Return to Unfiction unforum
 a.r.g.b.b 
FAQ FAQ   Search Search 
 
Welcome!
New users, PLEASE read these forum guidelines. New posters, SEARCH before posting and read these rules before posting your killer new campaign. New players may also wish to peruse the ARG Player Tutorial.

All users must abide by the Terms of Service.
Website Restoration Project
This archiving project is a collaboration between Unfiction and Sean Stacey (SpaceBass), Brian Enigma (BrianEnigma), and Laura E. Hall (lehall) with
the Center for Immersive Arts.
Announcements
This is a static snapshot of the
Unfiction forums, as of
July 23, 2017.
This site is intended as an archive to chronicle the history of Alternate Reality Games.
  

The time now is Tue Nov 12, 2024 2:59 pm
All times are UTC - 4 (DST in action)		 View posts in this forum since last visit
View unanswered posts in this forum
Calendar
 Forum index » Chaotic Fiction » Marble Hornets
Wait, where did that camera come from?
Moderators: Giskard, JKatkina, Zarggg
View previous topicView next topic
Page 1 of 4 [49 Posts]   Goto page: 1, 2, 3, 4 Next
Author Message
Acora
Unfettered


Joined: 27 Nov 2010
Posts: 518
Location: Douglasville, Georgia

 		Wait, where did that camera come from?
So, I've been rewatching MH with a friend recently, and I realized something. In Entry 26 the part from Alex, his girlfriend obviously found a video camera, which contained footage related to the ARG, and then she taped over it to record the footage that Alex sent Jay. Now, Alex was obviously paranoid after his encounters with Slenderman. That's why he gave the tapes to Jay and told him to burn them. That's why he ran away. So it wouldn't make any sense for him to keep the camera that he presumably recorded all the tapes on. Logically, he would have sold it, or destroyed it. So why did Amy find it in their apartment?

PostPosted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 7:39 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
The Rogue Wolf
Unfettered


Joined: 29 Jan 2010
Posts: 403
Location: Behind you, in the shadows

 		The most popular theory is that it was planted, possibly by Masky, in order to draw Slender Man back onto Alex's trail. Why? Well, that's something only the person who would've done it knows.
_________________
Join Noah Maxwell on his epic journey to stab all the bushes in search of the truth!

PostPosted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 7:45 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
halfricanapo
Veteran

Joined: 28 Feb 2010
Posts: 125

 		alex was also a film student. why would he throw away an expensive camera?

PostPosted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 11:27 pm
 View user's profile AIM Address
 Back to top 
fullroundaction
Veteran


Joined: 28 Nov 2010
Posts: 115
Location: Myrtle Beach, SC

 		Alex being recorded and thus summoning Slendy doesn't even make sense to begin with. He's been recorded by hundreds of cameras incidentally since dumping the MH tapes on J.

And since Slendy has been seen through many different cameras I think we can rule this one a red herring.

PostPosted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 11:35 pm
 View user's profile AIM Address
 Back to top 
MarbleArk
Decorated


Joined: 23 Nov 2010
Posts: 275
fullroundaction wrote:
Alex being recorded and thus summoning Slendy doesn't even make sense to begin with. He's been recorded by hundreds of cameras incidentally since dumping the MH tapes on J.

And since Slendy has been seen through many different cameras I think we can rule this one a red herring.


Correct me if I'm wrong but there's no proof that he's actually used a video camera since MH. It sounds far-fetched that he wouldn't use camera's for 2/3 years but if I was stalked by a creepy guy with no face who seems to have a connection to cameras, well yeah I wouldn't touch another camera.

And besides Amy's reaction, "I thought we didn't have a camera?" sums up what I said in just one sentence.

PostPosted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 11:54 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
fullroundaction
Veteran


Joined: 28 Nov 2010
Posts: 115
Location: Myrtle Beach, SC

 		He didn't use a camera in 26 either.

PostPosted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 11:55 pm
 View user's profile AIM Address
 Back to top 
MarbleArk
Decorated


Joined: 23 Nov 2010
Posts: 275

 		But Amy did, and she caught Alex on film.

PostPosted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 11:57 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
JKatkinaModerator
Entrenched


Joined: 16 Jan 2010
Posts: 825
Location: Calgary, AB
fullroundaction wrote:
Alex being recorded and thus summoning Slendy doesn't even make sense to begin with. He's been recorded by hundreds of cameras incidentally since dumping the MH tapes on J.

And since Slendy has been seen through many different cameras I think we can rule this one a red herring.


No, you know what, this is legit and I never thought of it before. Can a person really go years without ever even once being caught on video? We've got security cameras every-freaking-where nowadays, not even to mention random people on streets with cameraphones these days.

I still think having Alex caught on film did summon the Operator, considering how immediately he showed up after Amy started filming the boy. However, it makes me wonder if there really is something about THAT particular camera.

PostPosted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 12:03 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Dray
Pretty talky there aintcha, Talky?


Joined: 15 Jan 2010
Posts: 2578
Location: Cowtown, AB

 		I think that it's a combination of that camera and that tape that was being taped over. It's not that if, say, Alex was caught on the Quickymart security camera, the Operator'd pop out of nowhere... it's just that the tape/camera combo, when focused and filming Alex, were enough to sound the veritable dog-whistle. Very Happy

PostPosted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 12:03 am
 View user's profile AIM Address MSN Messenger
 Back to top 
fullroundaction
Veteran


Joined: 28 Nov 2010
Posts: 115
Location: Myrtle Beach, SC
MarbleArk wrote:
But Amy did, and she caught Alex on film.


Oh I thought your point was that ALEX hadn't used one.

E: I do buy the tape being the catalyst, but it seems odd for Alex to be sloppy enough to leave one behind.

PostPosted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 12:12 am
 View user's profile AIM Address
 Back to top 
Dray
Pretty talky there aintcha, Talky?


Joined: 15 Jan 2010
Posts: 2578
Location: Cowtown, AB

 		Hence the chatter that the camera and the tape were a plant! Very Happy

PostPosted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 12:16 am
 View user's profile AIM Address MSN Messenger
 Back to top 
fullroundaction
Veteran


Joined: 28 Nov 2010
Posts: 115
Location: Myrtle Beach, SC

 		I think that's the most likely scenario, but why? As in, what was the point of doing that.

PostPosted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 12:21 am
 View user's profile AIM Address
 Back to top 
JKatkinaModerator
Entrenched


Joined: 16 Jan 2010
Posts: 825
Location: Calgary, AB
fullroundaction wrote:
I think that's the most likely scenario, but why? As in, what was the point of doing that.


Perhaps to light a fire under Jay's ass, or even under Alex's. Maybe to make Alex reach out to Jay -- the only other person he knows for sure knows about Slenderman. Maybe just to get some footage of Alex to wave under Jay's nose.

Actually, I'm not personally convinced it was a plant. Having an old camera around as a memento of worse days past seems like exactly the kind of stupid thing that is entirely within the realm of possibility. I just don't think Alex was surprised enough to see the camera for it to have been a plant -- he seemed alarmed, maybe irritated, but unsurprised.

PostPosted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 12:26 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Bingo Zero
Boot


Joined: 12 Dec 2010
Posts: 54
Dray wrote:
I think that it's a combination of that camera and that tape that was being taped over. It's not that if, say, Alex was caught on the Quickymart security camera, the Operator'd pop out of nowhere... it's just that the tape/camera combo, when focused and filming Alex, were enough to sound the veritable dog-whistle. Very Happy


Hmmm. Interesting, maybe there was some footage of Slenderman that Amy taped over while filming Alex and that's what summoned him.

The point of planting the camera and tape? To draw Jay back into the mystery. At that point Jay lost his home, loosing tracks of time, getting sick, and being attacked, he was ready to wash his hands of the whole thing. TTA needed to do something to draw Jay back into the fray.

PostPosted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 12:28 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Rather Dashing
Boot


Joined: 13 Dec 2010
Posts: 28
Location: winnipeg

 		Certainly Alex has been caught on tape. However, perhaps Slender man/the Operator just didn't know just which cameras to look through.

PostPosted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 3:11 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Display posts from previous:   Sort by:   
Page 1 of 4 [49 Posts]   Goto page: 1, 2, 3, 4 Next
View previous topicView next topic
 Forum index » Chaotic Fiction » Marble Hornets
Jump to:  


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You can download files in this forum
You cannot post calendar events in this forum



Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group