Syllabus

Week 1
Class discussion: Introduction to interactivity & Macromedia Director
Interactive Sketch: Personal Universe Deck & Incidental Drawings

Week 2
Class discussion: Drawing in director/cast to time & ShockWave, Producing interactive animation for the Web & Importing files/Key frames/in-betweening
Workshop: Personal Universe Deck & First animation
Interactive Sketch: Create an animation using a simiple mouse over event.

Week 3
Class discussion: Mouse-based interactivity
Workshop: Second Sketch
Interactive Sketch: Focusing on a single object create two different kinds of movement-internal and external.

Week 4
Class discussion: Rollovers and cursor scripts.
Workshop: Third Sketch
Interactive Sketch: Text and technology/connotative and denotative signs/working with text in Director

Week 5
Class discussion: Music with sounds/harmonic and discordant sounds in relationship to movement/working with SoundEdit 16.
Workshop: Fourth Sketch
Interactive Sketch: One frame animations

Week 6
Workshop: Fifth Sketch
Class discussion: 'if', 'else' and 'then' & writing case statements
Assignment: Revise one of your earlier sketches to make a fuller interactive project.

Week 7
Class discussion: Interactivity / navigational structures—giving the viewer choices.
Assiment: Group Cross platform CD-ROM

Week 8
Class discussion: window in a window and other pop ups.
Assiment: Group Cross platform CD-ROM (continued)

Week 9
In class work & individual conferences
Workshop: Group CD-ROM

Week 10
Workshop: Final projects