Project 5 Interactive Story Reflection Journal

        For this project, I made an interactive story using Flash CS6. The interactive story I made was about a girl who enters her house and behind her is a mouse that sneakily came in and when she sees the mouse she screams for her cat to come. When her cat comes then she tells her cat to go catch the mouse and her cat goes to find the mouse and chases it, eventually catching it. Then the cat goes to it's owner with the mouse caught and she praises the cat. For this project I used graphic, button and movie clip symbols. First I drew all the graphics that I would need and then I selected it all and converted it into a graphic symbol. Then to animate it I right clicked on it and converted it into a movie clip and I converted some of the graphics into a button so it could be as interactive as possible. I used AS that told the movie clip to stop looping, to go play the next frame and to go play the next scene or go to a scene and play.
       I put animation and AS on my movie clip and buttons and the scenes so that I could just put drag it onto the scene so my scenes only have one key frame for my layers: actions and content and when you double click on the movie clips you can see the key frames for the animation and also for the AS. On my buttons I changed the color in the hit and down area so that it would be noticeable that it's a button and to click on it. I also put some instructions that would allow the user to go through the story easily so they wouldn't be confused about what to click to continue the story. Then when I finally finished then I inserted sound in my buttons. I made the sounds in GarageBand. And then I inserted the swf file into my HTML document and uploaded it onto the server. I tried to improve on my project so I made a few changes to the flash file under another name and then I made a table on my html document that shows the before and after of my project. i improved my project by putting in more narrative.