Thursday, April 12, 2007

Final Flash Project

On Friday, I'd like everyone to come in with an idea for their final Flash project.

Basically, you have several options:

  1. Convert your Dreamweaver hypertext project into Flash. This is a good option for those of you who wanted to do more complicated forms of interactive narrative in your Dreamweaver project.
  2. Convert your Lulu book project into Flash. This is an interesting option because you can play with illustrating your stories, or just coming up with user-friendly (and eye-friendly) computer "readers" -- things that are like books but with more options.
  3. Create a Flash game. Obviously, you should keep your game concept pretty simple since you only have a few weeks to complete it.
  4. Create a longer animated Flash poem, like your 6-word project.
  5. Create a Flash documentary, including sounds and video, on some subject you are interested in (like your favorite movie star or Nicholas Sparks). You can find resources on the web and import them all into Flash to create a nice interactive documentary.

For all of these projects, I can show you some advanced ActionScript and other Flash features to make things work.

There are also some very good Flash resource sites where you can download Flash files and modify them to your liking. They also have tutorials about animation and design. A lot of these might be seem too advanced for you but if you hunt around and open files, you'll discover that many of them are understandable.

http://www.flashkit.com

http://www.bestflashanimationsite.com/resources

http://www.actionscript.org/index.php

http://www.hotscripts.com/Flash/index.html

http://www.flashadvisor.com

(Just type "Flash Resources" or "Flash Tutorials" and you'll hit tons of them.)

Here are a bunch of Flash games to look at:

http://www.flash-game.net

IMPORTANT: review the "final portfolio" page of the blog:
http://2007stocktonmulitmedia.blogspot.com/2007/04/final-portfolio.html

If you are missing any of these elements you will be marked down. Also, remember that I am grading not just on the fact that you "got it done" but that it looks good.

All of this has to be done by April 30th (I had said April 27th before, but I probably won't get to look at it until April 30th anyway). That's about 2 and a half weeks from now, after which is something called SUMMERTIME.

Lastly, where are the rest of those Flash quizzes? I only have seven.

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