I’ve been more keen on watching a variety of documentaries of the last couple of weeks seeming that I’ll be making one of my own. I’ve discovered that I’m more interested in documentaries that create a portrait of a character as opposed to an issue based documentary. I don’t mean that I don’t enjoy the [...]

In today’s lab, we discussed the synopses of everyone in the class. To be honest I wasn’t blown away by anybody’s, and I don’t really want to do mine.
A couple of them were about the struggles exchange students face in being in a foreign country, and I’m not really attracted to these ones. This is [...]

Clairvoyants supposedly communicate with a spiritual world. They become a conduit, an interpreter of a mystical language and prophesise the future for those willing to have their futures read.
I’m interested in creating a portrait of a psychic medium. I’ve come across a clairvoyant called Lorraine who is regarded for her unnerving accuracy with both detecting [...]

Here’s an example of Mechinima that I found. I’m delighted that it’s a Sims 2 version of Lady Gaga’s ‘Paparazzi’ video. I’m still not a convert to Mechinima because I still think it looks tacky, and I keep comparing the Sims version to the real video. If not even a Gaga reference can save me, [...]

We opened today’s lab by listing some examples of Monsters and their qualities, which will be the theme for our Second Life films. This was the said list:
Monsters:
Godzilla
Tony Abbot
Lady Gaga
Boogie Man
Animals
Clowns
Mythical cyclops/ medusa
Dracula
Qualities:
Dangerous/ angry
Scary
Mutated
Inhuman
Grotesque
Evil
Fearful
Different
I so wanted to say Lady Gaga but I was too embarrassed, so I prompted Melissa to suggest her
Dean then [...]