Implementation went according to plan for most of it. I created 3 scenes. Using the tutorial and the help from the workshops I quickly created the pre-loader. I made the document 700 by 600 pixels so that it would fit in the browser as this is one of the briefs requirements. The picture, i.e. the logo I imported and got form the website. If I was actually going to publish this on the website, I would have to download a fan kit or ask permission to use the pictures, but as it’s not going to be published and is not a requirement of the brief, I will not. I had a problem with the pre-loader at first with the bar not filling up as the percentage loaded and this I tested using the bandwidth profiler. I overcame this problem because I forgot to put the instance name of the bar to “loadBar” sot he action scripting to work properly. Other than this the re-loader went well.
Now the second scene. I recorded parts of Buffy using some software and edited it into Premier. I used a mixture of slow and fast shots but timed it to finish with the music that I edited in from the original Buffy theme tune. When the music stops, the Buffy title comes together and then holds for a few seconds and then a blackout, just to add a bit of tension to the user. Then it moves onto the interface. I didn’t want to add much again to this scene, the reason being I didn’t want the file to be too big as the user would be waiting around a while if they were on dial up for example to load up the flash document. I set the music to be synchronised with the shots but only to lay once, by selecting start at the beginning and stop at the end of the keyframe. When I didn’t do this the music track seemed to repeat it self once even when I set it to repeat zero times, it didn’t really make much sense but I overcame the problem like I said.
The last scene, the interface. I seemed to have the most problem with these. The buttons I created in flash as flash in a vector based system, so I tried to limit the use of importing pictures to a low, when I could create objects using flashes tools I did, in case it needs to be made lager or even smaller. The four buttons I decided to make are: - Home, Introduction, Actors, and Official Website. The last two are going to be links to the official website and the actor’s part of that website. The problem I was having and even the demonstrators didn’t know why was that they were created in exactly the same way, a button then a movie clip for when it was hovered over. The Home button worked when I tested it but the others wouldn’t. The problem was that the way buttons and movie clips but they were registered as being the opposite. The button had a button image in the library but had a registration of a movie and vice versa. It was really weird; it was simple to solve just change the setting, but no one knew why this had happened!
The pictures I added into the scene and looked at how long the song was and divided that by the number of pictures so that I could evenly place the pictures in the timeline and when it reached the end I simply put in the code to go back to frame one of the same scene, so it would loop the pictures, but then set the music to loop at start, not event or a new instance of the music would be over the top and therefore not exactly sound good. I choose the use the music of Buffy fighting with another person, as this started off slow but got slightly faster in the beats, jot over the top and then gradually reduce in volume ready to be repeated, as this is what happens when you look at movie title screens, they play then get quiet and then repeat, so I simply repeated this action.
All the buttons, music, sound effects, clips letters and words were each used in different layers and then positioned. You will be able to see this clearly when the Buffy.fla file is opened and the library is clearly organised in folders so that it made it easy to reuse the some icons, buttons, images etc.
