Game Guide

To represent my new piece of work, I decided to make a WordPress based blog containing video guides and game play walkthroughs for 'Call of Duty - Modern Warfare 3' (CoD:MW3).

  • Call of Duty - Modern Warfare 3, released 8th November 2011.
  • Fraps video recording software purchased to capture high resolution, uncompressed, lossless game footage.
  • CoD:MW3 'campaign mode' mode was played through on Veteran difficulty to suit a larger target audience.
  • Additional 'special ops mode' and 'hidden Intel location' videos where recorded to help players with all game elements.
  • Over 600GB of raw video footage was recorded.
  • Adobe After Effects CS5.5 was used throughout the editing process; unrequired game footage was stripped from the videos, personal watermarks where implemented to protect video integrity.
  • Videos encoded and rendered to 720p resolution with QuickTime .MOV codec and .x264 compression to reduce file size, but maintain visual quality.
  • YouTube account setup with university login user id (see links).
  • Videos uploaded to YouTube, playlists created, annotated and public 'visibility' applied.
  • WordPress website created (see links), videos embedded into blog post format and categorised accordingly.
After Effects Project

The videos have unintentionally proven to be incredibly popular with the YouTube community, gaining over 20,000 views in just under 2 months from the original upload date.

Viewers have openly shared comments on the videos, which has made the effort which was put into this large project worthwhile.