FIRST TIME USING AFTER EFFECTS!!

This is when things started to get a little scary...we had to use a programme called 'After Effects'.
This is the quintessential software used in motion graphics and I had more than a little trepidation using it.After first uploading it,I had a week of telephone conversations with Adobe technical support because the programme kept crashing...only adding to my loathing of the whole concept of using this package.However,when it was up and running...I rather enjoyed it!
We were given the brief of producing a 10 second minimum piece of work,visualising a piece of dialogue between two people.A sort of motion typography.
At first I thought about doing Churchill's declaration of war with Germany but soon realised that this only involved one person talking.After scratching my head I decided to use a piece of dialogue taken from Fawlty Towers-classic British humor.I chose a piece from an episode called 'Communication Problems',with Basil talking rather heatedly about a bedroom view.
After Effects didn't seem so scary when it was explained to me that it was just like Photoshop in the way that it used layers.The bit I had to get my head round was key frames and the timeline.With these elements understood and the programme up and running I actually enjoyed working with it and am pleased with the result...