12/29/2009
U.S. Missionary Illegally Marches Into North Korea
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/world/asia/27korea.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=north%20korea&st=cse
12/20/2009
User narrative 2
My name is Jane. I am a friend of Tom. I am going to the same university he is attending. My major is 3D animation. Tom and I are trying to make a machinima using an online game, Secondlife. But we have had some technical problems using Secondlife. What is good for using Secondlife is that there are many different places in the game world ranging from a realistic world to fantasy one. However, it is difficult to shoot a film due to the network latency in certain cases where many users are connected. There are also some limitations for those users who don??t own land online when they want to make props and building environment.
Recently, I have received an email from Tom. He gave me the address for a website that had a tutorial on movie-making using an online game engine. When I visited the website, there was a movie about North Korean suffering. I also found a tutorial in the form of diary about movie making using realXtend. I am still visiting that website to refer to the tutorial when I need help.I also visited another website linked in the website, called LiNK. The website made me aware of the sufferings of the North Korean refugees. I was deeply impressed by the story of the volunteers traveling North America showing movies about the North Korean refugees. This made me to collaborate with Inbum to work on a project making his second movie on North Korean refugees.
Recently, I have received an email from Tom. He gave me the address for a website that had a tutorial on movie-making using an online game engine. When I visited the website, there was a movie about North Korean suffering. I also found a tutorial in the form of diary about movie making using realXtend. I am still visiting that website to refer to the tutorial when I need help.I also visited another website linked in the website, called LiNK. The website made me aware of the sufferings of the North Korean refugees. I was deeply impressed by the story of the volunteers traveling North America showing movies about the North Korean refugees. This made me to collaborate with Inbum to work on a project making his second movie on North Korean refugees.
User narrative 1
My name is Tom and I am twenty years old. My greatest concern is how to make a movie using an online game engine. With a game engine, people will be able to collaboratively make movies with others who are online at the same time as the internet speed and computer performance continually improve. Gamers also can share their component parts of animation, such as characters, environment, and motion. For these reasons, I often visit websites which are related to movie making using a game engine. "Machinima.com" is my favorite one. I often get information about new online game engines and watch machinima films people made through this website.
Recently I began interested in realXtend program because I heard with this game engine it is easier to modify characters or objects in the game than with any other game engines. It was hard to find movies made using realXtend, however, I found one yesterday on the site. The story was about a mother and daughter who are captured by a monster, made of steel and shaped like a house, which lives in the dark underground world, and a man living outside the underground who did nothing to help them. Especially, the scene where the man just plays an online game forgetting his promise to help the mom and the daughter made a strong impression on my memory. I realized I was like him in ignoring the sufferings of the people in the real world because I am too much distracted by the online world.
Recently I began interested in realXtend program because I heard with this game engine it is easier to modify characters or objects in the game than with any other game engines. It was hard to find movies made using realXtend, however, I found one yesterday on the site. The story was about a mother and daughter who are captured by a monster, made of steel and shaped like a house, which lives in the dark underground world, and a man living outside the underground who did nothing to help them. Especially, the scene where the man just plays an online game forgetting his promise to help the mom and the daughter made a strong impression on my memory. I realized I was like him in ignoring the sufferings of the people in the real world because I am too much distracted by the online world.
10/19/2009
10/06/2009
9/29/2009
This is the fairy tale about the family who were captured by monster.
They work like a slave to find a fuel and run monster's heart for generations.
The girl makes a fire in the heart of monster all day...
Her mother gather a fuel for the monster...
She only can look her mother through a little window
when her mother return to monster with fuels....
One day, her mother meet a man living in the land of freedom ...
And he promise her to help her escape...
The mother and her daughter escape from the monster through a chimney at dawn...
They are looking for the man....
But he just read a book with forgetting his promise...
They work like a slave to find a fuel and run monster's heart for generations.
The girl makes a fire in the heart of monster all day...
Her mother gather a fuel for the monster...
She only can look her mother through a little window
when her mother return to monster with fuels....
One day, her mother meet a man living in the land of freedom ...
And he promise her to help her escape...
The mother and her daughter escape from the monster through a chimney at dawn...
They are looking for the man....
But he just read a book with forgetting his promise...
9/22/2009
User narrative #2
My name is jerry. My big concern is a machinima, so I often visit a website related to a machinima. "machinima.com" is my favorite site. I get the information about a new game engine and watch a machinima film people made through this website. I begin to take interest in realXtend program recently because I heard this program is easier to make a machinima movie than any other game engines. It was hard to find the movie using realXtend, however, I found it yesterday. The story of movie is about a puppy trying to escape from wolf's world not having a freedom. I noticed that this is the machinima movie based on North Korean defections at the ending part of movie and also found the web address.
9/15/2009
User narrative #1
My name is Tom. I like playing an on-line game, which is World of Warcraft, with friends whenever I have a free time. I barely read a newspaper and am not interested in economy, politics and social issues.
As soon as I get home from work, I turn on computer. I click on social icon to check whether my friends are on-line or off-line. My character in the game is reached at level 20 yesterday. The higher my character level is, the more gold is needed. One of my friends is connected into the game. We meet in Stormind City where many users are gathered in the game. In this place users exchange their items, invite new users to their guild, and sometimes fight each other to raise their character's level without hunting monsters.
I found the advertisement someone wrote on Bulletinboard, " If you visit my site and leave a comment, I will give 20 gold to you." Gold is the highest currency unit in the game. It is also hard to get 20 gold at my level. So my friend and I decide to visit the website. At first we see a brief description about North Korea Defections. We download a viewer which is realXtend viewer according to the direction on website, and then we are connected into an online virtual world.
We find a puppy running away from wolves. I become conscious that the puppy represents North Korean defections because I see the synopsis of 3d animation at this website. Before I visited this online world and watched this 3d animation, I totally did not know about North Korean Defection and the reason why they tried to escape from North Korea. Now, I understand a little bit their suffering and am concerned about their human rights.
As soon as I get home from work, I turn on computer. I click on social icon to check whether my friends are on-line or off-line. My character in the game is reached at level 20 yesterday. The higher my character level is, the more gold is needed. One of my friends is connected into the game. We meet in Stormind City where many users are gathered in the game. In this place users exchange their items, invite new users to their guild, and sometimes fight each other to raise their character's level without hunting monsters.
I found the advertisement someone wrote on Bulletinboard, " If you visit my site and leave a comment, I will give 20 gold to you." Gold is the highest currency unit in the game. It is also hard to get 20 gold at my level. So my friend and I decide to visit the website. At first we see a brief description about North Korea Defections. We download a viewer which is realXtend viewer according to the direction on website, and then we are connected into an online virtual world.
We find a puppy running away from wolves. I become conscious that the puppy represents North Korean defections because I see the synopsis of 3d animation at this website. Before I visited this online world and watched this 3d animation, I totally did not know about North Korean Defection and the reason why they tried to escape from North Korea. Now, I understand a little bit their suffering and am concerned about their human rights.
What I did (2008 fall-present)
I saw for the first time in collab class in 2008 a machinima movie, Silver Bells and Golden Spurs, made by using online game Second Life. I was impressed with machinima using online game. However, I also found some problems with it. It was difficult to shoot a film due to latency in certain areas where many users were connected and there were some limitations for making props and building environment to users who did not own land in Second Life.
Therefore I looked for other game for making a machinima film. And I found realXtend which is a free open source virtual world platform. By using this I made my first machinima film dealing with an online-game addiction as the mini-thesis's project in 2009 spring semester.
During a summer I fixed the technical problems for making a machinima using realXtend. After solving the problems, I began to think about a story of machinima. I thought of a detective story at first. I also thought of a man who tries to escape from a digital age, which is a story about a man who does not want to use all kind of digital gadgets in a digital age.
However, I decided to make a machinima about people who want to escape from North Korea after reading the article about North Korean defections.
“About 70 North Koreans were executed by the communist regime after being repatriated by the Chinese government and eight or nine people among them were killed in a public execution to scare the public from any attempt to defect from the country, a South Korean civic group claimed yesterday.” Korea Herald
But I took questions about the differences between a machinima and documentary film for carrying story about North Korean defections to audience during making the presentation last week.
So I changed the plan from making a machinima to creating an online virtual world which contains the 3d animation about North Korea defections. To make the story of 3d animation, I will use fable technique to make it different with a documentary film. In my online virtual world users not only have a chat with other users about North Korean defections but also watch the 3d animation.
I also felt the need for target audience because personal tastes are vary according to the genre of media even though story is same: some people may like watching a movie; others prefer reading a book; some others are fond of watching an animation. My main target audiences are people who like watching a 3d animation and chatting with people in online virtual world.
Therefore I looked for other game for making a machinima film. And I found realXtend which is a free open source virtual world platform. By using this I made my first machinima film dealing with an online-game addiction as the mini-thesis's project in 2009 spring semester.
During a summer I fixed the technical problems for making a machinima using realXtend. After solving the problems, I began to think about a story of machinima. I thought of a detective story at first. I also thought of a man who tries to escape from a digital age, which is a story about a man who does not want to use all kind of digital gadgets in a digital age.
However, I decided to make a machinima about people who want to escape from North Korea after reading the article about North Korean defections.
“About 70 North Koreans were executed by the communist regime after being repatriated by the Chinese government and eight or nine people among them were killed in a public execution to scare the public from any attempt to defect from the country, a South Korean civic group claimed yesterday.” Korea Herald
But I took questions about the differences between a machinima and documentary film for carrying story about North Korean defections to audience during making the presentation last week.
So I changed the plan from making a machinima to creating an online virtual world which contains the 3d animation about North Korea defections. To make the story of 3d animation, I will use fable technique to make it different with a documentary film. In my online virtual world users not only have a chat with other users about North Korean defections but also watch the 3d animation.
I also felt the need for target audience because personal tastes are vary according to the genre of media even though story is same: some people may like watching a movie; others prefer reading a book; some others are fond of watching an animation. My main target audiences are people who like watching a 3d animation and chatting with people in online virtual world.
8/13/2009
Prototype
-Concept
What I am trying to make is a machinima using online game. The difference from other machinima film is my machinima film do not show all of story to audience. Audience only watch meaningless successive events and do not know ending of story. If audience want to know the reason for events or ending, they should connect to my virtual world through the address showing up in the end of movie. Audience who have access to the online world are placed in a certain point of story, which can be begining,middle,or ending of story. They should wander about in the virtual world and observe activities of characters to find the reason for events and see ending of movie by moving their avatar.
-Method
To make my virtual world in online, I install realxtend server,which is a free open source virtual world platform, into my computer. Then, I made 3d characters and objects using 3d program. After finishing modeling,I animated them and exported it to realxtend server.
What I am trying to make is a machinima using online game. The difference from other machinima film is my machinima film do not show all of story to audience. Audience only watch meaningless successive events and do not know ending of story. If audience want to know the reason for events or ending, they should connect to my virtual world through the address showing up in the end of movie. Audience who have access to the online world are placed in a certain point of story, which can be begining,middle,or ending of story. They should wander about in the virtual world and observe activities of characters to find the reason for events and see ending of movie by moving their avatar.
-Method
To make my virtual world in online, I install realxtend server,which is a free open source virtual world platform, into my computer. Then, I made 3d characters and objects using 3d program. After finishing modeling,I animated them and exported it to realxtend server.
7/14/2009
The begining
I saw the machinima movie made by using 3d online game engine for the first time in collab class in 2008. I was impressed with Machinima using online game. Even though the visual quality of it is bad compared to other game engine such as Cry ,Half life, and Unreal , it have many merits.online game provide easy interface to users and also give flexibility to manipulate character and animation. However, I also found some problems with it. It was difficult to shoot a film in certain area where many users are connected due to latency and we should find a location to take a shoot because there are some limitations for making props and building environment to users who do not have land in online. When I have doubts about using online game engine for making a movie, I got email about another 3d online game engine,which is realXtend, from jenny who was teacher in collab. So I made my first machinima using this game engine for mini thesis. On june,I tried to study this game engine more and found some possibilities to apply next prototype.
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