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Digital Youth Portrait: Justin
This teenager learns advanced 3-D modeling, simulation, and animation at school. As a hobby, he combines his obsession with gaming and a passion for filmmaking to create animated movies made with recorded gameplay. More to this story.
Release Date: 5/27/2009
Running Time: 08:13
Video Credits
Produced and Directed by
- Ken Ellis
Coordinating Producer
- Lauren Rosenfeld
Editor
- Karyne Holmes
Camera Crew
- Brian Buckley
- Brett Wiley
- James Pride
- Ken Ellis
Production Support
- Amy Erin Borovoy
Production Assistant
- Doug Keely
Senior Video Editor
- Karen Sutherland
- © 2009
- The George Lucas Educational Foundation
- All rights reserved.
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Glossary
Machinima: A term derived from machine and cinema that refers to filmmaking created through the real-time recording of computer games, virutal worlds, or any already existing three-dimensional digital environment or virtual world.
MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game): An Internet-based role-playing computer game that allows for millions of players to simultaneously engage in game play within a single online virtual world.
Maya: A three-dimensional modeling, animation, visual-effects, and rendering program.
Sources: Twinity.com, USA.Autodesk.com
Discussion Questions
1. Is Justin typical of kids in your community? Why, or why not?
2. Justin had his own laptop at a young age. Is this a good idea? Why, or why not?
3. Would you want to attend or teach at a school like McKinley? Why, or why not?
4. How would you describe the attitude of Justin's mother toward his digital lifestyle?
5. Is machinima a valid art form with learning potential? Or is it just kids goofing around?
