COMPOSER SABRINA PENA YOUNG | MUSIC TECHNOLOGY | FILM | CLASSICAL | OPERA

Living Machinima Green Screen Fun for Bluesy Urban Night: Sounds My most recent project involves delving into the world of living machinima . What is living machinima? Well, for the lack of a better explanation, in living machinima I immerse my real time self into the virtual machinima world using film techniques . Now this isn't a cut and dry definition, but this is what I am going for in my latest project Urban Night: Sounds, for the upcoming International Alliance for Women in Music Conference, which is coming up online (and FREE) this spring.  Singing in a Machinima World! Using a green screen technique and a scene created using the Machinima software Moviestorm , I have immersed myself in a virtual world , complete with the entire machinima band Nano Ensemble 21, for the song "Baby Blues". This is my first experiment involving machinima and full body green screen (as a side note, for a couple of weeks, my dining room was covered in a giant green scre...

Cover of Stephen Colbert As you know, I teach a course in Media in Amerian Culture. Maybe my sci-fi opera Libertaria or recently finishing the 1000+ page Atlas Shrugged has me looking over my digital shoulder a bit much, or maybe it's the years of training that I have had in video editing and new media, but I take everything on the Internet with a big grain of salt, and by big I mean a grain of salt that would bury the Statue of Liberty.  I recently had an interesting discussion with a gentleman I respect about a political video's reliability and truthfulness (or truthiness, as Stephen Colbert would say). The content of the video matters a lot less than the blind belief that if it's on YouTube it must be true.  So I thought I would provide a short tutorial on how to know if something is true or not. It is by no means comprehensive or definitive, but it may help. For those that are in the audiovisual experts, this is old hat. However, for those who are not awa...