Assignment 2 Progress

Conceptualization:
I had a lot of references and inspiration when Madam Juhanita, our lecturer, showed us video clips of motion typography. I do not, however, have sketches of my time-based poster.


Creation:
1. I opened my Adobe Flash CS5, and set the stage size to 240 x 320 pixels, the frame rate to 12 and the colour to black.

.2. I imported to the stage the background layer from my assignment 1 as shown above.

3. I imported to the stage, the layers in my Assignment 1 onto the stage and converted them to movie clip symbols.

4. I removed all the layers except the background, 'even', 'the', and 'weak' layers. I clicked on the Motion Tween option in the background layer, and at frame 0, I changed the Alpha to 0. Then I clicked on frame 18, and changed the Alpha of the background to 100 again.

5. I arranged the words 'even', 'the' and 'weak' as shown above. All three words have Motion Tween options, and all three layers stop at the frame 70.

6. The layers 'become', 'strong' and the hands have Motion Tween option. All layers stop at frame 95 as shown above.

7. The layers 'when', 'they', 'are' and 'tunku' have Motion Tween option. All three layers stop at frame 130 as shown above.
8. The layer 'united' has Motion Tween option. The layer stops at frame 155 as shown above.

9. I duplicated all layers, and used Motion Tween option, to change the Alpha level from 1oo to 0 at frame 141 as shown above.

10. The Alpha levels of all duplicated layers are changed back to 100 subsequently as shown above.

11. Shown above is when all Alpha levels of all duplicated layers have been changed back to 100, the last layer at frame 216.

Adobe Flash. (Exercise 1)

A new semester, more new cool stuff to learn. In this semester, we are being taught on how to use Adobe Flash. A small exercise was given to us, which is to create a 4 second animation. Below is the finished product, in avi form.

The above are the pictures which I'm going to use in my animation. My theme is 'Michael Jackson'.

1. I opened my Adobe Flash (I'm using CS5), chose the ActionScript 3.0, then changed the size of the stage to 400 x 250 as per stated in our exercise requirement.

2. I changed the frame rate to 12 frames per second, then opened the Import to Library option under the File tab. I chose the 4 pictures which I'm going to use and imported them to my library.

3. I created a new layer in my timeline, then created a frame (shortcut key: F5) at the 48th frame to mark the end of my animation (12 frames per second, 4 seconds). I placed my background picture in my stage, then renamed the layer as 'background'.

4. I created a new layer, created a frame at the 48th frame again, and placed and arranged the picture as shown above. I then renamed the layer as 'picture 1'.

5. I created a new layer, created a keyframe at the 12th frame (shortcut key; F6), and placed and arranged the picture as shown above. I then renamed the layer as 'picture 2'.

6. I created a new layer, created a keyframe at the 24th frame (shortcut key; F6), and placed and arranged the picture as shown above. I then renamed the layer as 'picture 3'.

7. I created a folder, named it as 'pictures', and moved my picture layers into the folder as shown above.

8. I created a new layer, created a keyframe at the 36th frame (shortcut key; F6), and used the Type Tool and used 'Disintegration' font and font size 48, typing the words 'Michael Jackson' as shown above. I then renamed the layer as 'font'.

9. I opened the Filters tab, chose the Drop Shadow option, and chose orange colour for the shadow as shown above.