ARS 162
Spring 2006

FINAL PROJECT, WEBSITE, AND CD-ROM PORTFOLIO OF THIS SEMESTER'S WORK

DUE: THURSDAY MAY 4

NO LATE PROJECTS. NO LATE CD-ROMS

 
  1. You will present and turn in for grading your completed final project on Thursday, May 4.
  2. You will turn in a non-returnable CD-ROM (or multiple CD-ROMs if necessary), a compilation of all projects from this semester:
  3. All of your projects will be on the CD-ROM and also viewable on your WEBSITE (linked from your main index.html page)

Here is a list of the required CD-ROM portfolio and Website contents:

  • IMPORTANT: Link all of the assignments from one index.html webpage. The index.html page can be a simple list of hyperlinks to each of your assignments. (You can use your index.html page from your website if you want.)
  • assignment 1: Formal Elements / Shape + Line exercise
  • assignment 2: "Archival Video as a Source for Hypertext "
  • assignment 3: "Virtual You / Virtual Other"
  • Structured graphics and custom palette exercise that was completed April 18.
  • blog assignment: your Blog (html page with 8 entries)
  • your Final Project: Illustrated Instructions animation using Flash. (Note that you will include both your final ".swf" file plus the Flash project file, the ".fla" file.)

FINAL PROJECT PARAMETERS:

  • Your final project will be a Flash animation (a "linear" animation or interactive - your choice) posted to your website and, linked from your  'index.html' page.
  • Your Flash animation will illustrate a set of instructions. The emphasis is on illustrating a PROCESS. The instructions can be fanciful or real, do-able or impossible, drawn from memory or researched, a set of prohibitive rules for a process or anarchic set of rules to break in a process, personal and political or self-reflective, etc.
  • Beyond the central concept, your project may explore any issue, concept, or idea… with two exceptions: your concept must be something other than either a portfolio of your work or a commercial job.
  • Your project can build upon and extend a previous project. It must, however, include a Flash animation.
     
  • There are no minimum number of elements.
     
    If your project includes elements in addition to short Flash elements, then the length of "browsing" time it would take a person to explore your final project should be approximately 30 seconds duration, .
     
    If your project includes soley a Flash animation ("linear" animation or interactive), then the length of "browsing" or viewing time must be minimum of 15 seconds duration.
     
  • It is strongly recommended that you create your own original images (using a digital camera or drawing illustrations). If you include any "found" material, you must make it "your own" by significant changes or re-contextualizations. If you have questions, consult with the instructor.
  • If your final project is based on a previous assignment, INCLUDE BOTH VERSIONS on your CDROM portfolio!!
     
  • The following are not required; these are optional elements to include with the Flash project. If you do use them, there are no minimum number of elements or restrictions as to the type of elements in addition to include. For example, you may select any one or combinations of the following: clickable hyperlinked images, clickable hyper-texts, ‘refresh’ pages, tables, frames, layers, rollovers, gif animations, structured graphic or bitmapped, or Flash animation.
  • The following are not required; these are optional elements to include with the Flash project: You may link to other people’s websites or web elements. You can also include components which we have not worked with in class - such as javascripts or java applets you discover on the web, or javascript "behaviors" found in the Dreamweaver program.