Monday- welcome and intro talks, Production principles motion graphics intro to after effects- how to make shapes and colour them and a short into on how to make simple shapes move in simple ways using key frames, in-between frames and “easing.”

Tuesday- looked at some after effects tutorials at home and thought about the “self portrait” task. planned a human like figure with a circular head which would move on an arc back and forth.

Wednesday- production principles motion graphics, how to use “squash and stretch” on simple shapes and other animation principles. Continued working on the Task.

Thursday- Looked at more tutorials such as using glow and texture on shapes, wrote this all down in notebook with highlighting.

Friday- production principles motion graphics, continued to work on the Task, made a short 5 sec loop where a ball rolls back and forth on an axis to emulate the feeling of being tired.