This will be a seres of posts about “how to make machinima in virtual Worlds”. This one is about goals.

My first goal with the project was to create some episodes of a Machinima serial that we can publish on the Internet.

This is the first step in viral marketing, to offer something for free to a big audience. The basic idea is, that people who might need a Machinima production, will contact us because they are already impressed by our results. It also shows a potential customer, that we have solved most of the problems that other people may have when doing movies in virtual worlds.

Another valuable goal for this project is learning. I believe everybody in the team learned something new about Second Life or film making. I learned something about the workflow for a real movie production, others learned how to overcome glitches in SL. So, even if we don’t cash in much money with the final product, it should be a success for all team members at last.