Machinima Best Practices

MACHINIMA BEST PRACTICES: PRESERVING VIRTUAL WORLDS THROUGH VIDEO DOCUMENTATION Shannon Bohle, MLIS (Archivist Llewellyn in Second Life) Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education March 17,2011

Machinima offers the ability to create films which implement the best of traditional film making and animation as well as take advantage of this new media format. It is possible to implement archival best practice standards for from Real Life when making machinima video in Second Life and storing it for long term digital preservation.

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Advantages & Benefits ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Shortfalls & Limitations ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Official Linden Lab Advice LL Official Machinima Policy: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Snapshot_and_machinima_policy Eric Linden's Top 10 Machinima Tips: http://www.machinima.com/article/view&id=447 Second Life Wiki: Machinima: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Machinima

Books and Articles The Machinima Reader by Henry Lowood and Michael Nitsche, Eds. (MIT, May 2011) Lowood, Henry E. "Perfect Capture: Three Takes on Replay, Machinima and the History of Virtual Worlds." Journal of Visual Culture, forthcoming 2011.

Archival Guidelines for Audio and Visual Materials ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Published Guidelines Analog & Digital AV Materials ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

General Tips - 1 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

General Tips - 2 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Recommended Hardware ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Second Life Equipment ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],* Robot actors - Curiosity AI - (Archivist Llewellyn)

Software – Video Capture ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Software – Video Editing, FX and Post Production ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Audio Recording, Editing and Enhancement ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Audio Tips ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Audio Hardware/Software ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Share Your Videos - 1 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Share Your Videos - 2 In Mixed Reality ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Contests ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Learn Through Networking ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

SL Media Companies & Contractors ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Acknowledgements I would like to thank Cisko Vandeverre, winner of the UWA Challenge 2010 Machinima Award and computer animator with over 30 years of experience, who generously spent two hours talking with me on Skype from Berlin, Germany reviewing my original Second Life note card and offering his comments toward The improvement of these Best Practices guidelines. I would also like to thank Jason Spingarn-Koff (Jay Spire in Second Life), whose machinima video was recently shown at Sundance Film Festival, for reviewing these materials. Additionally, I would like to thank Fall Films (Rysan Fall in Second Life), who produces “Green” environmentally-conscious music videos used by Real Life performing artists like U2 and Craig Lyons for providing advice and friendship. http://archivopedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=Machinima

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