Flash and Six-Word Story

For those of you who were absent, this is what we've covered so far in Flash:

- how to make a symbol
- how to add a keyframe to a timeline
- how to do motion and shape tweens
- how to use the "easing" function
- how to insert basic ActionScript in a frame (such as "goto..." and "stop")
- how to create a new scene
- how to create a button with a rollover
- how to add ActionScript to it (such as "on press goto...")

This is all the very basic stuff that is covered in roughly the first half of the textbook, so review that if you were absent from class.

For Monday, I want everyone to have a six-word short story prepared. It has to be a STORY, not a saying. It should probably contain at least one image, but not necessarily.

Here is are some examples (from the original Wired article):

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html (stories)
http://blog.wired.com/sixwords/ (stories with images)

I'm going to show you a few more things, like how to add effects to your letters, how to control a movie with a button, and maybe (if you're good little boys and girls) how to add sound to the movie, though I'm not sure if your computers in the lab have sound capabilities.

You should look at my animated poem "The Dreamlife of Letters" to get ideas:

http://www.arras.net/RNG/flash/dreamlife/dreamlife_index.html