Marble Hornets

Marble Hornets is a found footage horror series told entirely in the first person in real time. It consists of 27 entries (and counting) of various lengths and is one of the more popular series on the internet, with the first season accumulating over six million individual views.
On October 29th, 2010, the second season of Marble Hornets premiered with a Twitter update from the series' protagonist.
Plot
Marble Hornets is a first-person narrative told from the point of view of a student filmmaker named Jay. When his friend, Alex Kralie, mysteriously disappears, Jay begins looking through old raw footage tapes of Alex's student film, Marble Hornets. The tapes are in random order, and Jay sets out to systematically watch them all in order to find clues that might help him locate Alex. However, several tapes are not footage of the film, but of Alex himself, and encounters with a monster that identifies itself as The Operator. As Jay finds notable clips, he upload them onto his YouTube account. Eventually, another YouTube user, ToTheArk begins uploading video responses to Jay's videos, often including a cryptic message. After this begins, Jay is then later stalked by a masked figure in several tapes. Jay also updates his Twitter account.
Transmedia Storytelling
Marble Hornets has been repeatedly cited as an example of transmedia storytelling. By communicating the plot through multiple forms of media in order to have different "entry points," Marble Hornets immerses viewers and gives them twenty-four hour access into the show's world.

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