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You can use After Effects to help you plan your scenes as well as actually adding the special effects and that kind of thing. There's something called animatics which are moving storyboards that a lot of production companies use to get a better feel for what's happening. As you see here I have some pretty basic storyboards and you will see this giant spider in upcoming lessons. But first of all we have an exterior shot of the city and then we see next shot where we see a giant spider approaching a city and then its attacking and then the emergency Claxton's go off and I have some descriptions down here as to what's happening and then our heroes are alerted to it and then they head out to confront the giant spider. By the way I did include for you guys some samples of my storyboard paper actually one sheet of it but you can make as many copies as you like and it is what I use on my studio. This is not what it looks like by the way. Let me just show you another example of storyboards, here's another character black zero and he's sneaking around the building and I have arrows indicating where the actions going. And then he fights this robot cyborg and we see that he's swinging his guns this way and he's fighting it and the actions going that way, then he does a kick and the robot winds up here and then here is the result, we see his feet leaving the scene as he defeats the robot. So let's talk about how you can actually incorporate this into After Effects and then I'll talk about some software you might want to use to write some scripts. Here is that same sequence that I showed you guys, I simply imported the entire folder of these tiffs and what I did was lay them out in the timeline. So what you do is you bring them into the timeline and then you determine based on the script how long each shot lasts and then you move to the next one. So you just drag down the next TIFF into the timeline and I'll just show you in a second what I'm talking about. So I can also resize to retime them like so. So I can go ahead and grab this guy and just take my time and figure out how long I want it to be. Then you grab the next shot, move it down and just reposition it and then retime it. It takes a little while to get everything right but you know it's a great way to visualize what it might look like in action so you play it and you see what happens and then what you can do later on is you can go to shots like this one and then animate their positions. So you hit the R to rotate it and then you go to the beginning of this particular piece of footage here and you put the stopwatch on and you go to the end and you rotate it a little bit. So just following the arrow and he has a very basic animation here so you play it again, you see what's happening, you see what's happening, it rotates and you just have a little bit more action as opposed to just stills and once again that called an animatic. Now some software you might be interested in is this free software which I talk about all the time called keltics and just go to keltics.com and there's tutorials there, video tutorials, I use this software now to write my scripts and the beauty of it is I can have different tabs so I can see what's going on with my fan club, legal information, I can put my outline, I can actually have my synopsis and I can put images here to. So I can have all kinds of tabs and folders with images of my characters and that kind of stuff all in one master file. And this is the file for my next kid's book, Kid Carmel 5, so I don't have to look all over my hard drive and say where's that legal information or where's the synopsis. I simply bring everything into this application and open one file and everything's there. So definitely check the software out, once again the operative worked here, free. Make it your friend. So After Effects can come in quite handy when you want to plan your scenes and it's a great way to visualize your upcoming movies in motion with some stills that have some slight animation applied to them.