Second Life - Hail the Judge

    The final project of the class is to make a video in Second Life and have some interaction with international students in NCU. After a few weeks to discuss about the screenplay and some settings of the characters, we decide to film a video called "Hail the Judge", and I act as a main character in the video called Always Powerful. 

    The Story begins with Always Powerful rides a horse and hits Hang Over, and Seven Love, the wife of Hang Over, sues Always Powerful in the court. Here I offer a picture made from my classmate, Pauline, to introduce the complex relationship of the all characters. As you can see, there's a complex relationship in Hang Over, Seven Love and Always Powerful; it's not a love triangle, but a unhappy marriage and a true love suppressed by the society. Besides, there are other characters like the characters work in the court, such as Smart Bao, the judge, court guard and Body Picker. And two sides of people who support Always Powerful or Seven Love; Sugar Mirror and Wine Lady are with Always Powerful, on the other hand,  Toy Boy and Caller are with Seven Love. The debate in the court is really fierce and some of the characters are pulled out and punished because they lie to the judge. In the end of the story, the crowd find that Hang Over is not dead, and he decides to show his true face to divorce with Seven Love and elope with Always Powerful.

Second Life - To film "Hail the Judge"

    The final project is to use Second Life to make a video, and after the discussion of teacher and students, we decide to make a film called "Hail the Judge". And I play one of the main characters called Always Powerful, who is a fan of Bruce Lee in his childhood, then one day he hits someone when he rides a horse to fool around, and the whole story begins.

    To use Second Life to make a video is totally a new experience of me, it's interesting, but hard to manipulate my avatar to do the action or expression I want it to do. In addition, I'm the assistance of the director Maxxie Lin. I have to use my earphone and microphone to contact with my classmates in different classroom. It is really exhausting work to do, this is because everyone has the earphone and microphone, and everyone wants to express his or her opinion. Then, the result is I can't contact with them efficiently and there is always someone chatting with others by microphone and even interrupt my work to give the order of the director. We almost spend five hours to finish filming. 

    As one of the main characters of the video, I learn a lot to make my avatar do something more exquisite action or expression to let the video like the real person to act. Though make this video is hard, I learn a lot from it. It's worthy it!

Online Gaming in Second Life

     This time, the aim of the game is to build a world in our own land. Partly, this activity was to prepare for the final project - a video called "Hail the Judge", and we have to build the environment and some decorations by our own. As a result, the training today is important.

    At the beginning, I start to create some balls and twist it or make it another shape. Then, I find that I can put some trees or grass in the land and make this place more beautiful. In addition to use the function for free in Second Life, I go shopping at the online shop of Second Life to buy something interesting, such as a horse, a boat and a motorbike. Furthermore, I find that there are some houses or chairs, tables available in the shop; then, I don't have to take too much time to produce these furniture in the environment.

    Except me, my classmates are really good at produce something terrific, one of them creates a pyramid by his own, others also create a board to post some announcement on it. And I, buy a Lorax on my shoulder as a decoration Ha Ha.