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VCA224 Multimedia 2

Project 3: Interactive

Assignment

Create 4+ page interactive or Web site that utilizes animation, buttons, sound & simple action scripting.

Specifications

• Size: 760 x 420 (or in that neighborhood)
• Frame Rate: 12–30 fps
• Length: At least 4 pages (screens)
• Due Date: week 11
• Deliverables: both the FLA and exported SWF files.

Other Requirements

• Subject matter must be approved by instructor
• There must be animated elements on each page (could be animated buttons, menus, graphics, etc.)
• It must use sound in some way (button clicks, music, other sound effects). Sounds can be located in the timeline or accessed via Actionscript.

Procedure

1. Brainstorm. Decide on a subject for your site. Choose a hobby or interest that you could build a simple site around (baseball cards, model trains, Marilyn Monroe, your home town, etc.). Or you could opt for something educational (for kids) or informational. Try to find a subject that is interesting, challenging, provocative or at least unusual; I'm tired of the same old band sites, movie & TV sites, cartoon/comic/anime sites, etc. Get my approval.
2. To thumbnails on paper. Design the layout of your pages. Each page should use the same basic format—colors, navigation, layout, etc. Only the specific content will change.
3. Determine what is going to be on each page. For example, if your were to do a tribute to Marilyn Monroe, you might have a “home” page, a “bio” page, a “photos” page and even a page with a movie clip or two.
4. Determine what (and how) elements on the page are going to move. Each page needs some sort of animation—you could include animated movie clips, animated buttons, navigation that moves in and out of the page, etc.
5. Create you page design in Flash. You may import bitmap images. Layout all of the common elements. Create buttons for navigation. Create simple animation.
6. Add simple sound effects (button clicks, swishes etc.). I have put a collection of sound effects in my Instructor's Shared Items folder (IP: 10.4.180.13). You could also try findsounds.com.
7. There are several ways you can create multiple pages: different movie clips that get loaded into the main timeline, different scenes, and/or different sections of the main timeline (as we used in the "moods" exercises). This third option is the simplest as it requires the least amount of coding and is recommended.
8. Regardless of how you create them, each page should contain the same persistent elements as the home page—site name, navigation, colors, basic layout, etc.
9. Use Actionscript to make your buttons function (and any other bells and whistles you wish to add).
10. Try to find other ways to incorporate Actionscript; refer to the exercises we did on controlling movie clips, using math, and using sound objects.

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