Thursday, October 13, 2011

IMD I - Flash intro and tools


Here’s your assignment.  Copy and paste the questions to a word document.  Follow the links and watch the videos, there is some great content.  Stop and start the videos as necessary to have time to answer the questions as you go.  Use headphones for this activity!  

Before the end of lab print hardcopy of your work and turn in to the substitute teacher or take the green approach and email me your answers to derek.fitzer@swcs.us

Watch this video: Flash Introduction video instruction
(click on the video link on the launched page)

Answer these questions:

1. Where is the stage?

2. Where is the timeline?

3. Where is the property inspector?

4. How do you change the color of the stage?

5. What is the grey area around the stage?

6. When would you use the stage?

7. How do you zoom the view?

8. When does the property inspector change?

9.Using the power of the timeline we can look at out stage over ___    ________   _______ .

Watch this video: Tools video instruction part one
(click on the video link on the launched page)

Answer these questions:

10. Where can i find the essentials workspace?

11. Groves group _____   __  _________.

12. The top grove contains the  __________  ___  ___________ tools

13. The second group down contains tools for __________ .

14. The last group contains tool modifiers and the change based on what?

15. If and icon contains a small triangle what does that mean?

16. Holding the shift key while drawing a line will

17. What is required to use TLF text?

18. How is TLF text different from classic text?

19. What happens if you draw a text box in flash

20. Should you use this?

21. What are the three types of text?

22. How are they different?

23. To simply display text on the screen what option should you use?

24. What does the straiten pencil mode do?

25. What does the smooth pencil mode do?

26. What does the ink pencil mode do?

27.  Should you use the object drawing tool  YES or NO

28. Where do you find the spray brush tool?

Watch this video: Tools video instruction part two
(click on the video link on the launched page)

Answer these questions:

29. What is the difference between stroke and fill?

30. How do you create a rectangle with “pinched” (the technical term is convex) corners?

31. How do you draw a square?

32. Where is the oval tool?

33. How do you draw a pacman or a pie slice?

34. How do you make a doughnut?

35.  How is a primitive shape unique?

36. How do you get to a wet paint mode for a primitive shape?

37. How do you exit the drawing object mode (watch closely what he does!)

38.  How do you get options for the polystar tool?

39. What shape do the kids go crazy for?   (lol)

40. Does a shape need to be closed to be filled?  YES or NO

I won’t ask any questions about eye dropper or zoom

41.  List 4 different styles for the Art Deco Tool.  (Very cool even if it is “clipart”)

Stop the video at this point in video tools part  II.  We will talk about editing on another day.

Great work, lots of tough questions.

If you have any time remaining experiment with the information you learned by creating some drawings in flash!

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

IMD II

1. Complete your chess title sequence.  Make sure you refer back to the original assignment here

2. Work on your assigned we3 storyboard.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Get ready for film festival friday, we're going to be watching the src and chess set shorts!

No Lunch of Rock this week :-(




IMD I - Farewell to Max and hello to RIA!

When I'm back we will continue with our we3 comic work, put this on hold today.  The content students have created so far is amazing, I can't wait to see the finished product.


By early next week we will be moving into RIA development.  RIA stands for Rich Internet Applications and we create them using Adobe Flash.

1. Look at how RIA websites can benefit a company.

2. Watch the video to see an example of a RIA developed website

3. Get a preview of the application by completing this step by step tutorial.  - SAVE YOUR WORK!

The tutorial introduces some major concepts.  TAKE YOUR TIME AND READ ALL CONTENT CAREFULLY.  This is critical for success with any tutorial.  If you get stuck ask a friend for help.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Get ready for film festival friday, we're going to be watching the src and chess set shorts!

No Lunch of Rock this week :-(





Monday, October 10, 2011

IMD II

Lab - Continue working on your chess title sequence.  This project needs to be completed by end of lab tomorrow.


3rd Hour  - Read and complete chapter 3 in GDS. Short answer questions  DUE FRIDAY!

Friday, October 7, 2011

IMD II 3rd Hour

Interactive Resume Brainstorming

Lets start thinking about interactive resume environment, do some research online and collect 20 images that might influence your project.

Compose the 20 images in a Photoshop document, save your work as a jpeg to s/p/f/~    ir planning image.

name the document last_first






Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Steve Jobs 1955-2011

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.          - Steve Job

Monday, October 3, 2011

IMD I - 3rd Hour

We worked with some interesting new tools in lab today.

Use third hour to practice the concepts using the animation from your SRC project.

1 Animate Gaussian blur in and out on your clips.

2. Add two or three titles.

3. Add directional blur on the titles to animate them.

4. Can you figure out how to animate the position of a title on screen.

5. Can you animate changes in opacity for a title.

6. Explore a few different video effects. RANDOMLY ADDING VIDEO EFFECTS CAN CRASH YOUR COMPUTER!  Exercise caution.

7.  Use the entire lab to work on this assignment.  I will take a grade from on screen before the end of lab.