Machinima Artist Guild (Educational Site)

Storytelling in Second Life:
 The Fantastic and The Furious in Machinima

 

Machinima filmmakers are storytellers for the virtual generation and game culture. From documentary, music videos to drama, machinima has become a popular and an inexpensive way to engage RL and SL audiences. 


Our book Machinima: The Art & Practice of Virtual Filmmaking (2012) released in March.  We presented on creative storyboarding techniques at the annual Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference (Second Life) in March as well.  A year earlier, we had presented The Fantastic and The Furious: Capturing Moments in Machinima.  This keynote presentation on Machinima was designed to show educators and others the potential of making machinima which moves beyond the mundane to a new level of storytelling that will captivate audiences, especially students. What is it that makes a good story, and how can that be expressed through machinima?

Machinima is grounded in numerous interviews from the machinima community, as well as filmmaking research and experience, with an intent to reveal the fantastic and furious nuances of this expressive medium that borrows from animation, cinema and television, but has emerged with its own character.  Similarly, we have presented to various universities, including the University of Bangor (Wales) and Purdue University, among other academic and professional venues.


In our book, we also share an overview of the state of the machinima practice in virtual worlds.  The book is available from Amazon.com.  More information about the book is available through the publisher, McFarland.  Keep up on machinima with Sonicity at Magnum: The Machinima Review.  Sonicity (under her real name) is also the machinima reviews editor for the Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds (Intellect Press).


Authors Dr. Phylis Johnson (Sonicity Fitzroy, SL) and Donald Pettit (Lowe Runo, SL, of Lowe Runo Productions).

 

 

Machinima is the art of storytelling for the

next generation of filmmakers

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The Machinima Artist Guild serves as the premiere network organization for machinima makers inside Second Life. It has a library of more than 800 machinima videos.


The Second Life Machinima Artist Guild was created in August 2008, as a place where Second Life Machinima producers, actors, directors and technicians might collaborate and share experiences.

 

             Lowe Runo, founder of the Machinima Artist Guild (2010)


 

The Second Life Machinima Artist Guild is affiliated with the Professional Machinima Artist Guild, which has extended its influence beyond Second Life to other machinima platforms,


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Announcing the Steampunk Series:
The Adventures of Bel and Soni, Dreams Unleashed, authored by Sonicity Fitzroy. Follow the story in Retropolitan Magazine (beginning Feb. 2012), and look for the Machinima series in the future.
The magazine is available in Second Life, as a hard copy and HUD.
Visit Retropolitan at Esoterica, Second Life.   


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