Help to create leavitating text effect

[authentic_Unicorn5C3E]

Hi, I am new to after effects and for my degree's final  project I am trying to get this specific effect on the text but I haven't succeded and only found bouncy text effect tutorials online that are not exactly this levitating/floating effect that I am looking for. 

PLEASE! if anyone can help this girl out and explain how I could do this I'll be so grateful! 

[Warren Heaton]

Create Camera Layer.

Create and distribute the Text Layers in the Comp, enabling the 3D Layar switch for each Text Layer.

Select all of the Text Layers and choose Layer > Transform > Auto-Orient... > Orient Towards Camera.

Keyframe the Camera Layer's rotation such that it does a subtle pan.

Adjust the position of the Text Layers as needed.  For the floating movement, try a Wiggle Expression.  Ryan Plummer over at School of Motion has a great blog on it: https://www.schoolofmotion.com/blog/wiggle-expression

[authentic_Unicorn5C3E]

thank you so much for your helpful reply!! I was actually referring more to the text movement, where its subtly floating in the space, thats what I haven't been able to get, do you happen to know how I could mimic that effect? 

Thanks so much for the help! 🙂

[Warren Heaton]

Since I'm going for a "Correct Answer" here, I've expanded on the "Adjust the position of the Text Layers as needed." step in my original reply above.  🙂

[Rick Gerard]

The text layers appear to be floating because they are at different distances from a moving camera and they also have some movement in Z so their distance from the camera is changing. When you combine the 2D background shot with a moving camera you get the floating effect.

The most efficient workflow depends on the shot. If it is a similar shot you might want to camera track the shot, set an origin and ground plane, then create a Solid and a Camera using the same points. You can then Shift + Parent your text layers to the reference solid, adjust their position so they are above the solid, then distribute them in X and Y. Just animate the text layer's z position slightly or add a slow wiggle expression like this to each text layer's position.

z = wiggle(.7, 40)[2];
[value[0], value[1], z]

 This will wiggle your Z position 40 pixels .7 times a second (slowly).