Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Thunder Over Louisville

In my Flash banner above, I am advertising Thunder Over Louisville, On the banner, you can see when Thunder is this year, where it is, and why its so big. Thunder is one of the largest firework shows. It happens every year to start off the Kentucky Derby festivities. I created this banner so all those people who wanted to attend Thunder would know all the information they needed to know. To create this ad banner, it looks easy but there was actually a lot of work that was put into it. I used many tools along the way. I used the Selection Tool to select the photo so I could make changes to it. I had to use the Adjust Color panel to make the colors appear and go away. The Classic Tween was used to add animation to the photo. I created a new symbol so the photo could be viewed as a movie clip instead of a picture. In order for the picture to appear on the flash document, I had to import it. Once the picture was imported, I had to align it so it would fit the stage, which is what I was working on. I had to create new layers to separate the text from the actual animations. I added text to the photo so you could see what I was advertising. I had to change the text color and font size so it would fit appropriately. The final tool I used was the Test Movie in Flash Professional tool. I used this tool so I could view my ad banner where it would keep doing the animation over and over again.