Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ' vii
Foreword Persia Bravin 1
Introduction: Documenting Virtual Life in Machinima Phylis Johnson 3
Part 1 Virtual Filmmaking
1 Machinima as Moviemaking 17
With comments by Chantal Harvey: Women Making Machinima 28
2 The Right Stuff: Geared Up to Make Machinima 32
With comments by Pooky Amsterdam: Machinima Unleashed 43
3 Sounding Out the Story Line 48
With comments by Phylis Johnson: The Soundscape of the American Western 65
4 Tell Me a Story 72
With comments by Larkworthy Antfarm: The Fine Art of Machinima 91
5 Characters Come to Life 96
With comments by 1 angelcares Writer: The Voices of Machinima 116
6 Setting, Lighting and Composition 123
With comments by Toxic Menges: It's All About Pre-Production 137
7 Post-Production: Bing Bang Boom 142
With comments by Jonathan Pluskota: Aesthetics for Sound Design 159
8 Celebrating Machinima: It's Show Time! 165
With comments by Jay Jay Jegathesan: Partnerships and Collaboration 170
9 The White Pigeon: A Machinima Example 175
10 The Fine Print Todd Herreman 185
11 Expression Through Machinima: The Virtual Classroom Bryan Carter 197
Conclusion to Part One: There Is No Road 206
Curtain Call Phaylen Fairchild 211
Part 2 Interviews And Roundtable Discussions
The Machinima Interviews 217
Al Peretz 217
Decorgal 223
Iono Allen 235
Kate Fosk 239
Michael Gray 246
Rysan Fall 253
Wiz Nordberg 259
Roundtable One: Terminology, Technology and Practice 266
Roundtable Two: Collaboration, Commercialization and Content 288
About the Contributors 313
Index 317