A Visitor's Guide to Anchor Cove

[flwright]

A Visitor’s Guide to Anchor Cove
August 3, 2007 Edition

Welcome to Anchor Cove, where the women are sweet, the men frauds, and the children are just plain weird. Or is it the women are frauds, the men are weird, and the children sweet? No, the women are definitely the weird ones...

Confused? Feel you’ve missed the birth of a new art form? You could get a couple of six packs of Red Bull or Sam Adams Boston Lager or a fresh pitcher of lemonade and watch all 100+ Lonelygirl15 videos in 4-5 hours.

Or you can blow off the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric and Entertainment Tonight and watch the following selection of videos in about an hour. When you’re done, you’ll be just as confused as the rest of us in a lot less time.

If you have even less time (about 3 minutes per recap), Anchor Cove's terrific Terryfic has done some excellent video recaps on the YouTube channel Lonelygirl15Recaps:

Recap 1-Episodes 1-10
Recap 2-Episodes 11-18
Recap 3-Episodes 19-27
Recap 4-Episodes 28-37
Recap 5-Episodes 38-45
Recap 6-Episodes 46-54
Recap 7-Episodes 55-62
Recap 8-Episodes 63-74
Recap 9-Episodes 75-83

And if you have extreme ADD, here's an 88 second recap by Hollishillis:
LG15 in 88 Seconds

Before we begin, I have a few comments. Most of these videos were first seen BC (Before Creators), that is before it was confirmed that Lonelygirl15 wasn’t real. I have noted that event in the sequence. You might want to stop at that point and savor them.

I have linked to YouTube videos only. Lonelygirl15 owes a lot to YouTube, YouTube owes a lot to Lonelygirl15 ($1.65 Billion to be exact). It’s a complicated relationship. You can also go to Lonelyworld or Revver to find them. Click on the ad at the end of the video and an angel will get some wings.

Enjoy!

Paytotheorderofofof vs. Dinosaur
How Noobies Get Noticed on YouTube, link to the popular vloggers. Early comments are priceless.

First Blog / Dorkiness Prevails
This is why we love Bree.

Purple Monkey
Purple Monkey introduced.

The Danielbeast
Daniel introduced.

My Parents Suck
First hint of teenage angst.

Daniel Responds
Second hint of teenage angst.

Proving Science Wrong
Bree further cements her dork appeal in this first of a continuing theme.

My Parents Let Us Go Hiking
Angst resolved. New angst follows when viewers note Daniel’s tender editing.

He Said, She Said
Angst resolved. Again.

My Lazy Eye
The most viewed LG15 video. And why not, it has Bree and P-Monkey!

The Tolstoy Principle (and Dad "talks" to Daniel)
We are introduced to Bree’s Dad (and his pants).

What Did Daniel and Dad Talk About?
Weird appears above a candelabra for the first time.

I Probably Shouldn't Post This...
But she does anyway, exhibiting a severe vlogging addiction and uttering the cuss heard ‘round the Cove.

Mysteries of My Past... REVEALED!
Finally, Bree spills some family history, including a tender story of her father.

Swimming
The seed of the ARGs, the beginning of the end of vlogs.

Bree the Cookie Monster
The Ceremony becomes part of the story. 10-12-06.

A Change in My Life
The Ceremony explained, sort of.

Thursday September 7, 2006, the Creators reveal that Bree’s not real.
Everything changes.

This is My Story Now
The fans take over, everything changes, again. Dorkiness fades, weirdness prevails.

The Equinox
We learn some Enochian.

My Difficult Decision
The Ceremony looms.

The Zodiac of Denderah
We learn some Egyptian astrology.

The Ceremony
Daniel films the ceremony. It’s dark.

Following the Helper
Daniel films himself breaking and entering.

Nut Kills Man
Gemma, the first of many new “officially sanctioned” characters, appears. Many more to follow.

Life’s Not Fair
It is revealed that we’re not the only ones in the dark about the Ceremony.

On the Run
The Road Trip Begins.

The Unthinkable Happened and Bree’s Dad Is Dead
Big black storm clouds over the Cove.

Truth or Dare
Mourn'in, Mope'in around, hang'in out, get'in drunk and meet'in an American Idol.

Miss Me?
Daniel's captured and forced to imitate Max Headroom.

The Human Ransom and Interrogation 101
The introduction of ActionBree(tm) and TortureBree(tm).

The Perfect Beach
Bree who? Aunt Alex, the best of Daniel's alternative love interests, makes her final appearance as Jonas goes postal. Update 7/23/07-The producers come to their senses and Aunt Alex Returns!

It's Not Kidnapping
Yes, it is. Our gang adds to the list of videotaped felonies. The video reveals the true power behind the series, Amanda Goodfried, who is the ghostwriter for much of Bree's online persona, and whose entire family has made cameos in the series. Julia is played by her sister.

I Know What Boys Like
While Jessica Rose pursues other acting roles, the Three Breesketeers scramble to find new female leads.

Rockin' the Boat
Although August 3, 2007 is the official date of the Lonelygirl15 finale, this is the day the series died.

Bree Dies
August 3, 2007 At least she outlives the series.

[curiousgeorge]

Excellent episode synopsis and probably enough to get a new viewer up to the point where we are, i.e. thoroughly confused. But that's another thread(s). Lots of them...

The BC vids are pretty darn good though, and our reason for being as it were. Good choices FLW!

[slainte]

Bravo Flywright...that had to take some time!

Did you get fired again!

just kidding..thanks! that was nice of you to do.

[wixy15]

It's good, but to be honest pointless. This is the sort of thing that possible new members who are reading the board need to see. No new people will find this useful as they won't register to look at the board. However being able to look at the board and see top notch posts such as this will entise them in. It's not a hard conclusion to draw...is it?

[hyemew]

However it's been months and no one WAS enticed in. At least now I see a lot of new names logged in and who they are. Even iris was here lurking. Then again, all those new names I see are STILL lurking and not enticed to get involved. So basically there is no way to get those people to cooperate. Making the cove annonymous was good because it at least forces people to register and that increases the chance they might just post- but as we've seen whether it was hidden or not it did not get us any new posters- so going back to having it viewable to all is not as potent a solution as you argue.

[wixy15]

People don't come to forums to 'cooperate' Hye! They come to do what we do, there need be no reason why they can't read the board. If the want to read and even post they will, if they are unsure then they might be persuaded if they can see what sort of thing goes on here.

I left a few months ago, I told you this place wouldn't get busy again, but you guys were adament you would be the best website for discussions of internet series and the such like. Nothing has changed, there are no new influential new posters. What have you guys done to get people here? You can't blame people for not joining if you don't do bugger all to get the Cove out there, and improve it's image and reputation...

Marketing...?

[milowent]

gotta love the forum troll. i wouldn't say we haven't had any new influential posters. we have a number of people who post regularly, but not every day. and others who have come and gone, which always happens on forums.

i am interested to hear your marketing ideas though, wixy. IMS haven't taken off -- though the article in the NY times buckwheat linked us to today suggests that is going to change soon, i'm not holding my breath.

[wixy15]

milowent said:

gotta love the forum troll.

Thanks! ;D

milowent said:

i am interested to hear your marketing ideas though, wixy. IMS haven't taken off -- though the article in the NY times buckwheat linked us to today suggests that is going to change soon, i'm not holding my breath.

Marketing isn't my strong point. I tend to like things that interest me and become ineterested in things I like. If I don't like it or find it dull then I won't be persuaded to like it.

However, the sort of marketing the Cove and perhaps the whole IMS community need is the 'get it out there' 'in ya face' type of stuff. No real idea what can realisticly be done to achieve this although something like setting up a Myspace might get the ball rolling.

I recently heard someone speaking on the radio, I can't remember exactly what he was going on about but here is roughly what he said:

"We have to put ourselves out there, we cannot expect people to come looking for us. We need to place ourselves in situations easily accessible to our target audience."

[wixy15]

Anything new happening?