Week 8 - Revised Experimental Type Proposal

For my experimental type project, I would like to create a short animation in Adobe After Effects displaying in a fun and creative manner how the crystalline cobalt salt works in absorbing oxygen from surrounding areas. The end of the video could display short and quick facts about the newly created crystalline material, along with potential benefits.
I plan to create it by using O’s create the frame of a word, possibly the word “breathe.” I could display it in pink, the original color of the crystalline material before it has absorbed oxygen. From reading on how the mechanism works, oxygen atoms basically attach themselves to the cobalt base of the substance, replacing the nitrogen ones that were previously there. I could depict this by having blue oxygen atoms in the shape of O’s gravitate toward the word “breathe,” replacing all of the pink O’s. As they overlap the pink O’s, I could have them turn into a dark purplish color, representative of how the crystalline material looks when it is saturated with oxygen. I plan to have the word “breathe” dive into the water, and through the use of illustrators and sound effects, I think I can make it fairly believable that the word represents something, perhaps a fish. It could just swim around, both releasing and absorbing oxygen. While that occurs, I could have small air bubbles, again in the shape of O’s being released and floating towards the surface. Some of the O’s could enlarge and display information inside their counters about the crystalline material.
The materials that will be necessary for me to complete this will be a computer with internet access, and the programs Adobe Illustrator, Adobe After Effects, and possibly Adobe Photoshop. I will need the internet access to do research and find sound effects that will fit my video.
I do not think that the video should cost anything to produce, because all of the programs will be accessible through the Millersville University design lab. If necessary, I might need to find objects and drop them into water to visually see how the water looks, sounds, and reacts. If that is the case, then I might need to spend money for those materials, although I do not imagine I will need to do that as long as I keep the animation fairly simple.