More attempts at filming....

Ok so I finally got over some technical issues, getting the right machine blah blah...
and tried some filming again.
The first video is a very short stupid event less situation of me in an underwater world. Here I was still shooting using the keyboard as my camera functions.... Interesting thing in this water world place was that their were tidbits about the environment (real world environmental issues) that people can read and engage with. It's like a very cool looking 3D presentation about issues that people don't really want to listen to but they might just here...hmmm...
here's a picture of me....

Here is the link to the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiCFPJbPlQU

For the second one I started messing around with using the mouse rather than the keyboard for camera. The movements one can get are a lot smoother and controlled. I decided to try filming something and entered this space called Club Close Up. I noticed many people sitting around alone and some people dancing. No one was responding to me however when I spoke to them. Turned out that the owner of the club pays people to just have their avatars sitting around so his club looks busy. This I discovered after a woman returned to her keyboard and we talked, about her, second life as well as my project. Turns out that even she wants to make a film in second life. Anyway everyone there was just there making money...away from their keyboard!! Which is called camping...and it turns out is a very common phenomenon.

This video is for those who don’t know what second life looks like. People pay a lot of attention to the way they look and some avatars are extremely detailed...and earlier when I spoke about identity, crafting and indulging in oneself... one can see here what I mean.

I ended up talking to a few people there…one conversation was with a Hispanic hot looking avatar with huge boobs. I told her what I was attempting and she said she would act in SL. I asked her to 'act,' both in her second life and her real life but then she said no no... I want to remain anonymous. It turned out that she was 41 years old and didn't want to reveal her real self on camera. It was only natural I thought for her to create an avatar that looked 20 years younger. :)

[The Spanish chick/woman is the one sitting on a beanbag hovering in the sky... a man's arms are wrapped around her...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ3OYx_Wf5c

AAAAAAAAAANNNNNND edits of conversations will be coming up..... so keep checking. ;)