Format

Classroom

Duration

8.0 Day(s)

Description

Students will use Macromedia Director as a tool for creating multimedia presentations. Students will create a banner ad for a Web page on the Internet in Shockwave format, and an interactive presentation for distribution on a CD-ROM or DVD.

Audience

This course is designed for the student who has little or no experience using Director, and who needs to learn the basics skills that are necessary in order to begin to use this program effectively to create Web content in the Shockwave format and content for interactive presentations.

Prerequisites

Students enrolling in this course should understand the basics of using their computer’s operating system. For example, students should know how to launch an application, create and save files, and copy files from CDs and other media.

Objectives

Students will learn how to create animated Shockwave files, as well as media-rich presentations created as stand-alone applications for distribution on interactive CD-ROMs.
Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
Navigate in the Director environment.
Create animated Shockwave files for viewing on the Internet.
Create media-rich presentations as stand-alone applications for distribution on interactive CD-ROMs.
Control the tempo and transitions between frames to fine-tune movies.
Control the playback of movies with basic Lingo scripts.
Use Behaviors and the Behavior library to make images or text act as clickable buttons to perform various tasks.
Synchronize movie playback with cues from a soundtrack.
Create animation with tweening, multiple images, and film loops.