Focus your energy by setting a goal for yourself this semester. This goal doesn’t need to be technical, but it does need to be SMART:
S – Specific
- What exactly do you want to achieve? Why do you want to achieve it? HOW will you achieve it?
M – Measurable
- How will you track your progress? How will you know when you have achieved your goal? What is the concrete evidence of success?
A – Attainable
- Is this goal something that you can realistically achieve in the defined time frame?
R – Relevant
- The goal must be important to you, right now. Decide on something that’s meaningful to you.
T – Timely
- Give yourself a deadline – for you, it’s the end of the semester! Select a goal that can realistically, measurably be achieved within the next 10 weeks.
SMART goals are much more specific than goals we’ve set in previous semesters (for example: “I want to lose weight” becomes “I want to lose 20 pounds in the next 6 months. I will do so by cutting out soda, limiting eating out to one every week, and walking for 45 minutes every day.”)
The deadline for points is Tuesday, September 26, at 10:00AM.
My response:
S – Specific
- I want to learn how to compose motion graphics videos. I know how to create common video effects using After Effects, but I’ve always wanted to learn motion graphics. I’ll be taking help from the YouTube channel “ECAbrams”, which is a good source for AE tutorials, and other online resources.
M – Measurable
- Primarily I will be keeping track of my progress based on how many videos I have watched and shadowed from the 33-video playlist on motion graphics created by the above-mentioned channel.
A – Attainable
- While this goal won’t make me a motion-graphics whiz, I believe it will help me become familiar with all the tools (on After Effects) necessary to create basic and advanced motion graphics videos. As such, this goal is attainable in the defined time frame
R – Relevant
- This goal is relevant because this will help me in my future DMC shifts. This goal is meaningful to me because this goal will further my knowledge of the powerful array of tools that After Effects provides, which will help me be better at something that I love doing – editing videos.
Timely – Timely
- I believe I can achieve this goal in the next 10 weeks.