Meredith Silverman

My thesis presentation is in 10 days. I’m done with everything else I need to do for my classes, and now I’m just tying up loose ends on my thesis. I’m still adding a few animation sequences, and I have more sound to incorporate.

Changing the framerates on my animations didn’t work. FlashPageFlip seems to dictate a framerate, not multiply the framerate of each swf. So I had to go into each of my animations and sub-animations and add more frames into each movement. This was a big and mind-numbingly stupid job, but I had to do it. Pacing is very important.

I succesfully transferred all my click-animations into mouseover animations. That was another big job!

My in-class thesis presentation went OK, but left lots of room for improvement. Nancy and David suggested that, instead of summarizing the plot and then showing some of the storybook, I talk about the plot while guiding the viewers through the storybook. And my classmates insisted that I not give away the identity of the characters who stay secret for most of the story.

Sharleen stressed the importance of fluidity. When I go from my PowerPoint presentation to the web, I should either include a link from the PPT, or Alt-Tab to another program. The last thing the audience needs to see is my desktop background, or me mistyping a URL.

This entry was posted on Sunday, April 27th, 2008 at 12:15 pm and is filed under Thesis.