“Telling Stories through Machinima and the Hollywood game 'The Movies'”
(Vincent Trundle - Australian Centre for the Moving Image – ACMI)
Abstract:
Many young people today embrace the culture of subverting the intended use of technology. Machinima - making movies using games - is a classic example and is becoming an extremely popular way for telling stories on film. The Australian Centre for the Moving Image has been running workshops with middle year learners utilising the game 'The Movies' . These not only focus on the history and possibilities of machinima but also on the abundant educational resources within a ‘tycoon’ game itself. Students control the vast social and financial 'system' of a Hollywood movie studio and by delving deeper they create their own machinima. This session aims to provide participants with an insight into practicalities, challenges and benefits of the workshops.
About the presenter:
Vincent Trundle currently works in Screen Education at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. He has extensive knowledge of the film and video creation process having been both a practicing filmmaker and lecturer in production at RMIT in the late 1990’s. For the past two years he has been dedicated to encouraging the exploration and understanding of video games running numerous education programs at ACMI including the Schools Summit for the AGDC, the highly popular Game Loading Forums and in 2005 launched the video game creation component of Screen It! - the national primary school screen based competition.
Links:
Video presentation (12.1 MB - WMV)
Audio presentation (53 MB - MP3)
Presentation (PDF)
http://www.acmi.net.au/ (Australian Centre for the Moving Image - HTML)
