Week 3- Outside of Class

This week we did not have class due to the harsh winter weather, so we were assigned to still watch the After Effects videos, and also create our own video using the word "Rhythm" and communicate it meaning through the movement of its parts. First, I watched the assigned videos on Lynda.com, which really aided in creating my video in terms of learning different animating features. The following list of videos helped me with this short project:

4. Building Compositions with Layers

• Defining layers 5m

• Creating type layers 7m

• Precise typesetting techniques 5m

5. Creating Animation

• Understanding animation 6m  

• Adding and adjusting keyframes 9m

• Understanding keyframe interpolation 6m

I then went on to create my video, which I will admit I was confused at first even after watching the videos, but after watching them a second time and going along with it on my computer I began to understand it a lot better. I do have to say that I had some fun animating this video, and becoming even more familiar with the many features of After Effects. My method of conveying the meaning of Rhythm through the animation of its letters was to take each letter and animate it in a way that I felt the beat of different genres such as rock, electro, country, and hip hop. They seem random at first, so I tied them all together at the end by making them follow the same "beat."