Programming for Interactive Multimedia
Homework One

Exploring Director I: Cast, Stage, Score, Script and Media creation windows

Overview

Create a Director Movie that navigates through 5 sections, showing us different images and/or text in each section to let us know we are in a different place. At least one element in each section should be the "button" to take us to another sections. Have fun with this--remember everything you do as an artist--even programming--should be about telling a story or eliciting a particular response.

Each project should include the following elements:

Cast (using Paint, Vector, Text, and Script Windows):

• Create five (5) bitmap members (Paint Window)
• Create five (5) vector members (Vector Window)
• Create two (2) text members
• Create scripts (copy and adapt from the "Scripts you should know" page) that pause the playback head and do at least two others navigation tricks (move forward or backwards by relative frame, go to a specific frame, go to a specific marker, or go to the previous or next markers) to use on your "buttons"

Score:

• Create and NAME five (5) markers in the marker channel to use for navigation through your piece
• Drag the scripts to pause the playback head to the frame script channel either at each marker frame or, if your sprite is longer than one frame, at the last frame of the longest sprite for each section
• Drag the navigation button scripts (the mouseUp ones) onto the various buttons

Stage:

• Drag and arrange the different cast members on the stage in each section to tell a story, make us laugh, or make us feel SOMETHING!

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