Flash
Work Environment
Review Questions
- Will objects placed in the Work Area appear in the final movie?
- Where do you set the dimensions of the Stage?
- Is 20 frames per second a reasonable speed for Web playback?
- What does the frame rate determine?
- If the frame rate is 10 fps, how long would it take to play 100 frames?
- How are keyframes displayed on the Timeline?
- What does a frame shaded in grey represent?
- Why use Web-safe colours when designing in Flash?
- What is tweening?
- Describe two ways to preview an animation.
- What is the minimum number of layers required in a Flash movie?
- What does clicking the eye icon above the layer list do?
- Can you edit hidden, unlocked layers?
- Can you see the content on locked layers?
- How would you change the outline colour of a layer displayed in Outline view?
- Where would you set the movie's background colour?
- If there are two scenes in a movie, how many timelines are in the FLA file? The SWF file?
Bonus Questions
(If you can answer these questions, you are ahead of the class)
- How are blank keyframes displayed when Preferences are set to display them Flash 4 style?
Exercises
- Open a new file in Flash.
- Save the file as lecture2.fla.
- Change the dimensions of the movie to a width of 350 pixels by a height of 250 pixels.
- Make the movie background colour black.
- Name this scene "intro".
- Add a new scene and call it "preload".
- Go back to the introduction scene and add two layers for a total of three.
- Name them as follows: title, sound, logo
- Draw an oval on the logo layer. Any size, colour and shape is fine.
- Rearrange the layers in the following order, from top to bottom: sound, logo, title.
- Lock the sound layer.
- Display the logo layer as outlines.
- Hide the title layer.
- Change your view magnification of the Stage to 200%.
- Close all the panels on your screen. Re-open them to the default panel layout.
- Save your file.
To help you determine if you are on the right track, the answers to the Review and Bonus questions have been provided. Do all the work on the questions page before you take a look at the answers.
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