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Originally intended as a back up copy in case of unexpected technical issues, the slides of my VWBPE presentation are now reloaded in a slightly enriched version.

24 March 2012

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Presented at Virtual Worlds Best Practices

in Education

17 March 2012

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Welcome

to the first

TinkererAngel – Silver Hennin joint production.

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Thank you.

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Be Epic: learn how to make machinimas from scratch in five weeks.

Angela RizzoAka

RosaVioletta

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A description of a learning experience during the five weeks of 2012 MachinEVO, a workshop for video productions of language learning conversations in Second Life.

http://machinevo.ning.com/

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Week 1: Trailer.

• “A film of Second Life (SL) is called a machinima and it is derived from a combination of machine and cinema. Essentially it means recording the screen of the application Second Life. Creating a machinima does not mean just to record one’s screen”. (MachinEVO trailer, 2012).

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Week 1: Kick off

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Week 1: our group

• Professional interest in finding out more about the use of machinimas in language teaching.

• Focus on creating a film to be used in real life practice.

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Feeling adventurous and likeexperiental learning?

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Week 2: Video Production.

• The creation of machinimas “includes the basic skills of film productions such as camera angles, audio and the appropriate tools to do the recordings. And we will look at designing videos and determining a digital storyline.” (MachinEVO, 2012).

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If your GROUP is scattered around the globe

• Work on your group IDENTITY

• Find out WHO prefers to do WHAT

• Decide HOW to COMMUNICATE: group e-mail, Google doc, Wiki, SL or Skype Live meetings, dropbox

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STORY

• CREATE story starting from CORE scenes• ORGANIZE your work

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Week 2: Video Production.

Marius Madrigal,our experienced Moderator.He helped our groupin organizing our work and in the making of the film.

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Week 2: Looking for a setting at Edunations’ holodecks

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Week 2: Universidad de San Martin De Porres - PerùCourtesy of Amparo Cervantes

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USMP Kitchen

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USMP - Restaurant

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USMP Restaurant table-kitchen door close up

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LOCATIONS

• FIND Locations• ASK PERMISSIONS ASAP• When on location take SNAPSHOTS to BEST

define CAMERA ANGLES • PREPARE SET DECORATIONS

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Week 3: Content creation and roleplay.

“During this week we learn the poesie and humour of emoting used in roleplay, how to use gestures and animations and how to provide the backdrop with culturally rich environment so as to enrich the video production”. (MachinEVo, 2012).

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Setting preparation

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Still feeling adventurous ?

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Please note that

• files will be automatically saved in C:/New folder

=Nuova Cartella, in Italian on my version.

• Your video capture hotkey will be F9, I changed it to another key, handier for me to reach.

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BY NOW YOU SHOULD HAVE

• A CREW• A STORY• LOCATIONS• PREPARED SET• TONS OF SNAPSHOTS

• NOW YOU NEED…

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FLEXIBILITY

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Week 3: Content creation and roleplay.

• Avatars: – shapes – Clothes– Gestures

• Set decorations for the Mediterranean looking gazebo– Plants– Table and chairs

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ACTORS• Start casting asap

• Practice avatars animations: gestures and facial expressions

• Practice dialogues

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Adelaide before and after the hairdresser

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Tips Before Filming

• Number snapshots with best camera angles

• Share them with cameramen/women to easily assign camera positions when shooting

• CTRL + ALT + F1 to have a clean screen to capture

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1. Side of table facing brazier

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2. Side of table facing sea

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3. Close up on Adelaide

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4. From behind Adelaide

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5. Close up on Jean

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6. From behind Jean

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7. Yellow roses arch

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8. Behind the yellow flowers

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9. Aerial view behind tree

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10. Side of brazier facing sea

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BY NOW YOU SHOULD HAVE

• An efficient CREW• A well trimmed STORY• Approved LOCATIONS• A glam PREPARED SET• Numbered SNAPSHOTS• Enthusiastic ACTORS• A cleaned up COMPUTER

• NOW YOU NEED TO…

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PREPARE TO MAKE YOUR JUMP INTO A WORLD OF PIXELS!

CTRL + ALT + F1 for a clean screen

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FOCUS ON

• A Long shot to establish initial setting

You may use words instead:• i.e.: a restaurant conversation

And..

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AFTER FILMING

• Your recordings will be comfortably nested in C:

• Make a copy of all the filmed material and store away: WORK ON COPIES!

• Compress files and share in communal dropbox

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Week 4: Post production.

• “We will learn to edit the recordings, cut, lyp synch with the audio (if needed), file size reduce them and upload them on any of the video platform available.” (MachinEVO, 2012.)

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POST PRODUCTION - EDITING• EDIT AUDIO AND SOUND TOGETHER - EASIER IF YOU

HAVE LIPS MOVEMENT and you are just starting or• Save audio separately then add it• Add music• Always credit other people’s work contributions:

LAND OWNERS, MUSICIANS, ACTORS, FILMING CREW…

• Upload on dropbox for group to see before making work public

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Post production

• Virtual Dub http://www.virtualdub.org/

• Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

• Free sound http://www.freesound.org/

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POST PRODUCTION - SHARING

• Upload on video sharing web site

You Tube or Vimeo

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Week 5: Film Festival.

“During the wrap up time there will be a film festival when we invite other in SL to watch the video productions together in cinema type settings and as in real life there will be an award for the best film” (MachinEVO, 2012).

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Week 5: Film Festival.

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Our group won Two ex-aequo awards

• Best Visual / Special Effects

• Best Director

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Happy Crew!

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BY NOW YOU SHOULD HAVE been able to transform

• An efficient CREW• A well trimmed STORY• Approved LOCATIONS• A glam PREPARED SET• Numbered SNAPSHOTS• Enthusiastic ACTORS• A cleaned up COMPUTER• Raw and edited RECORDINGS• Music and slides

INTO…

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YOUR

FIRST MACHINIMA !!

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“Creating a machinima does not mean just to record one’s screen”. (MachinEVO,

2012).

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THROUGH

• Learning by doing in a community of practice (Wenger E., 1998)

• Access and motivation, online socialization,information exchange, knowledge construction and reflection (Salmon G., 2011)

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And THROUGHOUT the making of my first machinima I experiemented

A NEW

CULTURE

OF LEARNING

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Italian Saying

“Learn an art and store it aside”

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Thank you for your attention…and ENJOY!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBTldBw-UqQ

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Paper references• Deutschmann, M. (2010) Machinima – Recording in Second Life, Why should we be interested in machinima for

educational purposes?, available online at The Avalon Learning Website, https://avalonlearning.pbworks.com/w/page/33047585/Machinima%20-%20Recording%20in%20Second%20Life

last accessed 24 March 2012.

• MachinEVO blog, An EVO sessions (#2012evo) workshop for video productions of language learning conversations in Second Life, http://machinevo.pbworks.com, available online at http://machinevo.pbworks.com/w/page/47494320/MachinEVO , last accessed 24 March 2012.

• MachinEVO trailer, (2012), available online at http://machinevo.pbworks.com/w/page/48340927/Week%201%20TRAILER%20%20%209%20Jan%20-% 2015%20Jan, last accessed 24 March 2012.

• Rosavioletta - Angela, (2012), blog entries, available online at http://machinevo.ning.com/profile/Angela , last accessed 24 March 2012.

• Salmon, G., (2011, 3rd edn), E-moderating: the key to online teaching and learning, New York, Routledge, pg 81.

• Thomas, D. and Brown, J.S., 2011, ‘A New Culture of Learning. Cultivating the Imagination for a World in Constant Change’, © by Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown. Publisher: Createspace, Published: 4 Jan 2011, pgs. 117-118.

• Wenger, E. (1998) Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning and Identity, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.