Finished!

Well thats it of our little chapter, the end of secondlife. The machinima in the end wasn't too bad honestly, compaired to others in my class. Here is the end result. I would like to thank all the people who helped and Dale for giving us all we needed to get the job done. While there isn't many blogs i may aswell load up some more when i can get the time.

Movie Moment

Also during the class for today we were taught how to make films using second life and a recording program called Fraps. After some technical difficulties, the end result is a simple example of using Fraps.

Making the set

This may be a bit of a late entry. In the previous class i was setting up the stage for the machinima. The idea behind the set up was that it was ment to look like the place is rented and there are more then one person living there, hence the set of odd items here and there.

































For todays class, i was trying to get a portal to hell working, with the textures and the particles. The object spins yet the particle effect needs a work on it.

Second Life 2

Another lesson in the Second life program and im slowly learning how it works out. We first tried out making a planet earth, which is seen here.















next was modifying a gun, a pop gun, which allowed us to create our own gun, bullets, script and particle effects. playing around as well led to some fun and interesting effects.
















The end result was me creating a yoda gun that shoots cardboard boxes...im starting to like second life now :)

Second life 1

Well for our first day on second life, things have gotten a little wild. Everything glitches, stuff is missing, alot of info for one day. Here are some screen shots of places i've gone too.

The first one is of the freebies warehouse. This place had nearly everything, all of it for free.















I quickly learned to never click anything i didn't know what it does: see pic below...it involves pumping...















Next is some place i was transported too that you could buy items like a full costume from the game Final Fantasy.





Yes i have wings






This is the Victoria University island, which is where our machinima will be filmed at.














End.

Multimedia - Day 4

Its interesting how with writing up a story for class that you have to bring in a whole new world, one which can abide by the natural law that we live in or a completely different one. The physical, social and personal rules we know of are brought about in the same or different fashion for our story. For my story, i have made an example of how my world story fits in with the rules of real life.

Worlds: Physical, Social, Personal
Physical
Being	Humans, as there are only 3 shown in the story, are the dominate part in my world, besides the devil and the succubus.
Movement	In the story, the movement mostly seen is human, with the walking and turning of the body. There is only natural human movement.
Survival	Survival is once again based on the natural world, where one needs money to have shelter and food.
Time	Time doesn't seem to really matter in my story, the only element of time that happens is the mass change, i.e 30 days later. There is no night, dust or dawn. Just the normal afternoon. But the reson for the mass change in time is due to the limited time of the story, which is around 4 mins.
Transport	The only transport in my story is the elevator.
Landforms	Naturally, the landforms of the city would be urban.
Colours and Sense	The city, especally Melbourne, is almost dull and grey like, considering the weather is mostly overcast.
Technical	There is 4 items of value in the story. The first is the briefcase that Gary carries, which is used to hold documents or other valueables needed for his office job. The second is Chris' book 'How to become a warlock' which, to anyones guess, is an instruction book for the arts on warlock spells. The thrid is the pile of money which Chris has made, in which money can be used to trade for goods and services. The last is the DVD that Chris offers Gary, which is a compact disk that can hold digital video.
Social
Class or Caste	We can see in the story that there is a hierarchy of social status. Gary is a office man, with his suit, tie and briefcase. Chris is perhaps a student or a part time worker, with his casual clothes. Lastly the Goth chick, covered in black clothing and make up.
Communication	Communication is mainly verbal in the story.
Type of government	The natural government of Australia
Built environment	The city is an urbanised area which is kept well maintained
Social fabric	The social fabric is that of 'if u don't know what it is, don't mess with it', such as with Chis and his warlock studies.
Belief	The only belief that there is visable is that
Play	They have fun, like any human does, except Chris who uses the succubus as a form of 'fun'
Life pattern	Chris and Gary are both room-mates.
Family	Chris and Gary are both room-mates. They basicaly friends who live together under the one roof.
Fashion	We can tell that Gary wheres the shirt and tie for work, Chris wears casual cause he can, and the goth chick is following a fashion fad so wears dark/black clothing.
Personal (for the main part character or primary agent)
Appearance	Chris is typical, the smart guy/ sencible guy who wears the more practical clothing, while Chris wears the casual clothing, being the laid back character.
Social standing	Chris' character looks more like the unemployed type, the lazy kind that sociaty would tell him to do something with his life. Gary would
Aim in life	Chris' aim is to make money the easy way, while Gary is set on working for his money.
Place in the world	Crhis would seem like a weird kind of person, freak or odd one. Gary would be the hard worker, disgruntled almost. The goth chick would be shunded buy society.
Strength and weaknesses	Chris' flaw is that he doesn't naturally think things through. especially about summoning a succubus.
Communication	Talking is naturally used.
Sensory perception	The 5 human scenes, but mostly the senciblity

Multimedia - Day 3

In class we had a different approach of how to write up characters and their development in the story. One example was about remembering a argument or a bad run with a person in your life, and instead of recalling what you were feeling or thinking in that fight we where asked to get into the other persons head on the matter. How they felt and thought while they were arguing with u.
Then there was being given a character name and creating his likes, dislikes, love to hang around and where he wouldn't go to, etc. in which we were to write up a short story on him/her.

In the end we watched a documentry on Smegel off the Lord of the Rings and how the character had mass changes and developments during he film.