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4A Vlog Series is a type of WebVideoSeries or WebAnimation series presented as a video {{blog}} (vlog) by one or more fictional characters existing within the series. Some overlap with CharacterBlog, a type of FanWork, while others are non-derivative works featuring characters created for the vlogs.
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6The Vlog Series comes in two flavours: the more-or-less realistic variety, which is filmed using (or as if using) webcams and presented as entirely in-universe, [[ScrapbookStory as though it is really happening]]; and the traditional camera variety, which alternates between webcam-style and more conventional TV camera styles like {{mockumentary}}.
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8Some non-vlog works feature characters creating a vlog as a framing device or in select scenes, or include a vlog-style bonus or promotional video while otherwise being a different kind of work.
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10Despite the name, this is not to be confused with ongoing vlogs by real people, although some vlog series pretend to be non-fiction.
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12[[foldercontrol]]
13!!Vlog series with their own pages:
14[[folder:Vlog series index]]
15[[index]]
16* ''WebVideo/TheAdventuresOfJamieWatsonAndSherlockHolmes'', a modern-day adaptation of ''Literature/SherlockHolmes''
17* ''WebVideo/AgamemnonTiberiusVacuum''
18* ''WebVideo/AllForOne'', a modern take on ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers''
19* ''WebVideo/AskLovecraft'', a Q&A format show hosted by Creator/HPLovecraft himself
20* ''WebVideo/TheAutobiographyOfJaneEyre'', a Setting Update of ''Literature/JaneEyre''
21* ''WebAnimation/BarbieVlog'' are a series of CGI shorts featuring Franchise/{{Barbie}}'s vlog
22* ''WebVideo/TheBorrowersThatLend'': Season 1 ''A Document of Madness'' is modernization of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' and Season 2 ''The Better Strangers'' is modernization of ''Theatre/AsYouLikeIt''
23* ''WebVideo/{{Brains}}'' is a college student's vlog about life after the end of a ZombieApocalypse
24* ''WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries'', a modern-day adaptation of ''Literature/{{Carmilla}}''
25* ''WebVideo/TheChurchOfBlow''
26* ''WebVideo/ClassicAlice'', a modernization with over 125 videos of 13 classic novels & short stories with an overarching original plot.
27* ''WebVideo/{{Dabchick}}''
28* ''WebVideo/DemyxTime''
29* ''WebVideo/DiaryOfABadman''
30* ''WebVideo/EchoRose''
31* ''WebVideo/TheEmmaAgenda''
32* ''WebVideo/EmmaApproved'', taking on ''Literature/{{Emma}}''
33* ''WebVideo/EverymanHYBRID''
34* ''WebVideo/FilthyFrank''
35* ''WebVideo/FourBlokesWithoutTelly''
36* ''WebVideo/FrankensteinMD''
37* ''WebVideo/{{Fred}}''
38* ''WebVideo/FromMansfieldWithLove'', another Creator/JaneAusten SettingUpdate, this time of ''Literature/MansfieldPark'', but unrelated to Bernie Su's productions
39* ''WebVideo/GloveAndBoots'': Vlog series about two puppets who deal with various issues in pop culture, from Series/DoctorWho to the ZombieApocalypse.
40* ''WebVideo/TheGuild''
41* ''WebVideo/HamletTheVlog'' is a modernized version of Hamlet, full of current cursing and slang from the titular prince, who is played by a [[Creator/MLLanzillotta woman]].
42* ''WebVideo/TheIndianaJonesInterrogations'', an ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' fan film mini-series on [=YouTube=] and Platform/{{Vimeo}} that uses a FoundFootage format in the form of old, damaged interrogation tapes from the 1930's, that depict Indy being brutally questioned while in Nazi custody
43* ''WebVideo/InternetKilledTelevision''
44* ''WebVideo/InternsOfFIELD'', an AffectionateParody of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''
45* ''WebVideo/TheJokerBlogs'', with the second season shifting to traditional camera
46* ''WebVideo/KateModern''
47* ''WebVideo/KeratinGarden''
48* ''WebVideo/LG15TheResistance'', purportedly, although it makes frequent use of what appears to be traditional camera footage
49* ''WebVideo/TheLizzieBennetDiaries'', an Emmy-winning adaptation of ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice''
50* ''WebVideo/{{lonelygirl15}}'', which popularised this style
51* ''WebVideo/LovelyLittleLosers'', based on ''Theatre/LovesLaboursLost''
52* ''WebVideo/TheMarchFamilyLetters''
53* ''WebVideo/TheNewAdventuresOfPeterAndWendy''
54* ''WebVideo/NormsBarStool''
55* ''WebVideo/NothingMuchToDo'', based on ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing''
56* ''WebVideo/{{OddTube}}'', a SpinOff of ''Series/OddSquad''
57* ''WebVideo/TheParkBench'', a semi behind-the-scenes series for Creator/TomScott videos.
58* ''WebVideo/ProjectGreenGables'' is a Finnish (as in from Finland; the episodes are in English) adaptation of the ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'' series by L. M. Montgomery
59* ''Series/StewdioMACK'', a comedy-drama presented in a heavily autobiographical style
60* ''WebVideo/StrangeAeons''
61* ''Creator/SugarPine7'' is an improv comedy following a [[AdamWesting fictionalised]] [[WebVideo/SourceFed Steven Suptic]] and his strange [[DysfunctionJunction group of friends.]] It switches to Traditional camera in the Season 1 finale when everything starts to get serious.
62* ''WebVideo/ThatsNotRight''
63* ''WebVideo/TreeFog''
64* ''WebVideo/TribeTwelve''
65* ''WebVideo/TwelfthGradeOrWhatever'' is a webseries based upon ''Theatre/TwelfthNight''
66* ''WebVideo/UniversityEverAfter'', which puts FairyTale characters, Disney Princesses in particular, in [[SettingUpdate college]]. While the first season uses an in-universe camera, the second one alternates with a traditional camera
67* ''WebVideo/TheVeronicaExclusive'' is a fanmade adaptation of ''{{Film/Heathers}}'', set in 2015, framed as Veronica's video diary
68* ''WebVideo/WelcomeToSanditon'', based on the unfinished manuscript ''Sanditon''
69[[/index]]
70[[/folder]]
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72!!Examples within other works or without pages:
73[[folder:Other examples]]
74[[AC:{{Comics}}]]
75* Creator/MarvelComics did one of these (in which a teenage girl suspected that her brother had been replaced by an alien) as a viral publicity for their CrisisCrossover ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion''.
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78* The film adaptation of ''Film/TheMartian'' used this trope several times, presumably because having Mark Watney typing the journal he's keeping (as seems to be the case in the novel) with a voiceover would have been rather less interesting on-screen.
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81* ''Series/BBVProbe'' released a minisode entitled ''Shadow of Doubts'' in 2020 presented as the video logs of Giles, one of main characters.
82* Irish TV series ''Dan and Becs'' and its sequel series ''Sarah and Steve'' were both shot in the form of first person diaries, cutting between their different tellings of the same events. It's never quite made clear whether or not they post the diaries on-line.
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84[[AC:Radio]]
85* Six years after the radio sitcom ''Radio/CabinPressure'' ended, creator John Finnemore (who also played the character Arthur) made a spin-off/sequel called ''Cabin Fever'', which is all about Arthur during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, how he makes web videos and plays various silly games with his audience. The rest of the cast don't appear in person, but Arthur keeps in touch with them via Skype and social media and often relays messages or challenges from them to his audience.
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87[[AC:WebVideo]]
88* Some parts of ''WebVideo/DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog'' are shot as an in-universe vlog by Dr. Horrible, and the listeners turn out to include the VillainProtagonist's arch enemy [[{{Jerkass}} Captain Hammer]] and the LAPD.
89* ''Green Gables Fables'' is an American-Canadian adaptation of the first three ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'' books by L. M. Montgomery. Season 1 covers the first book and Season 2 the third; the second book was loosely adapted through transmedia only.
90* ''WebVideo/ImAMarvelAndImADC'' has the sub-series "Goblin Blogging", which is presented as the Green Goblin's video blog.
91* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJMROhV7kUAP_VhUwSi5SoQ O (sur)real Mundo de Any Malu]]'' is an all-animated vlog channel made by Combo Estudio. While the videos themselves are Portugese, there are subtitles in English and Spanish for most videos.
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93%%* Much of ''ARG/TheLostExperience'' was presented this way.
94%%* Transmissions from the [[WebVideo/AgamemnonTiberiusVacuum Vacuum Consortium]] (usually).
95%%* Furry Ackermonster's Vlogs on ''WebVideo/TransylvaniaTelevision'''s website.
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