My statement of intent

The Statement of Intent

Rescue is inevitable - machinima

The goal of my project is to create a five to eight minute comedy machinima. The audience I’m aiming at, are children to teenagers to young adults (ages 10 to 25)

I aim for the project to not only provide entertainment and provide laughs, but also to bring forth the new genre of film making “machinima” to a broader audience.

I chose a machinima for my project, because I have wanted to create one since I was 11, but always lacked the time and the inspiration for it, since I’m doing it for school, I MUST complete it and it gets graded, so it pushes me to do my best on it, and enjoy it at the same time.

The ultimate goal for me is to have an 8 minute machinima, uploaded on my YouTube channel, warcraftmovies.net and machinima.com, make sure it’s entertaining for gamers and non-gamers, and to make people laugh, giggle, or smile. The machinima will be voice acted by me, family and friends, will have a soundtrack and many pop culture references spoofing them or simply including famous memes.

            Which AoI does it have to do with? Human Ingenuity. My AoI goal is to explore Human Ingenuity by filming my own 8 minute animated movie using present models, textures and environments. This has to do with Human Ingenuity, as I have to write the script myself, have to create a believable story, with a multiple of jokes, many voice actors, and a creative use of music and sound effects. It’s like filming a movie, except the models are already there, once I have a script and a storyboard to follow (created by me) I can work on the actual machinima. This is all Human Ingenuity as creating the script takes creativity in writing, creating the storyboard requires creativity and ingenuity in drawing and annotating, and then finally combining all film making skills with the created storyboard and script in creating an animated movie, providing it’s audience with entertainment, laughs and a topic interesting for them. This all links to Human Ingenuity as it will be a work of art written by myself, produced, filmed, drawn, written and directed by myself, using nothing more then a computer and my imagination. It could also link to community and service as it’s providing free entertainment for the community to enjoy in their spare time.

            There is a wide range of research I would have to complete for this project, what I personally want to research, and want to get done to help me is an interview with a famous machinimator. Ask them questions, what got them started, how they progressed, etc. I will have to watch tutorials on completing machinima, as this will be the first time creating one, but I’ve already seen that the most famous machinimator, has a series of YouTube videos on how to machinimate and I’ll make sure to watch these. I will also research what actually started this genre, how it became popular, as it’s important to understand what got it started, and the 3^rd most subscribed channel on YouTube! I will also want to research different techniques and genres in machinima itself, such as action, comedy, music video, drama, horror, etc. Not only will I need to research machinima related topics, but also overall what makes a movie successful, the music in the background, the script, a story that will interest the viewer, and how to efficiently create an animated movie. 

That was exactly on page in word, as required. Now I'm off to do the time plan, the research plan and a timeline.