Success! I passed my first year of Interactive Media Production at Bournemouth Uni. Go me! But that's not really what this post is about.

Level I and What’s in store

For the past couple of summers, I’ve given myself a project to keep my mind at least a little active until it’s time to come use it again in September. This year’s no different, and there’s a few ideas milling around my head, but I want to do something involving Twitter and Flash.

Playing with the Tweener class

Once we all had collected the idea of what our collaborative project would have as it’s video content, the interactive element was kind of pushed to the side-line. We were left to try and make the story that was told through the video seem interactive to the visitor.

Ward 413 – Making an interactive panorama

The latest project for university has involved making a Flash animation. Just the other day I’d finished making it, so I thought I’d take you through a bit of the development - because that’s always interesting, right?

Popferret – The ins and outs

Obviously, if you’re going to tell a story, it’s a good idea to know what that story is before you go and tell it. So that’s why I’ve drawn up a storyboard. It helps to know exactly what you’re planning to do beforehand, rather than make it up as you go along. You don’t get as stuck then.

Popferret Storyboard

The next project is an animation in Flash lasting a couple of minutes. Now I’ve done plenty of work in Flash, but that’s specifically missing out animation of characters because – in all honesty – I can’t draw. So I needed to find an animation I could do without doing too much drawing by hand.

Flash animation project – Popferret main character

We’ve got a new brief set… hooray…! This is a Flash-based project, however, so we’re batting at home on this one.

Animation in relation to audience

As time moves on, you’re most likely going to get bored with the designs of yesterday. It happens. Time moves fast, especially when you’re learning new design features every day. It’s time my portfolio got a little bit of a facelift. But what to do?

Portfolio redesign – Typography

As part of my course, we have to create a video channel website full of interesting and fun things to do on that site relating to a series of fictional and non-fictional video content. Our group’s project centres around creating a parody of already comical TV series Gavin and Stacey.

Flash Video Player for Marvin and Tracy

Having just come out of making The Ball Game – my first attempt at a full on web game (and not just a silly thing to amuse my friends with), I learned a lot of key skills in Flash design.

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