First Practice in After Effects

I had never used After Effects before so in order to get to grips with some of it's basics I decided to just play around and experiment with the program.

I started with simply a background and an animal image, this one of a dog, and then worked how to use keyframes and certain simple effects.

I'm still not entirely certain what I was doing with all these effects and properties, but I feel that this first practice experiment was very useful in getting used to how After Effects works..