Wednesday, November 19, 2008

The Failure of '5 Frequent Failures'?


Granted, we never really got off to a strong start.  Two of the original five members of our YouTube channel never posted a video at all!  So you could say we failed right from the beginning.  But now, for the first time since our launch in August, the videos have ceased.  It looks as though '5 Frequent Failures' may have officially failed.

Many of you have been watching my weekly Monday videos faithfully, and may not have even realized they were part of a YouTube collaboration channel with my dear friends Derek and Becky.  What is a collaboration channel?  Well, the intention was that we would have 5 people each take a day of the week.  On your day, you would make a video, talk a little about your life, and ask a question of the other 4 people.  In addition, you would answer the 4 questions the others had asked.

Well, our channel has been through its ups and downs.  Right off the bat, we lost Steph and Rory (the previously mentioned two who never posted videos at all), leaving us without a Thursday and Friday.  We briefly gained Jen (Friday girl), but after only one week, she had multiple difficulties with video cams, YouTube, and the Internet, and eventually gave up and quit.  Derek, Becky and I, we pressed on, and continued posting videos while trying to recruit people to our channel (which proved surprisingly difficult).  But then disaster struck.  The Internet at FPU wouldn't allow Becky to post videos.  She tried for several weeks--even traveled off campus to post--but the burden proved too large, and after 3 weeks of no postings, it seems she has admitted defeat.  Derek and I, we tried to persevere.  We kept on recording videos for a few weeks; but in the end, it just wasn't enough momentum to keep us going.  No video from Derek last week meant no video from me this week... the channel has come to a halt.

We have discussed it.  We don't want to give up.  We love our channel.  But we are discouraged. Just the two of us, we can't do it alone.  And so it seems, we have failed.  Unless... unless you want to help us.  Do you want to see '5 Frequent Failures' succeed?  If you want to keep enjoying my Monday videos, consider becoming our Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday!  It would be grand!  Then we would not have to admit defeat, our channel would live on, and we would all have a ton of fun in the process. :-)

1 comment:

Derek said...

I really don't want to give up. I love our channel but you're right it just became a discouragement. If we recruit replacements I'm back on board! =)