Advance Digital Studio 4 - Spring 2003

One Linear Minute

Assignment #1
Create a linear animation of at least one minute.
This is the familiar, unilateral type of narrative, which does not depend on user input in determining it's outcome.
This could be a music video, an illustration of a text, an advertisement for a concept ...

Medium: Flash, compatible with exporting to Quicktime 6.

File Size Limit: Unlimited

Required Elements:
Media: Bitmaps, Vectors, Text, Sounds
Techniques: Motion Tweening, Shape Tweening, Masking, Streaming sound.

Basic Flash Timeline Help

Tips:
If you want to create vector images in Illustrator (9 or 10), you can export them as .swf and then import them into Flash. You can do this either through "Export" or "Save for Web".
If you want to use transparency with bitmaps, save those images in the .png format (Portable Network Graphics) before importing them.

Two sources of classical narrative structure:

Aristotle's Poetics,
see, especially, the discussion of "beginning, middle, and end":
Part VII: The Structure of the Plot

The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations
Macromedia Flash - Drawing and Animation Overview
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