This Saturday and Sunday (July 21-22) is Eye4You Alliance Island’s first machinima weekend on the teen grid. Thanks to the hard work of HVX, Zotarah, Alice Burgess, and of course the teens (especially Storm), we’re able to present this program. If you’re an approved adult please stop by-even if you haven’t been on the island for awhile-no problem!

Intro to Machinima: What is it? How do I view machinima or video in SL?
7:00 AM PDT – 7:30 AM PDT (30 Mintutes)

Shooting Machinima using the SL Browser Shortcuts:
7:30 AM PDT to 8:15 AM PDT

B R E A K : (15 minutes) (MUSIC, SELF-ESTEEM BUILDING, DANCING)

Brainstorming a story with your writing crew:
8:30-9:00 AM PDT (Instructor: Zoaan )

Planning your Movie: storyboarding
9:00 AM PDT to 9:45 AM PDT (Instructor: Zoaan)

B R E A K : (15 minutes) (MUSIC, SELF-ESTEEM BUILDING, DANCING)

Video Remix using YouTube’s TestTube
10:00 AM -11:00 AM PDT Add transitions, callouts, images and effects to your video.
Hollywood comes to YouTube! (Instructor: Storm Basiat & HVX Voyager)

AudioSwap: Using the new audio remix tool on Youtube’s Testtube site!
11:00 AM PDT – 11:45 PM PDT – (Instructor: Saryn Fanwood & Storm Basiat)
Get cool audio from your favorite artists!

B R E A K : (15 minutes) (MUSIC, SELF-ESTEEM BUILDING, DANCING)

Using Camtasia to Record Machinima (download FREE trial software)
1 2 :00 PM PDT – 1:00 PM PDT – (Instructor: Saryn Fanwood)

Sunday:
Eye4You Group Movie: using Jumpcut’s group movie
10:00 AM PDT – 11:00 AM PDT
(Instructor: Storm Basiat & Instructor #2)
Class accounts have been set up for the students to use.

Intro to FRAPS (video capture for games – capable of capturing 100 frames per sec.)
11:30 AM PDT to 11:45 AM PDT
(Instructor: Storm Basiat & HVX Silverstar)
Download free version of FRAPS & use with video editor (Windows Media Player or similar). Free compression utility such as Virtual Dub can be used to compress the huge files for web.

B R E A K : (15 minutes) (MUSIC, SELF-ESTEEM BUILDING, DANCING)

Getting great shots: using gestures and animations in your clips.
12:00 PM-12:45 PM PDT (Instructor: TBA )
Sequence your gestures to play while you are being filmed

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