Moviestorm

Hi guys, I've been helping as a beta tester for a new movie program and it's kept me somewhat busy!
You can keep up with some of the results on my youtube site http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Kkffootube

Second Life

Hi All!

This week I joined second life, an online sim like game. I won't link as the there are two versions, teen and adult and the adult version is not pg13.
I'm still absorbing my experiences of SL and they are not all positive by any means.
The best thing so far is the ability to meet up with online friends for virtual social events, and encountering the work of the best model makers within the SL community.
Many of my friends have had graphics card issues, and although membership is free there are endless oportunities to spend real money in enhancing your avatar...and there is an obvious visual difference between the free content and that which is paid for and this does create some pressure to cough up the readies.
You can earn money within SL, but this isn't an easy task and it would take a good deal of time and effort.
There are also freebies available..it depends how much time you are willing to invest.
Some people get a great deal out of the experience, but these are usually those who are willing to put in the effort to learn the system and spend several hours a day in SL.
As in any online community there are those whose task in life is simply to cause grief to others, but most people I have met so far have been friendly, open and nice.

New Story Published

I even surprised myself with this one. After the long drawn out process of

1)learning to shoot video
2)manage moving animations
and then
3)edit the results together so they make some sort of sense

returning to photostories made a wonderful change.

I just wish I could add a warning sticker to deter those readers looking for something more TSR mainstream. They will surely be disappointed, and it hurts to get negative feedback, even if I do think I know where it's coming from.

Kate

New Movie Released

Oh boy I'm too tired to type so I'll just give you the promo blurb for now :)

Movies are marathons!



http://www.sims99.com/movie_details.php?dir=Kkffoo&id=8298



Director's Description:

You're never too old to have an adventure, and a lot can happen in one day.



Amelie played by french novelist Veronique Tardy.

Visit Amazon.Fr to find her latest book 'Chroniques Syliannes' 



http://www.amazon.fr/Chroniques-Syliannes-1-Ordre-Nouveau/dp/2756303488/sr=1-1/qid=1170434104/ref=sr_1_1/403-9277544-6333224?ie=UTF8s=books



Music by EchoLali, Bibopof and La Goutte Au Nez.

All are released under the creative commons license and can be found, and downloaded for free on http://www.jamendo.com/en/ 



This film is released under an attribution, share alike non-commercial version of the creative commons license.

This means you are welcome to share, and use for non commercial purposes, but you must say who wrote the music, and who made the film (ie Kkffoo) and credit Veronique's voiceover.

Visit http://creativecommons.org/ for more information. 



Additional scenes created using 'German Street Racing' by Team6

Creative Commons Music

I've been searching around for some creative commons licensed music to use for my movies, and found a very interesting selection on this french based site called Jamendo.

What's Happening?

Hello again!
This has been a weird time for me in TSR. Over Christmas I was unable to Sim at at all, and now I'm making another movie...so it's been a LONG time since I submitted anything...and yet during this apparent non-activity I have become even more involved in the Sims.
As you know TSR do not currently accept movie submissions (and they may never do that)..I am simply not able to make stories AND movies at the same time so I've been wondering how I can stay more actively involved at TSR.
I did consider submitting some movie sets, but I realised that this was going to compromise my ability to use a huge range of custom content in my movies.....creators are usually much more generous in allowing their items to be used in screenshots / stories / movies than in uploaded lots... for obvious reasons.
So my plan now is to submit clothing and any object recolours that I have created for my current project, and I'll do this as soon as my movie is finished.

New Audio Blog

http://monafilms.podbean.com/

Click the link above, and then click on the player for kkffooblogJan2007

This is my first attempt at an audio blog. The background music is called "silence no more longings" and is released under a creative commons licence by Ottmar Liebert.

http://www.ssri.biz/

New PC

I have always had to borrow a computer to load sims 2, as my own pc is way too old to run the game. As you probably know none of the sims 2 accessory programs will run on a pc that does not already have the game loaded. So this meant that I have had to do everything connected with stories on that borrowed pc (bodyshop,homecrafter). Now I am also making movies, and my own pc won't stretch to video editing either.
Hah...just been called away from writing this by our doorbell ringing, my new shiny pc has just been delivered..fingers crossed I get it working ok.

Learning New Skills

Hi All

I don't have the space and time to embark on another movie, or story before the Christmas holidays
(I seem to have lost a week somewhere). I am using the time I do have to learn a
freeware movie editing program.

http://www.zs4.net/free-software-downloads

It has been a long while since I have been so unfamiliar with a new program
that I've needed to start with page 1 of the tutorials, and then do tutorial
number one again, because it didn't really sink in the first time. So far I've
managed to create some odd looking titles and a thirty second video where a
blurry stick girl melts into my nephew's elbow.

Don't let this put you off movie editing, most of the programs out there are
fairly easy to use and you can get a reasonable result straight away. This one
warns that it has 'a steep learning curve', and I can so far confirm that this
is turning out to be the case.

best wishes

Kate

Movie: A Brief History of Morris Dancing

Hi All

I have finished my movie and you can find it on sims99. It's a spoof
documentary about morris dancing!

http://www.sims99.com/user_profile.php?view=Kkffoo