And the Days Are Flying By....

After being out sick almost all last week, I sure had a pile of projects when I got back! I'm all caught up now... finally!

I am enjoying all of my classes here at Interactive Multimedia. Mondays we have visual design. It's like a mini graphic design program with a web twist. This class in particular has already made me draw more than I have in the past few years.

Tuesdays are set aside for Project Management & Multimedia Presentation. This week, we all had to get up in front of the class and do a presentation on a designer of our choice. My designer was Marian Bantjes from British Columbia. Her stuff is absolutely fantastic. I encourage you to check out her extensive portfolio on her web site.

Wednesday is Web Design which I believe is my biggest challenge. We are just getting into Cascading Style Sheets. If I ever come up with anything decent for this class, I will be sure to post it... it may take a while though before that happens, just sayin'.

Thursday is Audio/Video. For today's class, I submitted my first edited movie which I also shot myself. This was the first time I had ever used a video camera. I was also the only actor, so between acting and running back and forth to the camera to switch focus/zoom settings and the record button, I was pretty sweaty by the end of it.

And then there's Flash Fridays... my favourite! :)

I had spent last winter going through a Flash tutorial book, so I'm a little ahead of some of the others in our class. I have to say though, nothing I did for the tutorial book was anything near as nice as what I've put out for this class so far. I'm attaching my first two Flash projects here so you can see them. Both projects were focussed on "nested animations". The second project also incorporated play and stop buttons (my first action script... I am so proud!).