Saturday, February 27, 2016
Our next video, Sing-a-Long Care Bears, seemed like a debacle right from the start. We couldn't find any care bear themed decorations to use (and we even visited Party City), so we just used some of Genevieve's other Care Bear toys for background. Okay so the idea for these toys is that if you have more than one Sing-a-Long Care Bear, they'll recognize each other and begin to sing with each other. Easier said that done! The two bears recognized each other just fine; Cheer Bear would say "Hi, Grumpy Bear" and Grumpy Bear would say "Oh, hi, Cheer Bear". So far so good. Then one bear would ask the other to sing with it. The second bear would sit there blankly, while the other bear just went off singing its song as if the other had responded. Then the second bear would chime in 30 seconds too late and they'd both be singing different parts of the same song. Then we'd turn the camera off and mess with them some and they'd work perfectly! So we'd turn the camera back on and NOPE - back to singing waaaay off from each other or not recognizing each other at all. We tried fully charged batteries and everything. This went on for over an hour and finally I was so fed up that we decided to finish the shoot another time. The next day, we picked up where we left off and made sure to put brand spanking new (like out of the package new), and - miracle! - they worked! I posted this video, sure that it was a complete failure. It has turned out to be one of our most successful videos and in terms of purely organic views it is our most successful video to date! I mean it's not viral or anything, but it was definitely a surprise to see that on some days it would get 7 - 10 hours of playback time.
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