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TheFuss · Boot Joined: 09 Sep 2011 Posts: 26

Making a Marble Hornets timeline stream thing

**Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2012 5:46 pm

pravado · Unfictologist Joined: 22 Apr 2011 Posts: 1833

a comprehensive timeline is aleady up here. making it look fancy might be nice but i don't think it'd get the reaction you'd expect for all the time it would take to do that. good luck either way.

**Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2012 6:53 pm

Nyxandria · Boot Joined: 17 Aug 2011 Posts: 57 Location: Baltimore

I sort of agree with pravado. There's already a stickied time line that includes all of the Tweets and TTA response videos, with order they were posted and the probable order of actual occurrence. Of course, if you'd like to continue with your slideshow version, I wish you luck. ^_^

**Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2012 7:52 pm

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Plus the wiki has one

**Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2012 8:40 pm

DemanusFlint · Boot Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 56

haha why are y'all having such shitty responses

it's maybe a bit early for dude to telegraph something that you say won't be done for 5 weeks but if you do it people will love it, i think that what he's talking about goes well beyond any of the other resources you mentioned

**Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2012 9:18 pm

Xicon · Unfettered Joined: 06 Jul 2011 Posts: 404

I've been working on this for a while, but seeing your post made me want to finish it. I only have season 1 done so far, but here:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3E68217EC1EE7AEC&feature=view_all

It's a YouTube playlist along with videos that I made that showcase the tweets made between videos. Just hit play all, and it'll do everything for you.

**Posted:** Thu Mar 22, 2012 2:20 am

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TheFuss · Boot Joined: 09 Sep 2011 Posts: 26

@Xicon: Awesome! I've looked for YT playlists before but I've never found one that had everything in it. That was my other reason for posting here before wasting too much time on it - checking that something similar doesn't already exist.

@Pravado etc: I know there are forum posts and wiki entries already, but they're a little dry don't you think? If I want to introduce someone to the MH story for the first time, sending them a link to a wall of text with a bunch of links in might turn them off a little. I think that a seamless experience without having to click around a lot of different places would do more to get people into the series. Making things look fancy is a lot more important than some people think.

I made it sound like this was going to be a lot of work, but in truth I could have got it done in the space of a couple of hours on a lazy sunday - I just don't have any lazy sundays on the horizon for a while. I think we should promote Xicon's playlist to newcomers to the series, it's a great thing he/she's done!

**Posted:** Thu Mar 22, 2012 10:05 am

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**Posted:** Thu Mar 22, 2012 11:22 am

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KrisTrauma · Unfettered Joined: 19 Apr 2011 Posts: 492 Location: OK

So it's basically THIS but with links to the videos? I don't really understand...

**Posted:** Thu Mar 22, 2012 12:00 pm

redherring · Unfettered Joined: 04 Dec 2010 Posts: 469 Location: NJ

**Posted:** Thu Mar 22, 2012 1:34 pm

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Xicon · Unfettered Joined: 06 Jul 2011 Posts: 404

My playlist currently only covers Season 1 - those tweet videos are arduous to make - but I just watched it. 2 hours long, and it actually works pretty well I think. The tweet videos can be a bit tiresome at times, but I couldn't think of a better solution. The Solstice Twitter Watch works really, really well though - pretty suspenseful.

**Posted:** Thu Mar 22, 2012 1:36 pm

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TheFuss · Boot Joined: 09 Sep 2011 Posts: 26

@redherring: Yeah, you've got the measure of it. Something that flows and jumps out at the viewer, with all the videos and twitpics and tweets embedded there, right on the page. Embeds still count towards page hits I'm pretty sure, I was thinking more about their DVD sales - they might not like something that could be seen as competition.

OK, what I'll do is sketch up something later on and post a picture so everyone has an idea of what I'm talking about. Then we can throw ideas around for colour schemes and layout and stuff and if people still think it's a waste of time they can say so.

I want to stress that I'm thinking about total newcomers to the series when I talk about this - the timeline that we already have is a great bit of work, and it's really useful for you guys when you want to settle debates and back up theories, but for an outsider it's just a wall of timestamps and links...

**Posted:** Thu Mar 22, 2012 2:26 pm

Xman · Decorated Joined: 15 Mar 2011 Posts: 280

Go for it OP. Any timeline sort of thing I've ever seen is never really straightforward, easy to use, and/or convenient. I feel like you're gonna make something that makes it almost too easy (in a good way) to witness the legend that is Marble Hornets.

It'd be an easy way to get my friends started on the series. The sticky topic would probably make my friends have an aneurysm...no offense to the creator of that thread, it's just that most people would look at that (especially newcomers) and be like "TOO COMPLICATED" and leave.

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**Posted:** Thu Mar 22, 2012 3:18 pm

Zarggg · Unfictologist Joined: 23 Dec 2010 Posts: 1660

Once I finish editing the timeline article on the wiki... it will have all the information you plan on including in this thing.

Maybe I'm not understanding what its purpose is...?

**Posted:** Thu Mar 22, 2012 8:34 pm

redherring · Unfettered Joined: 04 Dec 2010 Posts: 469 Location: NJ

**Posted:** Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:08 pm

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