Kinetic Typography

Kinetic Typography is moving text. It has some real implications for visual literacy and would be a great way to get students who are reluctant writers into writing, art and graphics all at once. You need After Effects for Adobe Photoshop but I confess this looks a bit daunting to me but I’d love to be able to do it. There is a simple tutorial here which you need to play in full screen so you can see what is going on. Some will pick this up very quickly and if YouTube is anything to go by , then Kinetic Typography is a powerful and popular way of communicating. Some more complex kinetic typography films are here on Box of Crayons and YouTube has more tutorials and good examples if you wish to pursue this.

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