For our first foray into After Effects, Sara and I created a short clip using the first line of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull" for inspiration: It was a lot of fun learning how to use the program, but also frustrating. We got a quick and dirty 30 minute tutorial and class, and then set out to create our piece. Part of the problem was that we had collected assets the week before, and once I learned more about how After Effects worked, I had wished that we picked different images as our starting point. Also, I had started creating the project on my computer and Sara had done the same in the lab at school. Unfortunately, we had different versions of the program and therefore couldn't combine them. We ended up rebuilding my section in AE. I'm pretty pleased with the final result, especially given our time constraints.