Ricardo Varma

The lectures from the different trainers, especially Mark’s, gave me new insights and ways to approach various topics like interactivity

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Ricardo Varma - Participants report the Machinima workshop which took place at Mediamatic, March 2006

Ricardo is working on a film in first person view. He wanted to use machinima as a previsualization technique, but during the workshop he saw that the potential of the technology was even greater than he at first thought: “The lectures from the different trainers, especially Mark’s, gave me new insights and ways to approach various topics like interactivity. Also the notion of social cinema interests me: people work together on their machinima in a non-hierarchical way. It is a form of democratisation of media"

His workshop project was based within the virtual world of Second Life: “Second Life felt liberating, you can do, build and be anything you want within the vast world of Second Life. Restrictions like physics, politics and diseases are of no matter."