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What Would You like to see in a Slender series\arg?
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Lumine
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The reason that involving the police is difficult is because many time, they will not consent, and aren't allowed to be on camera without permission from them or their sergeants.

Hell, in my last video we were surrounded while filming and I'm not allowed to use it.

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 7:51 pm

gottagofast
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Also, could anyone tell me if there are any must don'ts?

I've read this thread around six times and I feel as if I had never read it.

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:23 pm

xemnasvii
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Do's and Don't's

If you're gonna have dialogue, show the characters and not just walking. Preferably indoors. Also, no more immediate running if slendy hadn't caused any harm. Actually investigate him. Then run.

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 1:26 am

gottagofast
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Re: Do's and Don't's

xemnasvii wrote:

If you're gonna have dialogue, show the characters and not just walking. Preferably indoors. Also, no more immediate running if slendy hadn't caused any harm. Actually investigate him. Then run.

That actually makes a lot of sense, but never seen anyone do it.

After all, you don't high tail it after a rabbit follows you.

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 6:07 am

brdardin
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For an ARG? Slendy actually appearing in public. Shocked

Imagine it, you're walking down a sidewalk in NYC, and see something out of the corner of your eye. You turn, and see..... it.

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 1:07 am

Cursor
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brdardin wrote:

For an ARG? Slendy actually appearing in public. Shocked

Imagine it, you're walking down a sidewalk in NYC, and see something out of the corner of your eye. You turn, and see..... it.

That would pretty cool, but people nearby would react weird to it and might ruin it. Razz

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 1:11 am

brdardin
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Cursor wrote:

brdardin wrote:

For an ARG? Slendy actually appearing in public. Shocked

Imagine it, you're walking down a sidewalk in NYC, and see something out of the corner of your eye. You turn, and see..... it.

That would pretty cool, but people nearby would react weird to it and might ruin it. Razz

Not in NY. Scarier things stalk the streets of that city. Shocked

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 1:20 am

gottagofast
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brdardin wrote:

For an ARG? Slendy actually appearing in public. Shocked

Imagine it, you're walking down a sidewalk in NYC, and see something out of the corner of your eye. You turn, and see..... it.

I know what i'm doing Saturday.

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 1:20 am

xemnasvii
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I'd like to see a few jokes here and there. Lightening the mood then seeing slendy is a harsher shock.

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 2:02 am

Tharol
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People on the rabbit comment depends if Dixie or COA follows think.

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 8:26 pm

agnosticAntagonist
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dinorobo wrote:

This.
Seriously, everyone needs to read this, especially future creators.
http://agnosticantagonist.tumblr.com/post/22981267442/a-few-thoughts-on-the-slenderman

!! I wrote that actually, I'm glad people found it enjoyable! I had no idea someone had actually posted it to unFiction until I was checking my statcounter today.

As for my ideal slenderseries and slenderman -- I want something that brings the children back into the 'verse. Not just college students with an allusion to a kid here and there -- but children, in-the-flesh children that the viewer has time to bond with and cherish and then have them ripped away. I liked the way TJAProjects worked this in.

I would be absolutely thrilled to see more stories from a parent's viewpoint, just blogging about how time flies and watching their kid grow up when something starts going wrong in the background and suddenly the kid is gone. The idea of a parent driven mad -- not just by the slenderman, but from the grief and guilt of losing their child -- seems like a very promising one.

It would be wonderful for the series itself to have the atmosphere of a dark modern fairytale. I have a great affection for the film Pan's Labyrinth, and imo the closer a story can get to that in pure atmosphere, the better. I don't want to lose the slender man's roots of being a childhood bogeyman -- the der ritter, the Der Gro�mann, the one that stalks forests and gobbles up bad children if they stray too far from mother. Keeping his faery-like connotations to nature, children, and old stories is incredibly important to me.

I've always seen the slenderman itself being a sort of vulture, an opportunist that preys on the weak. The mentally ill, the unstable, the young, the terminal -- these are the ones that the slenderman will go after first. The inevitable physical/mental illness that the slenderman causes will weaken the target more, and drive their friends/family down (assuming that they don't also become ill from proximity), rendering the target's friends/family potential targets as well. I see him almost working as a sort of hysteria, with one person catching it and then passing it on to all the people closest to them -- the ones that break down the fastest are who he interacts with the most once the initial target is down.

I want less of the ciphers, unless you can give me a good reason why a proxy -- or anyone involved with slenderman at all -- would be using them. Honestly, every time I see a cipher in a slenderblog I roll my eyes. After a while it just comes off as cheesy, like the author couldn't come up with an actual puzzle so they just threw something into a text-to-binary translator and called it a day. "Oh wow, in this recipe book it says in order to make a slenderseries i need one man in a morph suit and five dashes of binary!" No. If you can't think of an honestly clever puzzle that makes sense in context, you could always consider not including puzzles and just sticking to narrative.

Less proxies. The slenderman shouldn't need proxies, in my opinion -- it's a personal taste and I'd just rather not have them. If there are any proxies at all, it shouldn't be because they are honest-to-god-working-for-slenderman but because they're just become so irreversibly broken from his presence that the mask has become their equivalent of a blanket for a little kid. They're spent people, with little chance of recovering, and you'll be lucky to get one sentence out of them that isn't meaningless word salad.
I can see a group of proxies working for the story, if you twist it with a Lovecraftian spin -- some sort of cult of degenerates with very little mental facility left, trying to worship the being and delusioning themselves into thinking that they're part of the creature's greater plan, when in reality they play no part at all. They should only pose threat through their own madness, instead of through any supernatural intervention.

Less "creepy" and irrelevant drawings. Mostly they come off as trying too hard, and the trope's been done to death.

Mostly what I want is a creative new spin on the slenderman that isn't afraid to add new ideas, concepts, and perspectives while still keeping sight of the story's roots. Something that retains the slenderman's fairytale nature, avoids done-to-death tropes (ciphers, proxies, creepy drawings), and keeps the protagonist believable.

Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 11:11 pm

gottagofast
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agnosticAntagonist wrote:

I can see a group of proxies working for the story, if you twist it with a Lovecraftian spin -- some sort of cult of degenerates with very little mental facility left, trying to worship the being and delusioning themselves into thinking that they're part of the creature's greater plan, when in reality they play no part at all. They should only pose threat through their own madness, instead of through any supernatural intervention.

I actually had planned having a religious-like cult that thinks slendy is a sort of higher being but tossed it out because I thought it was too unrealistic.

agnosticAntagonist wrote:

Mostly what I want is a creative new spin on the slenderman that isn't afraid to add new ideas, concepts, and perspectives while still keeping sight of the story's roots. Something that retains the slenderman's fairytale nature, avoids done-to-death tropes (ciphers, proxies, creepy drawings), and keeps the protagonist believable.

I really really really want to introduce new concepts and ideas but i'm afraid people would, once again, think its unrealistic.

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 1:38 am

agnosticAntagonist
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gottagofast wrote:

agnosticAntagonist wrote:

I actually had planned having a religious-like cult that thinks slendy is a sort of higher being but tossed it out because I thought it was too unrealistic.

gottagofast wrote:

agnosticAntagonist wrote:

I really really really want to introduce new concepts and ideas but i'm afraid people would, once again, think its unrealistic.

this is a mythos that focuses around a teleporting faceless MIB that we take entirely too seriously. Being afraid to write won't do you any good. Just write what you want for the joy of writing. If you're really nervous about having your ideas bounce, have another slendercreator betaread your story and tell you if it works before you make it public.

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 1:58 am

gottagofast
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agnosticAntagonist wrote:

I don't think it would be too unrealistic at all. You get enough desperate people, enough unhinged and frightened people, and I think they'd worship anything. Whether or not slenderman actually pays them any heed is what decides whether it's believable or not.

this is a mythos that focuses around a teleporting faceless MIB that we take entirely too seriously. Being afraid to write won't do you any good. Just write what you want for the joy of writing. If you're really nervous about having your ideas bounce, have another slendercreator betaread your story and tell you if it works before you make it public.

Are you like reading my mind? I was going to have a beta reader.

"Writing for the joy of writing" doesn't sound like me. I get all OCD spastastic and get intrusive thoughts about criticism that haunt me at night.

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 2:33 am

brooklynonymous
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brdardin wrote:

Cursor wrote:

brdardin wrote:

For an ARG? Slendy actually appearing in public. Shocked

Imagine it, you're walking down a sidewalk in NYC, and see something out of the corner of your eye. You turn, and see..... it.

That would pretty cool, but people nearby would react weird to it and might ruin it. Razz

Not in NY. Scarier things stalk the streets of that city. Shocked

I came in here to post that I'd love to see an ARG take place in the city. I have a false sense of security when it comes to living in NYC and slendy that needs to be quashed. I got excited when I started watching StanFrederick, but they didn't do much with the location, really.

Slender Man in a dense, urban environment--it would be rad to see him out of his comfort zone. Plus you wouldn't have to worry about getting everyone in the area to act nonchalant when you're filming. No one cares/pays attention to weird people being weird here.

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 6:51 pm

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