In re, Zig Zag Productions
Feb. 15th, 2012 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
goldkinThis post is a signal boost for others that may have been included in Zig Zag Productions' latest email campaign for their documentary on otherkin. As others have mentioned, I advise caution, given their choice of affiliates and contact methods (for, among other things, the current Whitney Houston documentary).
Of course, we've heard about this before, and the current email states the production is now for "a documentary for a UK television channel following the lives of Otherkin." The timing and this change of phrasing implies they've lost the Animal Planet bid for this production. Which seems reasonable, honestly -- I don't expect our lives to be that strikingly different from your preferred average Joe, except for what goes on on the inside and what folks like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lupabitch went out of their way to document.
I'm considering giving them the benefit of the doubt at this point, throwing them a bone by linkingwaywind's terrific Otherkin Timeline and asking for a list of questions that can be anonymously addressed to the community. I'm dubious on their current call to speak to people over the telephone and document me for fairly obvious reasons of personal and professional security, but I'm not above giving them something to talk about in aggregate, as a judge of character in how seriously involved they actually are one year later.
We'll see. For now, I'm mostly documenting my thoughts for others, on the off chance they're helpful.
Of course, we've heard about this before, and the current email states the production is now for "a documentary for a UK television channel following the lives of Otherkin." The timing and this change of phrasing implies they've lost the Animal Planet bid for this production. Which seems reasonable, honestly -- I don't expect our lives to be that strikingly different from your preferred average Joe, except for what goes on on the inside and what folks like
lupabitch went out of their way to document.I'm considering giving them the benefit of the doubt at this point, throwing them a bone by linking
waywind's terrific Otherkin Timeline and asking for a list of questions that can be anonymously addressed to the community. I'm dubious on their current call to speak to people over the telephone and document me for fairly obvious reasons of personal and professional security, but I'm not above giving them something to talk about in aggregate, as a judge of character in how seriously involved they actually are one year later.We'll see. For now, I'm mostly documenting my thoughts for others, on the off chance they're helpful.
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Date: 2012-02-15 07:03 pm (UTC)https://twitter.com/#!/_pinkeyelashes/status/164315605745405953
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Date: 2012-02-15 08:38 pm (UTC)I remember reading the post that this came from some time back (not when it was posted mind, IIRC I read it last year.) and I believe someone commenting later into the article mocking the original poster (Starblade?) said it. As a result there's a swarming mass of "omg this is where it came from?" replies to it.
... wait maybe I should direct this to Waywind.
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Date: 2012-02-15 08:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-15 08:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-15 09:16 pm (UTC)Various people have asked to interview me for otherkin documentaries since 2003 and I've turned them all down. I've no desire to end up on a tv show which ends up making a mockery of my beliefs. Besides, they are MY beliefs, I have no need or desire to share them with the general tv-viewing public.
But hey, that's just my personal view of it.
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Date: 2012-02-15 09:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-15 10:02 pm (UTC)With me, it's less an issue of whether they get our message out, and more an issue of audience and intent. I'd have more sympathy towards someone writing a book whose primary purpose was to inform than a production team whose purpose is to entertain. And I guess that's the clinching point for me, before I even consider their affiliates and methods of doing business.
I continue to be curious about why they chose to contact the otherkin community explicitly with carefully-worded emails meant to not scare us away. And that's the most disingenuous part that sets off all of my alarm bells; the disconnect between production studio and method of approach indicates a cognizance of the pitch and the script that's less than fair to the subjects under scrutiny.
So, I'm mostly interested in informing their rep that otherkin are, for the most part, quietly boring, so this idea gets swept off the table. My ulterior motive is to get them talking directly to the community, so their success or failure at understanding us can be discussed on the merits of their production, instead of on FUD based on a vacuum of information. Mostly, because I'm curious why they're still at this after a year's hiatus.
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Date: 2012-02-15 10:23 pm (UTC)Though, it is curious they are persistent on getting into the otherkin community. As you say, though, if they see that members of the otherkin community are fairly average to the rest of the population, they might loose interest. :)
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Date: 2012-02-15 10:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-16 12:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-16 12:16 am (UTC)Then, I think between us all we could make a draft of what kind of things we would want to include, what we would want to say and show, etc. maybe in an email list?
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Date: 2012-02-16 12:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-19 06:00 pm (UTC)http://arudem.tumblr.com/post/17880627918/an-otherkin-documentary
I'm intrigued.
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Date: 2012-02-16 08:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-18 01:43 am (UTC)