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Uwajicon 2015 — Montage Assignment

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https://vimeo.com/141327064

https://youtu.be/hi2wBAPUr6Q

I spent my Saturday at Uwajicon in Beaverton, Oregon — an anime convention sponsored by the Asian Food Market Uwajimaya. The following is a brief summary of the events, cosplay, and people there at this gathering. The beat of the taiko drums really helps illustrate the “rhythm” of the day — at first slow-paced, but soon turning into a roar of excitement before finally ending.

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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https://youtu.be/PW60YmSeudc

 

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

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YouTube

https://youtu.be/7NtG1oLKs_s