Fredrik_Investigate

==



**Introduction:**
During the investigate part of the project we made an Inspiration mind map of everything we needed for making our Flash animation. Then we did a few flash tutorials. These tutorial sheets taught us how to use the four tweens in Flash; Color, Shape, took an imovie practice sheet to find out what each button would do. At the end we made a reflection on what we thought the investigate part of the project was hard or easy. While doing this we had to list what things we needed for our Flash animation, such as pictures.

**Links:**
[|Brainstorm] and you can click the thumbnail below.



Research

Tutorial media type=

**ESLR reflection:**
I believe during the investigate part of the project we used the ESLR's Self-directed learner, Effective Communicator, Involved Citizen, and Critcal Thinker because we did different activities to cover different ESLR's. I showed I was an Involved Citizen and Effective Communicator when writing my reflections. I was a Critical Thinker when making my mind map because we had to think what we wanted to be in my Flash animation. When I did my we made our sources I was a self-directed Learner.

**Reflection:**
During the research part of the investigation section, I learnt a lot from watching different e-cards made. The different e-cards I saw had different amounts of effort put into them. I also learnt that there are different techniques used in different e-cards. During the brainstorm I did not know how much effort was put into a making a flash animation so I made one of my ideas to hard. I also learnt that there is a lot of planning that is needed to make a flash animation. I have learnt a lot when using the tutorial works sheets. I found the tutorial worksheets very easy and will easily add the motion tween and shape tween. The tweens will help my people moving and talking. I will use it for my person walking down a road or shop or when my characters are talking and there mouths are moving. The shape tween will help me by color shades changing when my people turn. I can use that when I my person turns and when part of his body is lighter and another part is darker. I can also make my things turn and move around. And example of when I will turn my objects is when the dog in the shop is flipping and jumping. After doing the practice worksheets, I am going to do my e-card about getting a pet. In this e-card there will be quite a lot of animation because I need to make a picture of my self in flash. I will try as hard as I can to make it look like me. This may take the most time while I am creating my e-card. Another part of my e-card that will take a long time is making a dog that is able to move. This dog will be gold and will wad its tail. It will also bark so it will move its mouth. This would take the same amount of time to make as making my self in flash. One thing I will need to find that will not have it a picture of an ordinary pet shop because that is the scene where I am in. When I am nearly finished I will test the e-card many times to see if there are any glitches and I plays smoothly. The words that I will use in my e-card will be clear and be in the right frame. My recordings will very clear and easy to understand. I will use the different such as the flip tween when making my dog do a flip. My emotion I want my viewers to feel is happiness. The message I will try to give to my viewers is “Get the right pet for you”. I will also have this message in text at the animation. I think that my flash animation will be simple enough to make in four classes. If I have extra time, I will try to make my flash animation interactive by making to of my ideas into one.