My first Flash experience

Positive and negative experience
what old i change
what mark would i give myself

For my most recent flash project, we had to make a web page. We could do it on a hobby, band or a personal page. I chose to do a personal page. The positive experiences I had doing this project were learning a bit better how to actually use flash to its full potential. It was difficult learning how to do the different specific things needed to know to complete the project, but in the end it worked out fine and a web page was produced. I liked to see how professionals make the we sites that I go to everyday. I would see how the page but never really know the work that went behind it and now I do.

One of the only downsides to this project was if you made one little mistake during the process, it wouldn't work. There are many steps to completing one section of a scene (i.e. getting text to continuously move across the page), so if one letter in an action script is wrong, there would be nothing moving across the page. That made it a little difficult to locate where you went wrong. That is really the only the negative aspect to my first flash experience.

If I had more time to work on my flash project, I would probably add a scene for each of my favourite bands. I dedicated a scene to 'Music' and listed my favourite artists. I did do one scene for Taking Back Sunday, my favourite band ever and explained their history, why I like them and included pictures. If I had more time, I would make a scene like that for each of the 5 bands I included. I would also add more movement and interactive aspects to the pages. I have on figure that if you click it will move and make it look like its dancing, but if I had more time I would have put more of that type of thing.

If I were to grade myself on this project I guess I would give myself about an 80%. I think that is a fair grade because I included all of the components that were asked for, and I think it was fairly creative. I am not great at the computer and don't really know how to do very much, but I did the most I could in the situation. I could have had more movements and actions but given the time frame and so on, I think i did pretty well. That is why I think that 80% would be an appropriate mark.