We've covered bit map imagery and how to work with them in Flash, including importing them as a sequential series that can function as animation (refer to handout #3 in courses folder). We've made some START and STOP buttons using Action Scripting to attach them to movie clips and Animated Graphic symbols (refer to handout "Flash_Media01rev.). We'll be learning more ways to 'interact' with our art. In the meantime start thinking about other ways to think about buttons. Perhaps they are really gusts of wind... or the hand of Zeus. Imagine them as forces of nature, or machines that do things that cause other things to happen.
I hope everyone read the articles "Question Everything" and "Managing Change".

Just to keep things moving along, I've put a few of the handouts for my Animation class in the course folder. They cover the basic stuff concerning Graphic Symbols, Motion tweening etc. If you are not familiar with Flash at all they will be very useful. For this class I will move on to cover MOVIE CLIPS, BUTTONS and BASIC ACTION SCRIPTING. I'll have hand outs for these things as we go..
Please let me know what your thoughts, preferences and questions are concerning the syllabus.

A NEW SYLLABUS

Jan. 21 Wed.
Intro to Flash interface. Objects, Graphic symbols and Movie clips / Tweening
Animated bit-map images and maybe some masking
Homewk. Create a 5-10 second animated loop using both vector and raster images that will move, overlap and transition in some way from one to the next. This is due Wed. Jan 28th.

Jan. 26 Mon.
Buttons buttons. Who’s got the buttons
Play Stop Buttons for Graphics and Movie clips

Jan. 28 Wed.
Discuss readings: QuestionEverything.PDF, Managing Change.pdf
More creative use of buttons...Action scripting for Forward and Reverse functions
Homewk: create a flash animation that utilizes 6 buttons…… Due Wed. Feb 4

Feb. 2 Mon.
Navigation to URLs and external e mail

Feb. 4 Wed.
Discuss readings: PresentationLayersAccessibility.PDF, SOFA.PDF
Pick a Web site from the list below or find one on your own that you’d like to sample from. Deconstruct it’s button elements and then reinvent the interactivity using your own elements. You’re not building a whole site, just one page with similar interactivity as your referenced site. We’ll start this today and have it complete to hand in as homewk on Wed the 11th.

http://www.lobo.cx/
www.georgekillians.com/
http://www.singularitydesign.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/Display.Page/page/play_hangman.cfm
www.glowinthedarkpictures.com/colorflash-tarot.html
www.ditrapani.com
or....


Feb 9 Mon.
Pre-Loaders and Text interactivity


Feb 11 Wed.
Discuss reading: Content Strategy.PDF
Look at and critique each other’s Flash interactive page-( the Homewk.)

Feb 16 Mon.
…TBD What’s our final project?