Using the over/hit/down properties

In this lesson I explored the over,hit, down properties. This is where buttons have different properties and features. For example, if I was acquire a button with the 'over' feature - when I hover over the button it will indent and clarify that I am hovering over it. This fitted in with my client breif because it was a technical element used. Furthermore, it fitted in with the client breif because it linked to the design of the front end. An example of using the different properties of buttons was the gallery of still form. The gallery of stills form consisted of about twelve different images that were driving related. You can use the mouse to hover over each image and it will bring up and enlarged version. 

To create the over property - once the button was created i had to click on the button and holf F6. This enabled the button to make have a summary pop up over it explaining what the button did and a preview of where it takes you.

Target audience - is mainly aimed at people who drive and regularly use car parks.

The button properties are not related to the target audience.

Message of the film - to indicate that dangerous driving in public car parks can be hazardous and it can cause dangers to others.

The button properties are not related to the message of the film.

Technical elements - It will include different screens such as play movie, scenes, outtakes and subtitles.

The button properties relate to the technical element of producing the front end and the design. I needed to format each image by double clicking on it and choosing the relevant property to acquire to each image.

Impact of the film on the audience - slightly humorous so the audience do not get the impression that I am accusing them of being bad drivers.

The button properties do not relate to the impact of the film on the audience.

New skills reference: Skill 25

Importing music files into Adobe Premier Pro

In this lesson I learned how to import and use mp3 files into Premier Pro. I did this so background music would play as you navigate through the front end. This was done by importing the file into the library and encoding it in the same way you would a normal scene or outtake. This met the design aspect of my client breif because it follows th same structure in my sketches and it was previously planned. I felt that it also linked in with the impact of the audience and the target audience section of the client breif. This is becasue by playing relevant music to my audience it would help get the message across and also relate to them. The music playing in the background creates a different mood to the front end. Although the colouring and background can already do this, i felt that music was quite a nice addition to the front end and it gave it a more light-hearted theme.

This was the code to enable me to import music in Adobe - I had to replace the "sub menu music" to the actual file name of the music clip for it to link up to the appropriate button.

3. Code to play music: (music file has to be in the project folder):

var channel:SoundChannel

var snd:Sound = new Sound(new URLRequest("SubMenuMusic.mp3"));               

channel = snd.play(1000,3);//1000 ms after start of sound, 3 times

Target audience - is mainly aimed at people who drive and regularly use car parks.

By using music in my front end I can relate to my target audience. However, this only becomes appropriate if I choose a relevant song to my target audience.

Message of the film - to indicate that dangerous driving in public car parks can be hazardous and it can cause dangers to others.

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Technical elements - It will include different screens such as play movie, scenes, outtakes and subtitles.

Importing music files into the front end needed alot of coding so it would play in the relevant screens. I need to declare the music at certain times and make them "false" at other times.

Impact of the film on the audience - slightly humorous so the audience do not get the impression that I am accusing them of being bad drivers.

This has a more positive impact on the audience watching the film and makes it more light-hearted. This hopefully gets the message across more easily.

New skills reference: Skill 21

Creating a drag and drop puzzle in my front end

To meet the interactive side of the front end I needed to ensure I included a drag and drop puzzle. This was basically a picture split up into four separate images. I used fireworks to do this because I was able to slice up an image and save it as four different files. The user has to drop the images into the boxes to complete the picture. This met the interactive side of my client breif, the target audience and the design. The target audience are of a young age and they are likely to like this peice of interactive software. The drag and drop was included in my extras part of the front end. The extras form included the quiz and the drag and drop puzzle.

Target audience - is mainly aimed at people who drive and regularly use car parks.

 The drag and drop puzzle relates to the drivers who regularly use the car parks. The idea of the drag and drop puzzle is to peice together a picture about safe driving. This is therefore related to people who regualarly use car parks becasue this raises awareness.

Message of the film - to indicate that dangerous driving in public car parks can be hazardous and it can cause dangers to others.

Creating a drag and drop puzzle does not really relate to this section of the client brief.

Technical elements - It will include different screens such as play movie, scenes, outtakes and subtitles.

The drag and drop puzzle has alot of different technical elements because it involves alot of different aspects of design. This includes designing the background, fonts of the writing and the boxes that each section of the picture is dragged into.

Impact of the film on the audience - slightly humorous so the audience do not get the impression that I am accusing them of being bad drivers.

I feel the drag and drop created a more fun theme to the front end and it made it more light-hearted because it was a good intereactive game to include and divert the attention away of telling people how to drive.

New skills reference: Skill 17

Producing a quiz and using it in the front end

To make my front end more interactive I created a quiz for the audience to use. This involved creating the quiz and encoding it into the front end. I had to use a special code for this and then paste the relevant code into the original code. The quiz was based on safe drivning. For example, "what is the maximum units of alcohol a person can consume when driving?" This linked in with my client breif because the quiz was aimed at the target audience. Including a quiz would relate to the target audience becasue they are young. Furthermore, a quiz makes the DVD more realistic and light-hearted and this could help get the message across. The quiz involved three driving related questions. For exmaple, "what is the speed limit on a normal street lit road?" Once the user has answered all of the questions the computer will give them a mark out of three and see if they have completed the quiz correctly. The quiz was hard to code into the appropriate form., The quiz is situated on the extras form and needed to be linked to the "play quiz button". I had to produce my own code to produce the quiz. This needed to be linked to the button in order for it to work once it was clicked. I need to make a declaration line of code to declare the quiz to open.

This is an example of one of the codes i used to create and code my quiz into my front end. This code counts the quiz answers and detects whether they are correct or not.

11. Example of a Subroutine that can be called by an Event, this particular subroutine counts quiz answers:

function endForNow(evt:Event)                                                                                                // final screen display

{

            if (frmQuestion.visible = true); frmQuestion.visible = false;                // make question invisible

            if (frmCorrect.visible = true); frmCorrect.visible = false;                          // make correct invisible

            if (frmWrong.visible = true); frmWrong.visible = false;                            // make wrong invisible

            var maxScore = answers.length;                                                                               // check number of questions

            var correctScore = 0;                                                                                            // set correct to zero

            for (var i:int = 0; i < answers.length; i++)                                                      // look for correct answers

            {

                        correctScore = correctScore + answers[i];                         // add 1 if correct

            }

            frmEndScreen.txtFinalScore.text = correctScore.toString();                // display score achieved

            frmEndScreen.txtMaxScore.text = maxScore.toString();                     // display max score

            frmEndScreen.visible = true;                                                                      // make screen invisible

            frmEndScreen.x=100;                                                                                    // position for appearing screen

            frmEndScreen.y=100;

}

Target audience - is mainly aimed at people who drive and regularly use car parks.

The quiz relates to the audience because it is based upon driving related questions. The audience are likely to get the questions correct becasue they are road users themselves and are aware of the certain rules and regualtions.

Message of the film - to indicate that dangerous driving in public car parks can be hazardous and it can cause dangers to others.

The quiz only demonstrates the do's and dont's based around driving on normal roads, not car parks and therefore does not apply to this section of the  client breif.

Technical elements - It will include different screens such as play movie, scenes, outtakes and subtitles.

The quiz has alot of technical elements just like the drag and drop puzzle. The quiz needed its own code to link up and play once the "play quiz" button had been clicked. I also needed to let the computer know what were the correct answers without showing this to the user. I did this by coding the answers to the questions, to the correct buttons on the quiz.

Impact of the film on the audience - slightly humorous so the audience do not get the impression that I am accusing them of being bad drivers.

I do not feel that this section relates to the client breif.

New skills reference: Skill 16