CGA 118

Week of: Tuesday Classes	This Week in CGA 118 - Tuesdays and Online
January 24th	Intro to the Course, Grading, Projects, Web SiteTheory and Concepts Review Color Models File Formats Backup and File Protection - Important ! How to Submit Files to the Elearning System Software - Where can I purchase the software used in the CGA Program
January 31st	Intro to Macromedia Flash - Chapter 1 Understand the Adobe Flash CS5 workspace Open a document and play a movie Create and save a movie Work with the Timeline Distribute an Adobe Flash movie Plan an application or a website Quiz One - Chapter One
February 7th	Planning a Flash Project Why do we need to plan? Planning, Producing, Testing, Launching Prior Planning Prevents Problems Paper Planning tool for CGA 118 Requirments for CGA 118 Projects Drawing in Flash - Chapter 2 Use the Flash drawing and alignment tools Select objects and apply colors Work with drawn objects Work with text and text objects Work with layers and objects Quiz Two - Chapter Two
February 14th	Submit Art Work for Consideration: Spring Vanguard, deadline March 19th. Photos, Illustratrions, designs Vanguard@gccnj.edu Introduction to Project One Working with Symbols - Chapter Three Create symbols and instances Work with libraries Create buttons Assign actions to frames and buttons Import graphics Quiz Three on Chapter Three
February 21st	Animation Strategies Creating Animations - Chapter Four Create motion tween animations Create classic tween animations Create frame-by-frame animations Create shape tween animations Create movie clips Animate text Files to Download for Today's Lab Assignment: Ladybug.ai See What we are going to Work on.... Submit Finished Lady Bug Animation as Lab Number One in the E-Learning System! Quiz Four - Chapter Four
February 28th	Animation Strategies Creating Special Effects - Chapter Five Create a mask effect Add sound Add video Create an animated navigation bar Create character animations using inverse kinematics Create 3D effects Use the Deco tool Assignment Due: Project One Planning Sheets Due Quiz Five - Chapter Five
March 6th	Creating Special Effects - Chapter Five Add scenes. Create an animated navigation bar. Preparing and Publishing Movie - Chapter Six Publish movies. Reduce file size to optimize a movie. Create a Preloader. Use HTML Publish Settings. Quiz Six - Chapter Six Work on Deconstruction Lab Assignment !!!
March 13th	Spring Break - No Classes Please make sure you have taken quizzes ONE through five....after March 15th these quizzes will disappear! Deconstruction Lab Assignment Find a Flash Movie on Flashkit.com (http://www.flashkit.com). Download the file to your USB Drive. Write a one page paper on how the flash files was constructed using proper terminlogy. You will submit the paper to Professor Mary and present to the class on March 20th the Flash Movie and your thoughts on the Flash Movie.
March 20th	Importing and Modifying Graphics - Chapter Seven Understand and import graphics. Break apart bitmaps and use bitmap fills. Trace bitmap graphics. Use imported graphics in a movie. Deconstruction Project Due - Presentations Quiz Seven - Chapter Seven
March 27th	Walking Guy Lab Creating Complex Animations - Chapter Eight Plan for complex movies and animations. Create an animated graphic symbol. Create a movie clip symbol. Animate buttons with movie clip symbols. Walking Man Lab Due Today ! Introduction to Project Two Quiz Eight - Chapter Eight
April 3rd	Project One Due at the Beginning of Class - Presentation Rubric Creating Action Scripts - Chapter Nine Work with actions. Work with targets and movie clip symbols. Create interactive movie clip symbols. Define variables Quiz Nine - Chapter Nine Super Hero File needed for Lab - please download
April 10th	Using Action Scripts - Chapter 10 Create complex interactivity Load movies at runtime Work with conditional actions Use ActionScript to create external links Work on SuperMan Lab - Due at the end of class today Quiz 10 on Chapter 10
April 17th	Work on Projects Two and Three
April 24th	Project Two Due - Presentation Rubric Professor Mary's Slide Show Examples
May 1st	Project Work Day
May 8th	Project Three Due - Presentation Rubric - Project Three is due at the BEGINNING of class! Nothing will be accepted after 10 AM on May 8th, that means labs, quizes and projects !!!