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If you are making a Flash presentation for your exam – Practice using the latest version of flash and make digital notes that you can bring into the exam. Firstly opening Adobe Flash CS3 and starting a new document. Select Flash File (Action Script 2.0) this is the same scripting you used with your previous Flash project. Type in the content of your new page here. Remember to create and label layers (this gets you points by being organised) Creating the images and animations is the same as in the previous version of Flash. Firstly you must set up your stage – size and frame rate. When creating your library items, choose insert symbol and decide whether it is a movie clip, button or graphic. You can import images into the library (or stage), then convert them to symbols; you need to do this in order to create motion and shape tweens. You can import most image formats into Flash CS3. With new Flash CS3 you can import Photoshop psd files and it will keep its layer property, good for animations, when you drag the image onto the stage it will open a dialogue box which will ask Convert to Flash layers, click ok. Creating buttons and action scripting, to create the buttons, click Insert New Symbol and select the buttons option and create the images or movies for Up, Over, Down, and Hit. Name your button. Position your button on the stage and right hand click and select Actions (this is the difference to the previous version of Flash). Select Global Functions, Timeline Control, and goto. Click on the Script Assist to tell the button “on release” where to go, either to another frame or scene, don’t forget to add stops into the movie in the same way. Practice scripting buttons either in this version or the previous version of Flash. Finally your presentation should be saved as a Flash file and as a SWF. Don’t forget to check out the following links http://www.teach-ict.com/software/flash/flash.htm video tutorials, but this is an older version of Flash [|www.atomiclearning.com] password needed http://www.pass-ict.com/GCSE/Presentation/project.htm use this to help you with your planning, and for the evaluation, and the depth of your presentation. Also look at this site which does give some example of presentations done using PPT for the same exam board. http://www.gcsecoursework.info/gcse/practical/A1/index.asp?f=A1 Check out the following sit for some ideas http://www.jtoolkit.com/flash/index/html http://eduscapes.com/flash/explore.htm And definitely [|www.angryalien.com] Further information about Flash techniques and scripting can be found at http://www.echoecho.com/flashbuttons.htm
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