Flash Excercise: Time Square
(based upon an assignment by MICA Professor Ellen Lupton)

Create a document in Flash, 400 x 400 at 24 fps.
Make three squares, approx 72 x 72. Red, green, yellow with 60% alpha.
Place each one on their own layers and name these layers.
Place in center of screen.
Animate the squares.
The narratives should convey emotion but not a story.
Emotions could be things like happiness, sadness, anger, boredom.
You should use time to convey distinctly different attitudes.
In addition to changing the timing of the events, you can change alpha, tint, or the horizontal or vertical scale of the square.
Movement can be continuous or can have “bounce” and tension.

What to learn from this assignment:
-continuation of ideas from Prof. Grossman's square assignment- what ideas can you bring over from this assignment?
-emotions in abstract animation
-shape and motion tween in Flash
-file organization in Flash
-using symbols in Flash and the Flash timeline
-creating spacial environments inside a 2d screen environment