Week 7 Learning Journal

The things that I learned this week:

·         I joined Lynda.com and spent most nights watching and taking notes during the Flash tutorials that they offer.  I found this to be really helpful.

·         I used a story board format in the development of this week’s assignment.  Each of the boxes on my storyboard represented a frame in a scene. In the box I included details about button instances and labels that were used on that frame.  I then referred to this information as I wrote the actionscript to my movie. 

·         I learned about importing sound clips and using the “fade in” or “fade out” options.

·         How to import images edited in Photoshop.

·         I really enjoyed learning about Gagne and Concepts. 

·         Organized my Flash notebook and added more notes about the new Counter technique that we learned on Friday’s class

·         I learned about what makes my guitar and “acoustic” guitar.

·         I find myself really checking out other videos that I encounter on the web and how to they are designed.  I am developing a new appreciation for these visuals that I took for-granted last month! 

Areas that I still need help with:

·         How to place two buttons on the same frame in the same layer.

·         I need to learn the correct code for jumping from one scene to another. 

·         I want to learn how to animate a line being drawn. 

·         How to use masking that doesn’t completely block the image out.  I feel that if my acoustic guitar could have been seen as a whole object while the mask identified the important parts of a guitar, one would be able to understand the relationships between the parts and the whole guitar.

Staying focused and not getting distracted by interesting information that really doesn’t pertain to the completion of the assignment itself.