Lonelygirl15: In the Beginning...

(Okay, so I saw that new video... and I decided to review the old and new series concurrently, there will be a post as the news series progress. Thanks... and HOLY WHAT????)

First Blog / Dorkiness Prevails - The first video is designed to awkward and well... first vlog-ish. As I see it now, it's almost sure that it's a fake, but also that fakeness pushes the video to the other side of someone who is just very nervous and rambles and just have to mentioned her favorite YouTubers.

The narrative is also quite nicely set. The person focuses on the town first rather than herself, establishing that the community will be a focus in the story, and it's not going to be personal.

The Gnarls Barkley song is alluded in the first Vlogbrothers video, a clear homage to this series... and it really feels like the people got the aesthetics down... any doubt I have dissipates here...

Purple Monkey - By the second video, the staging the vlog becomes clearer... the camera is set-up quite nicely and actress tends forgo the sixteen-year old personality a bit here and there.

The video introduces The Purple Monkey but lingers quite a lot and it's almost like she's getting bored of this vlog thing, even though it's her second. I guess it fits with the context, but also feels like the writers are deliberately spacing out the introduction... (This is handy in Lizzie Bennet Diaries)

School Work in Summer... BLECHH!!!
A nice work here... this introduces Daniel and also interactivity and overall nice. The weird textbook here should be a real strong clue to some fiction-building and I can't believe no one caught it! Great selection of music... I guess they were music producers. Twice the size... how's that... whatever.

The Danielbeast
Lot of short cuts. The interaction probably would have sold a lot of people. Australia and New Zealand in the comment, dropping hints to the real whereabouts and also to quell accent?

My Comments Were Deleted
Sorry, nothing to see here. Carry on.

Grillz feat. Danielbeast, LG15, P. Monkey, and O'n.
So... this is the next phase... obviously. You know the crew had a blast shooting the video. Lip-sync video were the norm in 2006, then the copyright people came in... although with ContentID, people could make a resurgence... indeed I guess Smash Dubs is the return. Brookers and Smosh made few

My Parents Suck...
Now, there's conflict! Certain beliefs... we get the religion thing going here... plot picks up nicely!

Daniel Responds
This editing trick is really... thriller-y? Also, kind of pulling the audience to dig deeper. Nice work.

Daniel Returns, and More Interesting Factoids (Yay!)
Now, that's a weird sound. And a song. It's Turtles all the way down... one of my favorite stories. Obviously, Discworld has a good interpretation. Surely not Professor Calculus smart!

Proving Science Wrong!
This is fun series, full of geeky turns and twists. I mean it has some impetus. Brian Greene is fun, too.

My Parents... Let Us Go Hiking!!!
As the wiki says, the first thing to say in this is how professional the video seemed. Like they were going for music video style days of yore, but there's still something that make this... professional. It's almost like they are breaking away pretense and giving a breather for end of first arc.

Boy Problems…
This is kind of a first serious video for this series and again contrast from the previous video and the further clue in the comments below gives a good indication of the fake nature, or least dramatic.

Girl Problems...
Is he a good friend? Did they just met? What's the motivation here? I starting to think Daniel is badly written... Is it the actor? Maybe, to a certain extent. But it really comes to background and motivation.

He Said, She Said
Again, nicely done video... this will end this section of the program. Join us in the next post.

Lonelygirl15: The Overture

Hello, Welcome part 3 (I guess) of the YouTube Ten-Year Rewind series, and we're looking at the scandal and the series that followed which jump-started the vlogging web series concept...

But first, prelude.

Paytotheorderofofof vs. Dinosaur - Strangely the story is Paytotheorderofofof seems to be more visceral than the story we're following today...

YouTubers Secret Language - Apparently the first two vlogs were made before the actress was picked to begin the actual series. Seems like they wanted to make the ball rolling...

Misdirected. Lost Visual in the Burn Out  
Sparks Are Flying
3-2-1 Contact
These are OpAphid videos that came before the series started. The videos are private now, and you don't need it to progress the series. This is really sidetrack of the main series with a different director and everything. But I am putting the Wiki article for completeness sake.

Well, That was pretty short. Let's get on with the series.