Greetings...

I wanted to announce my plans to coordinate the production of a volunteer-based machinima projects set in Skyrim in whuch Lore-respectful fan fiction produced by this community would be converted into short films.

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I have secured permission from Gavin Dunne (Miracle of Sound) to use his http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FLQ4rACE-0 of the same name, which he produced with Malukah, to be used in the production of the opening and ending credits for each episode.

At this time, I am taking submissions for short stories to be adapted. So those of you who may be interested in seeing their fan fiction come to life, let me know via private message. As long as your storyline is respectful of the lore Bethesda has established for Skyrim and takes place in any of the many locations that exist in the game, then it fits the criteria I am looking for for the series.

Thank you for reading. Please feel free to engage in discussion of machinima concepts as they pertain to potential Skyrim-related stories.

Premise:
Each episode, while based on fan fiction stories told by the community (myself or others), they all will revolve around a character of my creation. An old retired adventurer who tells stories of those he came to know durring the travels of his younger days. If anyone remembers the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, how each episode was in fact a story being told by Old Indy, its the angle I am going for. This character will not really be famous unto himself. As a traveler, his interests were the stories of achievements others made. The real stories. And as the old man he will have become, he is a storyteller, traveling to taverns all throughout Skyrim relating the tales to the patrons.

I'll also have a young man version if I want to go with an angle of him interacting with the actual subject of his story, interviewing him/her. In those cases it will be the protagonist of the story... or the antagonist if the story has the antagonist being the victor or whatnot. For the former, he'd be like, "If I buy you some drinks, would you be willing to tell me about how you bla bla bla." For the latter, it will be something like, "You, boy, will tell it like this..."

I decided on this approach because while the stories themselves may not be directly related with each other, a series needs some sort of common element throughout. So my own character will be either retelling a story as an old man, or have the story told to him as a young man.

For the pilot episode, I think it will begin with him as a young man, having set off from the Bards' College. having learned about storytelling and now ready to go collect material. No serious hero will be ready to share, so he'll chronicle the deeds of a random adventurer who takes him on as a helper... "Keep my armor clean and my sword sharpened, cook the meals, gather the wood, and run errands for me, and you can see the world..." I can always jump into episodes dealing with that while working out the best ways to present stories written by others.

Opinions?