Gavilan College
Course: DM 110: Web Animation and Authoring: Flash
Instructor: Robert Beede. See instructors page for office hours.

Final Project: Fall ’07
due Final Exam class

The class has learned has learned alot about Flash. The final project should reflect that work. Work as a team if possible. The project should take around 6-12 hours of time to complete. It would be wonderful if the project was something that Gavilan could use. Since we did the Halloween project, you may subsitute expansion of chapter 13 for this final project. The important thing is to pick something that you can complete in the alloted time--3 weeks!!!

A few ideas for original projects are:

• You may expand on any perdonal project that you have already started.
• A web site for a department or GAV-18 the that is purely Flash based or contains significant Flash in its design.
• A portfolio presentation or interactive game for delivery on CD and the web. We have not covered a lot in this area, but help is available.
• An animated commercial for the Digital Media would be a perfect project.
• The DM site also needs updating.
• An animation for another one of your classes or that could be used to demonstrate an instructional concept.
• Starting or making your own animated portfolio or web site is a choice too.

A few bitmapped objects (symbols) are appropriate.

At least 2 movie clips should be used.

Animation is a must, of course.

There should be a little scripting if you can (e.g., a little timeline control by interaction from a user).

Good text design rules should be followed. If you need help with this, see instructor or you might want to refer to the book, Web Design for non-Designers, by Robin Williams, Pub: Peachpit Press (ask the instructor if interested).

Get content as soon as you can. Remember to get royality free pictures or BMI/ASCAP music A digital camera, camcorder, and a synthesizer are available for creating your own media. Royality free sound effects are in SoundTrack Pro and GarageBand.

This instructor realizes that not everyone is a Tolouse Latrec, so do the best you can with your own art skills. Let your individual creativity emerge. Flash loves it.

Remember some of the techniques that we have studied in class. Remember to break animations or interactivity into scenes if you can. It just makes it all easier.

It is a must to have fun, even in the struggle to make it work the way you would desire!