button, button, who has the button

Sadly, it is late, I waited too late to get help, and now I can't figure out why these animations and buttons aren't working the way I want them to.....

I should have gotten a copy of CS4 when I had the chance. I had no idea how different they were until the past week and could really use it.

overloaded

So it has been a busy and stressful few weeks with 4 exams and 2 projects all due within a week of each other... but heres a recap with pictures of what I have been developing and working on for this flash project!

This was my first attempt at the interactive flash, going from the lyrics from Bouncing Soul's "True Believers". The lyrics reminded me of something like a journal entry, so I wanted to plce them in an old worn-out looking book. Sadly, I couldn't get animations to work right... I wanted the pages to rip away to show new images and words, but couldn't get them to rip right, or cut right to rip and make it look realistic. While working on this I heard a new song that gave me some ideas... even though there was only a week left of classes to do it.

I then started working with lyrics from the song "Those Anarcho Punks are Mysterious" by Against Me!. For this idea, I wanted to go with a political aspect of segregation and seperation of high class of politics (all parties) with the poor.

Slowly developing ideas for the characters...

elite and the dispossessed

Later on in the piece when it talks about wars

deciphering SCRIPTures

Well, more script than scriptures, but thats what it feels like working with this flash stuff.

It seems like no matter what I try my first idea wouldn't work the right way... Now after spending hours putting together and thinking up my 2nd idea, I'm in the same situation again... but with a lot less time. Trying to make a journal with interactive type and pages being torn/crumbled away for the button actions isn't going anywhere...

Sunday = a full day dedicated to possibly rethinking my flash again and studying for my back2back exams on Monday :(

Forgetful Freddy

I now notice why I never had a blog before this... because I always forget about it and never really update a whole lot.

So I now have a pretty solid idea of where my interactive flash is going. I want to make it look a lot like a journal type of entry and was planning to do everything with pictures, but I do not have the time nor skill to pull something like that off right now.

The lyrics make me think of a journal entry when I read them, so I wanted it to have that feel as well. When changing to the next set of words, I want to do creative things like rip certain parts of the page away, cruble them up, cut them, burn parts of them, basically try to do some creative changes that relate to the lyrics. I'll have sketches of that and possibly a little clip by sunday night!