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Win two tickets for the ‘Login 2 Life’ Premiere!
In 2010, we suppose to release Login 2 Life in cinema. In filling out our short survey you can win 2 (of 6) tickets for the Login 2 Life Premiere. Beforehand we want to get to know you. Yes, we mean the guys crashing on our small blog. In our survey you find questions like:
- How did you learn about the film Login 2 Life?
- Which characters in our film do you like the most?
- Do you play WoW or are you a citizen of SL??
Before you answer the questionnaire, please read the 1-Pager and/or watch the Trailer. The survey is completely anonymous. We don’t sell your data .-)
All information in the questionnaire is treated as confidential.
If you want to take part in our draw, please don’t forget to fill in your email at the end of our survey. You will be notified at the end of september 2009.
(Post blogentry update: You will be informed at the end of November because we’ll plan to ask some more communities before ending the survey. Sorry for the delay.)
We’re hoping to see you on the theatrical release of our film 
The Login 2 Life team
New One-Pager online. Read our L2L concept.
Please, feel free to download our updated One Pager v2.0! Along the way check out our featured characters and the short summary of our story concept. Feedback very welcome.-)
Soon we intend to publish a short survey. Come back here and take part in the survey. Thus you can win a premiere ticket for Login2Life for 2010 ß-)
Happy new year
So we are back again in our working seats. That means it is time o say thank you to all friends, teammates, documentary cast, old and new cooperation partners supporting us during the last year. We are really glad to announce that we have all ingredients together to assimilate a good story and you all made this possible. It just hast to be written on blank paper. So this will be the effort of the coming two months. We keep you updated.
Thx, thx and thx again.
The L2L Team
Be part of our documentary. Chapter II
We are widening our entering premises and still looking for a protagonist.
What, or rather who are we looking for now? This time it is very simple: A female or male person, who is strongly benefiting from his/her activities in a MMORPG and in Second Life for her/his real life- please be aware, the dual residence is NOT a must but we would appreciate if you are experienced in both worlds.
If you can’t imagine now what we are searching, then let us give you few examples: For instance you got a real life job through engaging heavily in a MMORPG or in SL, or you are isolated in a special way and you keep in touch with other folks in participating on these upper mentioned platforms, or e.g. you are physically handicapped and you are enjoying synthetic social systems without stigma.
Short summary:
. Male/Female
. benefiting from MMORPG activities for your real life
. solid experience within any MMORPG and/or SL
. time and interest to be part of the project and in front of a camera
. apply including short CV and a description about you
Curious? Or even interested? Please mail to: contact@login2life.net
For further information on the project, you can check out this site or go to the production company’s website. Feel free to leave comments and opinions…
So it seems we found our candidate. Thx for all the nice applications. If we haven’t answered your emails yet it is because a work avalanche hit us. Please don’t be angry we try our best to make it happend.
5 international stops, one so called trailer and no report II
This post extends this one.-)
So I arrived at the afternoon at JFK airport and rolled with my rental Corola to Jersey. On the other side of the Hudson river a delicious motel waited for me. I payed more than 100 bucks a day for an accommodation which would cost a third of the price somewhere else. So this was a warm welcome and introduction to the prices in Manhatten. Very excited about the fact being in NY I couldn’t get some rest and went at the same night for a small location scout for filming some B-role footage of the Manhatten skyline for the next morning. I got some average night shots of the skyline but everything paid off next morning when I filmed some decent “the early bird gets the worm” cloudy sun rise footage from the same spot in Jersey. Then I headed to Manhatten to meet Nate Taylor at his editing working suite at Crewcuts. Nate is a very talented director and editor. He edits upper league commercials for living and owns with friends a company named Full Stealth. This way he is able to direct his own stuff. Nate’s MMOvie Trailer was the reason for this trip. This Machinima film was created in World of Warcraft and it is so entertaining and funny that I wanted very hard to get acquainted to the makers of this clip. That’s the reason why I finally met Nate at the penthouse of Crewcuts. Nate didn’t have to much obligation on this day and so he granted me loads of time to ask silly question around him, his life as an director and gamer and of course about the making of “The MMOvie”. The company had a beautiful terrace with direct view towards the Chrysler building. This was the perfect location for an interview. At night “Gentle Nate” invited some friends who were involved in the professional creation of MMOvie. We spent a great time putting some situations “in scene” which happend during the shoot of the beforementioned machinma. Nate and his team work at the moment on Nate’s first feature live action movie called “Forgetting the Girl”. Due to the financial crisis in the states it is very hard for him closing the budget but he is looking forward to start shooting during spring time in 2009 (no matter how much money he is able to rise). Thumbs up to you Nate. I hope everythig works out for you.
After I left Nate I realized that my Corola was torn away. So I got aquatinted to load of bureaucracy in the NYC police department. On next day I shot some more B-role footage of stereotype places of NYC (5th ave, Central station, subway and so on), then headed to JFK, in between I enjoyed a delicious carot vanilla sour cream cake (I forgot how this thing is named, so please let me kno and comment) in Brookyn and finally took my plane to Denver, Colorado. There I met one of the most impressive people of my whole Life. But this I’ll post in my next blog entry.
Welcome WoW
And welcome all you readers round the world. I’m Andreas “Greeki” Athanasiadis and I’m the World of Warcraft researcher in the team. Perhaps you know me from events or TV shows on GIGA, but I’m not here to tell you my vita. I’d like to tell you more about World of Warcraft and how we want to involve WoW in our documentary movie login2life.
Today many shows or even serious newscasts try to shed a bad light on MMORPG’s. They say World of Warcraft makes you addicted, but seriously, can a game make YOU addicted? There must be more than that, and I can of course say that you could be addicted, but it’s not because it is WoW. The real reason is the social aspect of these games. It is about the tribute you get when you do something hard. You do as well have the feeling that you really made something. Many people including me can’t say that they are making something really cool in the real world and that is what we also want to feature in Login2Life. MMO’s can provide satisfaction, satisfaction which could not be achieved or not so easy in our real lifes. We all in the team think that MMO’s will be the future of gaming, but not only gaming, it will be also a part of our communication and life. My guiding principle for MMO’s is simple: Alone you are nothing, only together you could reach more than you ever imagine. This principle says nothing different than: You have to be SOCIAL. Imagine the whole world would be social and try to work together instead of against each other. I don’t want to say that MMO’s will make the world more social instantly, but everything counts and MMO’s will help us live together on this big planet.
Now I have to stop dreaming and come back to reality. Perhaps you know it already but christmas is coming. (If you did not know get out and buy some presents for your friends 
) Blizzard of course knows this and they implement this event into their game (There are many other events. Check this page) . So now we celebrate the Winter Veil Feast in Azeroth (The “Planet” in World of Warcraft is called Azeroth) and Greatfather Winter visits the capital citys of the Alliance and the Horde. I will show you more in my next blog, which will be online in a few days.
PS: Today we are shooting some christmas scenes in WoW.
Login 2 Life @ Giga TV
Great News once again:
On Monday, 10th of November, Login 2 Life will be presented on Giga – The Show, live at 20:00h and 22:00h CET. Tune in and watch!
During the first live show at 20:00h CET our Trailer will be presented and the Anchors Eddy and Nils will introduce you to the project. In the second slot at 22:00h CET, director Daniel Moshel will answer questions live on the phone – sorry guys, but there was no way we could make it in time to be there in person; next time we will, promise! – and tell us more of what this documentary is all about.
We would like to thank the Giga Team for their great support and for giving us the chance to present our film. You can watch GigaTV via Astra Digital Satellite or Kabel Digital in Germany, as well as via IPTV on all relevant German platforms (i.e. T-Home, Alice/Hansenet, Arcor, Zattoo, etc.) and on a carrier-independent livestream on Giga.de!
Don’t miss it!
SLim text/voice chat is out & i am using it!
SL residents do like to complain a lot and there is legitimately a lot to complain about: the recent price hike for open space sims being just the latest badly communicated move by Linden Lab. But I wanted to write a quick praise for the new SLim client, a text/voice chat app, SL minus the immersion so to speak. Now why would we want that? Are we not going in-world to immerse ourselves in a all encompassing 3D environment? Yes of course, but what happens, if friends and/or business partners are waiting for you at a conference or a panel discussion and you are stuck in traffic, on the train or at the office? Currently SLim is only a desktop app, but i see a mobile phone app coming soon and with it i can engage with my SL companions even if i my machine can’t sustain the full client running (with all the other apps in the background sometimes the MacBook Pro sounds like a lawnmower). yes, i for one, want to be able to quickly chat, give my two cents or exchange links with my SL friends WHILE i am working on a mix in Pro Tools, an edit in Final Cut, both apps that take huge resources, not a good idea to run SL as well. The future will hold the ability (as stated by LL) to call into SL from a cell phone, call someone from within SL to a regular phone etc. How is this relevant for our project? i think the merging of virtual and real by bridging the communication gap is a very good thing. The protagonists of our film see the virtual world, broadly speaking, as an extension of their own selves, not as two separate things. While they all have different goals with their projects in SL or WoW (or any other world for that matter), they will benefit from a blurring of the lines. A successful virtual platform needs to reflect a world, where humans, while still fully in control of technology, interact with it more seamlessly. Any move to ease transition from one world to the other is a welcomed improvement.
So complainers: please download the first look client NOW, download SLim NOW & start embracing the interconnectivity that is just starting and is VITAL for the future of Second Life in the virtual worlds race
as of today a measly 2 friends are on my list who have SLim. sad…..
my online friends in SLim, the ones with the box have SLim too
Blogging from the road
Now that our fearless blog admin has enabled mobile blogging I can knock out posts while travelling via iPhone. Fantastic. Limitless. Relentlessness. Below: mommy and Kaleo connect via SL (close supervision, PG sim of course)
But I don’t want to keep praising our admin, but rather wanted to address in this post the regrettable fact, that SL is a 18 and over platform. As you can see from the above picture, my wife and I let our 5- year old log on in a strictly supervised and times setting. He gets tremendously excited about SL and so do we. The educational and communicative possibilities for young children are simply endless. If it is a alternative Columbus Day Parade put on by a native American group, the center for water studies with it’s realistic underwater Eco system, the Tech museum in San Jose, which replicated it’s exhibits in SL or if it is simply driving around with his grandfather (who lives 15000 miles away) in a virtual VW bus along Venice Beach. Just like for adults the immersive nature is invigorating and engaging. For children, who grasp the space without any inhibitions, it is literally a dive into endless knowledge. I feel Linden Lab, above all else ( adding new features or pleasing enterprise and marketing folk) has to figure out a way to restrict access to adult material so youngsters are not excluded from swimming in the pool of wisdom. In “Login2Life” we will surely include the great efforts happening on the Teen Grid by the likes of Global Kids for instance. But in the longrun SL has to open up: not only code-wise, but age-wise!
First ‘Login 2 Life’ Clip online!
Just got back from Lilles. Completely – and in the most positive sense of the word – exhausted.
Here is the result of 5 weeks of hard work – enjoy…
If you don’t already have it installed, download flashplayer here
You can also watch this Trailer on YouTube
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