Caledon the Musical, in aid of Relay for Life '08, from the Independent State of Caledon and Caledon Studios, Second Life. Raising over L$100,000 in the fight against cancer, the good people of Caledon donated money to be in this machinima.
In total, in '08, the fine folks of Caledon raised L$3,000,000 for Relay for Life.
Hopefully this film showcases some of the amazing sims in Caledon and the amazing variety of smashing people. This is filmed at peoples properties and at assorted locations around the steampunk Victorian sims.
May I just tip my hat, one more time, to the good peoples of Caledon and the Caledon RFL Team '08, without whom this wouldn't have been possible.
Yes, apologies, some parts of this are a bit rough and ready. When shooting so many shots with so many avatars one has to take the frame rate that's available at the time. As this was for charity, at least one shot of each group made it into the final edit. Also, being machinima, it has suffered somewhat from recompression issues during upload to YouTube so I'm displaying it above at the 320x240 (4:3) that YT likes best.
Well, it's 'Relay for Life' time again and parties and birthdays are over, so, time to crack on with some Machinima :-)
This year it's top hats, canes, and chorus girls in swimsuits. Picture, the entire Middlesea Fleet dancing on the bridge of their massive warship, JJ and the librarians tripping the light fantatic in Victoria City Library, Dez and the Gun Bunnies doing the soft-shoe-shuffle in Tanglewood as the Airforce tap-dance across the wings of ornis. Super kitsch and super cute. Shot in all the sims of Caledon, one big musical number, as many people involved as we can but shot in lots of small manageable scenes. All in sync (and Astair and Busby Berkly-tastic). L$500 to join the group, all money to Relay for Life at the end of the shoot (at The Gaity Theatre, with kind help and permission of Ms. Persephone Gallindo).
So, how can you get involved? Easy :-) Chorus Line just need to join the "Caledon the Musical" group to secure their part in this "high kicking, all singing, show stopping, cancer fighting, motion picture extravaganza". This would also act as an excellent Windlight showcase for Caledon ;-) We're open to suggestions from groups, sims, and individuals around Caledon!
We have a few passed movies, the best example of this kind of style being “Pirates of the Caledonian” from RFL '07, at Oolons Youtube Channel.
Finished this last night, for SLRFL and the ongoing war effort.
It's okay, but I was lacking a lot of cut-aways and stuff to make it tighter (which was a shame) and I need to get my head round the sound editing stuff in Premier Pro yet.
It'll do though, it's part of the learning curve. Around 9 hours in edit to get this though, so from now on there's no point doing this if it's not gonna be pucker. Post it note on monitor: "Get Cut Aways".
