Orson - Final

Link to swf

Link to storyboard

Create a Project with the following criteria:

1. Basic Storyboard of your project uploaded as a separate file
2. Use the various drawing tools to create new objects
1. Please identify the major tools used in your blog posting
2. Imagery can be imported, but some symbols must be drawn to demonstrate your understanding of these tools
3. Use Kuler to define a color scheme

Major tools used: Rectangle, pen tool, resize tool, skew tool, selection tool, direct selection tool, bone tool.

#d9d9d2, #a69c6a, #8c7968, #730202, #0d0d0d

3. Five tweens from the list below.
1. Classic
2. Shape
3. Motion

4. In your blog posting, state which features from the motion editor was added to the above tweens.

I used the stop and start fastest for the dropping of the suitcase.

3. Two armatures using Inverse Kinematics
1. One shape
2. One symbol

The shape armature is the hand holding the suitcase.
The symbol armature links the paintings on the wall.

3. Movie Clip and Graphic Symbols
1. Create at least five new symbols
2. You are welcome re-use symbols used in previous projects
3. Please identify which symbols are new in your blog posting
4. If you use a nested Movie Clip, please identify this for me

All symbols are new for this project.
I did not use a nested Movie Clip.

3. Add short audio clip to one movie clip symbol
1. The audio should appear in the MC timeline

I put audio on the stop and start buttons.

3. When you have completed this project, post the following to the Class Blog.
   1. Identify each required element
   2. Respond to all questions within instructions
   3. Discuss how you completed this project

I wanted to recreate the opening credits to Mad Men using flash. I didn't do all of it, there are a lot of different little scenes to re-create, but I did about seven little vignettes.

What worked well: By the end, I had developed a nice flow I was happy with. Sound and images work well together.

What was challenging: Wow, what wasn't challenging? I'd say the buttons were challenging because I ended up dividing the image of the console with the two buttons in half. At first I wanted to just create round buttons, but I don't see how to do that, at least if they're bitmaps. I'll keep looking, though. I also had to wrestle with shape tween hints to keep the image from scrambling. Finally, I seem to have two sets of every bitmap in my library for the button images, but damned if I can find where they're both being used, looks like only one set is necessary to me.