Thursday, March 22, 2007

3/22/07

Per 1, 2,3 Intro to Web Programming

Daily Journal - use complete sentences
1) What are you plans for Spring Break?

Classwork

Create Flash portfolio for student artist Juan Herrera
  • turn in your finished .swf today (not the .fla)
    • make sure your name is on .swf-student_name_Juan.swf
    • put in Rich Media drop box
    • ensure the finished movie meets requirements
    • if you finish early, play with adding a spotlight to the front of movie (flashkit tutorial here)
  • add 3 drawings (all under 5ookb) to your flash movie; animated each drawing
  • add Juan's picture (trace with Illustrator); get his picture from server: courseware/resources/WebApps/Rich Media/juan herrera portfolio
  • add an animated mask to the beginning (see tutorial below)
  • add this text: "

    Juan won Best of Show for Denver Public Schools Secondary Education Exhibit.
    150 Denver artists competed.
    He has been accepted to the Rocky Mountain School of ART and DESIGN

    See Juan's work now at the Wellington Webb Building downtown.


  • Photos for Juan Herrera portfolio: courseware/resources/WebApps/Rich Media/juan herrera portfolio
  • trace each photo in adobe illustrator, using this trace setting: photo low fidelity
    • export each photo as .swf (see handout)
    • in flash, images should fade into each other and show for about 3 seconds
  • portfolio must load quickly
    • your final .swf file should be less than 1mb
  • see example here
Tutorials:
  • Do a flash review on parts of flash you don't know how to do a fade or glow; use this tutorial
  • animated masks lesson (video)

P6 - Advanced Web Programming
Daily Journal - use complete sentences
1) What are you plans for Spring Break?

Classwork

Create a web photo gallery for North artist Juan Herrera
  • take notes from Dino
  • use Photoshop automated gallery feature
  • add Juan's picture (trace with Illustrator); get his picture from server: courseware/resources/WebApps/Rich Media/juan herrera portfolio
  • add this text: "

  • Juan Wins!
    -Juan won Best of Show for Denver Public Schools Secondary Education Exhibit.

    -150 Denver artists competed.
    He has been accepted to the Rocky Mountain School of ART and DESIGN

    See Juan's work now at the Wellington Webb Building downtown.

  • Photos for Juan Herrera portfolio: courseware/resources/WebApps/AdvancedWeb1/juan herrera portfolio

P7 - Pathways
Daily Journal - use complete sentences
1) What are you plans for Spring Break?

Classwork
  • see photos on server (coureseware/resources/webapps/pathways/pathways_dinner_mar07
  • Work on your projects or portfolios.