So, finally done with my digital essay. I found Windows Movie Maker quite self-intuitive to use. At first, I thought that 2:19 is too short for the background music, but at the time, I didn’t know how to forcibly loop the music. In the end though, I felt the song was long enough at around 2 1/2 minutes. I chose to switch my song from “Asia” which was sounds too “Chinese” to 傀儡の騎兵 (which roughly translates into Puppet’s Calvary in both Chinese and Japanese). Both the title and instrumentals of the song sounded fitting enough for my digital essay (Puppets denoting the relatively powerless role a soldier has in the war machine, as he is a vital cog, w/o him, we cannot fight, but he has little control over his own destiny). The sketching of those 5 pictures was also quite enjoyable as I was able to do something I haven’t done for almost 3 years.
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