A new month has started which means a new class for me! The concept of time always amazes me because when you are enjoying your time and having fun, time tends to go by much faster, which is the case for me now. My third class this semester (which means I’m just two classes away from finishing this semester) is all about Post Production.

Post Production is essentially the final stage of production for film, video, or photography before it is officially published out into the world. Think of it as doing your final draft of an essay except instead of focusing on grammar, here you are looking to edit things like footage, adding transitions, color adjustments, light adjustments, visual effects, and so much more.

I do not know much about post-production so this class will be a whole new learning experience as well as I have never used Adobe After Effects before. It is crazy to think how much one can accomplish in a month and the fact that I am capable of learning a whole new program within a month fascinates me and makes me feel proud of myself. That being said I am looking forward to the final project of the class which is all about kinetic typography. Essentially you are making the typed words move on the screen along to your audio clip which can be anything from a song to a poem or even audio from a video clip. I already have a song picked out and some ideas have been floating around in my mind I just have to learn how to execute them.

Here is an example of kinetic typography that I found on YouTube. This project seems like a really fun project to do just by looking at some examples.