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Capstone Project Final Edit

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My Final entry for the Capstone Project. For a better experience its best to watch the video mash up about the history of video games and then the animated info-graphic. The end result of the video turned out much better in my opinion than I anticipated. I found some great music that sets a great mood when watching. The animation took the longest amount of time; just a constant amount of small tweaks here and there trying to make it look fully finished. If I had more time with it I feel like there could have been many more options. The animation also turned more into how video games of affected our lives, not just their general influence in culture. What I mean by this is the positive and negative effects that people suggest are caused by video games. I tried to make the animation look like they were switching from game to game while you were reading the information I gathered. I also ended up going with no voice over for the animation, as there was a lot of text, so I thought it unnecessary to get the information twice. I did however have a voiceover for the video remix to explain the imagery you see. All clips were exported at 720p, if some of the clips look fuzzy in the remix video, its not the video quality but the video games inside the clips themselves, as they were older games.

 

Vimeo Remix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teNEfUPeyKg&feature=youtu.be

Vimeo Animation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxrs4NwC59Q&feature=youtu.be

Final Project

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Explained in two parts; the German Blitzkrieg (Lightning War). A term coined by western journalists to explain German offensive maneuvers during World War II which were very successful against the Allies. Germany had no doctrine called “the Blitzkrieg” but it was rather a collection of both older ideas and innovative ideas on how to do warfare. Blitzkrieg is used today to explain this complex system and many of its concepts are very important to militaries today as well as used by the Allies later in the war.

The goal of these videos is to roughly explain the “German Blitzkrieg” which has become a bit of a mythical subject. The word Blitzkrieg in and of itself is a sort of magic word that means attacking super fast which put simply is not exactly what it was (that there was no magic behind it but rather was a combination of many basic strategies which were direct counters to Allied Strategy). I wanted to sort of debunk the belief that Germany defeated the Allies early on because their technology (tanks, planes, weapons) were better, that they overwhelmed their opponents with numbers or simply flanked around the Maginot line. When it came more down to such things as leadership, communication and less micromanagement which really made the German’s offensives efficient.

My second goal of course is to hopefully do this in an entertaining way which at the same time will educate the viewer.

Part 1: The early phases of a Blitzkrieg (After Effects)

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YouTube

https://youtu.be/PW60YmSeudc

 

Part 2: The final phases of a Blitzkrieg (Remix)

Vimeo

YouTube

https://youtu.be/7NtG1oLKs_s

 

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Capstone Project-Carlson

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For my Capstone project i decided to keep working on my info-graphic about video game influence on our society. I want to update the information to fully realize the social impact video games have created, and extend and update the animation to better capture the main media. For the second part I want to stay on the theme, but remix some video game history videos while adding my own voice-over for clarity. While the info-graphic will be on the Pros, Cons, and influence of video games; the video will focus on the full history to help people better understand the topic background. These links are a few help with my research and can give people a better insight on my topic. There is also a great Netflix movie of this topic. For my info-graphic I want to bring to the field what people think of video games, and then present actually studies on the matters discussed, and even produce some scientific facts that help support video games; oh and my view is video games are now an important part of our culture and society. I think the hard part will be trying to condense all the important info down to 1-1:30 min. At the same time if we were allowed to make a longer info-graphic I wold need a substantial amount of time to get my full point across and keep the quality of the actual animation up. I already have the music that fits well with my  info-graphic, I just need to decide whether or not I should add a voice over too.

This picture is the Netflix Movie cover:

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Here are some images that show reason behind why we play, and the effects games cause.

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History behind my Info-graphic idea

Interesting Facts