Second Life

In yesterdays workshop, we began to start a new block of work; Second Life Machinima. First we began with an introduction of what second life is.The first small block of the workshop was looking at 'Online communities being mediated', such as how we represent ourselves on the internet, on  social networking sites, for example. The second and more major part of the work was to being looking at second life and real people specifically.  We did this by watching some documentary videos on people who run their 'real lives' through this second virtual world.



This is the first video we looked at, there was another video clip about some woman that runs a business out of second life and began to make more money through that than she used to at her 'real job'.The very same woman actually met her spouse via this game too, they had been married for a year and a half when the video was filmed and released.

If there wasn't any technical difficulties this week, we then would've gone on to create our own second life accounts, then to just begin exploring second life. But this was not the case, as we share the same IP address at uni, the website automatically blocked it, because of the 80 plus people trying to sign up at the site at the same time. So we have to sign up for this by next wednesday.  I'm actually quite looking forwad to creating my own machinima, because i'm familiar with the concept of it from being a frequent web user for the past few years.