Entry #3 was posted on June 23, 2009
It has the description "3".
It is tagged "Marble" and "Hornets".
In total, this video is 2:29 long.
This video consists of various pieces of footage from Alex's tapes while he was recording himself. There is one visual tear, but little else of immediate relevance. Jay points out that much of this is now Alex filming himself rather than Marble Hornets raw footage.
[00:00] Black screen.
[00:02] White text appears centered on the screen:
Entry #3
I am starting to notice a vast majority of the tapes are completely unrelated to Marble Hornets
At some point, it seems Alex began filming himself exclusively.
The following clips are taken from roughly twelve tapes.
[00:21] Cut to footage of Alex sitting on a plain brown couch. The camera is focused on his knee and we cannot see what his hands are doing, but audible are noises of shuffling papers.
[00:29] A small visual tear appears on the bottom of the image.
[00:31] The tear disappears again.
[00:32] There is the sound of paper tearing.
[00:33] Alex places a piece of white paper on the couch beside him and pats it.
[00:36] Alex rises from the couch and exits the screen to the left. Visible on the couch back where he rose from are what appear to be crumpled newspapers.
[00:40] There are more sounds of shuffling paper for a moment, and then they stop.
[00:44] Alex returns from the left and sits down in the same place. The sounds of rustling paper continue.
[00:48] Cut to black
[00:49] Cut to footage of Alex pointing the camera out his window at twilight. The camera pans left and right over the foliage of a forest.
[00:57] Cut to black.
[00:58] Cut to white footage. This resolves as footage of the camera running from a first-person view in an electronics store. The camera approaches a section with packaged tapes hanging from rods. There is ambient noise that sounds like muffled store music and distant conversational speech.
[01:00] A hand comes into frame and goes to grab one package of tapes and pull it off the rack. It appears to be two 3-packs, Sony brand, labelled "DVC", priced at $23.00.
[01:03] The camera pans left again and points to the floor. Alex's feet can be seen walking
[01:05] Alex can be heard coughing or clearing his throat.
[01:06] Cut to black.
[01:07] Cut to footage of Alex staring intently offscreen, chin propped up in his hand. The camera is tilted but stationary. Rough wooden walls, a desk lamp, a large window and a world map can be seen in the background. The window is dark.
[01:11] He brings both hands forward, and typing noises can be heard. He finishes typing and brings his hand back to his chin.
[01:18] He leans back and looks abruptly away from the camera. In the part of the frame he had been blocking before is visible a desk with various wires and containers on it, as well as the desk lamp from before. Alex is rocking back and forth slightly as he looks at the table, as if readjusting his seat.
[01:21] He looks back forward and down, and then away again, and reaches for the desk with the lamp. He retrieves something, returns to the foreground.
[01:26] He holds up his hand to examine his watch. In his hand, there is a tape.
[01:30] He looks up from his watch and reaches for the camera.
[01:31] Cut to black.
[01:32] Cut to footage of a forest during the daytime. The camera is moving quickly over the foliage, left and right.
[01:39] Cut to black.
[01:40] Cut to Alex with the camera propped up on the dashboard to watch him as he drives. It is nighttime. Trees and businesses can be seen passing on the side of the road. Orange streetlamp light passes over Alex periodically.
[01:50] Cut to black.
[01:51] Alex is looking out a window with slatted venetian blinds curiously. It is the same room as the one in which he was working on the computer, with the same window, rough-wood walls and map, but it appears to be daytime now. Alex pulls the blinds open here and there to get a better view outside.
[01:56] His phone goes off. He steps back from the window and looks left, retrieving the phone from off-camera.
[02:00] He flips it open and closed; the ringing stops.
[02:01] He reaches for the camera, picking it up and moving it. As he moves it, it picks up image of a messy room strewn with boxes and papers. At least one wall is dark grey brick. Various items can be seen in the mess: a black leather desk chair, an optical wireless mouse, another stand-up lamp, a garbage can, wires on the walls, an electric fan.
[02:07] Cut to black.
[02:09] White text appears on the black screen.
From what I have been seeing so far, many of these tapes could contain nothing substantial.
Although it does seem that Alex wanted to have a camera on himself at all times.
The clip from entry #1 is still the best lead I have so far.
[02:29] Video ends.
Main Theories and Observations
The tapes that Alex picks up are probably a 6-pack of 60-minute DVC Premium HD tapes. The Sony page for them is here: 60-min DVC Premium - 6 Pack. The packaging is not perfectly the same, being wrapped in three groups of two rather than two groups of three, but the packaging colors and text are exactly the same as far as we can tell, right down to the yellow 6 on the top right, and the pricing is in the appropriate range.
The phone going off could have been an alarm set to remind Alex of a particular time, rather than a phonecall. This would account for his behavior — shutting off the alarm rather than answering the phone, and then going straight to replacing the tape.
This is potentially an alarm intended to let him know when his current tape was to run out.
Further Speculation
The first clip is probably while Alex is scribbling his drawings and messages, things which have been seen in future Entries. He tears one off and sets it aside, as if dissatisfied with it, and the audio pattern of his scribblings matches the sketches/messages that we have seen him draw in future Entries, specifically Entry 8. ~Dav Flamerock
The 'phone call' Alex recives might just be an alarm he set on his phone to remind himself of the time. ~Urrg
It seems Alex prefers Sony to Kodak. (1:02) ~Urrg
The clips from this entry could fit almost anywhere in the middle of the summer of 2006. This entry is showing the mounting paranoia of Alex, as he begins to neglect Marble Hornets & begins to tape himself constantly. His moderate anxiety indicates that this takes place after Entries #2 & #12, but before later entries, such as #22.
~Zeta Kai
Throuout most of the clips, Alex is showing signs of Sleep Deprobation, meaning that he's too scared to sleep, /or/ to shut is eyes. This would mean they occur, probably, after the events of Entry 14, and/or 11.
~20x20
