Post date: Feb 26, 2013 5:13:26 PM

Project 1: House

Create your house, with you and your pet on the stage. Add additional images, each in their own layer. Rename your layers appropriately. Once everything is on its own layer, create a motion tween for your pet to animate it on the stage. Create a sun or moon in the sky and animate it also. Create flowers or some object that grows in your yard using the scale tool during animation. Be creative.

Project 2: Vehicle

Our second project involves creating a vehicle of your choice with you driving it. Add additional objects, each in their own layer, renaming layers. Create your keyframes far apart for this project. On a separate layer, create a road/path for your vehicle to drive on. Scale your car as it goes across the stage so it looks like it’s getting smaller in the distance. Add a flower/tree/bush/etc. that blows in the breeze as your vehicle drives by. Animate the sun/moon so that it looks like it is getting brighter/darker as the day passes. Add either a background color or background image to your movie.

Project 3: Animating a body part

Now that we have been animating and aligning, take a digital image of yourself and animate a body part or an activity in motion. You will need to use your extraction skills from PhotoShop to complete this exercise. You may create any background you wish for your final movie.

Project 4: Winter scene

Draw a snowman on your stage. In your scene, his scarf should blow in the wind, he should wave his broom, and wind should be blowing in your movie. Add any other effects you wish to your movie.

Project 5: Handwriting

Obtain a clip art of a pencil or crayon from the Internet and extract it. Create an animation of that item writing your first name. At some point in your movie, use an eraser to erase a ‘mistake’ and then continue writing your name.

Helpful link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAjxtNd1wGw

Project 5: Animating multiple characters

To review Macromedia Director, choose three people/characters to animate on your stage. These may be real or fiction and could also include you as one of the characters. All three characters must be animated in some fashion from Tutorial 8 and must include sound for each of them as in Tutorial 9. You may scan images, use the digital camera, or save images from the Internet. Sounds may be recorded with the microphone or copied from the Internet. Sound bubbles may appear as in Tutorial 10, but are not required. Markers are also optional for this activity.

Project 6: Nursery Rhyme:

Step 1: Search the web for nursery rhymes. Choose your favorite children’s nursery rhyme and save the song in your folder on the network drive and in your folder under My Documents. Save both places so you have no chance of losing it!

OR

Create an original children’s story with a minimum of five pages. Your story does not have to rhyme, but may (like a Dr. Seuss story). The story must be your own creation, which you will be converting into a Shockwave movie.

Step 2: Send an email to Mrs. Beiter by the end of class on Tuesday, November 1, 2005 with the nursery rhyme title or story plot of an original children’s story you would like to put into an animated movie. (10 pts.)

Step 3: After receiving an email from Mrs. Beiter approving the project, create a storyboard showing a rough draft of each scene. Submit your storyboard to Mrs. Beiter by the end of class on Thursday, November 3, 2005 (30 pts.) It must be in my hands before you leave class on the due date!

Step 4: Create graphics for your rhyme in a new Director movie, using multiple layers and scenes to keep your movie organized. Your file must contain sounds, text, graphic images, color, and animation. Create a title page for your movie and an author page at the end of your movie. Record yourself reading the lyrics for each line of your rhyme using the microphone and Sound Recorder. Your movie must have back and forward buttons so the reader controls the pages in the story. Your movie should be ready to show to the class on Tuesday, November 15, 2005 Publish your movie. The rubric to grade your project is on the reverse side of this paper. (100 pts.)

Project 7

Students will create an introductory scene for their movie that includes the movie title and their name.

Students will leave time at the end of scene one for the text to be read and displayed.

Students will create a second scene with a garden, setting sun, rising moon and twinkling stars.

-The Garden may be substituted for any landscape. But it should demonstrate knowledge of the drawing tools. No image imports.

See video for further guidance.

Project 8

Students will create an introductory scene for their movie that includes the movie title and their name.

Students will leave time at the end of scene one for the text to be read and displayed.

Students will create a second scene with a garden, setting sun, rising moon and twinkling stars.

-The Garden may be substituted for any landscape. But it should demonstrate knowledge of the drawing tools. No image imports.

See video for further guidance.