lecture 2!

I had my second lecture in multimedia today and it was as usual one of the more interesting modules in my network management and security course. there seems to be some really exciting possibilities with Flash and im looking forward to developing my skills and hopefully gain enough skill and experience to make some amazing flash presentations!todays lecture built on what we had learned last week, and advanced into "tweening". this is a simple animation technique where text and other objects can be manipulated into an animated video. this looks like a very intresting development and will definatly come in useful, however we also learned in the lecture that too many tweened objects on a page can be distracting as it draws the eye away from more bland objects such as text which will be the main body of a page.
Also i checked out the "aqualtis" flash move on the website we were trying to view in the lecture, and i was stunned!this is possibly the best example of flash i have ever seen. the whole page is nothing short of genius!you can find this page at http://www.dariopiana.com/home.html. i would recommend this site to anyone simply because of the skill involved in its production!i will check out the rest of the site when im back in uni tomorrow as the uni connection is far quicker than mine!
Thankfully i discovered that my copy of macromedia suite 8 is compatable with the mx 2004 software we use in glamorgan. this was useful as i have struggled to locate a copy of the now outdated mx edition through my usual channels!you can simple save the project as either a flash 8 file or the more compatable mx '04 file!this is very useful as i can not only get on with my work at home, but i can also use the software on my laptop which i take to uni! all this sounds good but it doesnt leave many excuses as to why i didnt do my project when i should have!!!!(only joking, im a good student really!)

well its bye for now as i prepare for another day at uni and hopefully a good weekend!

stay smooth!
tom
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