Jul 30, 2008
making machinima
Thinking about:
Size – what would translate well into a 60-90 second story.
How much do I want to include?
What kind of narrative works for this time and this medium?
Digital storytelling – the simplicity of the story, stripping it down to the essence of the story.
Dean showed us a couple machinima. Anna and Red vs Blue.
In our own machinima, we need to starting thinking about universal themes: love, friendship, death, hardship, heroism, redemption. The use of music, the use of silence, composition (derived from cinema, but for a small screen we will have to restrict this) the use of colour and form…
Dean mentioned machinima festivals, the future of media in machinima and that gaming, which uses this medium, is now more prolific than the film industry. I’ll investigate this a bit further this week…