Monday 31st

Today i am continuing writing my reviews. I have not yet completed my analysis review so will finish that today.

I have also started to put the information on to my project today, i had collected the information a while back but needed to finish my pages before putting it on. To add the information i simply added a text box to the page and inserted the information. To do this i clicked on the text tool on the right in flash and clicked where i wanted the text to go, i then simple inserted the text by copying and pasting it from my word document.

Thursday 27th

Today i started to write my review for the analysis stage. here is where i look back over my project proposal, definition of scopre and functional specification and review what i have done. i have answered questions such as

• What should have been achieved:


• How well it was achieved:


• Was it completed on time?


• did you need to use contingency time? why?


• What problems did you encounter?


• How did you deal with them?

once i have completed this review, during the stages of my following work i will complete a planing and design stage review as well as a current status of making stage reviews which will included the same questions but focus on the certain stage.

MONDAY 31st

Today i finished all of my reviews including planning and design stage as well as current status of making review, below are copies of all my reviews:

analysis:

planning and design:

current status:

Tuesday 25th

Today i had a meeting with my manager to discuss my progress so far. we discussed topics such as video decisions such as the location, what equipment i will be using. I have not yet decided on the location but have narrowed it down to tow places, the kitchen at school in the food technology room, to use this room i will need permission from my client who is head of food technology at Heathside School or i will use my kitchen at home. Instead of using the IT department cameras i have decided to use the Media department cameras as i am able to get access to them with permission from Mrs Michael's who is head of Media studies. I have chosen to use these cameras as they are better quality and the department also have tripods available to use so that i am able to get a steady shot when filming. we also discussed the progress of my quiz which i had started last week during my Tuesday lesson. During last weeks lesson i had not completed my quiz but had almost finished, i had found some issues with my quiz that i was struggling with so had used my lesson today to fix these issues and have now completed my quiz.

When clicking on my quiz, when you get to question three and once you have clicked on the answer the question is meant to disappear but due to a fault in my creation the question did not disappear after looking through each page i discovered that my question was converted into a symbol button with the border around it which meant that the action script which controls it could not pick up that it was dynamic text as it was a button instead. This was easy to fix as all i had to do was cut out the text from the button and paste it in place.

my next task was to add a replay button to the end of my quiz so that my audience could do it again if they wish. This was very simple as all i had to do was create a button by pasting an image onto the page and converting it into a symbol, once i had completed this i had to add an action script to the button so that it links back to the beginning. The Script i added was:

on (press){

gotoAndPlay(1);

}

Once i had completed all of these tasks i then needed to fix my last problem where he total for the quiz was not appearing in the dynamic text box on the last page. I realised that i needed to add an action script to the dynamic text to do this i right clicked on my action layer, clicked on the action button and added in the script:

_global.quiz_score

question_answer.text="you have scored..."

+quiz_score

stop ()

This then allows the answers from each question to be totaled and appear on the last page.

Monday 24th

i have recently received my draft marks for my planning and proposal works, i can see that i need to improve on some of my pieces of work but overall i think that not too much work needs to be done. i had received a 4/6 for my proposal as my draft mark but to get a higher mark i need to discuss how my product is going to be particularly helpful for that particular audience - what are the needs of that age group?

for my planning section my draft Mark was a 7/12, i received this mark as i had not stated specific dates on my timeline, i needed dates to show how long it will take and how many days i have allocated to complete the task. To increase my planning marks i could also improve on my risk analysis by creating an table and writing the risk and then putting next to them the solution and mesures taken to reduce or fix the issues.

Today i have been improving on these marks.

Tuesday 18th

Today i was creating my quiz and linking the pages so that my score will add up once an answer had been clicked on. i had to create each question page on the same document but on different layers.

i then had to creat an action on each layer telling the movie to stop at each page but also to help the score add up. this is the action i entered. _global.quiz_scorescore.text-quiz_scorestop()

i then had to put an action on each answer available. for the incorrect answer i entered this:

on (press){ _global.quiz_score

score.text=quiz_score question_answer.text= "Incorrect"

answer_3._visible=false;

answer_4._visible=false;

answer_5._visible=false;

}

And if the asnwer was correct i added this action:

on (press){ _global.quiz_score

quiz_score=quiz_score+1; score.text=quiz_score question_answer.text="Correct"

answer_3._visible=false;

answer_4._visible=false;

answer_5._visible=false;

}

both of these action will help to add up the total score for each question and will give a total at the end.

i also had to make the Score text box into dynamic text and named it score so that the score can be added up and will display there.

I also created arrows on each question page so that the audiance can go to the next page once they have answered the question. i changed these arrows into buttons by converting it into a symbol then i added an action to the button so that it will link to the next page. the script i added to these buttons were:

on (press){ gotoAndPlay(4);}

the number changed according to which page it was leading too.

Tuesday 6th

Today i went back an checked on all my work i have completed so far, during the holidays i have selceted the information im using in my project but have yet still to put it into my project, i also have created my questions.

I have updated my gantt chart today. when i first created my gantt chart i had forgotten to include contingency time so i added in my contingency time today but had to decrease the time as i have not yet completed my video.

I added contingency time at the end of my Making stage so that i am able to leave time to make any adjustments that my client wants me to make. to do this i just right clicked in my menu bar and added new task and renamed it Contingency Time.

I then wanted to change the colour of my contingency time so that is was easy to spot compared to all of my other tasks as it is different. To do this i right clicked on my contingency bar and went to task properties. i was then able to select a different colour by clciking on the colour btton circled in black. there were many options to choose from as you can see but i though that a yellow would be best suitable as it stands our from the pale blue whihc makes it easier to identify if need be.