Time	Lecture	Assign	Readings
Part I: Animation	1 week	Introduction to Director Intro to animation. Creating a Movie. Origination Windows. Intro to Score and Cast. Sprites. Color.	Assignment 1	Johnson* modules A-D, I
	1 week	Animation Tweening. Film Loops. Step Recording. Real Time Recording. Onion Skinning. Adding Audio and Video.	Assignment 2	Johnson modules F, G, J
	1 week	Using the Web Projectors. Shocked movies. Using the Shockwave machine.	Assignment 3	Johnson* modules H, appd A
Part II: scripting	1 week	Interactivity with Lingo. Introduction Behaviours events, messages and handlers	Assignment 4	Johnson modules K and L Gross* chapter 4
	2 weeks	Lingo Data types, variables Control Structures: if/else, repeat while, break and continue functions, built-in and programmer defined Arrays	Assignments 5-6	Johnson module L Gross chapters 8, 9
	2 weeks	Interactive animation User feedback and control Controling sprites with lingo Time-outs and idles Alert Boxes Net Lingo	Assignments 7-8 Exam I Project 1 due	Gross chaps 10-12
Part III: Flash Animation	1 week	Introduction to Flash. Creating graphics and text Symbols and the library Animation	Assignment 9	Rey* lessons 1-4
	3 weeks	Programming Flash. Actions: Interactivity (buttons, etc.) ActionScript: Events Variables and arrays loops, conditionals	Assignments 10-12	Rey* lessons 5, 7
	1 week	Advanced Flash. Components Dynamic Content Optimizing Flash	Assignment 13	Rey* lessons 8, 9, 11
	1 week	Finale Term Project Presentations	7:30-10:00AM, Friday, 9 May

	References *Johnson: Director 8 Shockwave Studio, Illustrated Complete Steven M. Johnson, Course Technology, 2002. *Gross: Director 8 Demystified, Phil Gross and Jason Roberts, Macromedia Press, 2000. *Rey: Macromedia Flash MX: Training from the Source, Chrissy Rey, Macromedia Press.

Last updated on January 16, 2003 by John Barr