Weeks 8-11 My New Skills

I finally completed my final assignment on Saturday night.  I was happy with the results, but came to many realizations while building the flash instructional video.  I have a good idea of the concepts and procedures involved in creating flash animations.  The following is a list of some of the basic Flash Skills that I learned this quarter: 


TIMELINES
Creating layers for each part of the video
Unlocking and Viewing the layer that I wanted to work on developing
Recognizing the order of the layers in order to achieve the correct display
Working with multiple timelines within each other


FRAMES
Inserting, removing, cutting, copying, moving frames.
Understanding the key frame and what it does.
Assigning labels to frames for navigation of the timeline.
Extending time lines frame by frame.
Extending time lines through the property window, such as how many frames would occur per second.


AUDIO
Importing Audio sound bytes 
Working within the sound byte properties to designate when it should play as well as how I wanted it to sound (i.e. fading in or out)


IMAGES
Importing images into my flash library
Converting images into symbols: movieclips, buttons and graphics
Duplication of the symbols in the library in order to create new instances of them

BUTTONS

Creating and Importing buttons 

Naming buttons and their instances

Developing animation of the button

Using layers within a button.

ANIMATION

Frame by frame animation of graphics
Understanding the differences between Motion Tweening and Shape Tweening and figuring out which type of of tween to use with my content.
Adjusting the time to slow down animation.
Selecting and manipulating the symbols being used in an animation.
Animating Text.
Animating simple lines being drawn

ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0

How it controls my Flash project

Specific codes used:

      Adding EventListeners

      Functions

      Variables: strings and numbers

      How to comment within the script

      Adding Counters and tracing them

      

FLASH TOOLS

viewing Output and Compiler errors

checking the errors and their location 

Onion Skin in order to create more accurate animation and placement of objects

Drawing 

Modifying objects - their size and properties

Grouping and arranging the objects

Aligning objects 

Adjusting the stage dimensions

Controlling playback and testing my movies and scenes

INTERACTIVITY

Involving the viewer with how the movie unfolds

PUBLISHING

How to save my Flash Video for use on a webpage

ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS

Saving and renaming each version of a video that I worked on

Consistency with naming the buttons and files so that they could be easily retrieved from the library.

Camel backing the names

Organizing folders in my library according to the type of symbol I was using