For this project I will be completing a fully animated video using after effects as well as be creating a full sound file recording. The sound recording file will be a remix (music and sound effects) from various sources as well as my own voice which will be used in coordination with the after effects video. The subject material will be on the famous “Blitzkrieg” a term coined to explain the German tactics during World War II. Using after effect’s ability to convey pictures in an animated form I will be able to show the actual tactics in play. The audio will have sound effects as well as music that will be synchronized with the video. Both the text, visuals as well as my own voice will be there explain the base concepts of the Blitzkrieg. The two pieces will also explain the Allies strategies and why the Blitzkrieg was also very effective against their own strategies.

The overall goal is to explain something historical (as well as complex) in a fun, simplified and engaging way rather than just reading it. I also chose the historical subject of the “Blitzkrieg” because it’s a culturally known thing but is usually misunderstood. Officially Germany had no doctrine or strategy of this kind but it was rather a social and cultural reaction to early World War II German military effectiveness which is now historically called the “Blitzkrieg”.

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