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!

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