User:Pedrov

=Freshman Seminar=

Always Wanted To Schedule

 * Topic

Flash Website for Donnie Bell
 * Research Component

Online Tutorials - Adobe Flash Training Workbook
 * week 1

Research on flash websites Gather together Donnie Bell's information
 * week 2

Setting Layout on Flash Creating Intro Animation
 * week 3

Creating Buttons and Link them
 * week 4

Add all content Create scroll Text box
 * week 5

Edit pictures on Photoshop for website
 * week 6

Create a Playlist
 * week 7

Add playlist into the page Test the flash animation Test links Test music playlist
 * week 8

Create the html file in dreamweaver. Posting it online.

Midterm Assignment 1: Taste & Aesthetics
My first impression with the sculpture park was very positive. There are not many outdoor “art galleries” around. However I thought it could be way much cooler. I thought there were more sculptures because of its size. I was impressed by some sculptures and indifferent with others. The piece I dislike the most was called Persephone Unbound by Beverly Pepper. To me at first I thought it was an old dead piece of log. Then I realize it was made of bronze. I still think it is a piece of art but I had issues trying to understand it. I did some research on Pepper’s sculpture and it actually caught me the explanation of the piece. “For ancient civilizations a well-positioned stone created a connection to the cosmos, and left vital evidence of a human presence.” – Beverly Pepper. Beverly does all kind of sculptures. Steel, bronze, aluminum, cast iron, stone and more. She also have an amazing land art (landscape) gallery that she have designed on her site which I though why didn’t she designed the sculpture park? Overall I didn’t quite changed my mind about the sculpture, I still think is a bit hard to read but I think it’s because its location (next to a shiny steel sculpture) However it is a great sculpture and the author is an amazing artist.

Midterm Assignment 3: Always Wanted To Progress Report (100 words or so)
My project started ok the first weeks, but after the third week everything went wrong. The Website I was putting together was all messed up. So it took me a couple of days to fix the coding. After that everything went nice and smooth. Donnie Bell (the client) noticed me that he won’t be able to give me the songs on time, so the music player will be post-pone for now. These last couple weeks I’ve been dealing with the animation process and the buttons. So hopefully I’ll have everything done by week 10

Final Presentation

 * Topic (10%)

< > Flash Website


 * Research (20%)

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 * 1) Internet site: "Top 10 Best Flash Websites of 2009." EBizMBA | The eBusiness Knowledgebase. Web. 10 Dec. 2009. .
 * 2) Book: Team, Adobe Creative. Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Classroom in a Book. New York: Adobe, 2007. Print.
 * 3) Scholarly Journal: No Luck
 * 4) Other (interview, TV show,etc): "YouTube - Flash CS3 CS4 Website Tutorial - Add Button Event Listeners in a Loop Actionscript 3.0." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Web. 10 Dec. 2009. .


 * Your accomplishment (20%)

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 * Project Review (50%)
 * 1)What went well

Got done more than expected
 * 2)What went poorly

Organization & Time (hard to follow the schedule.)
 * 3)Future strategies

Better planning. Organize information needed. No procrastinating.

Self-Assessment
At the beginning of this class I thought to myself. Why am I taking this class? I don’t really need it. But I guessed wrong. I learned about things I didn’t even know it could be learned. It was a very interesting class with discussions that could change or make it stronger your perspective of something. I also liked the “I always wanted to” assignment. It helped me realize that I should do the same process for everything I want to be done in the future.