What Program will I be using?

I have decided on 3 main programs that I will use to edit and animate my short video with. First program would be Adobe After Effects. I decided to use this software as it will allow me to create the effects necessary for the raw animation I would be making. Using the raw animation itself would be too generic and boring, so to make it more interesting I would be using special effects to compliment along with it. These are the videos I find useful to teaching me how to use Adobe After Effects:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tR3fpv4Aco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ3fbHGQVZQ

The next program I decided to use is Cinema 4D. This program would be the program I would be using to create the animations itself. This program is the most advanced from the 3 program I would be mentioning here, and it will involve a lot of time for me to apply the skill necessary for the animations I had in mind to create. These are the videos that have helped me thus far:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYHBiNsEyxs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJSgLv2Q4A8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOuyifGdonA

Finally the last program I have decided to use is Adobe Premiere Pro. This is truly one of the best editing softwares I have came across, and it will be the software I will use to compile and finalize the video at the very end after all the components have been made. This program is the only program out of the 3 that I have good experience with. These are some of the videos I have watched that helped me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK3JTh2jOf8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMeHRRWNGgA

Time Frame

Date/Dates	What to do
The month of October	Learn how to use animation programs: -Adobe After Effects CC -Cinema 4D -Adobe Premiere This is accomplished by looking up tutorials in the basics of these programs, especially in Youtube. After the basics have been learned, I will then proceed to learning the specifics like how to animate an atom or how to animate texts and etc.
November 1-5	Begin animating the essential materials of the animation, such as the atomic structure of an Uranium atom, Helium atom and Hydrogen Atom
November 6	Progress check.
November 7-21	Start modeling the animations that have been compiled, making the actual animation/motion of the atoms and making sure that in the end, it will actually be scientifically accurate and also aesthetically pleasing. Also begin the Draft Report for the Personal Project.
December 1-14	Begin making the movie; this will be recorded in real life in the science laboratory room in the 8th floor of the school, where I will act as the actor explaining about how nuclear energy works.
December 14-31	Implement the animations into the movie, after that, in the end of December, upload a draft of what the video would look like to YouTube to gather feedback from viewers.
January 14-21 2016	Gather the feedback and make adjustments accordingly, meanwhile begin making the rest of the infomercial by first finalizing a script of what to say at what point in time in the video.
January 30-Febuary 20	Finalize the animations and the video, add extra aesthetics effects such as luminescence and blur effect in throughout the video and begin to create the final video. By Febuary 20, the final video would be uploaded, at this point in time the product should be done and I can now proceed in continuing and finalizing the personal project essay.

What I know about Nuclear Energy

-Nuclear Fission is where an atom, typically a heavy and unstable atom splits itself into two smaller atoms.

-Nuclear Fusion in the other hand is the opposite, where two light elements collides to form a heavier one.

-Nuclear Energy today is clean, meaning it does not produce any green house gases and therefore no Global Warming/Climate Change. However it does have its disadvantages such as producing indispensable nuclear waste and the threat that it may leak its radiation, impacting the surroundings and most importantly people’s health.

-Nuclear Radioactivity is deadly and if it happens, a whole city can become inhabitable by people, and people who used to live there will suffer from unpredictable disease due to the random mutation that happens in their cells when exposed to this radiation. Great examples of past nuclear disasters include the Chernobyl nuclear incident and the Fukushima incident that had happened recently.

-Nuclear Fusion is almost entirely clean, definitely significantly cleaner than nuclear energy today, since nuclear fusion fuses two light elements such as Hydrogen, it is mostly harmless and if leaked, not much of damage would be done, and speaking of which the byproduct of this reaction will form Helium, which is actually a useful gas, and having a great way to make Helium is like hitting two birds with one stone, creating energy and helium in the process.

-Nuclear fusion also is more stable, so people around them can be assured that they will be safe, and therefore making the cost of the construction of these fusion reactors less expensive, due to the unneeded extra protection.

-Nuclear Fusion is hard to achieve however, and requires the atoms to travel at immensely high speeds and colliding them perfectly, this is the reason we haven’t find any practical use of fusion reactors yet unless we don’t need to control their reaction, in this case we’ll just be making a fusion bomb. While nuclear fission only requires that the heavy atom (Uranium) is agitated with a neutron, which is much simpler as the uranium atom is unstable and will split easily.

Welcome to my Personal Project!

This blog will serve as a daily step-by-step progress on achieving my personal project's goal. I'll post frequently in this blog about anything related to my progress on this project. I will also be posting notes and other information that I find useful and have helped me achieve my goal, such as video tutorials and documentaries.