1. Using your own words, share three tips to use Flash and survive.
-Listen instructions carefully.
-Pay attention to what your doing. ok
-If you have a question it's better to ask.
2. What is the purpose of simulating something (like ocean currents)?
If we need to do a presentation in a class or something like that then we can learn how to make things move to make the explanation better. ok
3. Why do you need good quality maps to start?
We need good quality maps to start because first of all it will be easier to work on it an at the beginning its easier to erase the white part of the background. ok
4. About the movie size. Choose the statements you think correct?
b) It is better to find a picture of the same size of your final movie. ok
5. What exactly is a movie clip symbol?
A movie clip symbol is when you separate different parts of the movie and then you can put them all together an example is when you separate the street, the mountains and the sky from a whole movie.
ok
6. Organize the steps (use numbers).
1. Plan my animation (visualize in my head how it's going to look like).
2. Create a movie clip symbol.
3. Calculate position and time.
4. Draw the graphics I need. ok
5. Open symbol timeline.
6. Make sure the animation will show the correct motion of the currents.
7. Stop the movie so it doesn't run forever.
8. Test the animation an correct.
7. Say you want a title to rotate and zoom in center of your stage. How do you do this animation?
First you need to create a movie clip symbol, then you press the text box button and type in whatever you want then you can change colors or size. Then you insert a key frame, after you enter a tween. Then change the size of the box in the frame. After in properties there's a button that says rotate you click it. Finally you go to window and there's another button that says actions and stop it in the other frame.
ok
8. How do I synchronize my movie clip? So that they don't run at the same time.
We haven't been taught this in class. If any case we add another timeline then we put each movie clip there and we just press stop. Not ok
