Mitchell_Investigate

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During our investigation we made a 'mind map' which is basically just linking all your ideas to your topic on a piece of paper. In my investigation I had all different ideas for stories that I would create in flash for my e-card.
 * Introduction:**

I believe during this part of the project I covered the ESLR's critical thinker and self-directed learner. I believe this because I had to think into the future and I had to direct myself in order to put the rite stuff in, and do it the whole thing correctly. If you want to see the first basic ideas I had for my e-card,
 * ESLR’s:**

click the above thumbnail to see my 'mind map'

To view my research click the thumbnail or link below...

Here is my first try at making an animation, as you can see it was not very good and it was very simple, but you just wait till you see my actual e-card... media type="custom" key="74919"

Over all during the investigation part of our flash project I think I did pretty well and will surely use what I learned to create an excellent e-card. I have learned many things about flash over the past few days but because of the way I want my e-card to run I will not use everything I learnt. The first thing I must do is tell you the definition of a tween, a tween is basically the movement or change of a shape. Two things I will surely use are the shape and motion tweens. I will use these to make my characters move and part of my e-card to change shape. The two tweens I will not use so much (but I have to use) are the color through shape tween and the rotation tween, I wont use so much because not many things in my movie will rotate or change color. While investigating I found all the worksheet pretty easy; however, when I was doing the tutorial there were bits when I was going to murder the computer because I had done one tiny little mistake. An example of something I found very easy was the color though shape tween, I found it easy because I had already done flash about four times before so I flew through it. All in all I found the investigation of flash quite easy and should make my e-card with ease.
 * Reflection:**

After doing my brainstorm, the research, and the flash worksheets I think I should do a much easier card then what I was thinking of doing. Which means the e-card, which I plan to do, is the birthday card for my friend, Fredrik; however, I will surely simplify it because what I was thinking of would be much to hard. The story line of the card will go as follows. First Fredrik will be standing on a stage and he will say, “hello, I’m Fredrik”. Then everyone in the theatre (where Fredrik is standing on stage) will randomly say, “happy birthday Fredrik” in different (funny) accents, or if there is no time I will just have text for each of these. To conduct this all I will need to do is record voices (or type messages), draw pictures, and get a short soundtrack as an entry and exit song. The criteria, which I plan to meat during the making of this project, will mostly be a detailed message to a certain person, which will make it slightly more special and have a more thorough meaning. Other criteria I will meat is that I will hopefully make it flow and make it easy to understand, also I will add color, keep consistency with drawings. A few pieces of criteria I will surely have include an appropriate length, an e-card appropriate for intended viewers, a constant theme throughout (meaning all drawings connect), hopefully it will be creative, have clear yet simple drawings (that I will create using different shapes in the flash program, and should be easy to recognize), and I hope to create a happiness emotion. The last important criteria I will include is that everything will work with no starts and stops or awkward bits. Over all I hope to create a great e-card with all the necessary criteria and anything else I might want to add, while hopefully keeping it simple.