RAF Morale Video
 

Enginesuck's idea on the RN video thread, but could see this developing so starting a thread of it's own.

My thoughts

1) Must hit the 6 o clock news. Army's did (and the RN too I think)

2) Needs a good soundtrack. Road to Amarillo was very clever as it capitalised on the song of the time.

Ideas ?

'Paint it black' by the Rolling Stones springs to mind atm.

Believe it or not, we in the SH world suggested it and we were poo pood because the public associate SH with Army....

They wanted the fast pointy things to take the lead :cool:

How about lots of RAF people in sandy places singing 'The Sloop John B'!!!

So 'they' even interfere with unofficial videos? Trust the RAF to ruin an opportunity for some fun by trying to stage-manage it for maximum PR. The other services' videos worked because they were made by real people and were relatively pointless, not a £1m recruitment extravaganza!

'king typical

Some fr'ends 'n I thought about this after the Amarillo one came out. Unfortunately some big knob at HQ PR Command then announced that they wanted the RAF to come up with one and we lost interest. Make it official = kiss of death.

We thought "Perfect Day" might be a good one - I was taken with the idea of Chinook crewman hosing down the countryside with his M60 whilst singing "you're going to reap just what you sow....." Not particularly politically correct but then thats the idea surely. All to be filmed somewhere hot and rubbish obviously.......

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Some dittys spring to mind!

In-keeping with one of the current theatres: By the rivers of Babylon

The hugely predictable: Leaving on a jet plane (however with things in Beruit this may not be true and army infantrymen will definately disagree!)

Or in true omnipotent form: We are the champions




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I like this. We need something to incorporate the spectrum of those in the RAF serving away. And we have every branch away somewhere.

Someone posted a link about a guy who goes around the world dancing. That's got mileage in it, but with a RAF theme and a witty song.

I can get footage from BSR and MPA . . .

Listening to the Sloop John B now for inspiration !

ACDC 'Shoot to Thrill' with some TELIC footage perhaps? :}

Been there, done that......long time ago, though
 

On det with 111 in Malta in 1968, we accomplished a very amusing (and slapstick) version of The Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations". This was on cranky old Super 8 film as I remember, with a scatchy open-reel portable tape recorder to provide the sound track.
Great fun, and when shown with lots of beer flowing always brought the house down.
Even had a very young LFITTNI checking the dither of the F3 autopilot to the refrain "......you're giving me excitations, ooh, bop, bop, good vibrations, bop, bop". There was also a very shapely WRAF in there somewhere too......:E
No idea where the film and tape ended up, unfortunately.
Agree with comments above--it has to be non-official to be any good.

"LEAN on us, when we're not strong, can't somebody know, these cutbacks can't go on...."

Brilliant idea, non-official of course, and about time.

But the music doesn't need to have 'appropriate' words does it? Amarillo was great but no sandbox context, just the idea.

And you can't do one without a Status Quo song . . . Rocking All Over the World would work. Thumping beat, easy lyrics, and everybody recognises it. (A lot of fun could be had matching the repetative "I like it. I like it." bit.)


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How about loads of blokes clutching P45's set to Talking Heads ''Road to Nowhere'':mad:

Like this idea a lot.

Yeah - that ideas got legs. Just keep the grown-ups away from it or it'll end up sh!te with logos, slogans, 'visions' and other bollox.

Im personally sick of the RAF Vids of pointy fast things though i suppose they make exciting viewing to the ill informed.

I think a video of the comings and goings at Basrah could be an idea incorporating all of our a/c including us blunties on the ground.

Hey, you leave the pointy fast things alone. If we got rid of them the airshow crowd would lynch us.:}

hows about the end is near by frank sinatra?

or

shotgun blues by guns n roses

or

numb by U2 "too much is not enough":eek:

Quo - shot a vid on the Ark Royal...

Go with "Brass In Pocket" by the Pretenders. Then you can "pretend" that you've all been paid correctly, and the "brass" is a little more substantive than tap washers....

Sorry, going back to the RN Vid thread.

I suggested Road to Nowhere to the head of RAF PR when he jumped on the bandwagon; he took rather a dim view of my suggestion!:O