A NEW FILM

The Machinima produced in 2009 with the Police was well received - view it here. The subject matter was anti social behaviour. The (virtual) police arrived in a Tardis (Time Machine) but departed in a Space Shuttle leaving out two happless locals to accidently start her up and head back to the past. Thus the premise for a new film evolved where the characters travel back to real historical events.

This involved many local people in all stages of the production, the police again, the school, the mining museum, the history group. Add to this a host of participants all over the world. Some of the participants were recruited in Second Life itself but others were recruited though real world connections and then brought into Second Life. People from FINLAND played some of the parts and the three Finnlanders came over to England for the screening. Voice parts were recorded to Soundcloud from participants in Austria, Lithania and Finland. The credits take a full 90 secs to scroll by because of the numbers involved. There are Real Names, Second Life Names and then Finnish names which look more like SL names.

The film played in a theatre this May to full houses. I will embed it below in two parts and in good old movie tradition include some "making of" clips afterwards.

PART ONE



PART TWO



VIRTUAL ACTING



VOICE PARTS



SET BUILDING



STUNTS



HISTORIC RE-ENACTMENT