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I co-directed this episode with Sam Pizzo and was the editor and virtual cameraman as well. Eden's Garden started more as an experiment than anything else. We used this project as an opportunity to do narrative-based machinima in MTV's Virtual Worlds and we had no deadline to finish this series. We wanted to see if we could attract the same audience that watched MTV's show 'The Hills' and engage them in a short series of web videos. This ultimately led to the Life in the Virtual Hills series being created as a 13 part series of 30 second TV spots.
All 6 episode of Eden's Garden were written and produced by Jonathan Collins and had original music and sound FX by Paul Jannicola. The Voice-overs were done by Sam Pizzo, Andrea Weldon, Amanda Brizzi & Kerria Seabrooke. My main puppeteers for these were Sam Pizzo, Shari Burnett, Paul Jannicola, John BrightbilI & Jessie Segal although many other people lent a hand and their spare time to make this a great series. I was the director for all the episodes except this one which I co-directed. I shot all the footage in MTV's Virtual worlds and edited them.
