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[Slendylvr]

 Possible New Series?

[jonnymanic]

First impressions, interesting, but lacking meat. Also, the lack of good spelling brings out the savage pedant in me.

[Slendylvr]

Ya.....that's what i thought. But it looks like it will turn into a video series and not so many slideshows. O well...I'm still gona keep watching it (for the time being.) And i did find one promising thing......some guy or thing posted a response to one of the videos. the account name is The0remnant and appears to be similar to totheark. So hopin it gets better and another good one I found was TribeTwelve

[Dray]

Why do people feel that mimicking Marble Hornets but subbing out the names of the ne'er-do-wells is the key to greatness?

Take some time to bash out your story. Look further back for inspiration. Watch old horror movies. Read old suspense novels. Tap inspiration that hasn't been watered down by dint of living in (internet) pop culture. This means having an attention span that lasts more than one or two years into the past, which I know, is hard. But you will mine gold if you research, and your final product will look more sophisticated and salable -- and by that, I mean it will be awesome and people will +fav/like/comment on your work.

Look for things that have been done before (enigmatic villain, chess-master third-party, friend-turned-investigator, etc.) and if you're going to use them for your own story, A) figure out what made the original great, and what sucked about it, and B) write out a list of everything you can think of that can improve on that. Don't just look at the characters themselves. How and where are they presented? What are they doing and how are they reacting? Is there anything cliche about them -- something that you've seen done dozens of times over in the old movies and books and radio plays that you've been researching, as above? Avoid the heck out of it, or else portray it in such a way that tells the audience that you're aware that what you're giving them is cliche, so that we can all chuckle and feel smart about watching your stuff.

Go back and edit. If you don't spend time to so much as spell-check your writing, you're telling me that you can't be bothered. I don't want to waste my time watching something that looks like it came out of the back of your nose. Type your shit up, spell-check. Get a friend who knows how to write to double-check for you. Grow a thick skin so that when they say, "dude, this chunk of dialogue sucks goat-balls," you won't break down and cry, or punch the wall and scream that you never want to talk to them again and that you're leaving forever. Take advice from everyone and everywhere and sleep on it, let it brew in the back of your head, apply it to what you're making in the end.

If you have the technology and the determination to put something together, go the whole way and do your best, and if you're getting crappy reviews in the end, pick out the useful bits from the retards that populate most of the internet and use it in the next piece. Making a hit doesn't come overnight. Getting constant input from the world, movies, books, etc. etc. and practicing making everything that you see on the other side of the camera exactly what you want in the end -- whether through picking just the right location, setting up lights just so, tearing up your mom's basement with the promise that you'll clean it up afterwards, or editing the fuck out of it after the fact -- are important and will make you a cool person!

/soapboxin'-tiemz

[Tekyro]

I'm really not so keen on this series. I would love to know what the music he uses is, though

[Seraphic Adonis]

Mm, not too big a fan of this.

@Dray; I think we need an topic for brainstorming/soapboxing about new ARGs, since "what-the-players-think-a-good-ARG-is" keeps getting dragged into the topics for new ARGs xD;

[Serenity]

Dray, that post was beautiful.

[Dray]

I half think that the new things coming up are from people who don't read the unfiction forums. Or if they do, then they don't care if they're making content that's practically a clone of what's out there already. Maybe a list of Slender Blogs, vlogs and ARG's with a list of do's and don't's, so that newbies at least have a quick guide to what's been done already?

[Seraphic Adonis]

[SticktheFigure]

There has been a new update here

[badluckshadow13]

Heh, Mr. Smalls? That's a venue up in Pittsburgh, innit? First concert I ever say was there.
Yeah though, looks pretty amateur.

[Trygon]

Mr Smalls in a nutshell

[Carnahan]

It seems whoever was leaving the "tapes" has the same editor the account user does.

[Trygon]

The fact that they use the same fonts is the bigger giveaway. Though, the awfulness of the Totheark rip off account should be enough on its own. That and the chap has the story telling abilities of a mute chimp.

EDIT: He did not liek

[Dray]

Ooh, that bastard is plagiarizing? Kick his ass off of youtube and tell him to never come back!