Assignment 1 : By group

The first assignment is mainly to develop a learning application by using flash. Previously, we had learn so many steps and technique in flash, now it's time to show whether we can really apply all the lessons to develop a simple standalone application. In this assignment we a required to work in group. What I like most about group work is we can share ideas and if we have problems, we can refer to each other. I was happy with my group members (Norzie, Ashikin and Farhana). I think we can work together professionally in order to complete this task.

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I will divide this assignment into several phase. The first phase is planning. In the phase of planning, we carried out discussions together with all group members to determine which topic or subject should be use in our project. And finally we come to a conclusion to choose the primary 4 topic, Moving Around. The reasons that we choose this topic is that we have interest in developing the application for kids in primary school level using flash.

The next phase is structuring the ideas. In this phase we structured the details of each scene that will consist in this flash application. Because of time and distance limit, we cannot meet more often so we decided to divide the task to every group members. Everyone were assigned specific task to be completed, but we were sharing ideas, resources and technical support from each other. We use the medium of internet to work together.

The following phase is to develop the scene. The problem start to arise as we start to develop the application. As for myself, I had difficulties in finding suitable images and background to be used in my flash project. Most background in the internet has a white background that is not appropriate for flash movie. In finding the solutions, I finally learn an adobe Photoshop skills to remove the white background from the images. I relieved that finally the problem is solved.

In developing the lessons, I want it to be interactive, so I apply the technique that we learn in Farm activity class to complete this part. I import the images, convert it to button symbol and put the text and sound for each symbol. I did not have much problems with the technique because it has been practice in class earlier, but I have problems on how to arrange each element to make it look appropriate. So I recall the lessons that I  had learn previously on media design class.Next step after constructing the scene is to test the scene, whether it is working as desired or not. And each time I test the scene I will evaluate what to improve and how to make it look better. If I have problems, I will consult to my group members.

After completing the scenes, we share our work and everyone of us will drop comments on how to make our flash project better in each scene. Then, after satisfied with our work, we combine our work to form the full application. I was quite satisfied with our work so far, but of course there is a lot more to be improve next time.

Here, I want to share the detailed steps on developing the lessons part;

1) Insert new scene

2) Import background picture

3) Create another layer for object. I prefer to work on separated layer to make it more systematic.

4) Import the desired image to stage.( I choose image type of .gif and .png)

5) Import selected sound to library ( i choose the sound format of .wav and .mp3)

6) Convert image to BUTTON symbol

7) Now we can edit the symbol by double-click it. To do this, we need to create a keyframe and on each frame, we can edit the symbol. We can put sound by dragging the sound from the library to the stage.

8) Finally we test the scene to make sure the we get the desired outcome.