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[AdvantageFire]

OOG/OOC Out of Game/Out of Character
IG/IC In-Game/In-Character
ARG/ARE Alternate Reality Game/Alternate Reality Experience.

[TheFallenSeven]

Thanks! I am finally enlightened

[wanderfox]

[TheFallenSeven]

 Question:

[AdvantageFire]

My personal choice is this

I like at least some confusion
Inventive plot twists and Mind fuckery.
Decent pacing as well.
Immersion is another biggie that I look for in a series/ARG.

Old and New together also gets some nice results
i.e a series with a MH-esque start which revolves around a lovecraftian entity made of eyes and tenticles and builds into something different
I find that pretty impressive.

Editing style means fuck all to me as well as Acting as long as it isn't too terrible or overdramatic.

[Ristar]

I feel like i should add since this DOES make you a better YouTuber in general, and it will likely let you score more views.

RECORD ALL YOUR SHIT BEFORE YOU START TO RELEASE VIDEOS

Maybe record 2 or 3 videos in advance, but waiting a lot of days between uploads will kill you as a Youtuber, there is a reason so many series get so little amount of views, because whoever got hooked on your series lose interest after a week, not because they don't like it, because our brains need a constant refresher. It doesn't even have to be videos, you can use Twitter aswell.

[Cyan507]

[TheFallenSeven]

NewMerchant- Wow, I'm surprised to hear about not caring on the editing and acting. Interesting. When you say immersion does that mean trying to decode something or to get really into the plot and stuff...maybe you can explain better?

Ristar- I would say that does depend on the person who's making the series. I personally don't do that, but I don't want to be a good youtuber, I simply want to tell my story. I personally don't want to rush to film everything...sometimes I get ideas with walking through the parking deck or even looking up at the sky on a rainy day. But I do agree with that if you are trying to make it as a youtuber and trying to get views. I also personally agree on quality vs quantity (now I do anyhow) and that means time and commitment.

[Cyan507]

[AdvantageFire]

@TheFallenSeven
Getting deep into the plot and finding out more i.e finding hidden details and shit from videos dating from the beginning.
I find that very immersive.

[TheFallenSeven]

Cyan507- Vince Gilligan is my man, haha! But not just the writing but mostly where the camera goes, he is definitely an inspiration. But yeah I took your advice a bit confused at first and then slowly molded the ending to my series so I guess there is something to this reverse engineering

I've asked some of my friends on their opinion of killing off slenderman and all of them are saying to kill him. The problem is that I brought up The Totem's channel, PhantomVoices, and if I did kill slender then I don't think it would be very fair ...or more so make no sense that he's in this other channel.

The Totem...maybe you have an idea??

[The Totem]

Hm... Well, since we seem to share some form of continuity... Let's discuss this in PMs, I have a great idea.

[TheFallenSeven]

Sweet! I'll await your message, right now I need to run to class

[Lumine]

The acting isn't super important but it gives a series glorious moments. For example, acting at a moment of suspense will keep your audience on edge. You want the audience to ask if this is real, in the back of their head.

Editing is very important. I did my first project on Movie maker with hacked expansions and 250+ effects and I barely managed to get by. Download "Invest" in some "expensive" software.

The plot is important, because this genre is so saturated that all the new projects have literally never seen most of those before them, thus their ideas tend to be the same old same old "slenderman shows up and then we run away". Or things that don't make sense canonically and ruin immersion.

Unhappy endings are notoriously annoying but realistic, and often happen abruptly in found footage movies. The slenderverse has a great opportunity to change that. I have yet to see a slenderverse series end on a good tone, and I still wait for the day.

Humor is always good to remind us these people are real people. An adult knows when humor is appropriate and when it is not. So I usually expect humor at times where it's golden, not in the middle of a scary video to kill suspense.


Also, you little kids, stop cursing in all your videos. Do it. Stop cursing. That goes for you too, you old dudes. Stahp cursing.

[michaelO2000]