Progress Report 2

Wandering in “Bloody Village” on Second Life in search of a vampire to do the interview, we finally came across somebody in the end. However, although she is not a vampire, we did ask her some questions about the vampires as well as some rules in the village. She showed the signs that explained the rules clearly to us. After that, we went on another search for our targeted interviewees of vampires, but there was not any avatar in sight that we could talk to. With the dangerous vibe in the village, we decided to leave as a result.

We heard that it was actually pretty common to run into a vampire once in a while in Second Life, so we decided to wander around on the streets with the hope of chancing upon one of them. Nevertheless, most people are not vampires, not to mention their zero knowledge of the subject. Hence, we put our focus on the Internet and did some research first. In fact, we found so much useful information about our subject that it prepared us for our future interviews even more. We also found several interesting videos on Youtube that can be helpful references to our final project. One particular video showed that the vampires had their own ceremonies to turn average avatars into vampires, which were pretty much like the ones shown in our movies, TV series, etc. In general, we got a much clearer picture of what we were dealing with after the research.