http://www.secondlifeupdate.com/uncategorized/i-set-out-to-make-a-30-minute-machinima-movie/ Exploring this SL Online Virtual World playing Avatar Games for Lindens | 2nd Life & more! Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:11:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://www.secondlifeupdate.com/uncategorized/i-set-out-to-make-a-30-minute-machinima-movie/#comment-1628 Matt Kelland Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:43:35 +0000 http://www.secondlifeupdate.com/2007/09/23/i-set-out-to-make-a-30-minute-machinima-movie/#comment-1628 A 30-minute film is quite a hefty undertaking - apart from the difficulty of having enough material to fill that amount of time, there's a lot of work to get all your cast in the right place at the right time, doing the right things, and not getting bored and wandering off. It always takes way longer to shoot than you expect - even if you allow for the fact that it always takes longer than you expect. And just as you get set up for the shot, someone decides that they have to go and get dinner, or take a phone call, or their Net connection drops, or something equally trivial and annoying. Good luck! A 30-minute film is quite a hefty undertaking - apart from the difficulty of having enough material to fill that amount of time, there’s a lot of work to get all your cast in the right place at the right time, doing the right things, and not getting bored and wandering off. It always takes way longer to shoot than you expect - even if you allow for the fact that it always takes longer than you expect. And just as you get set up for the shot, someone decides that they have to go and get dinner, or take a phone call, or their Net connection drops, or something equally trivial and annoying. Good luck!

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