#vhsgate

[nightnut]

chat, watching vhs version, can I ask you to pay attention to the right and left edges of the shots?

@acecreamsandwich posted these:

and it made me think of this:

we don’t have s2 yet, but as soon as we do, pls check how they crop such shots! ‘such’ as in: having Will in the border

Jesus, I’m so sure there’s no way to crop it with no consequences and that’s gonna be the hype of s2

my pulse is racing again… like I was wondering exactly about this kind of framing with Will today, not even thinking about vhs ratio… chat, you see that this might be huge, right? 🫠

they can crop out Dustin ofc, but smth tells me they will not

[byler-blurts]

the white lines in the vhs tapes (ep 3-5)

episode 3 is incomplete because i just started watching the vhs version where i stopped my rewatch of the regular version. i'm probably gonna continue this for the other episodes over the weekend :)

timestamps (only minute) in brackets

episode 3 (incomplete!)

(21) el looking at pics of barb | (45) joyce talking to will through the lights

episode 4

(4) hop leaving the byers' house after telling joyce about will's body | (6) mike looking at will's art after learning about his 'death' | (9) mike skipping school

(14) honorable mention: this weird glitch after nancy gets mad at steve for caring more about his parents finding out about the party than barb | (16) dustin after lucas says that will is dead | (27) first exploration of the UD

(31) troy trying to get back to mike (right before el makes him pee himself) | (41) el exhausted after contacting will

episode 5

(1) hop breaking into the lab but not being able to open a door | (5) kids discussing if/how el led them to will | (7) hop seeing the gate

(10) lonnie telling jonathan to behave at the funeral | (13) flashback to before will was missing | (18) the lab discovering that el used the radio

(21) informing hop about two more residents going missing | (30) jonathan talking about his parents | (33) el manipulating their compasses

(37) after hop was bugged | (41) when lucas realizes el misled them | (50) nancy in the UD seeing the demogorgon for the first time

since i don't have time to look further into it: we recently talked about the cut-up method where you scramble and rearrange pieces of text. i wonder if we need to rearrange the stills (or clips) from the white line scenes, arranging them according to the position of the white line? (top to bottom)

also interesting that episode 5 has this many white lines compared to episode 3 and 4 (unless ep 3 has a bunch in the first 20 mins, or maybe i missed some)

[nirile2]

Here's a link to the Google video: https://youtu.be/6gp0f2-4oaw?si=gdE5qCwEL_070fGe

and one they sent to @yaseenthatguy: https://youtu.be/Gq7yzrj881I?si=mqVrn-DE0sHrZ-ZC

I don't have the bandwidth to analyze all this, but have at it.

[nightnut]

I can see already that as soon as non-cg bylers will hear that vhs crops Will out from s2, the shit will hit the fan 🤣 little will they know that it’s on purpose but not bc the duffs hate will

get ready lmao

[byler-blurts]

watching the season 1 vhs version is such a stark contrast to season 5, it's like day and night. i mean that has to be on purpose, right? people were already talking about how st has completely lost the atmosphere it once created, how cheap and tacky the visual effects are in s5, how they seem to fall victim to the 'netflix lighting', etc. -- and with the vhs version they're really hammering down that point to the ga... reminding us of what stranger things once was. the vhs version feels so atmospheric compared to s5...

[nightnut]

chat, I remember someone posted this in vhs version where the exit sign is seen, pls can you share the link 🫶🏻

that’s terrific that s1 was fr worked through that well; every time I would find stuff in it, I thought twice if it has any meaning, or they were so early in production that they couldn’t have it all

they probably indeed couldn’t have it all, but they had much (much much much much) more than I could’ve ever imagined, now I know that for 100%

[nirile2]

Just joined tumbler for Kiradax content, but have been swept up in the conformity gate conjectures. Where are the analysis of the Snowball VHS tapes? I've watched three and they are not the same.