Wooo! LDS Media campaign LEAKED on YouTube!!

Post by **_Polygamy Porter** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 6:01 am

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SujvFxmweW0

Hurry up and watch it, before Gazlame or one of his ilk tattle tell to get it pulled!

Man this reads like SSSSCCCAAAAAMMMMMMMM!!

Oh the IRONY of the testiphony of the girl at the end of the flick!

I was asking my(non Mormon) teacher questions that he could not answer....

I left because I had questions that my Mormon teachers could not answer!

I think the TV commercials are confusing... at the end of the one they play in the youtube flick, it says "After centuries of confusion, the truth about life's questions is NOW restored."

NOW? HELLO? I thought it was "RESTORED" nearly two CENTURIES AGO!??

Stupid Mormon media misfits.

Post by **_personage** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 5:34 pm

I think they are hoping it catches on like "The Secret". I admit it, I could not resist peeking at Mormon.org. Lots and lots of milk there.

Post by **_The Dude** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 5:43 pm

When Dorothy looks behind the curtain, she sees nothing spiritual at all. Just four old men talking about their newly designed website and a marketing strategy.

Post by **_truth dancer** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 5:45 pm

Personally I think it is a smart campaign...

Basically they are trying to promote the website where there are the soft answers that portray the church as it wishes it to be portrayed; answering the questions that people "should have asked" as Oaks would say! :-)

~dancer~

Post by **_Blixa** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 5:49 pm

Yes the convert girl's testimony is very vague. Because of the way its assembled you don't really know what understanding of god she started with, what her questions were (other than the vaguery about "return"), what insufficient answers she'd received, and so on. Its edited for the big gotcha moment of her teacher "accusing" her of talking to Mormons! Oh snap!

I agree PP that much of her sound bytes could apply equally as well to the "stop asking quesitons, you're confusing the others" kind of remarks I got in Sunday School, Primary, MIA, and Seminary.

and also I found this bit

"After centuries of confusion, the truth about life's questions is NOW restored,"

disingenuous as well. It does suggest some super-brand-new-just-happened-a-nanosecond-ago-secret is being revealed. Not something you'd associated with a group of old men in suits sitting around a table, but rather something appealing to spacey-new-agey-looking multicultural young people---thus the campaign.

Post by **_silentkid** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 5:56 pm

A couple of comments on the video:

I found this quote by Elder Ballard interesting,

Frankly, if we had to pay them what others what others would pay them, you wouldn't be seeing what you're going to be seeing here...

I'm not sure who he is referring to by them. Is it the actors that appeared in the ads, the people who made the ads, the PR group, all of them? Why couldn't the church afford to pay them (unless I'm not understanding his statement)?

It was interesting to see this for what it is--an advertising campaign for the church. The word campaign was used numerous times. This is a good example of the business tactics the church uses to try and get new converts. I'm not against that. They can do whatever they want. It just comes across as a way any corporation would use to sell a product.

Post by **_personage** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 6:15 pm

silentkid wrote:A couple of comments on the video:

I found this quote by Elder Ballard interesting,

Frankly, if we had to pay them what others what others would pay them, you wouldn't be seeing what you're going to be seeing here...

I'm not sure who he is referring to by them. Is it the actors that appeared in the ads, the people who made the ads, the PR group, all of them? Why couldn't the church afford to pay them (unless I'm not understanding his statement)?

It was interesting to see this for what it is--an advertising campaign for the church. The word campaign was used numerous times. This is a good example of the business tactics the church uses to try and get new converts. I'm not against that. They can do whatever they want. It just comes across as a way any corporation would use to sell a product.

I also thought that was kind of strange that the church couldn't afford that kind of production. I guess I shouldn't be surprised by the church expecting everybody to do everything for free. I got a phone call last Friday night from somone wanting to know if I could help clean the church on Saturday. I guess they hadn't noticed that I haven't been around for the last year and a half.

Post by **_moksha** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 6:54 pm

The Dude wrote:When Dorothy looks behind the curtain, she sees nothing spiritual at all. Just four old men talking about their newly designed website and a marketing strategy.

So are we part of the beta focus group?

It will be interesting to see this new media campaign. Wonder what they will come up with for phase two? You know, now that Budweiser is no longer using those frogs, maybe we can. Frog One: "Morrr" - Frog Two: "Monnn".

Post by **_The Dude** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:04 pm

moksha wrote:Frog One: "Morrr" - Frog Two: "Monnn".

ROFL!!

Post by **_CaliforniaKid** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:34 pm

There was a typo in the video. They said to point people to Mormon.org but I think they meant farms.BYU.edu.