Note 5 for Flash

Watch & Read:

Create a Phoenix Suns Animation (Suns Photos or Go to the Suns Website)

Motion Guide: Set a path for your animation to follow!

Symbols give you the ability to reuse objects. Each use of a symbol is called an instance and the instance can be modified from the symbol's original configuration. Symbol

 

Graphic symbols operate in sync with the movie's Timeline. Interactive controls and sounds won't work in a graphic symbol's animation sequence.

Button symbols to create interactive buttons in the movie that respond to mouse clicks, rollovers or other actions. You define the graphics associated with various button states, and then can assign actions to the button.

Movie clip symbols are reusable pieces of animation. Movie clips have their own multi frame Timeline that plays independent of the main movie's Timeline—think of them as mini-movies inside a main movie that can contain interactive controls, sounds, and even other movie clip instances.

Filters & Masks can modify the layer and the graphics in the layer

Review the following:

Planning your Final Project

Dreamweaver 8 Tutorials

Terms you need to know:

Symbols: Movie clip, Button, Graphic

Homework:

You should be reading Chapter 10 in your book

Reminder: You will need to post a website that uses Flash every week!!!

Final Step:

Review in your mind everything we covered in class and remember to cover it again before you go to bed so your mind to process this information while you sleep.