Due Wednesday, February 20 at 5:30 PM
Project: Develop the following movies:
- A personal signature or "splash" animation for the Assignments page you built last week.
This movie should feature your name along with some other identifying symbol, slogan,
motto, fetish, etc. An advertisement for yourself, it should make a vivid statement
about your character and/or interests.
- A banner advertisement for a fictitious product or service, consisting of at least two scenes. Viewers must click on the banner to access the second scene. Your concept must create maximum motivation for that act of engagement or click-through. (The mechanics of scene changes will be explained in class; see also Ulrich's chapter 11).
Advice: Try to demonstrate overall (not necessarily in each movie) a range of design techniques and media elements, including scaling, color/alpha effects, linear animation, irregular paths (using motion guides), and sound. You will need at least one simple button action for Movie 2, but no elaborate scripting is required at this point.
Specifications:
- Prepare each banner with a width of 600 pixels and a height of 200 pixels.
Maximum file size for the Shockwave file (.swf) is 50 kilobytes.
- Name your two source files as follows: yourLastName.201.fla and
yourLastName.202.fla. Fill in your name.
In Windows the ".fla" extension is added automatically; Mac users will have to
do this manually.
- Using File Transfer Protocol (FTP), upload these source files to your Assignment2 directory on Crow.
- Export a Shockwave Flash object movie (.swf) for each banner and transfer these files
also to the Assignment2 directory. Use whatever settings you find appropriate for image
quality, sound, anti-aliasing, and looping (though I recommend 100% JPEG quality).
- Using File>Export Image, generate a static JPEG at 600x200 px for each of your movies. This image should represent
an appropriate state of the movie.
Transfer these files to the Assignment2 directory.
- Create a Web page called Assignment2.htm. This page should contain
<IMG> tags for both the JPEGs you exported in the previous step.
Set up anchor containers around these images so that each is linked to a
subsequent page called yourLastName.201.htm
and yourLastName.202.htm. (Fill in your name.)
- Create the two pages to which you referred in the previous step. On each page
include appropriate
<OBJECT> and <EMBED> containers to include the relevant movie.
HINT: if you use the Publish function in Flash, you may simply rename
the resulting .htm file.
FTP these two pages to your Assignment2 directory.
(Since we're not creating any subfolders here, your Assignment2 directory
will end up a bit crowded; that's okay.)
- Edit your index page (the page you created in Assignment 1) as follows:
- Replace the contents of row 1 with <OBJECT> and <EMBED> containers
to include your signature movie in place of the 600x200 banner JPEG currently at the top of the page.
Delete the anchor container currently around that image.
- Replace the banner graphic in row 2 with the JPEG you exported from your second, click-through movie. Leave the dimensions set to 300x100 and don't change the anchor container, which should have been correctly written when you created the page.
- Replace the contents of row 1 with <OBJECT> and <EMBED> containers
to include your signature movie in place of the 600x200 banner JPEG currently at the top of the page.
Delete the anchor container currently around that image.
- Write a brief note indicating any strategies and
features used in this assignment of which you are especially proud. You might also want
to explain your approach to the second movie. Place this note
in the second cell of row 2 of your index page.
- Send mail when your work is complete.
