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[NoMoreGaems]

The way I see it, you can do it one of two ways:

1: Frequently (more than once every week and a half, basically) put out a video, usually short, so that the sum experience while watching it is of a real time narrative. Videos build suspense for following videos, small and less interesting things are allowed to happen because they're being made up for by larger and more interesting things soon after, basically keep them short and keep them coming.

2: Infrequently (once every two weeks or longer) put out a video, usually long, that stands on its own as an experience from beginning to end. Videos don't need to build suspense for following videos because the video does that on its own, small events are glossed over or just subsumed into a larger narrative, basically let it speak for itself as a full length episode rather than as something that needs to have a dozen small update videos leading up to it.

Tribe Twelve (largely) follows the second pattern, and that's what I like about it. Marble Hornets (largely) follows the first pattern, and that's what I like about it. Either way is possible, either way is viable, just as long as the plot can support either version.

[Carnahan]

Yeah, again, don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to shoot anyone's points down at all.

I just agree with some of the "bipolar" (as someone called it) sentiment that's prevalent in the viewer-base.

It's like Rearden Metal, x2. (Damn your freakin' series - it takes too long to make! NEW VIDEO - OMQ we love it... two weeks later, repeat.)

[mokie]

I think RatheadSyndicate nails it with verisimilitude, but I'd lean in the other direction there too. A scheduled stalking is unrealistic, but so is upping the ante with a big reveal, then breaking months of radio silence with, "Hey, how you guys doing?" The issue at hand for me is effective storytelling--you can't raise the tension and then just drop it. If you end with (for example) cops at the door, the audience is going to wait to hear why, and your 'why' needs to factor in how long they had to wait (e.g. "Holy crap, I got deported!"). If you've got a long gap between updates, make it PART of the story so it takes advantage of the tension you've already created.

As much as folks gripe about the audience not appreciating the time and effort and how nobody's being paid for this, it's difficult for the audience to stay in the story when there is no story for a month, or three, or seven; that's the gist of the griping. Little bits of meat every so often (and, as I said, I do consider the TT tweet about dreams to be meat) help keep the audience on track. It doesn't have to be video, it just has to be story.

[qaqa]

Yes, bipolar syndrome is why I tend not to take some pockets of backlash seriously at all.

TT's schedule has, fortunately, almost always been quite staggered. It's become its norm and so every entry has found the time to become something pretty spectacular. I think its slow, doomed, new-horrors-each-time pace works very well for it and sets it apart from the rest, actually.

I do think the formspring is a brilliant device for interaction other shows could have done well to pick up - I think I got some info out of that which I forgot to ever share here, in fact, if I can just remember all of it - and I think that could be utilized more during production breaks.

[Slendery]

[awakeasaurusrex]

[pravado]

the real problem i have with TT is the lack of effort. when it's clear he's procrastinating, he'll put up BS twitter posts. When you go 2+ weeks without a video, it loses it's edge because now you think "oh two weeks without getting stalked by slendy he must be fine", defeating the element of worry for this character.

[AfterHours]

[Carnahan]

[qaqa]

I must insist TT not worry, as many of us know how hard Nimbus works.

Wait, where is the gif. Oh, I actually prefer this today.



Too big?

[Slendery]

[Bartok]

HERP DERP LETS FORGET ABOUT THE EPIC CONTENT OF THE SERIES AND BITCH ABOUT WHY THERE'S NOT A NEW VIDEO



HERP DERP LETS FORGET ABOUT THE COMPANY'S EPIC GAMES AND BITCH ABOUT WHY THERE'S NOT A NEW HALF-LIFE GAME

[Ryudragon]

Are you implying Noah works for Valve?

[ForeverDazed]

Spoiled for OOG reference.

[alejlujah]