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Project 3: Animated Autobiography

Objectives: To imagine narratives based loosely on your own life and to represent

these stories with flash animations.

Skills Developed: Animating in Flash including drawing and adding motion,

Integrating sound into an animation, Storytelling

Software used: Flash, Audacity, possibly others such as Photoshop

Theme: Fictionalizing Your Own Life

This broad theme allows you to draw from your own life experiences in order to

imagine new and different characters and situations. You can choose to depict

yourself, people you know, or you may present fictionalized versions of yourself

or others. For example, you may want to base a character loosely on yourself, but

give yourself the ability to fly or heal people. You may also choose to depict a

situation you've been in, but you'll change the outcome. This assignment should

provide you with ample latitude to be creative while still focusing on this theme

about the permeable boundaries between autobiography and fiction.

Project 2 Requirements

1. The animation needs to be one - five minutes in length.

2. Use the default size settings and keep the frame rate at 12 fps.

3. Export as a .fla and as a .swf file.

4. The animation is due on Thursday afternoon, July 12.