I appreciate the effort that people put into making and encourage the
SSA and folks to keep trying. However I also agree the video just
personally did not excite me and I found two parts bordeline annoying

One is the asking of the Question "What is Soaring", it is just
annoying - if the viewer has no clue please tell them instead of
torturing them with a rhetorical question. Why not just tell them
then what soaring means and say it is an art and science. Actually if
you need a detailed voice over all mentioning that soaring means
staying aloft using air currents and that allows long cross country
flights... might be useful since many people with no exposure to
soaring think all we can do is sled rides (and wouldn't that get
boring quick). Generally I'd not rely on a voice over and stick with
the visuals and a call to action at the end. Putting much in a voice
over and it probably is hard to avoid it sounding like those high
school education films...

I also think the family angle was greatly oversold. I'm not sure why
that was even emphasized. I'd just have not gone there. While some
families do participate in soaring for the bulk of people I fly with
it is really more a solo than a family experience.

Darryl

On Aug 10, 4:59 am, alex8735 wrote:
This is a very well done promotional video.

I found the video quite boring. It may appeal to older generations but
on younger viewers it won't survive the first 30 seconds. A succesfull
promo video has to be short, exciting an convey emotions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-nzcBKavHk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BjUIFgSZRU

or the sex sells approach:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD-ZIILtI2I