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[12th]

Looking at that bingo card, I'd actually change:

1. "Trying to be Marble Hornets" to "Black Screen, White Text Exposition"
2. "Trying to be EMH" to "Unreliable Narrator"

We're also missing:

A. "Female Creator trolled by community until Series is Abandoned"
actually just "Abandoned Series/Blog" should be on the list. Hell, it should be the FREE space.
B. Journals Full of Crazy
C. Got More Tapes
D. Unnecessary Series/Blog Crossover
E. Core Theory AGAIN
F. Character obtains deadly weapon
G. Character loses deadly weapon
H. A whole video of underlit exploration

[KrisTrauma]

And after more recent videos we should add "Phone call entry"

[Seraphim]

I'd also suggest "Proxies, Proxies Everywhere!"

[chasechan2050]

[cochinosanchez]

You're forgetting "find's an SD card or flash drive" with (corrupt) footage.

[Tharol]

People there is dogs killed cats lives video.
The police or parents morons cannot solve problems.

[AlexfromtheMarbleHornets]

I don't like the fact that 'Story ends with protagonist dead or insane' is on there. Not only is the Mythos horror, but it's almost exclusively Lovecraftian horror. Protagonists go insane or die in Lovecraftian horror. Insanity and death are only natural considering the incomprehensible nature of Lovecraftian antagonists. I wouldn't consider them cliches, just what works for the genre.

[Tharol]

People the course take forever there lists for videos.

[nesferatuzero]

Yeah, I ask this on another thread. What unnecessary cliche should i avoid? I also, ask if using a cinematic pov and first person pov (the usual standard for the series) would distract? I mean using both interchangeably. I'm new on posting in the forum. Is just i'm writing an outline for a series with would start as slender show, but it would be something different as it goes along. It does have a reviewer aspect to it.

[12th]

Hard to say whether an alternating POV and cinematic framing of action would distract, since we don't see it all that much in vlogs, if at all. I will say that you would have to handle it very carefully as to not break immersion in the action of what was going on screen. Your concern shouldn't be whether it's a cliche but rather you could manage the cinematography and editing sufficiently to balance the two shooting styles.

[cochinosanchez]

Another cliche I've been noticing lately: The title "Aftermath" for a video.

[GameGodOfAll]

I always wanted to do a Slender Man series with no distortion and abandon all the cliches.

Slender Man is tall and skinny. He wears a suit. He has no hair and no face. That is it. Bare bones with a ton of new meat.

I just got no one to do it with

[calivica]

[Oscar Langley]

*Videos titled "Entry #" "Submission #" "Log #", etc. (though it does make sense most of the time and I've seen a few aversions.)

*If you start seeing Slenderman, you will also start seeing/getting stalked by somebody in some kind of mask.

I also think it'd be cool to use found footage that's more than a few years old IG, like a Slenderattack from the 60s, 70s, 80s, etc. And +1 Slenderman killing people again.

[Andvalli]

"Story ends with protagonist dead or insane"

I must be way out of the loop if enough series have officially ended for this to be a cliche. Which I probably am, so they probably have.

Also, this thread desperately needs to address the cliche of memory loss