establish a causal link between CO2 concentration and some part of global warming. But the people who drafted Kyoto had no illusions that we can actually stop global warming, even though without high CO2 concentrations normal cyclical events like volcanic activity might reverse the warming trend. Kyoto is all about giving earth a chance to stop warming, no committment that it can be done.
Ads by nature use simplification of ideas. that is accepted. But it leads directly into a confrontation we can as readily avoid by saying that Kyptp is an agreement to put an end to man made causes of global warming.
If we say we must stop global warming we may also commit to a scheme of increasing global reflectivity, which may be a great idea, but it is not included in Kyoto.