[Teen/VVP] Topic Chosen!
Tuesday we revisited the two possible topics that we could make our next final machinima project on. The two topics were Child Soldiers and Global Warming. When we went into the session we began off with trying to brainstorm the pros and cons of both the topics and then we voted on one topic that we wanted to do. We chose child soldiers as a majority. Well I kind of abstained from voting because I was not too sure about either of the topics but the majority wanted to do Child Soldiers. I think it is a great choice, and I thought it was a good topic which is why I put the topic out there in the first place. But I'm not too sure anymore. Well I thought that both of the topics were great. I don't know if anyone has ever made a machinima about either one of these, so it would be interesting to try to make a machinima out of them. Global Warming, I think it has become a huge impact on the media and it would be interesting to see us do a machinima on that; on the other hand, child soldiers…not so much media spotlighting.
I actually did not know about it until the GK program in my school introduced it a while ago (it's funny because they used the same movie that Tabitha and Sam showed in class on Tuesday~ except we got to finish the whole thing). But, I thought it was very touching to see something like that. But then I think there is a difference in the impact that a real-human-child soldier versus the impact an avatar will have. No matter what…an avatar will be somewhat generic, which will take some of that sympathy that you expect the audience to feel for the character. Yes, everyone can say, "Anything is possible". Bu anything is not always possible, if it was, the world could possibly be a "utopia" at the moment. And plus, it is easier said than done...especially since we don't have much time. We have two months to get this done, and we have not yet finished our previous project nor researched this one. So it is not much time. In addition to that...and back to the generic-ness of the avatar…an avatar is made to look somewhat mature. I do not know if making a child avatar is even possible without a special shape or skin. Also, having to change your avatar can sometimes be hectic when it comes to SL since there can be lag... and I know we thought it was a good idea to use this topic since more people can get involved...but then again the more people involved the more disorder there can be...and sometimes it is hard to direct avatars since they can only move in a certain way. Anyway, I do see many challenges to this, but that does not discourage me much because, as always, everyone pulls through at the end no matter what ^^~!
