so i've been messing around with some of the flash files on the cd jason gave us. unfortunately you can't look at what they are until you open them in flash and save them off the cd because they are read only and have a spack attack at me for trying to 'test movie' before i've saved it :S this makes it a long and arduous process. it took me all day to make two crappy thingamagigs that really have nothing to do with anything and are not related to each other in any way, and other than what i've done, any further changes that i try to make to the file seems to render it useless and it just doesn't work in the test. so i'm affraid they'll just have to stay as they are. i now realise that i'm really glad that i didn't use any mined files in m y portfolio. god they are hell to work with. and my portfolio doesn't really need fancy twirling things, but they are fun to work on just for individual things. i never got to make the game that i wanted to make at the start of this semester that i learnt how to make the password box for and everything... but maybe one day...

the things that I made yesterday don't really seem to have much to do with body movement... well i suppose one does and the other is to do with the body in a way. i tried to also make a 360 degrees twirler thingy but it just wouldnt' work for me :(

flash fun

what are the expectations for this final mini flash thing that is also due at the same time as the folio?? i would email jason but i wouldn't get a reply... so i am just shouting the question out into cyberspace...

i am thinking of doing something about body movement for mine. i made all these little movies with my webcam for it - when you wiggle the webcam around it looks like half of your face can be on one side of the screen and the other half is somewhere completely different. i also have lots of pics of this, some i have already used for a previous flash thingy. maybe i should take a heap more. but i'm not really sure how to present them in a flash site. i'm thinking or doing something that's just like a total mish-mash of them on the screen so they are all overlapping each other and going crazy etc. i should probably use some mined files to create something that is like "oh that's interesting". but i don't know... damn it it is saturday night. for the last month or so my saturday nights have consisted of FLASH. gah!

PS. please note for the folio that it starts with the html page 'folioindex2.html' and other stuffs come of from that page. don't ask me why there is a 2 after it... maybe i planned on making more of them, or maybe i made a folioindex and then deleted it in preference of this second one... i am really not sure now... but yeah, one may think that the starting page is 'loadmovie.html' however it is not folioindex2.html is where it is happening!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

folio pics

folio finality

So it's friday the 9th, but it feels like saturday or sunday. It's my dog's 3rd birthday today.

my folio is on it's way to being finished. infact there is only one or two pages left that are not entirely finished. I'm having a lot of trouble locating some of the things that I wanted to put in the folio which is really saddening. Of course, first and foremost was that movie that i've already bitched about. A little section from that would have made an awesome opening page but instead I used that creepy clown looking picture, which I like, but i think it could have been so much more creative and creepy looking goddamn it ok i think i shall never get over this :(. moving on, there are also a couple of stories and essays that I cannot locate. I think i've deleted them by accident. I'm considering finding the hard copy that i handed in and scanning it into the computer, but I'm not sure if i want to go that far at this stage.

I'm glad things have come together like they have, as just a couple of weeks ago I was truely doubting my folio - i really hated it and wasn't having a fun time working on it. But now i have brought it back to simpler ideas that I know i can achieve (yes i know that i keep swapping between I and i), and so now I am more keen to work on it and get it done. Wow I'm going to be finished so damn early I rock technicoloured (and semi high, almost to the knee) socks.

A sweet sweet slider of folio pics, like that below of essay pics, will be coming shortly I hope.

I just have to say that I feel that I have probably not done this folio justice - and if i was really making myself a proper online folio i would probably spend a lot more time on it than what could be given for a Uni assignment. I don't mean that in a bad way, I mean i'd probably spend months and months and months on it and constantly change it. So if I end up putting this folio on the net I would probably try to make it EVEN BETTER before then. Maybe it can be something for me to think about over the summer break when it finally gets here. In saying all this, I am not suggesting that I think i have made a crap effort or that the folio will be handed in unfinished as neither are the case.

aw i notice that if you scroll down my blog you cannot see my first posts anymore. I did write more posts before you just can't see them because they have gone into archives... so yes... look for them in archives :)