CS125f Tentative Outline | Rogue Community College

CS125f :// Intro to Flash - Tentative Course Outline
		Reading	Topics	Assignments
Week [1]	MON 1/7		Course Intro: Syllabus, Expectations, Goals INTRO TO Flash environment
Week [1]	WED 1 /9	Ch.1 Getting Started with Flash 8 [p. 2-10]	Intro to Mac OS X: Connecting to the H+Q Drives, Windows keyboard equivalents; File Management. Flash environment: property inspector; stage; timeline; panels; tools.
Week [2]	MON 1/14	Ch.2 Understanding the Interface [p. 12-26]	Review of Flash interface. Project, player, projector; File Types; The Document Window; The Timeline; The Layer Controls; The Edit Bar; The Toolbar; The Panels; Keyboard Shortcuts
Week [2]	WED 1/16	Ch.3 Drawing and Color Tools [p.28-65]	Drawing Tools; Lines, Strokes, and Fills; Pencil Tool; Oval and Rectangle Tools; Brush Tool ; Modifying Strokes and Fills; Understanding the Flash Drawing Models ; The Merge and Object Drawing Models ; Grouping Objects ; Creating Gradients ; Drawing with the Pen Tool; Modifying Paths	Practice Exercise #1 due
Week [3]	MON 1/21	Holiday
Week [3]	WED 1/23	Ch.4 Animation Basics [p. 70-95] Ch.5 Shape Tweening [p.98-117]	The Timeline ; Document Properties ; Understanding Keyframes and Frames; Frame-by-Frame Animation with Keyframes; Frame Rates; Inserting and Deleting Frames; Copying and Reversing Frames; Using Onion Skinning; Testing Movies Shape Tweening; Shape Hints; Layer Properties	Practice Exercise #2 due
Week [4]	MON 1/28	Ch.6 Symbols and Instances [p.118-141]Ch.7 Filters and Blend Modes [p.150-166]	Symbols and Instances; Symbol Naming Conventions; Vocabulary; Creating Graphic Symbols; Creating Symbol Instances; Editing Symbols; Editing Symbol Instances; Color Styles; Animating Graphic Symbols Working with Blend Modes; Working with Filters; Colorizing a Grayscale Image
Week [4]	WED 1/30	Ch.9 Working with Bitmaps Ch.8 Motion Tweening and Timeline Effects	Shape Tweening vs. Motion Tweening; Editing Multiple Frames; Using a Motion Guide; Using the Custom Ease Controls; Animating Text; Using Timeline Effect Assistants; Animating with Filters; Adding Sound Clips Importing and Compressing Bitmaps; Importing Bitmap Sequences; Converting Bitmaps to Vectors; Using Basic Masking; Using Animated Masks; Animating Bitmaps
Week [5]	MON 2/4			Project 1 due at start of class
Week [5]	WED 2/6	Ch.10 Buttons	Button States; Button Types; Creating Rollover Buttons; Text; Duplicating and Aligning Buttons; Adding Sound to Buttons; Creating Invisible Buttons
Week [6]	MON 2/11	Ch.11 Movie Clips	Creating a Movie Clip; Animated Graphic Symbols vs. Movie Clip Symbols; Creating an Animated Rollover Button; Putting an Animated Rollover Button into Action
Week [6]	WED 2/13		Photoshop Demo, 5-Minute website, Importing Bitmap Sequences; Converting Bitmaps to Vectors;
Week [7]	MON 2/18	Holiday
Week [7]	WED 2/20	Ch.12 ActionScript Basics and Behaviors [p. 288-323]	The Behaviors Panel; The Actions Panel Defined; Controlling the Main Timeline; Interactivity and Actions; Mouse, Keyboard, Movie Clip, and Timeline Events; Controlling Movie Clips; What Is Dot Syntax? Using the goto Action; Using the Go to Web Page Behavior; Targeting Scenes; Using Frame Labels	Practice Exercise #3 due - Disco Pirate
Week [8]	MON 2/25	Ch.13 Working with Text [p.346-360]	Review of ActionScript and Behaviors. Text Field Types; Creating, Modifying, and Formatting Text; Working with Static Text and Device Fonts	Project 2 due at start of class
Week [8]	WED 2/27	Ch.14 Sound	Importing Sounds; Compressing Sound; Creating Background Sound with Sound Effects; Modifying Sound Settings	Practice Exercise #4 and #5 due Chapter #9 and Chapter #12
Week [9]	MON 3/3	Ch.14 Sound (cont.)	On/Off Buttons; Compression Settings for Narration; Synchronizing Sound to Narration Cues; Controlling Animation and Sound with Stop/Play Buttons; Adding Volume Control
Week [9]	WED 3/5	Ch.16 Video	Video Compression; Flash Pro 8 Video Features; Macromedia Flash Video (FLV); Importing Video; Controlling Video with stop and go Actions	Practice Exercise #6 due Chapter 14
Week [10]	MON 3/10	Ch.17 Publishing and Exporting	Types of Content; Using Flash 8 with HTML; Creating Projectors; Exporting Image Files; More About the Publish Settings; Flash, HTML, GIF, JPEG, and PNG Settings; QuickTime Settings; Saving Publishing Profiles; Optimizing Movies
Week [10]	WED 3/12	Ch.18 Putting It All Together [p. 524-557]	Understanding the Big Picture; Examining the Scenes; Managing and Examining Layers; Library; Movie Explorer; Preloaders; Bandwidth Profiler	Practice Exercise #7 due Chapter 17
Week [11]	MON 3/17		Work on Final Projects
Week [11]	WED 3/19			Practice Exercise #8 - Chapter 18 - due Final Project Presentations