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Rebecca800 · 03-15-2010, 03:43 AM

Hi guys, I've just added a fun Flash animation about lucid dreaming to my SBI site for anyone who's interested.

It's a 2-minute video on the homepage: "What are your dreams like?"
Lucid Dreaming: Teach Yourself How to Have Lucid Dreams Every Night!

I'm going to add this to YouTube, Stumble, etc to hopefully attract some new traffic. Any other ideas for making a video like this go viral?

PS. It was created by my partner-slash-personal-website-designer, Pete Casale of Cre8ve Media. He's thinking about doing more of this in future if anyone's interested - while it is quite intensive to make, it's also very fun.

PerDev · 03-15-2010, 04:25 AM

Its Very Creative, Interesting and Fun to watch.

Curtis2011 · 03-15-2010, 07:24 AM

Wow!!!

Holy crap that was really cool. Definitely professional work and it was a very entertaining video as well.

I like how the music tones matched the ones in your other youtube video.

My only complaint: At the end it says "Click to Replay" but if you click, it doesn't replay!

Rebecca800 · 03-15-2010, 09:48 AM

Ooh thank you for the feedback and for letting me know the replay bit doesn't work! I'll look into it. Cheers.

ellie · 03-15-2010, 10:58 AM

Very cool! I want to learn more about lucid dreaming now

did you animate it?

CiNz · 03-15-2010, 02:28 PM

Great work! I love it! Definitely makes me want to explore your website

SatvikBeri · 03-15-2010, 06:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rebecca800

Hi guys, I've just added a fun Flash animation about lucid dreaming to my SBI site for anyone who's interested.

It's a 2-minute video on the homepage: "What are your dreams like?"
Lucid Dreaming: Teach Yourself How to Have Lucid Dreams Every Night!

I'm going to add this to YouTube, Stumble, etc to hopefully attract some new traffic. Any other ideas for making a video like this go viral?

PS. It was created by my partner-slash-personal-website-designer, Pete Casale of Cre8ve Media. He's thinking about doing more of this in future if anyone's interested - while it is quite intensive to make, it's also very fun.

Cake?

Cake!

No serious suggestions, but I loved it

AdamA · 03-15-2010, 09:47 PM

That's awesome. My favorite part was the guy flying over the mountains. I bet that's really going to increase the "stickability" factor on your site.

Oleg · 03-16-2010, 01:05 AM

I love it! Very cool.

Rebecca800 · 03-16-2010, 10:30 PM

Thanks all for your support!

I only did the narration - Pete did the music, the storyboard, the animation, and the man hours... He's friggin awesome

Plus, lucid dreaming is a really fun concept to play with. It could have gone in a million directions but the flying idea just seemed like a winner to me.

Gene · 03-17-2010, 12:38 AM

It definitely was an awesome video. I was entertained and found it memorable. Your narration was professional quality work as was the whole video.

SatvikBeri · 03-17-2010, 02:02 AM

...over the past two days I've manifested ridiculous amounts of cake, from multiple sources, into my life. Rebecca, I blame you

Rebecca800 · 03-17-2010, 07:25 AM

Haha... don't even ASK where the cake came from!

Daffy Duck · 03-17-2010, 04:06 PM

Awesome awesome awesome video, Bex! It was very cool. All parts of it are well done! Your cartoon character reminded me of Zero Punctuation, which made it even more fun for me. Cool stuff.

Zaphod · 03-17-2010, 08:31 PM

That was fantastic! I will stumble the youtube page or whichever page you are targeting for your viral campaign. I will say that I think the video should be the only thing on the page, because most SU users will click away before they scroll down and see the video. It needs to immediately start playing when the page loads.

Rebecca800 · 03-18-2010, 11:00 PM

Daffy - thanks!! I think you discovered where Pete got his inspiration.

Zaphod - thanks for the advice too! I moved the video right to the top of the page, so if you Stumble my homepage that would be very cool. I'm targeting both my website and YouTube as I wasn't sure which would be more effective in a virally sort of way... any thoughts?

Zaphod · 03-19-2010, 03:05 AM

I'm not sure. Now the moving figure makes it enticing to click on so I don't really know which would be more effective. I would probably target the homepage, but I'm not a viral guru or anything. You could put $10 into a StumbleUpon campaign and see how many thumb-ups you get out of 100 pageviews for each method ($5 per 100 views), assuming that gives you enough data. I stumbled the homepage.

fizzleboink · 03-19-2010, 07:06 PM

This was very cool, great job! I think this takes your web site up a notch too.

Rebecca800 · 03-22-2010, 11:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zaphod

You could put $10 into a StumbleUpon campaign and see how many thumb-ups you get out of 100 pageviews for each method ($5 per 100 views), assuming that gives you enough data. I stumbled the homepage.

Aha! I hadn't thought of that!

03-15-2010, 03:43 AM	#1 (permalink)
Rebecca800 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 636	Funky video on my SBI site Hi guys, I've just added a fun Flash animation about lucid dreaming to my SBI site for anyone who's interested. It's a 2-minute video on the homepage: "What are your dreams like?" Lucid Dreaming: Teach Yourself How to Have Lucid Dreams Every Night! I'm going to add this to YouTube, Stumble, etc to hopefully attract some new traffic. Any other ideas for making a video like this go viral? PS. It was created by my partner-slash-personal-website-designer, Pete Casale of Cre8ve Media. He's thinking about doing more of this in future if anyone's interested - while it is quite intensive to make, it's also very fun.

03-17-2010, 04:06 PM	#14 (permalink)
Daffy Duck Banned Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 3,001	Awesome awesome awesome video, Bex! It was very cool. All parts of it are well done! Your cartoon character reminded me of Zero Punctuation, which made it even more fun for me. Cool stuff. Last edited by Daffy Duck; 03-17-2010 at 04:09 PM.

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03-15-2010, 04:25 AM	#2 (permalink)
PerDev Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 591	Its Very Creative, Interesting and Fun to watch.

03-15-2010, 07:24 AM	#3 (permalink)
Curtis2011 Family Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 2,950	Wow!!! Holy crap that was really cool. Definitely professional work and it was a very entertaining video as well. I like how the music tones matched the ones in your other youtube video. My only complaint: At the end it says "Click to Replay" but if you click, it doesn't replay!

03-15-2010, 09:48 AM	#4 (permalink)
Rebecca800 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 636	Ooh thank you for the feedback and for letting me know the replay bit doesn't work! I'll look into it. Cheers.

03-15-2010, 10:58 AM	#5 (permalink)
ellie Family Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 2,432	Very cool! I want to learn more about lucid dreaming now did you animate it?

03-15-2010, 02:28 PM	#6 (permalink)
CiNz Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Trinidad Posts: 20	Great work! I love it! Definitely makes me want to explore your website

03-15-2010, 09:47 PM	#8 (permalink)
AdamA Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 139	That's awesome. My favorite part was the guy flying over the mountains. I bet that's really going to increase the "stickability" factor on your site.

03-16-2010, 01:05 AM	#9 (permalink)
Oleg Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 46	I love it! Very cool.

03-16-2010, 10:30 PM	#10 (permalink)
Rebecca800 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 636	Thanks all for your support! I only did the narration - Pete did the music, the storyboard, the animation, and the man hours... He's friggin awesome Plus, lucid dreaming is a really fun concept to play with. It could have gone in a million directions but the flying idea just seemed like a winner to me.

03-17-2010, 12:38 AM	#11 (permalink)
Gene Family Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Oblong, Illinois Posts: 3,335	It definitely was an awesome video. I was entertained and found it memorable. Your narration was professional quality work as was the whole video.

03-17-2010, 02:02 AM	#12 (permalink)
SatvikBeri Family Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Manhattan, NY Posts: 1,370	...over the past two days I've manifested ridiculous amounts of cake, from multiple sources, into my life. Rebecca, I blame you

03-17-2010, 07:25 AM	#13 (permalink)
Rebecca800 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 636	Haha... don't even ASK where the cake came from!

03-17-2010, 08:31 PM	#15 (permalink)
Zaphod Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 205	That was fantastic! I will stumble the youtube page or whichever page you are targeting for your viral campaign. I will say that I think the video should be the only thing on the page, because most SU users will click away before they scroll down and see the video. It needs to immediately start playing when the page loads.

03-18-2010, 11:00 PM	#16 (permalink)
Rebecca800 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 636	Daffy - thanks!! I think you discovered where Pete got his inspiration. Zaphod - thanks for the advice too! I moved the video right to the top of the page, so if you Stumble my homepage that would be very cool. I'm targeting both my website and YouTube as I wasn't sure which would be more effective in a virally sort of way... any thoughts?

03-19-2010, 03:05 AM	#17 (permalink)
Zaphod Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 205	I'm not sure. Now the moving figure makes it enticing to click on so I don't really know which would be more effective. I would probably target the homepage, but I'm not a viral guru or anything. You could put $10 into a StumbleUpon campaign and see how many thumb-ups you get out of 100 pageviews for each method ($5 per 100 views), assuming that gives you enough data. I stumbled the homepage.

03-19-2010, 07:06 PM	#18 (permalink)
fizzleboink Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Winnipeg, Canada Posts: 88	This was very cool, great job! I think this takes your web site up a notch too.

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