TC 448 was a special topics course offered in the fall 2006 semester at Michigan State University. I created and taught the course during that semester.
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Creator:	Ben Medler and Jillian Caywood.
Cast:	Ken Nelson and Valeta Wensloff.
Description:	Made for the Axe Machinima Film Fest. Entries had to make a machinima based on the Axe Dry's Game Killer theme. The machinima is a commercial for Axe Dry based in the game F.E.A.R. It shows how the poltergeist, Alma, can never get close to any guys because the player, “The Elite Trooper”, always kills them. This machinima won an honorable mention in the contest.
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Creator:	Ben Medler
Cast:	Ken Nelson and Ben Medler.
Description:	Made for Make Your Movie in Hollywood Contest. The contest was to pitch an idea for a 3-5 minute machinima that would be made in Lionhead’s game “The Movies”. Separate Similarities is about two soldiers that live in different time periods but must perform similar missions to sabotage an advancing enemy. The stories are so similar that the movie would allow the two stories to intertwine with each other and the viewer would see one story with just the characters from each time period switching.
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Creator:	Ben Medler
Cast:	Ken Nelson.
Description:	Made for the Open Video Contest put on by Creative Commons and the Fedora Project. Free Machinima is a quick PSA video for Creative Commons. Unfortunately since game footage is not considered as original elements, elements in the public domain, or released under similar terms, it was disqualified. It’s great to promote Creative Commons anyways.
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Creator:	Ben Medler and Jillian Caywood.
Cast:	Kevin Brydges, Ken Nelson, and Valeta Wensloff.
Description:	Done as an experiment to figure out if multiple games could fit together visually, in a machinima. The War on Terror … in a galaxy far, far away is a satire on modern US news programs and their coverage of terrorism. Set in the Star Wars universe this Machinima portrays a news program on an Imperial owned news station and shows how the Empire would have spun the war against the Rebel Alliance. This machinima uses four different Star Wars games while utilizing the game “The Movies” for its character lip-syncing ability.
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