talbot machinima

The machinimas I watched were all very humorous and entertaining. What inspired me most about them was that they were often spoofs of real shows or video games and they incorporated a lot of clever humor in them. I also liked that they were all in different formats from commercials to short films.
Sarcasm and humor were incorporated into all of the machinimas I watched. One machinima was about the adventures of two French-speaking fighter jets who were friends. This was very clever because the film was in French with English subtitles and the jets were always making jokes and alluding to modern political issues. The humor was very creatively placed in the short film because it incorporated modern day issues into a short, funny dialogue between the jets. Another machinima that I liked was a spoof of a commercial for a video game. The announcer used sarcasm to imitate overly-protective parents who worry about the effects of violent video games on their children.
The different formats of all the machinimas was also very inspiring for me. Some were in the form of commercials, others were spoofs of television shows, and some were scenes from different video games like “Halo” or “World of Warcraft.” One format that I found particularly clever was about kids and video games and it was a fake commercial for a video game that is “parent friendly.” The format of the commercial was very original and creative because it mocked real commercials that are on television. Other metachinimas I watched were more like short shows or scenes from video games, which were also good ideas. The short shows were often not as funny as the commercials and the video games were often only entertaining if the viewer knew what game the scene was from.
After watching these machinimas, I came up with the idea to use the commercial format for a machinima on Little Brother. The commercial would be a spoof of the insurance company commercials. It would be selling insurance in case of a police state situation like they experience in Little Brother. The insurance would provide the buyer with escape tools, encrypting materials, and other tools to trick the government. It would incorporate a lot of humor and sarcasm, and be in the same format as a Geico or State Farm Insurance commercial.
Another idea I had after watching these machinimas was to use a war video game scene to depict a scene from the story of Little Brother. I would use the scenes when the characters are being water-logged and questioned by the DHS and create some humorous dialogue to go along with it. The format would be form a video game like World of Warcraft or another war type video game.