The latest set of students to suffer enjoy the medium of Second Life are a doing a level 1 module ‘Introduction to Electronic Content Origination that is designed to introduce them to a variety of different techniques in the creation and manipulation of images, sound and video editing. The idea is to give first year students a basic grounding in a range of applications. Second Life is used as the focus for their assignment. Students in groups of 2 or 3 have to create a scene and provide the action for a short video clip shot using Machinima techniques in Second Life.
Below is an image that shows four separate backdrops for the video clips, one is a replica of the computing lab where students have taken photos of the PCs and applied these as textures to create a more realistic image. Another is a ‘Super Mario’ style side scrolling arcade game simulation. Other props relate to a space based narrative.
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