For my industry event, I attended the “Celebrating the Life of Fred Rogers” event at the Mayo Concert Hall on November 4th. I had helped set up the audio at the event as part of my Audio Recording and Production class, and I was told that if I stayed for the event I would be… Continue reading Luke’s Industry Event
For my second prototype, I demonstrated a concept I had for a screen that would display before games or matches in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, which I would create in After Effects and would show the players’ gamertags, characters, which college they were from (since the video was a recording of a TCNJ vs Drexel… Continue reading Luke’s Prototype 2
For my first prototype, I created an eight-minute rough edit of phone footage I took at Scarlet Smackdown 3 at Rutgers University on October 20th. This was a Super Smash Bros. event that was a qualifier for the Collegiate Starleague national championship. I recorded footage of the players and of the game, and in the… Continue reading Luke’s Prototype 1
The final project I am going to create for my thesis is a video following TCNJ’s best Super Smash Bros. Ultimate players as they compete in tournaments throughout the semester. This video will incorporate my editing and storytelling skills, and I will try to learn motion graphics to improve the quality of the video. The… Continue reading Luke’s Prototype Plan
For this week’s research, I looked at various forms of documentaries and narrative techniques used in. I found a LinkedIn Learning course called “Introduction to Documentary Video Storytelling” and learned about the history of the genre and the main philosophy behind it. One of the facts that stood out to me was that in most… Continue reading Luke’s Research Update 3
This week, in order to add some more flavor and life to my project, I chose to increase my knowledge of motion graphics, a field that I am largely unfamiliar with. I watched the “Learning Motion Graphics (2015)” course on LinkedIn learning in order to get an understanding of the basic concepts, as well as… Continue reading Luke’s Research Update #2
Over the last week, my research was in the form of watching the 2013 documentary The Smash Brothers for the first time. This documentary was created by Travis “Samox” Beauchamp and produced by East Point Pictures. It is a nine-episode series with each episode running at about 30 minutes. Seven of the nine episodes detail… Continue reading Luke’s Research Update #1
The idea for my thesis project is a documentary style video that covers several TCNJ Super Smash Bros. players as they compete in tournaments at the college throughout the semester, culminating in the grand finale, King (Lions Gaming’s yearly tournament). The video will capture the rivalries between the players and will be presented as a… Continue reading Luke’s Revised Concept
For my thesis project, I plan to create a hybrid documentary/video essay that strings together the journeys of several different TCNJ Super Smash Bros. players as they try to become the best player at TCNJ and perform their best at King, Lions Gaming’s yearly regional tournament. Through the use of prior footage and graphics, I… Continue reading Luke’s Research Plan
My first concept and the one that I am most likely going with is a documentary or video essay-style video about the top 5 TCNJ Super Smash Bros. for Wii U players of all time, delving into the history of each player and what made them all special. What would make this project unique is… Continue reading Luke’s Initial Concepts