After having a bit of time out for generating my ideas from storyboarding, I created this very simple video just to familiarize myself with the software again.
It is not the best result, but to get it has refreshed my memory on what After Effects can do. This was just focusing on the opacity of the word along the set timescale of 5 seconds. This is a very basic front runner to one of my ideas, which will potentially look at changing the properties of the various letters in the word.