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MCM219 Multimedia Applications: Macromedia Flash 5 Spring 2001

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Date	Book	Activities	Content Links	Deliverables
January 8 Spring 2001 classes begin.	Chapter O Introduction- the big picture Speed Web Standard Interactive and Engaging Ease of Use Few Design Limitations Versatility Widespread Viewability	Housekeeping issues Course overview- Intro to Flash Course website	http://www.flashkit.com/reviews/software/flash5/tute_flashfive.shtml Check out the Flash 5 Tour! Check out this overview of new features in Flash 5. Lab hours: http://home.postnet.com/~joevoid/lab.html	Fill out the student profile!
January 15 HOLIDAY - ML KING BIRTHDAY - campus closed	Read Chapter 1: Flash Movie Essentials	Although we will not meet this week you absolutely need to spend time in chapter 2 this week!	http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/5_ba_getst/tute_start.shtml Complete this tutorial...
January 22	REVIEW Chapter 1 The authoring environment Timeline Frames Layers Scenes	More Examples How Flash Works What's New in Flash Interface Viewing Options Setting Up Your Movie Your First Interactive Flash Movie		Tutorial file Assignment 1
January 29	Chapter 2: Flash Toolbox Tools and Modifiers Drawing Tasks Color Drawing Tutorials	Explore!	http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/z_art_class/lesson_00.shtml Design 101	Tutorial file
February 5	Chapter 3: Symbols and Libraries Symbol essentials Symbol types Chapter 4: managing content	Understanding Symbols and Instances Creating Symbols Working with Symbols and Instances Symbol Tutorials Grids, alignment, object manipulation		Tutorial file
February 12	Chapter 5: Color, Fills, Bitmaps, Fonts Importing Bitmaps Optimizing Bitmaps Working with Bitmaps Tracing Bitmaps Using Animated GIFs Using PNGs Chapter 6: Flash Animation, Tweening and Motion Guides How Animation Works Understanding the Timeline Working with Scenes Creating Animations Using QuickTime Video Animation Tutorials	What Is Text? Text Tool and Its Modifiers Creating Text Blocks Editing Text Objects Formatting Text Editable Text Fields Breaking Text Apart Animation Considerations	http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/5_in_picop/tute_picop.shtml Sharpening images in FLASH	Tutorial file
February 19 Holiday- Presidents’ Day
February 26	Chapter 7: Shape Tweens The Interface Library Management Library Tutorial Chapter 8 : Masks and Masking Understanding Layers Deleting Layers Layer Properties Renaming Layers Reordering Layers Copying Layers Identifying Objects on Different Layers Selecting Everything on a Layer or Multiple Layers Layer Modes Quick Editing with Layers Using Guide Layers Motion Guide Layers Mask Layers Layers Tutorials		http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/rf_copyr/ref_copyright.shtml Check out the copyright site	Tutorial file
March 5-11 SPRING BREAK Campus closed at 4:30 PM daily
March 12	Chapter 9: Introductory Actionscripting Animation			Tutorial file
March 19	Chapter 10: More on Actionscript Interactivity in Flash Working with Multiple Movies ActionScripting Interactivity Tutorials			Tutorial file
March 26	Chapter 11: Sound Understanding Sound Importing Sounds Adding Sounds to the Timeline Configuring or Editing a Sound Optimizing Sounds Sound Tutorials Interactivity Interactivity in Flash Working with Multiple Movies ActionScripting Interactivity Tutorials		http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/in_mpswf/tute_mp3swf.shtml Converting mp3’s to wav’s	Tutorial file
April 2	Chapter 12: Optimization Interactivity in Flash Working with Multiple Movies ActionScripting Interactivity Tutorials		http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/5_in_hitst/tute_hittest.shtml Using the Hit test method	Tutorial file
April 9	Chapter 13: Publishing Delivery Methods Flash and HTML Plug-In Issues Understanding Templates Publishing Tutorial		http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/5_in_cursr/tute_cursor.shtml Building a custom cursor	Tutorial file
April 16	Chapter 14: Intermediate Actionscripting Getting Ready to Test Testing Within the Flash Authoring Environment The Test Movie and Test Scene Commands The Testing Environment			Tutorial file
April 23	Chapter 15: Intermediate Actionscripting			Tutorial file
April 30	Chapter 16: High Level site design Processor Considerations Movie Size Considerations Choosing a Movie Speed Defining Your Audience Storyboarding Metaphors Transitions Streaming		http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/rf_usabl/tute_moviedesign.shtml usability site for Flash	Tutorial file
May 7 Final Exam		I will grade projects according to the grading rubric and will email the results to you.		We will meet for the first hour to harvest final projects only- no work will be allowed- just turn in your project and you will be free to leave.

Flash 4! Creative Web Animation

Chapter 1: Why Flash?
Chapter 2: Getting Started
Chapter 3: Drawing
Chapter 4: Text
Chapter 5: Sound
Chapter 6: Bitmaps
Chapter 7: Symbols
Chapter 8: The Library
Chapter 9: Layers
Chapter 10: Animation
Chapter 11: Interactivity
Chapter 12: Testing
Chapter 13: Publishing Your Work
Chapter 14: Planning Your Project
Appendix A: Keyboard Shortcuts
Appendix B: Flash Resources

KEWL FLASH sites

KEWL Flash resource sites