Director 8:  Introduction

Course description

Prerequisites: Students enrolling in this course should understand the basics of using their computer’s operating system. For example, students should know how to launch an application, create and save files, and copy files from CDs and other media.

Performance-based objectives

Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Navigate in the Director environment.

Create animated Shockwave files for viewing on the Internet.

Create media-rich presentations as stand-alone applications for distribution on interactive CD-ROMs.

Control the tempo and transitions between frames to fine-tune movies.

Control the playback of movies with basic Lingo scripts.

Use Behaviors and the Behavior library to make images or text act as clickable buttons to perform various tasks.

Synchronize movie playback with cues from a soundtrack.

Create animation with tweening, multiple images, and film loops.

Course content

Lesson 1: The Director Environment

Director Environment Elements

Playing a Movie

Setting Up the Authoring Environment

Lesson 2: Creating Linear Movies

Creating a New Movie

Creating a Cast

Creating the Movie

Lesson 3: Creating Interactive Movies

Storyboarding 

Choosing Movie Properties

Media Types

Creating Casts 

Working With Sprites

Lesson 4: Controlling Playback

Tempo

Transitions

Markers

Scripts, Behaviors, and the Behavior Library

Looping and Synchronizing Music

Lesson 5: Animating Sprites

Types of Animation

Flash Animations

Video Cast Members

Tweening

Multiple Cast Members In One Sprite

Lesson 6: Outputting Movies

Creating Shockwave Movies

Creating Projectors