Making FIRST Viral

[safiq10]

Or we could get a lot of celberties in a video that talk about how cool first is? wait that has already been done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYuOKb3gO7E

[JohnFogarty]

Originally Posted by safiq10

Or we could get a lot of celberties in a video that talk about how cool first is? wait that has already been done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYuOKb3gO7E

239,011 views. Must not have worked.

[protoserge]

Originally Posted by JohnFogarty

239,011 views. Must not have worked.

I don't think it did either, but don't discount the prime time viewers that watched the full version live.

Without getting too philosophical, I felt it sent the wrong message and didn't actively spread the word of FIRST to those outside of FIRST.

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by stinglikeabee

I don't think it did either, but don't discount the prime time viewers that watched the full version live.

Without getting too philosophical, I felt it sent the wrong message and didn't actively spread the word of FIRST to those outside of FIRST.

I just said the same thing to one of my friends.

"My robot is better than your robot." Really?

[safiq10]

okay i agree its not the greatest way to get it out there but it is something. If only we had a better way. WHY not break a world record. People love the world and records.

[Orion.DeYoe]

This is a great thread! I have been thinking about the same type of thing recently. How do we tell people about FIRST not only to get more students to join teams but also to build up a following and an interest in the competition?
I agree wholeheartedly with the people who have said that it needs to be easily understandable (and generally searchable) and very cool to watch.
FIRST has made many videos that try to promote the program. The one with Morgan Freeman was very good. However I'm ALWAYS disappointed that they don't show ROBOTS! The robots are extremely powerful and amazing! A good FIRST promotional video needs to have a good voice-over and great music, but the visual portion of the video needs to be taken up solely by robots from a variety of teams doing amazing things. Everyone keeps mentioning 254's climb. That would be great! People do need to be careful when editing these videos not to make them boring. A video of 254 climbing is actually going to be boring to people who watch it without knowing exactly what's going on (I've had that happen when I show it to people). The shots of robots need to be only a couple seconds long and they need to show the robot DOING SOMETHING, not just driving around or getting knocked over.

[synth3tk]

Excellent quote from another thread that I think could help us out.

Originally Posted by Dom20

But what would be really cool is if somehow a flash mob could be arranged to get a bunch of teams connected at the events. There's something that would be pretty awesome!

[protoserge]

Originally Posted by synth3tk

Excellent quote from another thread that I think could help us out.

Flash mob... builds robot, then challenges to frisbee?

[Dom20]

I've had the idea for a couple years now, and it's my senior year on my team. I didn't think many teams would be interested but we should do it if teams are all on board at regionals and at world championships too. That would be the best!