Book description
This book will assist journalists and Flash developers who are working together to bring video, audio, still photos, and animated graphics together into one complete Web-based package.This book is not just another Flash book because it focuses on the need of journalists to tell an accurate story and provide accurate graphics. This book will illustrate how to animate graphics such as maps, illustrations, and diagrams using Flash. It will show journalists how to integrate high-quality photos and audio interviews into a complete news package for the Web.
Each lesson in the book is followed by a learning summary so that journalists can review the skills they have acquired along the way. In addition, the book's six case studies will allow readers to study the characteristics of news packages created with Flash by journalists and Web developers at The Washington Post, MSNBC.com, and Canadian and European news organizations.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Why Flash Journalism?
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Part II: How to Make Things in Flash
- Lesson 1: Drawing Tools
- Lesson 2: Simple Animation
- Lesson 3: Putting Flash Online
- Lesson 4: Buttons
- Lesson 5: Making Buttons Do Things
- Lesson 6: Movie Clips
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Lesson 7: Working with Photos
- About This Lesson
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Lesson 7
- Photo Editing Tips
- Exercise 7.1: Importing and Optimizing Compressed Photo Files
- Exercise 7.2: Importing and Optimizing Uncompressed Photo Files
- Bitmap Properties: Photo vs. Lossless
- Exercise 7.3: Moving Photos in Flash
- Motion Tweens, Bitmaps, and Symbols
- Exercise 7.4: Zooming In on a Photo
- Exercise 7.5: Fading Photos into Each Other
- Exercise 7.6: Looping a Fade Effect
- Doing It All with Movie Clips Instead
- Exercise 7.7: Using a Photo as the Background
- Importing a Sequence of Images
- Working with Photos Summary
- Conclusion
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Lesson 8: Working with Sound
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Lesson 8
- What You Need to Begin This Lesson
- Working with ActionScript
- Behaviors in Flash MX 2004
- Two Ways to Handle the Sound File
- Exercise 8.1: Sound Inside the Flash File
- Stopping All Sounds at Once
- Exercise 8.2: Sound Outside the Flash File
- Exercise 8.3: Detecting When a Sound Has Played to the End
- Exercise 8.4: Playing Two Tracks at the Same Time
- Exercise 8.5: Scripting a Pause Button
- Exercise 8.6: Scripting a Mute Button
- Exercise 8.7: Synchronizing Images to Loaded Audio
- Streaming and Event Sounds
- File Formats and Settings
- Working with Sound Summary
- Conclusion
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Lesson 8
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Lesson 9: Working with Text
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Lesson 9
- Exercise 9.1: Static Text, a Tour of What You Can Do
- Legible Text: Avoiding the Blurry Text Syndrome
- Exercise 9.2: Dynamic Text, a Tour of What You Can Do
- Exercise 9.3 Scrolling Text with the ScrollBar Component
- The ScrollBar and Flash MX 2004
- Moving and Transforming Text
- Exercise 9.4: Input Text, a Tour of What You Can Do
- Pixel Fonts: Sharp, Tiny Text
- Working with Text Summary
- Conclusion
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Lesson 9
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Lesson 10: Building Slideshows with Sound
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Lesson 10
- Planning the Package Layout
- Exercise 10.1: Simple Slideshow Using a Level
- Exercise 10.2: Simple Slideshow Using a Movie Clip
- Exercise 10.3: Automating the Photos
- What the Script Is Doing in Exercise 10.3
- Exercise 10.4: Add Automated Captions
- Exercise 10.5: Add an Individual “Photo Loading” Message
- Exercise 10.6: Guarantee That the Caption File Loads
- Exercise 10.7: Automating the Slideshow
- Exercise 10.8: Adding External Sound
- Exercise 10.9: Stopping on the Final Photo
- Exercise 10.10: Add Fade-In, Fade-Out Transitions
- Building Slideshows with Sound Summary
- Conclusion
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Lesson 10
- Part III: Case Studies
- Afterword: The Future
- About the Flash Journalists
- Appendix A Preloaders
- Appendix B Loading SWFs into SWFs
- Appendix C Video in Flash
- Very Useful Keyboard Shortcuts
- Flash Reserved Words List
- Index
Product information
- Title: Flash Journalism
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2012
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781136035371
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