Lara.mp4

"lara.mp4" is the eleventh video uploaded to the *i am sophie* YouTube account.

It is the first video that shows some of the 12 vlogs that Lara created for her channel called "**Lara Plays**" from the period of the 2nd of June 2019 to the 15th of February 2020 (same day as the upload of "The NEW QUEEN Of YOUTUBE - Channel Trailer"). These are all contained on the disc that Lara wanted the Hacker to watch from the previous video.

## Video Description

Nothing is in the video description in this particular video with this being the running theme since "**YRP COLLECTION - AVAILABLE NOW" (Lara's version)**aka the 10th episode.

## Visual Transcription

**0:00 – 0:13:** Video opens with Simon/Hackerman holding up a DVD in front of a screen that is showing heavy, loud static. There is a whirring noise, and then the word “Vlogs” appears on the screen. The text becomes highlighted as Simon selects it, and is taken to a menu screen showing a list of vlogs labelled 1 to 12. He selects Vlog 1 to play.

**0:14 – 0:17:** Peaceful, upbeat music starts, and a YouTube screen is shown. On it is the phrase “Lara: Welcome to my channel”, and a small animation of a computer mouse clicking a button labelled ‘Subscribe’. The video itself is labelled “5 Facts About Me | My First Vlog!”.

**0:18 – 1:03:** The vlog begins. Lara is onscreen and is completely different from when she was seen in “My #1 Crazy Fan”. She introduces herself and talks about her motivations behind making her YouTube channel. She likes beauty, fashion, and makeup, and wants to address what it’s like for small content creators, and what it’s like to be her.

**1:04 – 3:00:** Lara begins listing her five facts about herself. She says she lives in London, England, and is 22 years old. She lives with her Dad, is an only child, and her mother passed away when she was three due to an accident. Lara did not go to university, but studied biology, sociology, and English language at college, and may go back to school to do a BTEC. She has a cat named Tally, who is somewhat elderly, and describes herself as a gamer girl who likes puzzles, RPGs, and strategy games, as they provide Lara with a way to escape reality. She is also somewhat self-deprecating, saying that talking about her love for videogames out loud makes it sound pathetic.

**3:01 – 3:17:** Lara does her video outro. She promises her future vlogs will get more exciting, thanks her viewers for watching and wishes them a good evening, saying she’ll “see them tomorrow”.

**3:18 – 3:27:** Vlog 1 ends, and Simon is taken back to the menu screen. He then selects Vlog 12 to play.

**3:28 – 3:49:** Vlog 12 is labelled as ‘Unedited Reaction Footage’, and shows Lara looking more dolled up than her first vlog, wearing a red top and red lipstick. Lara struggles to make an intro, trailing off before she says her name, switching tactics to try to introduce herself as someone her audience knows from school, looking around her room, and generally seeming unconfident in herself.

**3:50 – 4:06:** Lara introduces herself as “Lara here, that girl from school” and goes on to explain how for her BTEC, she has to talk about something she is passionate about. At 3:57, Simon begins fast-forwarding through Lara’s video, ending at 4:06, where Lara says “it can be a hobby without me monetizing it.”, then complains to herself about rambling on too much.

**4:08 – 4:32:** Lara begins to talk about Fortnite, saying she is making a reaction video to new maps. At 4:15, Lara’s face is obscured by a glitch. At 4:19, Simon reverses the footage, then zooms in on the glitch over Lara’s face, and repeats this twice.

**4:33 – 5:17:** Simon begins to fast-forward through the video again, stopping on a clip of Lara saying “oh, that was close.”, then begins fast-forwarding again. He then stops fast-forwarding at 4:52, as Lara says that not too much has changed in the Fortnite update. She then goes on to say she will check some YouTube pages, to see “what the community is saying” about the update.

**5:18 – 6:12:** Lara turns on her computer speakers, and Sophie’s vlog intro music is heard playing. Lara apologizes for the advert, and Simon rewinds the video to show the vlog music again. He then begins fast-forwarding again, showing Lara looking somewhat sadder as the video progresses. It is as of yet unknown if Lara watched a Fortnite video or Sophie’s vlog.

**6:13 – 6:42:** Simon stops fast-forwarding, and Lara does not have much to say about the Fortnite video she allegedly watched. At 6:25, there is a brief glitch frame of Sophie and Plum getting onto the private jet, from “Rich Girl Lives on £10 For A Day (Failed)”, which is the frame that was missing and was replaced by the webcam footage of Lara sitting in front of her vanity. Lara then urges her viewers to subscribe and let her know what else they want to see her make videos on.

**6:43 – 6:54:** Lara’s vlog ends and Simon is taken back to the vlog menu screen. The screen suddenly turns back to heavy, loud static, which Simon briefly films, and then puts his camera down.

## Trivia

* The headband she is wearing in Vlog 12 is similar to the one that Sophie half-created in her tutorial in "11271518920813.mp4".
* Lara's introduction's subscribe animation is notably similar to Sophie's in her videos.
* A loud crashing like someone falling over can be heard at 3:52 during the introduction of the 12th Vlog, as she introduces it successfully.
* A brief glitch at 6:25 shows footage of Plum & Sophie from "RICH GIRL lives on £10 FOR A DAY (failed)" which was released 12 days after Vlog 12. A glitch also occurs in that vlog around that scene, showing Lara doing makeup in a room that is different from the one she is in, in Vlog 12.

* Lara's cat Tally can be seen walking out of Lara's room at 6:05 for only a few frames.