Those Fellas Sure Can Dance
Let me preface this with, I love my Stage Dance class. The people in there are great and fun and Bill is a great instructor and I am looking fun to our showcase on Tuesday.
That said, some of them make me want to wallbang like you would not believe. The phrase, I think, is "technologically inept."
I've been taking video of us practicing our dances so we can watch it at home and practice between classes, because we're doing six dances and that's a lot of choreo to retain. I have all the videos, and a week ago I zipped them into two .rar folders, uploaded them to SendSpace, and sent the link to everyone in my class with detailed instructions on how to download the files from SendSpace and unzip them. I also said to email me back if anyone had any questions.
You know who emailed me? Bill. He said everything worked perfectly and thanks for doing that! Thinking my job well done, I headed to class today.
Where over half the class told me they couldn't make things work. The files wouldn't download! They took forever downloading! (Well, yeah, it's over 150 MB of video in each one, I'd imagine that'd take a while.) They wouldn't unzip! They wouldn't play!
Guys. Our performance is on Tuesday. You have my email address! Hell, you have the email I sent you! Why on God's green Earth did you not email me back and tell me you had problems? We could have worked this out!
I've spent the past hour and some change uploading every video individually onto SendSpace, then sent out the links again with very detailed instructions on how to work things, along with very explicit instructions to email me back, whether they work or not. I want feedback, dammit. The only reason these aren't on YouTube is because Bill doesn't want his choreography on a public domain, which I can understand.
Then again, this respect for Bill may stem from the fact that he emailed me back.
Well, at least now I know where my Foxx muse came from.
That said, some of them make me want to wallbang like you would not believe. The phrase, I think, is "technologically inept."
I've been taking video of us practicing our dances so we can watch it at home and practice between classes, because we're doing six dances and that's a lot of choreo to retain. I have all the videos, and a week ago I zipped them into two .rar folders, uploaded them to SendSpace, and sent the link to everyone in my class with detailed instructions on how to download the files from SendSpace and unzip them. I also said to email me back if anyone had any questions.
You know who emailed me? Bill. He said everything worked perfectly and thanks for doing that! Thinking my job well done, I headed to class today.
Where over half the class told me they couldn't make things work. The files wouldn't download! They took forever downloading! (Well, yeah, it's over 150 MB of video in each one, I'd imagine that'd take a while.) They wouldn't unzip! They wouldn't play!
Guys. Our performance is on Tuesday. You have my email address! Hell, you have the email I sent you! Why on God's green Earth did you not email me back and tell me you had problems? We could have worked this out!
I've spent the past hour and some change uploading every video individually onto SendSpace, then sent out the links again with very detailed instructions on how to work things, along with very explicit instructions to email me back, whether they work or not. I want feedback, dammit. The only reason these aren't on YouTube is because Bill doesn't want his choreography on a public domain, which I can understand.
Then again, this respect for Bill may stem from the fact that he emailed me back.
Well, at least now I know where my Foxx muse came from.