Finally completed everything I need to do!

Just need to print some of it off at college today then got a long enjoyable summer to look forward to!

When we first recieved this brief I was puzzled as to how I would go about doing this and to be honest I struggled to come up with an idea that I wanted to pursue till very late on in the project, which left me less time than I would have liked to piece together my final flash.

Overall I am happy enough with the result but think the flash could be a bit more aesthetically pleasing and given the time I would probably redesign the way it is set out but keep the fundamental elements.

Still, I am impressed that I managed to create a 11,000+ frame interactive flash in the short time I had to put it together.

This year on the HND has been a great laugh, have learnt alot and cant wait to continue progressing next year.

One more image for the road, the sole reason this project is being handed in on time:

My Final Flash - Romney Marsh Interactive Tour 09

Some still images of the flash I have created:

DVD Case cover & Instructions Insert

Having printed both these 2 items at home, I realised the ink cartridge here is running low, plus the quality of the print is poor.

I will now re-print these 2 things when I go to hand my project in tomorrow.

I am also thinking of changing the font on the DVD Cover to Helvetica Ultra Thin. Might change this tomorrow.

Attempted creating a Hybrid CD-ROM with Flash Projectors

Well decided I wanted a CD-ROM that autoruns the interactive tour and possibly doesnt need the user to install Flash Player 9.. Easily discovered you can create an Autorun.inf to go with an exported Windows Flash Projector (.exe) but the mac version slightly harder as all the tutorials about creating a Hybrid CD-ROM say you need a .hqx mac projector file. Flash CS3 now exports its Mac projectors as .app folders.

I was not sure how to burn a hybrid disk using a .app folder but went ahead with it anyway.

I used MacImage on my Windows PC to create an ISO file, on Windows only the windows .exe, autorun.inf and the shared project_files folder will show up and on MAC OS only the .app folder and the shared project_files folder will show up.

Project_Files contains the project .fla, my dvd cover .psd. and my instructions insert .ai

As a backup incase the projectors fail for some reason. I am burning the .SWF on a seperate disc and handing this in aswell in a CD sleeve.

My Instructions Insert for DVD Case

For Part B I designed an insert to go in the DVD style case I am using for my CD-ROM.

Here it is:

Created a DVD sized cover for my CD-ROM

I decided to present my CD-ROM in a DVD sized case because I intend for it to contain a small How-To instruction guide inside the case. This would be the artwork for Part B of the brief.

Here is my design for the case cover.

Audio track for my Flash file and creating a Mute button.

I wanted to use a full size song on loop function so that there can be audio the whole way through the video tour.

Obviously most music is copyrighted though so I decided to look into some of the artists that dont belong to record labels that post their music on a BitTorrent site I use for everyone to listen to, use or reproduce. The way music should be.

Anyhow, I listened to a few tricks on this Various Artists compilation album, but settled on a simple track by 'Cortexalation' called 'Creationextol'.

To create a Sound Off button I used the Actionscript function:

on (release) {
stopAllSounds();
}