Flash Final Project: "Digital Me"
Flash Animation: “Digital Me”- Flash Capstone Project

Overview: Students will be using ALL of their Flash skills to create a multimedia presentation that reveals details about themselves, such as their hopes and dreams.

The Project:

  1. OVERVIEW: In the DIGITAL ME project, students will put together a multimedia presentation that introduces themselves, then offers the viewer a total of SEVEN different options, allowing the viewer some insight into the animator.
  2. THE INTRODUCTORY SCENE:
    • To start, the student must come up with an introductory scene in which the animator creates visuals that represent who they are and their personality. This scene must be AT LEAST 10 seconds long and contain the words DIGITAL ME and YOUR NAME!
    • At the end of your introductory scene, the movie will use an F9 Action to STOP and seven different BUTTONS will appear, giving the viewer seven different options of varying scenes to visit.
  3. YOUR "Digital Me" SCENES- Your seven buttons will send the viewer to seven different scenes, outlined below:
    1. “MY LIFE”: This scene tells the viewer about who you are- your age, your gender, your style, your moods, your outlook on life, your philosophies, your beliefs, and so forth.
    2. “MY FAMILY”: This scene tells the viewer about your family and the people (and animals) that are important to you.
    3. "MY PASSION”: This scene tells the viewer about your passions. What do you LOVE more than anything else? What would you get up at 5:00 in the morning to do? Come summertime, what are you dying to start doing again?
    4. "MY ART”: This scene tells the viewer about the things that you create in life that are artistic. Do you draw, sing, play an instrument, make glass bead necklaces, write poetry, beat box, create cool Flash animations? Describe it! Show samples, if you can!
    5. “MY MUSIC”: This scene tells the viewer about the music that you love. Talk genres, talk artists, talk varieties.
    6. “MY DREAMS”: This scene tells the viewer about the dreams that you have for yourself. If you could have any job in the world, what would it be? Where do you want to be in 10 years? Would your life be perfect if you got a full-ride football scholarship? Be specific, don’t just say: “I wanna be rich.”
    7. “MY FEARS”: This scene tells the viewer about the things in your life that you fear. Are you afraid of never getting into college? Spiders? Ending up homeless? Dying in a car accident? Tell us what you are really afraid of.
  4. "Digital Me" Scene Contents: Each of your scenes should be AT LEAST 10 seconds long and ILLUSTRATE, in an animated fashion, information about you. Use words and phrases to accent your scene, but this IS NOT a PowerPoint presentation, no bullet point lists! I want to be informed AND entertained.
  5. EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY: Extra credit will be extended to students who include music and sound into their animation, in particular, SOUNDS FOR EACH BUTTON or MUSIC FOR EACH SCENE.
  6. Scene Ending: Each scene should end and go back to the LAST FRAME OF THE INTRODUCTORY scene, so that the viewer can choose another option (without having to watch your intro scene over and over again!)
  7. RUN YOUR MOVIE to troubleshoot and watch for glitches!

Two Samples from years gone by:

Project Submission:

Projects will be submitted to the class DROP folder on the M: Drive. Please make sure to submit your final work as:

lastname_digital_me.fla

Scoring: This will be a 300 point assignment, graded on the proper inclusion of an intro scene and seven digital me scenes. Half of the grade on this project will be on the QUALITY of your presentation!