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Introducing Lizzie Bennet

2012-04-12 (said on 2012-04-13 — implied: date said in the video; uploaded -1 days later) · announcement · Hank · 3:44 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Projects (also: Personal life) · mode: Announcements · tags: self promotion, recurring series, on location

Hank introduces The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, his vlog-format adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, explains why he made it and how it differs from vlogging, and asks viewers who like it to share it so the experiment can continue.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Greeting; 'vlog extra days in April'; an accidental geocache; walking down to the creek ('crick') to find a place to film

  • ★★ Hank says this video is part of a series he calls 'vlog extra days in April', which he hopes John will join. — 00:00:01 · John Green

    “vlog extra days in April”

  • ★ On a walk down to the creek ('crick', as they say in Montana) to find a place to film, Hank accidentally finds a geocache with some gross stuff in it. (playful) — 00:00:10 · Montana

00:00:36 — The Lizzie Bennet Diaries: an online-video adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, why that book, and how making it differs from vlogging

  • ★★★ Hank wanted to do something no one had done before: an adaptation in online video, transferring a previous work into the new medium; he knows of no examples. (hedged) — 00:00:36
  • ★★ Hank wanted a great story he loved, something his wife would enjoy, and something dialogue- and character-based so it could be a person talking to a camera rather than a big production. — 00:00:47 · Katherine Green
  • ★★★ The series is a work of fiction adapted into a video blog, and the work chosen is Pride and Prejudice. — 00:01:04
  • ★★ Hank calls Pride and Prejudice the best story of all time, a wonderful romance with evolving characters; he would never have cared without Katherine, a huge fan and basically a scholar. (playful) — 00:01:09 · Katherine Green
  • ★★ Hank says the project is very different from his vlogging: he prefers to vlog alone, but this needs actors, a sound guy, production people and writers, which is totally new to him. — 00:01:25 · Vlogbrothers

  • ★★★ Hank feels Vlogbrothers is a story but not an intentional one; with this series they are deliberately telling a story, splitting and writing it and moving it into the present day. (hedged) — 00:01:42 · Vlogbrothers

    “Vlogbrothers is a story, but it wasn't intentionally a story.”

00:02:21 — Eight episodes made; needing a sponsor or views; a risky experiment; please share it so the whole story gets told

  • ★★ Hank says he doesn't have time for the project but is doing it anyway because he was so captured by the idea. — 00:02:06
  • ★★★ They have made eight episodes; to make more they must prove people want to watch, either to get a sponsor or to get enough views to pay for it. — 00:02:25
  • ★★ Hank calls the series honestly dangerous and an extremely exciting experiment: telling fiction this way may not work or people may not react well, though he doesn't think so. (hedged) — 00:02:35
  • ★★★ Hank hopes viewers like it and asks those who do to share it, so it can become sustainable and tell the whole story of Lizzie Bennet, Mr. Collins and Charlotte Lu. — 00:03:04

00:03:18 — Dinner party and a gift from a friend; annotation to the series; vlogging extra days; sign-off

  • ★ Back home from a lovely dinner party, Hank shows a gift from a friend and sings 'Troy and Abed in the Morning'. (playful) — 00:03:22

In the description and comments

  • ★★ The description says the first two episodes of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries are out now. — video description

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Central: Lizzie Bennet · Pride and Prejudice · The Lizzie Bennet Diaries

Also: Charlotte Lu · Charlotte Lucas · Katherine Green · Montana · Mr. Collins · sponsorship

Also centred on The Lizzie Bennet Diaries: Hank is Maybe Crazy · TFiOS Movie, Emma Approved, Subbable Update, etc

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