Final Project Guidelines

For your final project, you are to create a flash project that incorporates photographs and audio. This will be a “new” project, in that you can’t put audio over a set of existing photographs like you could in the first flash exercise. You can, however, develop a story you’re working on for another class into this project, as this project will require additional photographs, gathering audio and different considerations of editing.

Project requirements:

• Preloader – You do not need to remove actions from the first keyframes.
• Photographs – enough to tell the story with the audio track.
• Audio – Interview, natural sound, narration or any combination of the above that tell the story with the photographs.
• Buttons – must have all four states defined
• Chapters – your project should have at least two chapters with navigation to allow the user to move between them.
• Length – Between four and six minutes total. Chapters should be no more than 2:30 in length.

Considerations:

I will be looking at many aspects of your project.

• Audio – tight editing. No more than you need. Interview, natural sound and/or narration must have a clear purpose. Do not include long stretches of natural sound or interview just to fill time. Appropriate volume levels.
• Photographs – good editing. Photographs go with audio. Quality/size of images.
• Flash – navigation, buttons, layout.

You will present your final project in class on May 1 or 3. You will have the remainder of the week to make any changes to the project based on class or instructor feedback.

Post your final project to your web site and email me the link by 10 a.m. May 8.