Mapping how COVID-19 affected the main open-wheel motorsport series in the year of 2020 by Iaroslav Boretskii Enock Seth Nyamador

Current animation and video technol- IMPRINT Fig.1 — Animated flow visualizations ogies provide independent creators are the main cartographic technique Mapping Project unique opportunities for the -based in the video as it shows how racing storytelling. The sector of entertaining teams travel to stage the event Winter Semester 2020/2021 and educational digital videocontent Technische Universität München with animated and goes high now- adayas. Iaroslav Boretskii For example, high-quality video-car- Enock Seth Nyamador tographic content from Vox (Vox rubric, devoted to geopolitical problems) gets an average of 1.5 million views on SUPERVISORS the YouTube [1]. The Wendover Produc- Juliane Cron, M.Sc. tions videos about geographical prob- lems of different countries, using ani- Dr.-Ing. Mathias Jahnke mated maps as the main foundation of the content collect more than 8 million views [2]. Fig.2 — Animated circuit traces along Keywords We were extremely interested in attempt- with the numerous zooms enrich the ing to create our own video content that spatial understanding of the events storytelling, animated maps, video would have possible spatial-factor. Since content, youtube, motorsport, the coronavirus has impacted signifi- formula 1, formula e, coronavirus cantly on many life’s aspects, we have chosen the topic of our interest — with our project we present the story of how the main open-wheel motorsport series’ QR CODE TO THE VIDEO got disrupted.

In a nutshell The final work of the project is presented as a 13-minute story about the events related to the impact of the coronavirus on the races of Formula 1 [3], Formula E and Fig.3 — The last animated mapping Indycar Championships. The plot is con- in the video demonstrates the final structed mainly in a pre-known chronolog- geography of Formula 1 calendar ical order, concentrating on causal rela- according to the development of tionships. corona situation The target audience of this content is independent from the age or gender. It is mainly created for those who may be potentially interested in motorsport or his- torical and journalistic investigations. The use of dynamic maps with effects of zoom, tracing, flows and pop-ups makes this video intriguing and interesting, enriching the spatial context of the problems that championships has faced. Along with the maps, various stock images, videos, music Software and Data Conclusion and screenshots from news websites are embedded in the video for a deeper under- For animation we used the GeoLayers With this project we have got through the standing of the development of events by Plugins [4] in Adobe AfterEffects, Adobe creation process of the map-related video the viewers. Premiere Pro was used for final montage content (sketch — plot writing — data col- References and renders. lection — visualization and montage — The video does not provide deep analysis grinding — final render). We have obtained [1] www.vox.com regarding the direct influence of the COVID- Multiple news portals (in the description numerous skills related to the topic and 19, but rather entertains or reveals for the on YouTube) for the plot, OpenStreetMap [2] www.wendoverproductions.com we infer that the video animation technol- masses the opportunity to see the scale for the geographical data and Johns Hop- ogies could be highly powerful for cartog- [3] www.formula1.com and importance of global motorsport. kins University for corona data were used. raphers, artists, bloggers and creators. [4] www.aescripts.com/geolayers

This project was created within the M.Sc. programme – proudly co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.