+ Download the AfterEffects Trial off of Adobe.com, if possible. You'll have 30 days to try it, and work on your project in the meantime.
+ Continually reference Lynda.com. This will be an incredibly useful tool to resource as you move forward.
Watch as needed:
—AfterEffects CS4: Apprentice’s Guide to Key Features
—AfterEffects CS4 or CS5: Essential Training through “Chapter 9: Creating and Animating Text”
There are other tutorials as well, depending upon what you are looking to do.
+ Create a Rough cut of your motion score due. Translate your storyboards (see below) into motion. Since this is your first foray into using AfterEffects, you may want to focus on some key parts of your animation, so please feel free to have several smaller comps, as opposed to having the entire score. This will be a rough cut. Bring in a quick-time movie for discussion on Tuesday.
+ Bring in a full-size printout of your typographic score. You may want to consider how you will present your score in it's final form, due the following week. Will this be printed on a single sheet of paper, or is it something which could be made more substantial, either through materials, scale, or something else of your choosing? Come prepared to discuss. (The final version of your printed score will be due alongside your motion piece on March 1st.)
+ Storyboard your motion version. Create a series of thumbnails that illustrate each of transition that you are planning on. Consider how the type will move through the frame. This can be in sketch form, or it can be done on the computer, but it's important to make notes underneath the storyboards which describe and outline exactly what you intend. This will help you greatly when creating it in AfterEffects. Consider how you will move the type in to the frame, fade it or move it out, and how the different elements will work together, as one sound fades out into the other.
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