Planning for EEggs
Xenon and I talked about the EEgg project. Here are some summary thoughts I got from the discussion.
The Lindens may be willing to provide support. Xenon will contact them on that. I will write some of our plans as I would for a proposal, highlighting items of interest to Linden Labs and noting why we need support
Xenon is working on Marta Stewpot. That will include av appearance and clothing. Since Marta is a TV personality, she will need a variety of clothes. She may complain (as if off camera, but audible) about her wardrobe. That would be part of her perfectionism. Lindens: We need a costume budget.
Xenon is also working on Marta’s character and speech patterns. My main suggestion is, don’t be subtle. Subtle may work in an hour show, but it will go nowhere in 6 minutes. One characteristic that I recommend is that she jumps all over terms like noob, nuby, or other slang terms that are sometimes applied to recent arrivals. She considers these terms politically incorrect. We will need to give her an acceptable term. And it won’t end in “challenged.”
For educational purposes, we will need to specify learning objectives and current skills. People bring with them some preliminary skills. What will we assume and what will we teach? We probably ought to start with a list of all the skills needed early in SL. I am asking Xenon to start looking for such a list. Probably by asking Linden Labs. If they have no such list, that will point up a need for supporting our project: if we can’t find a list, we till have to make one. TBD.
Some of our demonstrations will require working with menus. I am inclined to display menus as textures on prims. One such prim might rise up out of the ground, or emerge thru the (phantom) wall of the set. Possibly to the monolith theme from 2001 (thus spake Z…) I have made some test versions and show readable results. Final versions, I will do with green screen, and make the green transparent. I may mark up the menus to show key points. I will probably include menus as objects in the EEgg.
Someone might walk on them in the vid. One point here is that people remember places more effectively than they remember words. I will explore the possibilities
For our first production, we are looking for things that a person could wear in an interesting way. I have already picked fire as the closing shot (Sam the Sham becomes burning man.) We might use the bracelights at Hobo City. We would like to find others, preferably free to copy or things we make ourselves. . Another budget item here. We might buy the full rights (copy/modify, transfer) to something we want in a vid.
Action Items Selby
Develop ways of presenting menus that are interesting on video.
Identify needed budget items: Props. Costume. Extras (performance fee).
Look for interesting (novel) things a person can wear.
Think of non-pejorative terms to apply to recent arrivals
Action Items Xenon
Continue working on Marta character.
Look for, ask for, list of relevant skills in SL. (what is taught nat the intro sites?)
See if Lindens are interested in giving budget. See what they want as request/proposal.
Identify needed budget items
Look for interesting (novel) things a person can wear.
Think of non-pejorative terms to apply to recent arrivals
The Lindens may be willing to provide support. Xenon will contact them on that. I will write some of our plans as I would for a proposal, highlighting items of interest to Linden Labs and noting why we need support
Xenon is working on Marta Stewpot. That will include av appearance and clothing. Since Marta is a TV personality, she will need a variety of clothes. She may complain (as if off camera, but audible) about her wardrobe. That would be part of her perfectionism. Lindens: We need a costume budget.
Xenon is also working on Marta’s character and speech patterns. My main suggestion is, don’t be subtle. Subtle may work in an hour show, but it will go nowhere in 6 minutes. One characteristic that I recommend is that she jumps all over terms like noob, nuby, or other slang terms that are sometimes applied to recent arrivals. She considers these terms politically incorrect. We will need to give her an acceptable term. And it won’t end in “challenged.”
For educational purposes, we will need to specify learning objectives and current skills. People bring with them some preliminary skills. What will we assume and what will we teach? We probably ought to start with a list of all the skills needed early in SL. I am asking Xenon to start looking for such a list. Probably by asking Linden Labs. If they have no such list, that will point up a need for supporting our project: if we can’t find a list, we till have to make one. TBD.
Some of our demonstrations will require working with menus. I am inclined to display menus as textures on prims. One such prim might rise up out of the ground, or emerge thru the (phantom) wall of the set. Possibly to the monolith theme from 2001 (thus spake Z…) I have made some test versions and show readable results. Final versions, I will do with green screen, and make the green transparent. I may mark up the menus to show key points. I will probably include menus as objects in the EEgg.
Someone might walk on them in the vid. One point here is that people remember places more effectively than they remember words. I will explore the possibilities
For our first production, we are looking for things that a person could wear in an interesting way. I have already picked fire as the closing shot (Sam the Sham becomes burning man.) We might use the bracelights at Hobo City. We would like to find others, preferably free to copy or things we make ourselves. . Another budget item here. We might buy the full rights (copy/modify, transfer) to something we want in a vid.
Action Items Selby
Develop ways of presenting menus that are interesting on video.
Identify needed budget items: Props. Costume. Extras (performance fee).
Look for interesting (novel) things a person can wear.
Think of non-pejorative terms to apply to recent arrivals
Action Items Xenon
Continue working on Marta character.
Look for, ask for, list of relevant skills in SL. (what is taught nat the intro sites?)
See if Lindens are interested in giving budget. See what they want as request/proposal.
Identify needed budget items
Look for interesting (novel) things a person can wear.
Think of non-pejorative terms to apply to recent arrivals
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