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Chat live with the Creators on Monday, 7/14 at 4 pm PST (7 pm EST) on nowlive.com. Stop in to ask questions about the end of lonelygirl15, the new shows announced, or the new website, or just offer your comments.

Follow the chat link on Monday to access the nowlive chat. Hope to see you there!

Congratulations to ThatFreakinRandy for his creative and hilarious entry into the “How Do You Think it Will End?” contest. His entry was chosen as the winner, and he will receive a voice mail from the character of his choice.

Thank you to everyone who entered. The lonelygirl15 fans are a very creative bunch!

Here’s Randy’s winning entry:

From Phoenician:

From lemmonberri:

From SweetLullaby:

You have until midnight (PST) tonight to enter your idea for how you would like lonelygirl15 to end. Send in your story, video, or artwork to amanda@eqal.com and be creative!!

The winner will receive a voice message from one of the current characters (or actor if you prefer). Remember, we will NOT be using the winner’s idea. This is just for fun! That means the winning idea could have the show end on the moon.

And yes, I am bitter that you killed Lucy in the elimination game. I will have my revenge.

- Amanda

With the upcoming changes to LG15.com and the end of the lonelygirl15 series (read the original message here and Amanda’s follow-up here), there have been quite a few questions about the future. People have a lot of concerns about the end of lonelygirl15, the new show in the LG15 universe, and the new website that is coming soon.

There will be a live chat with the community to answer some of these questions. (The date will be announced on Inside.) In addition to that, Virginian9000 suggested some type of live blog where people can send in their questions or concerns.

So post your questions, comments, or concerns as comments here. To provide an easy-to-read method of response, we will post responses on this page. Obviously, not everything can be answered, but we will reply to as many of these as possible with as much detail as we can provide. Please be patient if we don’t respond right away - it’s a very busy time for the cast and crew!

Don’t forget: Read questions and responses here!.

Some serious and not-so-serious suggestions for how fans think lonelygirl15 will end, plus other fan art and videos in honor of the finale.

From RoseCrowley:

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From ThatFreakinRandy:

From Zoey:

From EricaRocks:

From p.monkeygetsfunky:

From mitchcontrol:

From poknish:

From the set of Cooling Off.

Alexandra Dreyfus “blogs it out” at the beach.

By simplykimmie13

How Do YOU Want It To End?

With lonelygirl15 coming to a close there are still a lot of unanswered questions. Where did Lucy come from? How did Jonas’s parents make all that money? Whatever happened to that teddy bear Thor? Now is your chance to tell us what you’d like to see happen in the series finale. Do you have two characters you ever wanted to see hook up? Who should live and who should die?

Submit your ideas in the form of videos, artwork, or anything else your imagination can spring forth. Be creative!

The winner of the most creative idea (funny, unique, wild) will receive a voicemail message from one of the actors or characters of your choice praising them for their visionary ideas. Available characters are: Daniel, Jonas, Sarah, Jennie, Watcher (Virgil or the other guy) and of course, Lucy!

This DOES NOT mean we will use your idea. We are more interested in what whacky ideas you can come up with. Or, you can just use this as an opportunity to actually tell us what you want to see.

Deadline: Wednesday, July 9. Just make sure it’s in my inbox by midnight Los Angeles time.

Submit your entry to amanda@eqal.com.

Lee would be thrilled to know that one of his gnomes just sold on eBay for £37. The successful bidder was ‘TheLoneliestTraveller’, which means that the gnome will be jetting all the way to Azusa, California. We hope he’ll be very happy - please send us a photo when he’s settled in.

There’s no need to worry about the travelling gnome’s carbon footprint as the £37 is being donated to Garden Africa.

As many of you know, Silke and Ted (Dream and Watching One), two longtime community members who met on the website, were married on July 4. (Watch our “Congratulations” video to the couple.)

CONGRATULATIONS!!

We are so overwhelmed by the outpouring of emotion that the community has expressed with the end of lonelygirl15. Since our announcement yesterday, there has been a lot of great discussion about lonelygirl15, the new show, and what this means for the community. I personally wanted to clarify a few possible misconceptions you might have as a result of our post.

First, in our minds LG15 is a Universe taking place around the story of The Order, an evil secret society that has discovered the existence of very rare girls that carry a special blood trait. Blood from these “Trait Positive” girls can extend the life of anyone who can transfuse the blood into his/her body. lonelygirl15 is the first show living within the LG15 Universe and KateModern was the second. We plan on telling MANY more stories within the Universe, including upcoming shows in Europe and the new one in the US.

Second, the new show is not going to be a fusion of lonelygirl15 and KateModern. Instead, it will take “the best things from each show,” meaning that we will apply what we’ve learned from producing them over the past two years – writing, interactivity, 12 in 12’s, etc. There might be some familiar characters in the new show, but we do not intend on combining the two series.

Finally, the heart and soul of the LG15 Universe is www.LG15.com and will remain so with the new website. The LGPedia, forum, Community videos, and InsideLG15 will all continue to be a part of the site.

We look forward to the LG15 Universe and it’s mythology living on for years to come with new characters and storylines. If you have any questions or comments, please leave them in the comments below.

- Amanda

We have some exciting news to announce! Over the last several months, we have been working to rebuild the LG15 website. Our programmers and designers have been working tirelessly to code and design a new social network platform. In August, we will relaunch LG15.com as a full-functioning social network with profile pages, chat, forums, comment boards, blogs, groups, and other tools. In the future, we will be integrating third party sites such as YouTube and Twitter into the platform so that you can manage your accounts from LG15.com as well as import your videos, photos, and messaging into your profile pages. We are very excited and eager to show you what we have built. During the month of August we ask you to beta test the site, send us your feedback, and invite friends to join the new and improved LG15 community.

We will also be premiering a new LG15 Universe show based in the US. It will bring together the best parts of lonelygirl15 and KateModern, including some of your favorite characters. To make room for the new storyline and characters, we’ve decided to bring the lonelygirl15 storyline to an end. We are working with amazing writers and actors and are very excited about the new show. To this community, it will feel less like a new show and more like another chapter in the LG15 storyline that picks up where lonelygirl15 and KateModern left off. To new members of the community, it will be a new story that they can get into from the start so they can experience the show without the need to watch over 500 videos. Get ready for an exciting lonelygirl15 finale on August 1!

This is very exciting for all of us and we are so happy to share it with you. It has been a long road and many of you have been there with us from the beginning. We are excited to have you continue with us on this journey. Remember, we are counting on you to test the site during August and September and report your feedback so we can fix all the bugs before the new show launches.

- The LG15 Team

This week Jonas (Jackson Davis) visited the fictional Lake Clandon in Going Down. Do you know where this was actually filmed? There are no clues or drops at the location, but we did leave the marker on the tree and the black rock sitting next to it. Hopefully no innocent bystanders are scared by them!

As usual, there was a lot of goofing off between takes. Here’s Jackson practicing his karate moves.

While we were filming Born Free director Marcello Daciano decided he’d like to sit down for a few minutes…in the middle of the street. That’s me trying to drag him away.

Melanie Merkosky (below) gets into character while filming A New Direction.

The Hymn of One book isn’t a clue - we just used it to prop up the camera.

This was a great week of filming and we hope you enjoyed all of the videos! You can download these pictures (taken by Kevin Schlanser) on the lg15 flickr account.

We had so many incredible entries. Thank you to EVERYONE who sent something to us - we really enjoyed watching your videos, looking at your pictures and reading your poems. It was great to see how many of you loved KateModern and you made us remember some of the great things we’ve been through over the last year. It was extremely difficult picking a winner as the standard was incredibly high - you should all be very proud of what you’ve done. We’re going to make sure all of the KateModern cast and crew get to see your work.

But there has to be a winner, and the winner is….

(drum roll)

Chris Schretzenmayer (stretchandmayonaise)

 

Congratulations to Chris - he wins the goody bag - but you’re all winners to us. Thank you for an incredible year.

Lots of love,
Team KM.

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