Virtual storytelling. Methods and techniques of ‘audiovisual writing’ through virtual worlds

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Published: Aug 31, 2012
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17471/2499-4324/136
Keywords:
Educational Technology, Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL), Semantic Web and Learning, Media education, Media literacy, Videogames, Virtual worlds, Machinima,

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Andrea Benassi
Agenzia Nazionale per lo Sviluppo dell’Autonomia Scolastica (ANSAS), Firenze

Abstract

This paper describes a set of animation techniques and methods known as machinima that can be successfully applied in media education activities centered on audiovisual production through the story form. With machinima, immersive 3D worlds become a tool for building narrative worlds, theatres of a sort in which performances can be recorded as on a movie set. This is done through the computer and the Internet, without expensive equipment or the need to leave the classroom. The paper also presents the results of a pilot activity performed by a group of teachers in the Second Life virtual world. This was aimed at exploring the technical and methodological feasibility of machinima practices in the school context.

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Vol. 20 No. 2 (2012): TD56 - Dossier - Semantic Web and Learning
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Articles - General topics

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SITOGRAFIA (ultima consultazione 07/02/2012)

Machinima.com – Il principale repository online di machinima. http://www.machinima.com/ Machinima.org - Sito dell’Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences, organizzazione no-profit a sostegno dello sviluppo e diffusione del machinima. http://www.machinima.org

La scena del delitto - Scena parte del racconto creato nel contesto dalla sperimentazione “Virtual Storytelling”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYe6z7OVGEU

River flows in you - Machinima creato con il videogame “The Sims 3”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngdghWpOWrU

The Dumb man - Machinima creato con la piattaforma immersive 3D “Second Life”. http://vimeo.com/609147

The Freesound Project - database online collaborativo di suoni sotto licenza Creative Commons. http:// www.freesound.org/