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?