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...

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.

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.

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.