Publications : Digital

Hey this for the student seminar on Online Identities. Please click on the link below.

Online Identities

Today, Paul Elia will be leading Publications : Digital. An OCAD graduate, illustrator and comic artist, Paul has worked with music legend Tori Amos, and uses Flash extensively for illustration, animation and interactivity. Paul will be leading the student seminar presentations today, as well as conducting an in-depth workshop in Flash.

Hi folks - for any of you who are finishing up today or over reading week, here is a recipe that should help you complete the assignment --

CREATING A BUTTON WITH SOUND IN FLASH / A recipe by Judith


We will create a button that plays a sound when you roll over it. When you roll out, the sound will stop.

Create a shape then MODIFY → CONVERT TO SYMBOL → GRAPHIC (name)

INSERT → NEW SYMBOL → BUTTON (name)

Drag and drop an instance of your graphic into the UP frame. Then INSERT → TIMELINE → KEYFRAME to the over, down and hit frames.

(You can create visual changes or use different graphics, pictures or movie clips in the “up” “over” and “down” positions, to create lively effects prompted by mouse actions. And remember – by turning the alpha to zero, you can make the button invisible!)

CLICK ON “Scene 1” to return to the canvas. Drag an instance of your button from the LIBRARY onto the STAGE.

Now you will name your button. Open the property inspector WINDOW → PROPERTIES

In the INSTANCE NAME box, type a name (ActionScript relies on these names to identify objects)

Now we will add a BEHAVIOR to the button.

First, make sure the instance of your button on stage is selected.

Go to WINDOWS → DEVELOPMENT PANELS → BEHAVIORS. Click on the + sign to add a behavior → SOUND → STOP ALL SOUNDS

Click the default word “RELEASE” and change to “ON ROLL OUT”. This will make the sound stop when the cursor rolls out of the hit area.

GOOD LUCK AND HAVE FUN!

For my final project, I would like to make a website that focuses on using flash animation, as well as incorporating text. I am not sure exactly what I would like to do, I'm having a hard time thinking of something :( so far I have two rough ideas:

The first one that I would like to propose is perhaps to build a website that gives information about a social issue such as child abuse. I would want to set up the website, so that it starts with a short animation and then a menu would pop up that would allow you to learn some facts by clicking on the different issues.

The second idea that I have for this project is to focus on how different religions, cultures and the media play a role on the way women represent themselves. For example, in Islamic countries women are seen as always wearing a veil, and to some it is thought of as a form of oppression, in Christianity, women are seen to be less oppressed. I would think that I want to include animation that is perhaps more text based and I would want to have a menu pop up with different options to click on that would cover different aspects of this issue.