A Week to Remember

A week, documented in motion

A Week to Remember is a personal motion project documenting a single week through kinetic typography and found footage. The premise is simple: take the detritus of an ordinary week — notes, receipts, overheard phrases, half-remembered moments — and find the form that holds them together.

Kinetic typography does the structural work. Found footage provides the texture. The edit tries to recreate the feeling of memory rather than the sequence of events.

Footage first, type second

The piece was built in two passes. The first was a Premiere Pro edit of the raw footage, establishing the emotional rhythm and deciding what the week actually felt like in retrospect. The second was an After Effects layer, bringing in the kinetic typography as a counterpoint — sometimes synced, sometimes deliberately off-beat.

The relationship between the two layers is the whole piece. Neither works alone.

Motion as memory

This project pushed me to think about motion as something closer to writing than to animation. The decisions that matter — what to leave in, what to cut, where the type lands on the frame — are editorial decisions as much as design ones. That overlap is what I find most interesting about the work.