Finding Final Project references

There are tasks in the Final that you will need to review while completing this project. Yes, you are allowed to refer to tutorials to complete these tasks. Professional Flash programmers are constantly looking up the steps to creating animation as they are creating a vision.

You will be assigned a number.
You are doing this to help everyone in the class.
When you attempt to create animation or actionscript you can simply come here and get the page numbers for that tutorial.

I will not be able to help you much. That is why you are helping each other.

The tasks that need page numbers are:

1. Bitmap inside text
2. Masked Bitmap
3. Adding event sounds to movie
4. Frame by Frame Animation
5. Motion Guide Tweens
6. Adding Action to Buttons
7. Adding Stop Action to Frame

Working with Bitmaps in Flash

Answer the questions below in one comment and label your answers with #1 #2...
These questions are worth 9 points. You must answer them all before we move on....
If you refuse to answer any you lose points.
1. What three file names did we mentioned were bitmaps?

2. What characterizes a bitmap?

3.What is an example of a bitmap?

4.Compare the Import to Stage and Import to Library command?

5.In yesterday's tutorial, we positioned both the cat cat's and the parrot's registration points and set their x and y positions the same. What would happen if we did not do that?

6.How do you get to the info panel for a stage object?

7.What does compressing in Flash do to a bitmap?

8.How you acces the bitmap's properties in Flash?

9.What part of a mask layer is the actual mask?
10.***Extra credit: What can you do to a bitmap after you turn a bitmap (photograph) into a vector?

Reflecting on the sounds and buttons we have made

In this past tutorial we have learned how to make buttons, use buttons from the library, and insert sounds.
But did we really learn it? How well? I mean the textbook is like the output and we are the input into the Flash program. We could do it four times, but do we really know the purpose of a frame label or why we put the name of a label into a 'Go to And Play' dialog box?
Could you create a button and script it without help?


Another way to make our learning concrete is not only when we apply our skills but analyze them in conversation.

Think, think for a minute about how you made buttons and sounds in this last tutorial. Tell me in two sentences a detailed explanation of something you learned in the tutorial.

A good example:

I learned that you put a button's sound on a layer in it's timeline not the scene's timeline.

A bad example:

I learned how to make a button. ( this example is bad b/c it does not tell the reader anything about HOW a button is made, got it?)

Please blog as other and type in your name

Adding Interactivity to a Flash movie

Please helpkick off our discussion. When finished please read your classmates responses and give them thanks and encouraging words for their contributions.

Question#1 What are some of the applications (uses) for Flash?



Question#2What does it mean when a Web site or movie is interactive?