Schome Machinima

Machinima (video) session - Saturday 21 April at 9.30am
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Date: Saturday 21 April 2007 Time: From 9.30am till 11.30am Venue: Sandbox Min: 1 Max: 20 Organiser: Fox Phlox Overview: Starting to work with machinima / video. A chance to discuss what we already know about machinima, what experience we have of the genre and whether we have already used the video function in SecondLife. Discussion of uses we have for machinima on Schome Park. An opportunity for brief practice sessions. I'm hoping we can split into pairs for this and maybe video short interviews. Once people have had a go, I'll give out copies of the Alt-Zoom machinima tool I picked up on the Main Grid (think it's copiable, must check) which lets you set up cameras and film with them. I've not had a chance to try this out, but the instructions make it seem fairly straightforward. Disclaimer I'm not an expert (you can see that by my videos). This very much a beginner session where we can try things out together. Before the session, I recommend:: You try out the video function in SecondLife. Can your computer handle it without crashing? Can you find the files it is producing? If you're not sure how to make a video in SL try this guide. You check that you have some video editing software on your computer. If you can't edit your footage it's almost bound to be boring. You watch all or part of the wedding video. To give you some idea of the time involved - the wedding started at 8pm and this video was completed at midnight. It's not a good video. Think about how it could have been improved. If you want to use the Alt-Zoom machinima tool you'll need to watch Moo Money's introductory video because it contains all the instructions. I've summarised those here but it's still useful to watch. Other information: 'Machinima: Bridging Games, Film, and Animation' provides an interesting history on machinima. If you already have video footage, please email it to schome-sl-help@open.ac.uk for possible inclusion in the Schome Park promotional video.	1 Aston Schomer 2 Mars (Hopefully i'll be able to come, depends.) 3 achilles schomer 4 REPLACE_THIS_TEXT_WITH_YOUR_AVATAR'S_NAME 5 REPLACE_THIS_TEXT_WITH_YOUR_AVATAR'S_NAME 7 REPLACE_THIS_TEXT_WITH_YOUR_AVATAR'S_NAME 8 REPLACE_THIS_TEXT_WITH_YOUR_AVATAR'S_NAME 9 REPLACE_THIS_TEXT_WITH_YOUR_AVATAR'S_NAME 10 REPLACE_THIS_TEXT_WITH_YOUR_AVATAR'S_NAME 11 REPLACE_THIS_TEXT_WITH_YOUR_AVATAR'S_NAME 12 REPLACE_THIS_TEXT_WITH_YOUR_AVATAR'S_NAME 13 REPLACE_THIS_TEXT_WITH_YOUR_AVATAR'S_NAME 14 REPLACE_THIS_TEXT_WITH_YOUR_AVATAR'S_NAME 15 REPLACE_THIS_TEXT_WITH_YOUR_AVATAR'S_NAME 16 REPLACE_THIS_TEXT_WITH_YOUR_AVATAR'S_NAME 17 REPLACE_THIS_TEXT_WITH_YOUR_AVATAR'S_NAME 18 REPLACE_THIS_TEXT_WITH_YOUR_AVATAR'S_NAME 19 REPLACE_THIS_TEXT_WITH_YOUR_AVATAR'S_NAME 20 REPLACE_THIS_TEXT_WITH_YOUR_AVATAR'S_NAME
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