My Introduction and Initial Experience With Adobe Flash.

This project is a new and exciting experience for me, We will be working with adults with severe learning difficulties which will be a new and challenging experience for me, the other aspect of the project which will be out of my comfort zone and a lot of hard work will be working with animation, I am not familiar with or usually have much luck with computer technology and programmes.

On Monday 9^th May we had an introductory tutorial to the animation software “Adobe Flash”. We were firstly shown some examples of the kind of animations that can be produced on Flash, we were then taught step by step how to create a simple animation of a ball bouncing; we created 2 layers, one with a ball drawn and one with a floor drawn, we then right clicked the ball and turned it into a “Symbol” , in the first frame the ball is on the ground , we then right clicked on 10 seconds on the timeline and inserted a key frame , in this frame the ball is in the air , the last step is to right click between the two frames and create a “Motion Tween” this creates the movement between the ball in the air and the ground , this can be repeated many times or put on a loop.

Our second task was to create a drawing of our self, we imported a front shot photo of our self, to create the shapes of our faces we us the line tool and bended them in shape, when all the features were created we filled in colours and hid the original photo layer, I then used the same technique as the bouncing ball and created me blinking.

These skilled that I have learned I feel could be used when working with the adults at Beulah Recourse Base, we could use the face drawing technique to possibly personalise the animations, have drawings of the adults we are working with speaking or having thought bubbles etc. to tell their stories.