Flash Task

Well our task for tuesday session was to learn how to incorporate sound and video into flash. We were learning from online tutorials step by step. But i thought it would be good to incorporate all my skills learnt that lesson into one piece of work. Its very simple but shows that sound can be used on a click of a button, and that a video can be imported on a certain frame.

Im learning step by step but Im getting more and more confident at making this final quiz and getting all the sounds to work at the right time and how to add video as a question or just an intro/outro.

Keep Vid - Website

Not sure how many people know about this website, but its epic. When we were doing our flash task yesterday of putting a .flv video file into a flash project. It was very very hard to find and download a .flv file, especially one that you wanted. I came across this website, and it can handle Youtube video. So you can put any Youtube video website address into the website and then download it as 3 different .flv files (lo, medium or hi res) and you can download as mp4.

This is cruital in our flash project I think, because if your wanting to add a video to the quiz, pretty much any video you would want you can find on Youtube and then download through this website, and its already in a flash compatible format, no buying/downloading programs to convert into .flv format.

Enjoy.

My Work

Not sure how to write this but I'll just answer the questions.

For the past few years my creativity has been influenced by looking at magazines that I enjoy and looking at it in two different ways. Magazines are for information based reading but behind that there is also design. Even looking at magazines that are on a different world to computers and design, there is always a graphic designer that works for them. I think a lot of my influence has been through not intentional looking for that design, but coming across it.

A lot of my work has been purely for myself as I don't have a client. Mainly website design. I have created hundreds of websites over the years, yet only a couple have actually been uploaded to the web. Every one has been different and they all link to the portfolio based kind. I have been asked to make some for friends, weather it be a clothing company or a motorsport company. I've never been confident enough to publish them. But its good way of learning and progressing.

The way I work isn't really by the book, I just think of a design randomly, and write it down, sketchy as possible. I will then try and digitalize and then add things bit by bit. I never go through loads of designs and look at the best one and work on it. My decisions are purely my own.

I think the future of my creativity would be to work in a small based company looking at briefs and hopefully getting my mark on the design. Then to look in magazines or on the internet knowing that I influenced/created that said piece of work.

I think research is key in getting to places, its good to know what is out there already. Its good to know how trends have clicked on or have been a complete disaster and keeping this onboard all through creativity.

Starting point for research is defiantly the Internet, without doubt, book research is good, but long winded. The Internet caters for all and anything you want to know is basically at your finger tips, weather it takes 5 mins or 5 hours to find.

I might have babbled on about a load of rubbish here, so sorry for the long read.

Iron Man - Tetsuo by Shinya Tsukamoto

Well this was quite possibly the most random starts to education I have ever had. This film is the most random and quite disturbing (if you didn't see the funny side) film I've seen. I tried to concentrate to understand as much as possible, but at the end I only really had a vague idea of what was going on, if that. These Film & Theatre kids we have hooked up with are somewhat genius. Every question had, they seem to have an answer for, which none of whom had seen the film. They also knew many films that were in the same style and same theme. None of these i had heard of either.

I do put it down that they are actually doing a degree n this subject, but it makes me think if we had something web/print based to look at, would I be able to answer questions on it ? Would I know the style ? I feel more research and blogging my favorite works online should be a more regular occurrence to understand the big boys in the design industry.

First week back - Term 2

Well, first week back was a bit hectic after having a month off. We learnt how our BA subject is linked with another...

Anyway, my first project is a Interactive Media one with Dr David Downes. He seems to know his stuff, and I think I will learn quite a lot in Flash this term compared to last. Although a lot of people seem to be dreading Flash I'm really looking forward to it and I hope I can learn more of the action-script 3.0 language.

Our first homework task is to play loads of online Flash games and to bring together a powerpoint presentation to review it in our groups. Should be fun.

I finish on this (Kind of linked to our two hour lecture on 'linked subjects'...)