My slide show was the one that showed hope. In order to obtain the the photos, I send out a facebook message to my friends and asked them to send in images that they believed showed a hope for hard times. Few replied, but I was able to make a small slide show out of the images received. I am pretty satisfied at the way the slide show turned out. I wanted it to be simple and kind of stylish at the same time. The complicated slideshows frustrated me in the past, so I decided a simple one would be best, without the long intro that everyone would have to see every time they came back to see it. They only thing that i would’ve liked to do was a sliding thumbnail gallery instead of the lines of photos. I believe it would’ve given the slideshow more control in terms of design. 

I liked the slideshow that had the sliding thumbnail gallery in the roll of film, although it was a bit fast and hard to control. With that, I also enjoyed the transitions of the slideshow showing the road to school by a girl and the various things she would see. The layout was unique and the control was pretty intuitive and again unique.

I decided to make my slideshow Twilight themed because I am a huge fan of the series. Here, I created a slideshow that takes you through the story of Twilight in 10 frames. I think the graphics I created for the slideshow is what worked best. I decided to give it a gothic or dark theme to go with the overall theme of the story pertaining to vampires. In retrospect I think I could have given it a better introduction. I give it a small animation in the beginning (images and text sliding into frame) but I think I could have done something a little more creative with it.

Overall I accomplished my goal for the slideshow. I wanted to give everyone a little taste of something I enjoy in a beautiful way and I think that came across.

Just to note again: the music doesn’t play here because I linked it externally. By linking externally, the music isn’t compressed and sounds better than putting it in the .fla library.

Another person’s slideshow that I did enjoy was Liat’s ‘Reflections in Puddles’. The animations used were very creative and goes along well with the theme of puddles and raining. The intro music also fits the overall theme. I also really like the way you can navigate through the pictures and the actionscript behind it. The transitions used to go from picture to picture are professional and eye catching. Overall a lovely slideshow!

The general idea was to basically create a nice and simple slideshow. However since I thought we supposed to create two different slideshows I sort of had to divide my efforts into both the linear and nonlinear and therefore couldn’t really make anything neat and fancy. Anyway I tried to make the slideshow as appealing as possible, and in that aspect I think I did well. But in the end it didn’t turn out the way I wanted, if I had known that we can do a combo linear and nonlinear I probably would have come up with something a lot better.

A slideshow that I really liked was Reflections in Puddles. It had a nice appeal and I enjoyed her intro scene very much as well as the roll of film that also acted as buttons. The rain was a neat effect as well.

For this slideshow project, I did it on pictures I took when I went to Taiwan. It was a slideshow with two eyes and a smile on the bottom. If you point on the eyes, the pupil will roll up and I think this part work the best because it is funny so it creates some sort of effect. The intention for this project was to form a happy face with small icons on the two sides to navigate from pictures to pictures, but I didn’t succeed in that when I was doing the action script, so I switch and do a linear one.  

I think the slideshow on the movie “Twilight” works really well. The slideshow was not really complicated, but it works well because the design was really nice. I would like to have the design in my slideshow too. The design was gray and gold but it matches the theme of the slideshow. It was too complicated or over design so it doesn’t distract the audience from the pictures or what the artists want to say.

For my slideshow project, I created my favorite doll collection called Momiji. I accomplished a lot in this project because I used many techniques to complete each scene. In the first scene, I created music buttons that can play, pause and stop the music throughout the scene. The second, third, fourth and fifth scenes also use buttons to link to different scene by using the same circle shape to create the apple, flower, sun and tree. I also use motion and shape tween to create the butterfly and flower, which I liked very much. I think it fits very well in my slideshow.

Furthermore, the slideshow I enjoyed watching was the one with the slider of rolling film strip at the bottom with many thumbnail photos. I liked the way she created the effect of the rain and the puddle of water in each photograph. The “Singing In The Rain” song fits greatly in slideshow. I would like to learn and take away from was the actionscript of the rolling film slider, which I think I would use in my future project.

For my slideshow, I chose images of animals because i was randomly looking through pictures and liked the quality of the images. From there I made the interface simple and allowed users to click both thumbnails and back and forward arrows, I would have liked to animate how the images showed up on my slideshow project but didnt get the actionscript to work.

I like Jennifer Moy’s clean interface that intergrated a map that can be used to scroll through the pictures and that she used the actionscript to allow the pics to drop down when the next or when she clicked on a button on her map. It just gave the slideshow a nice effect with simple functionality and clean design.