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Expert advice by Gromit Mayo

Page history last edited by Heike Philp 12 years ago

 

In real life Gromit Mayo is an excecutive producer of a video commercials company and he has been doing this for a good 15 years. In Second Life Gromit is one of the actionaries of the Germany 3D community in Second Life and administers their Beethoven, Schiller and Bach Sims, which connect virtual Cologne to virtual Berlin. He is part of the 'train project' of Germany 3D and is a technical wizzkid, builds HUDs and tools and amazing scripted objects.  After a rather long day in a highly charged job and with all that he does in in Second Life, it is hardly suprising that Gromit spends his last few hours before midnight as hobby DJ. If you ever get a chance to listen to his amazing mixes, come to the Sound which is a virtual club in the heart of the Berlin sim and be at awe and I am sure you will agree, that he is even one of the best DJs in Second Life.  What an amazing person! How lucky we were for him to agree to share his tremendous know-how about film production during, what could surely be considered, his spare time, during the moderator meetings from 10pm to 11pm local German time. ((I personally am greatly honored by this and still very touched.))

 

I hope you appreciate that due to his busy schedule, we have decided not to reveal his real name at this time. You can always approach him directly and ask for it. 

 

Here is the valued advice he shared with us.

 

a) FIXED Camera

Gromit Mayo: A good machinima has a fixed camera and a bad machinima lets the camera fly around using a spacenavigator,  Joystick or ALT - CLICK - HOLD DOWN movements of the camera. What moves is not the camera but the object in front of the camera for emphasis. If something is near the camera, then it plays a more important role and adds to the story like here in this example of an excellent video by Timmy Allen of Mesh City in SL.

 

 

 

Here is Gromits Blog on this video.

 

b) SHADOWS

Gromit Mayo: A good machinima uses shadows and invisible light prims and a bad one uses the SL light. He also recommends invisible light prims. 

 

c) FRAMERATE

Gromit Mayo recommends a 24 fps (frames per second) and has puzzled all of us who normally know 30 fps to be PAL and 29, 97 for NTFS. We are still curious as to why 24. Maybe because of YouTube and HTML formatting?

 

d) YOU TUBE STANDARD 

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e) TRAILERS

Upon hearing the languagelab methodology of 'guided cognition' in case of group work (example air traffic controllers, pilots and stewardesses in an airplane at the languagelab airport who are given the task 'a passenger has a heart attack') and after hearing of the city life of English city (Truman show mixed with Desperate Housewives - comment by Gromit) and after seeing the promo video which languagelab had produced www.languagelab.com Gromit said that the video does not reflect the methodology. He recommended producing trailors.

 

What was rather amazing was, that when Bente Milton aka MissMilton and Rob Gould aka Rob Danton of the 'My Avatar and Me' fantasy documentary joined us for an event on EduNation, that Rob completely agreed with Gromit about the above recommendations.

 

Here is the recording of this conversation.

 

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