Lonelygirl15

[sarahsnotebook]

Hello fellow lonelycracks,

So I finally decided to just post a link to this here. I've been working on some LG15 fan fiction of my own for about a month now (I know some of you have already seen it). I've been having a lot of fun with it--it's just a story I came up with that hopefully enhances the LG15 experience. Here's a link:

http://youtube.com/sarahsnotebook

I'm not sure exactly where I'm going with it, but hope you like.

Sarah
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sarah

every body is a book of blood. whenever we're opened, we're red.
~clive barker

[QtheC]

I'm just starting to take a look at your videos on YouTube and noticed you have a blogspot URL at the end of "keep on moving" so I took a quick look at that.

It might be cool to embed the videos on the blogspot (cut and paste code from YouTube) and tie them together with some text there to form the story.

[sarahsnotebook]

For a while there I was doing that, but I took down those posts because I didn't think it was adding much to the story. I'm almost sorry I included the blog at all, because I originally thought it would be a big part of the story and it hasn't evolved that way. A plot direction I've got floating around in my head might help bring it back in that direction though. . .

Thanks!
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sarah

every body is a book of blood. whenever we're opened, we're red.
~clive barker

[QtheC]

These videos are pretty cool - I like the music and the mood is scary/somber. "falling into place" was pretty scary.

I noticed in "I just love being awake at 3am" video you started incorporating some of the ARGish elements (encoded comment that leads to a URL, that has a video with backwards audio).

I think the ARG/puzzle stuff can be fun for some, but it does get in the way of those who just want to check out the story. In my case, once I got to the small video with backwards audio, I had no easy way to reverse it to see what it says. I opened my browser cache, found the file, copied it (it had no extension), opened it in notepad and saw it was an FLV file, renamed it to add the flv extension. I happen to have an FLV player but that does not do me any good because it does not allow me to reverse the playback. My Quicktime player allows me to "jog shuttle" in reverse to hear backwards audio properly, but it does not play .flv files.

I could play it while recording it with "Sound Recorder" and then reverse it to hear the audio ... but that's just too many steps.

Maybe others have an easier way?

So reverse audio, codes, etc. are going to narrow the audience.

I sort of feel the same way about images that flash really quickly - it can be a cool effect, but someone really wants them seen, I often wish they would slow down - mainly because YouTube and the video players seem to not support single frame stepping, so it's not always easy to pause and check out the flashing frames.


EDIT: I just found the thread about reversing audio using the free Audacity download ... looks like what I have been looking for!

http://www.lonelygirl15.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2534

[sarahsnotebook]

Thank you for your thoughts. Glad you liked "falling into place." I aim to please.

Any forum posts I make after this will be more or less in character.
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sarah

every body is a book of blood. whenever we're opened, we're red.
~clive barker