Exercise: clip_story

The exercise due at the start of the class on Wednesday/Thursday requires you to create a ONE-FRAME movie of animated movie clips that are controlled with buttons.

Here are the beginning parameters:

Stage size: 800 x 600
Frame rate 30 fps
Background color: your choice

Start with an image in frame 1. For example, a flower pot:

first step illustration

Create buttons for three actions that will be controlled by movie clips. For example -- in the case of the flower pot -- create buttons called "water", "sunshine" and "grow".

When the user clicks on a button a MOVIE CLIP plays that makes that action happen. The example below shows what could happen when the user clicks the button "water".

watering flower

IMPORTANT

This movie must be ONE frame. All animations take place inside movie clips.

Movie clips will have "stop" actions in frame one and frame labels that will direct the playhead to specific spots in the clip when the user clicks on one of the buttons.

Use your imagination to create a scenario that requires a variety of actions. You do NOT have to use the flowerpot animation above -- especially if you can think of doing something that is more pertinent to your interests. If you can think of something that corresponds with your final project idea, even better.

BUT, BOTTOM LINE show me understand movie clips and scripting buttons to control them.