'A Date With Markiplier'

When people that normally don't watch YouTube get asked what do you think of a Gaming YouTube, they would normally think that they just simply play games and they're not a lot which goes into making the video, However, with Markiplier a YouTuber but not just simply a gaming YouTube he has created little skites and funny videos like his 12 second video 'Boat Dog' where his pet dog is just on a lilo and his shouting Boar dog over and over again.

Screen shot of Boat Dog

But on the 14th of February Markiplier and the team of people which help him with everything made these streams of video which lead on to each other called 'A Date With Markiplier' were they have created a leading narrative, clicker game where you start with the first video and the different choices you chose (left or Right) leads you to the next to the next.

Screen shot of A Date With Markiplier

The first thing that you see in the video is the simple dating scenario, but a bit more sped up which links to the type of video editing style that mark has sometimes. But at the end of the restaurant part of the date it's time to pay and that's where the first problem comes, Mark has forgotten the money and you have the choice to pay or not.

Screen shot of the part in the video

From this point the decision is up to the viewer and only the view and this is where the all video can change. If you pay you end up following the narrative of a date to see a film. Which show a their own style of a play in a funny style which these lot have that adds another level to these videos. 

Screen shot of the film part

From here, there many different parts to talk about, but when you chose 'Horror' you get introduce to a long time character of Markiplier, Darkiplier and the scene of this is very interesting to me because the screen (where you are the video, camera) the chair and table in front of you starts warping and Markiplier starts changing into Darkiplier which is very interesting through the way they edited is so welly done that it moves seamlessly through each other to create these very trippy, colourful, dark looking scene which to me show the artist way that some YouTubers are using the platform of YouTube to create videos which are very artistically and interesting.

Screen shot of the chair warping

Screen shot of Darkiplier coming out

Through the editing they have used a lot of different interesting effects and colours which black and white which I found a very interesting style to use within editing to make a style of work that I would love to see again. The audio even changes into a deeper which changes and contrasted with the rest of the videos before that through the way it was so light hearted.  

Screen shot of Darkiplier

Screen shot of Darkiplier

Screen shot of Darkiplier

Within the platform Mark has been about to take his character and style from his gaming videos and create a piece of videos which is in a clicker base adventure with many different themes and the little kinks for the fans like me of Mark will noises and found funny.  I really feel from watching videos on YouTube like this make me feel that YouTube is not just from stupid little videos and there are some videos which takes a lot of work and you can see through these videos. I do really recommend watching these videos and going through all 10 different endings, to see all the different funny and weird endings. There are so many different parts of these videos that I can just talk about but it makes more sense of it all I would really go and see it. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyU_1JD2wuA&t=5s)